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Network World Daily News: AM, 08/06/07 Undercover TV producer booted from DefCon
It's a story of betrayal worthy of an episode of Dateline NBC. Cisco founder brings optics to the router guys
Cisco co-founder may have another breakthrough product. Has Cisco founder Bosack again unveiled the Next Big Thing?
Twenty-three years ago, the husband and wife team of Stanford University computer support staffers Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner founded the most powerful and valuable company in networking: Cisco Systems. This week, Bosack rolls out what he believes is another breakthrough product for enterprise networks that may make as much of an impact as Cisco routers. He shared some thoughts on his new product, the DXM optical transport system, and 16-year-old company, XKL LLC, with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy. | Manage Skyrocketing Storage The data on your network is growing at a rapid pace that's only going to increase. Download Network World's latest Executive Guide and get the practical, real-world advice and insider information you need to best manage and meet your storage demands and industry regulations. Click here to download. | | Diebold voting machines vulnerable to virus attack
Diebold Election Systems voting machines are not secure enough to guarantee a trustworthy election, and an attacker with access to a single machine could disrupt or change the outcome of an election using viruses, according to a review of Diebold's source code. The case of the great hot-site swap
A do-it-yourself disaster-recovery plan means sharing resources and expertise. A Maine college and a California university save money with a sophisticated hot-site swap. Black Hat: Networked systems are putty in the hands of a good hacker
Security practitioners at Black Hat prove that the computer systems in use today are pretty much just putty in the hands of a good hacker. Kittens could solve spam
An executive at Microsoft has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are. Data leak products have security risks
Companies looking to clamp down on data leaks may be introducing a whole new set of security problems to their corporate networks, researchers from Matasano Security said at the Black Hat conference Thursday. IBM buyout targets data governance
IBM Friday announced that it has acquired Princeton Softech, a maker of data archiving, classification and discovery products, to bolster its own data management offerings. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. D'oh! Homer photo exposes Chinese media piracy
A photo of Homer Simpson accompanying an article about multiple sclerosis has exposed Chinese state-run media's penchant for using images without permission. Open source going mainstream
As more than 11,000 attendees prepare to converge on San Francisco for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo next week, one industry analyst says customers are evaluating open-source software the same way they evaluate proprietary software. Blogs Buzzblog: Consumer Reports on ‘State of the Net’
A “State of the Net” survey to be released today by Consumer Reports contends that Americans lost $7 billion over the past two years to malware and myriad online scams. Not surprisingly, a significant portion of this financial pain appears to have been avoidable, as the survey reveals a widespread continuing negligence toward the use of home firewalls and virus protection. As for underage children using MySpace and the like? There, too, the risks in many case look to be self-inflicted, as 13 percent of children fail to meet the 14-year-old age minimum on MySpace, and, as the report notes: “Those were just the ones the parents knew about.”
Also: Newspaper outs ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ …who takes his medicine like you’d expect from a man-god. Today at Cisco Subnet
As cisco TelePresence finds its footing, how should channel partners sell it? Blogger Ken Presti has some thoughts. A reader of InfoWorld's Gripe Line has a frustrating tale with a Linksys wireless VPN device. The financial pundits are pointing to a rosy Cisco Q4 results out this week. | 
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