Wednesday, July 11, 2007

San Francisco Wi-Fi plan faces key votes; Phishing tool constructs new sites in two seconds

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San Francisco Wi-Fi plan faces key votes
San Francisco city officials could bring the city's proposed Wi-Fi network closer to reality at two meetings this week as a key leader proposes significant changes to the plan.

Phishing tool constructs new sites in two seconds
Analysts at RSA Security early last month spotted a single piece of PHP code that installs a phishing site on a compromised server in about two seconds, the vendor noted in its monthly online fraud report for June, released on Tuesday.

Who's to blame for browser bug? IE or Firefox?
A security researcher has found a security bug that could be attacked in Internet Explorer. Mozilla said it plans to patch the problem in its next Firefox software update.

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EEye: Sun update system exposes users
Sun is putting millions of Java users at risk by staggering the release of security patches for the software, security vendor eEye Digital Security said Monday.

Microsoft says its Dynamics CRM pricing undercuts others by half
Microsoft announced Tuesday pricing for its Dynamics Live CRM service that undercuts by nearly 50% the current average prices in the market for similar services, according to Microsoft.

Poor translation hinders business growth overseas
Businesses are facing greater pressure than ever before to market their brands globally, but cultural and language differences are proving to be thorny barriers, particularly when companies sell products on the Web.

Debate heats up over open access spectrum rules
Plans for valuable wireless spectrum being considered by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission may not go far enough to encourage a new broadband competitor, said groups calling for open-access rules for part of the spectrum.

Podcast

6 ways to secure mobile devices
Reports say that 40% of enterprises have no policies in place regarding mobile security. Keith Shaw talks with John Jefferies, VP of marketing at RedCannon Security, about RedCannon's Six Laws of Mobile Security, a new framework for how enterprises can use mobile security best practices to protect private data yet still enable the use of mobile devices. (13:25)

Blogs

Today's Cisco Subnet
What does McCain think of his friend's John Chambers close ties with China? Blogger Doug Alger has 7 ways to green up your data center. Guess which country houses Cisco's second largest non-U.S. development center.

Buzzblog: Why would a Geek Squad tech steal that?
The question arose last week when a sting by The Consumerist caught a Geek Squad tech stealing naughty bits and bytes from a customer PC: why? It wasn't actually a serious question, but now we have a plausible answer.

Today on Layer 8, where we never sit on the fence on an issue. Well, maybe sometimes:
U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton continued to court Indian business leaders last week by reiterating her call for more H-1B visas and said Americans need to prepare for technology careers. Clinton spoke via satellite to 4,000 attendees of the Indian Institutes of Technology global conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. How big is the botnet problem?
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3. Juniper scales down service router
4. Novell: Don't worry about Microsoft’s GPLv3 stand
5. Six burning VoIP questions
6. Google to buy Postini for $625M
7. The $2.3M home lab of Quadruple CCIE
8. The 7 Wonders of the Internet
9. DoD offers $1M for wearable power supply
10. 6 ways to fight back against botnets

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