Networking World: October 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Networking Strategies: Printer Security Issues ... Researchers dig for hidden links in spam

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Highlights:

* Printer Security Issues
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* Researchers dig for hidden links in spam
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* Hackers sneak tricks into MySpace band pages
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* Privacy groups call for do-not-track list
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* Companies tap RSS to tame info overload
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* Security geeks say Leopard needs fixing
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* Google makes social networking power move -- finally
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* How to influence anyone
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* Facebook 'better than print' for recruiting IT staff
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* Top Ten auto "Out of Office" replies
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TODAY'S TOP STORY
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Printer Security Issues
James Gaskin, ITworld.com

I hoped the "hacked zombie printer" stories were just security company
scare tactics. When someone asked me about securing printers during an
Altiris ManageFusion security panel, I questioned it and said no one I
knew has suffered from a hacked printer.

Unfortunately, printer hacks do exist, according to Jesper Jurcenoks,
CTO of NetVigilance. He was a panelist on my Security 2008: What You
Need Now panel at the ITEC show in Chicago, and he has first hand
experience.
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* How to Offer the Strongest SSL Encryption
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How to influence anyone
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Facebook 'better than print' for recruiting IT staff

Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites have become the top
tool for hiring IT staff, a new survey among recruitment companies
reveals. According to 58 percent of IT recruitment firms polled by the
Association of Technology Staffing Companies, an industry body, such
sites are more useful in finding staff than traditional print
advertisements. And 49 percent said they were now more effective than
internet banner advertising.

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Storm worm pulls Halloween hoax; Building virtual worlds at Boeing

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EMC is spending some of its third-quarter profit on network network change and configuration-management vendor Voyence; and, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a seven-year extension to an Internet tax ban, the final step before the legislation heads to President George Bush to be signed into law. (6:10)

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Building virtual worlds at Boeing
Want to see how an F-16 will react to the latest antiaircraft weapons? We talk to the man who creates the simulated wartime environments used by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Network downtime not as severe to users as IT pros think
End users and IT managers don't see eye-to-eye when it comes to how well IT does its job, but recent survey results show that IT gives itself poorer grades than the users they serve do.

Hartford Financial misplaces tapes with personal data
The Hartford Financial Services Group has notified about 237,000 policy holders of a potential compromise of their personal data.

Machine learning fuels Sun music recommendation technology
Software that listens to and analyzes music is driving a Sun project, which has a goal of creating an open source music recommendation system that surpasses the capabilities used today by iTunes and Amazon.

The Google phone: Has a wireless upheaval begun?
The Google phone is inching closer to reality, with wireless handhelds running Google applications and operating software expected in the first half of 2008, several industry analysts said today.

CASE STUDY

Presence comes to P&G
When your CEO challenges you to create the world’s most collaborative company, you’d best take some definitive steps in that direction.

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How to prepare your staff for a security attack
Being prepared before the next security attack is critical for your enterprise. Learn three strategies that can help you create a security aware culture at your company. Keith Shaw talks with Paula Hamm, VP of education and business critical services for Symantec Global Services, about the processes and strategies involved with being ready for a data security attack (19:28).

How IT service providers are accelerating ROI
A shift in the IT services space is being caused by the growth of solution accelerators, internally developed software that can customize a particular business process or aspect of product development for several clients. Denise and Alex talk with Forrester VP and Principal Analyst John McCarthy about recent research on solution accelerators. Find out what factors are driving IT services firms to develop these, how they compare with framework attempts, and what how it will impact enterprise IT's use of IT services (13:15).

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ITtoolbox Networking-Jobs: 5 New Opportunities Available

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Asustek's low-cost laptop coming to U.S., Europe

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Asustek's low-cost laptop coming to U.S., Europe October 30, 2007
Asustek Computer's Linux-based Eee PC laptop will soon be on sale in North America and Europe, and the company plans to offer a version running Windows XP by the end of the year. The Eee PC is a low-cost laptop designed primarily for children and emerging markets such as India. It weighs less than a kilogram, has a 7-inch LCD screen and can connect to the Internet wirelessly. The first version went on sale earlier this month in Asia, including in Hong Kong and Taiwan, where it's priced at about NT$11,100 (US$340).

On Nov. 1 the Eee PC will go on sale at stores in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Vancouver and Toronto, and also through e-commerce Web sites in North America, Asustek officials said Tuesday. It will then be rolled out gradually in Europe, starting in Germany on Nov. 9. Major Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, will follow in mid-November. (Read more)

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Kernel space: should security modules be dynamically loadable? October 30, 2007
Security modules watch the rest of the Linux system for intruders, but if they're dynamically loadable, qui custodiet ipsos custodes? (Read more)

Windows XP will double the price of Asustek's Eee PC October 30, 2007
Adding Windows XP to Asustek Computer's Eee PC will double the price of the low-cost laptop compared to existing versions running Linux. (Read more)

Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat for future growth October 30, 2007
Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It's a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage. (Read more)

NZ government wins open source award October 30, 2007
The New Zealand State Services Commission's (SSC) championing of open-source software in government helped its ICT (Information and Communications Technology) branch pick up an award in the government category of the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards, held in Wellington this month. (Read more)

Software guru is hot on Linux, busting bureaucracy October 29, 2007
Grady Booch is chief scientist at IBM's Rational Software unit and an IBM fellow who also holds the title "free radical." His software development approach and the Unified Modeling Language, which he helped create, have been used to build the software that runs pacemakers, avionics in certain large airliners, antilock brake systems, and financial trading systems in the U.S., Europe and Asia. (Read more)

Red Hat: Open Source mature, disruptive and innovative October 26, 2007
Open source is disruptive, it develops rapidly, is adopted quickly, and it efficiently meets market needs while enabling new market capabilities. These were some of the statements made at an open source symposium held in Western Australia (WA) earlier this month. (Read more)

50 greatest networking arguments: VMware vs. Xen vs. Microsoft October 26, 2007
VMware is clearly the top player in virtualization, but competitors such as Citrix and Microsoft want a piece of this hot market, too. (Read more)

50 greatest networking arguments: Open source vs. proprietary software October 26, 2007
Open source software makes inroads vs. proprietary software despite warnings of Microsoft, others. (Read more)

50 greatest networking arguments: Novell NetWare vs. Microsoft networking October 26, 2007
Novell had the early lead in the network operating system market, but a persistent Microsoft kept hammering away until NetWare become a just a memory in many companies. (Read more)

SCO has a buyer, pending bankruptcy approval October 25, 2007
Embattled SCO Group is offering the bankruptcy court a deal it could be hard to refuse. (Read more)

Post-install tips for Ubuntu 7.10 October 25, 2007
I don't know about where you live, but where I live, it feels like October. Halloween orange has sprouted everywhere from the grocery store to the doctor's office, the weather has acquired a distinctive chill, and, of course, we have a new release of Ubuntu Linux. Version 7.10 hit the Net just last week, right on time. (Ubuntu releases tend to come each October and April.) (Read more)

Asian governments driving demand for open source October 25, 2007
Asian governments are pivotal to Red Hat's goal of earning 60 percent of its revenue from outside the United States by the end of 2009, said Matthew Szulik, the company's chairman, CEO and president, in a conference call on Thursday. (Read more)

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Corporate open source advice October 28, 2007
Some surprising moves, such as the much-maligned mission statement, can help corporate open source projects work, said Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick. (Read more)

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Huchison 3 to release Skypephone in 8 countries; VoIP Security Products

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Network World's Convergence & VoIP News Alert, 10/31/07

Huchison 3 to release Skypephone in 8 countries, 10/29/07: U.K. mobile phone operator Huchison 3G UK on Monday rolled out the Skypephone, a handset designed to simplify use of the Skype VoIP application.

Vonage update: AT&T files patent claim, Verizon dispute settled, 10/29/07: Vonage disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that on Oct. 17 that AT&T had filed a patent infringement claim against the company. According to the filing, Vonage said that it intends to continue to pursue an amicable resolution of this matter, but that it cannot assure that this matter will not ultimately be litigated.

Location-aware fixed-mobile convergence holds promise, 10/29/07: On Oct. 15, start-up Agito Networks entered the exciting enterprise fixed-mobile convergence (eFMC) market. As John Dix pointed out in his article Cell/Wi-Fi convergence based on novel approach, Agito is using a new approach to determine when a mobile phone call should be switched from a cellular network to your enterprise WLAN when moving in building, and vice versa when you leave the enterprise.

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2. Attack code for Kodak bug in Windows
3. Storm worm strikes back at security pros
4. Is Fibre Channel dead?
5. Cisco certifications: All you need to know
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7. Fake FTC e-mails contain virus attack
8. Technology's 10 most mortifying moments
9. Cisco backs away from Brazilian tax scandal
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Microsoft plots ambitious SOA roadmap; Google makes social networking power move; Scary security stories

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Microsoft plots ambitious SOA roadmap
Microsoft Tuesday laid out an ambitious SOA roadmap around a set technologies code-named Oslo that will be blended into its middleware, development, and management tools and some of its emerging enterprise online services.

Google makes social networking power move -- finally
Belatedly recognizing the importance of social networking as an online service and advertising vehicle, Google this week will unleash its strongest response yet to the rising threat and skyrocketing popularity of MySpace and Facebook.

Companies tap RSS to tame info overload
As employees struggle to read an increasing amount of work-related material, some companies have turned to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology to improve productivity.

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Ingrian updates encryption appliance line
Ingrian Networks announced Monday it has updated its DataSecure encryption appliance line most commonly used for credit-card encryption, adding the high-end 400 Series and discontinuing the 300 Series, while keeping the low-end 100 Series with enhancements.

IBM taps Alcatel for unified-communications strategy
IBM and networking provider Alcatel-Lucent are teaming up to take Microsoft head-on in the unified-communications market.

7-year Internet tax ban heads to president
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a seven-year extension to an Internet tax ban, the final step before the legislation heads to President George Bush to be signed into law. The House on Tuesday approved the Senate version of the Internet tax moratorium, which would ban Internet-only taxes such as access taxes for seven years. The current ban has been in effect since 1998, except for a lapse during most of 2004.

Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat for future growth
Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It's a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.

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Microsoft releases roadmap for SOA, codenamed Oslo and involving the next-generation of BizTalk, .Net and System Center 5; Apple reports that it has sold 2 million copies of Leopard spurring the comparisons between Leopard and Vista; Blogger Tyson Kopczynski weighs in on the perimeter vs. no-perimeter argument.

Today at Cisco Subnet
Cisco to triple headcount in India to 10K by 2010; Does the Vyatta router solution monitor how business processes are operating?; Cisco's profits: 5 trends worth watching; It's the last day to enter to win free Cisco training worth up to $3,995, courtesy of Global Knowledge. Plus enter to win a free copy of "Monitoring with Cisco Security MARS" by Gary Halleen and Greg Kellogg, published by Cisco Press.

Buzzblog: Let poker players be free
Pentagon Papers case: check. Bailing out Julia Roberts: check. Lawyer’s next crusade? Freeing poker players from tyranny.

Today on Layer 8, where we fully expect to have our own tractor beam up and running in a few years that will significanlty reduce our commuting time:
Call it Star Trek tech for microscopes. MIT researchers said today they have found a way to use a “tractor beam” of light to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other objects on the surface of a microchip.

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ISPs want to rule the world; Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat

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ISPs want to rule the world: Jason and Keith gab about Comcast's broadband meddling, the Facebook / Microsoft love affair, and whether the Internet can be a good substitute for a significant other.

Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat for future growth, 10/30/07: Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It's a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.

Hibernia Atlantic upgrades undersea network capacity, 10/26/07: In response to increasing bandwidth demands, Hibernia Atlantic announced this week that it had upgraded its undersea data transport span from Boston to Halifax to 40G capacity.

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Cisco's profits: 5 trends worth watching, 10/29/07: Wall Street has high hopes for Cisco's latest quarterly results, which are slated to be announced Nov. 7. But even if you aren't a shareholder, there are five key pieces of information that Cisco customers and partners should listen for during the earnings call. Here's the rundown.

Cisco cautious on Brazil case, 10/29/07: Cisco Monday appeared to further distance itself from a tax scandal in Brazil, saying it can't vouch for everything its channel partners do.

Cisco and OOPSLA hoopla: While Cisco has its share of excellent technical experts, it might not be the first company you’d think of headlining an event called the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications event (OOPSLA 2007 ).

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Cisco Subnet: Cisco to triple headcount in India to 10K by 2010, 10/30/07: John Chambers said Monday that Cisco plans to scale-up its headcount in India to 10,000 by 2010, reports the Rediff news. Cisco currently employs about 3,000 there. In December, the company selected India as the site for its Cisco Globalization Center East. (Also, check out Layer 8, where we find that: Cisco expects a lot out of India.)

Cisco vs. Bay/3Com/Cabletron/Juniper, 10/26/07: Cisco blew through a slew of rivals in routing and switching during the 1990s and early 2000s, though Juniper is hanging tough

Routing vs. switching, 10/26/07: Routing got the early lead on switching thanks to Cisco, then the two technologies melded and evolved.

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