| 10 cool things you didn't know about Google You use Google's site every day, but how well do you know the company? Take this quiz to see and no fair googling the answers. Twitter attack relatively small potatoes Although last week's distributed denial-of-service attack on Twitter garnered lots of headlines, analysts at Arbor Networks says that the attack was a relatively small operation that paled in comparison to big DDoS attacks that occur every day. Now Departing: Union Pacific's 40-Year-Old Mainframe Union Pacific, the railroad company that transports chemicals, coal, food, minerals and automobiles in and around 23 Western U.S. states, has had two workhorses that toiled tirelessly for the past four decades: the diesel locomotive and the IBM mainframe. Hiring hackers (part 1) The British government announced at the end of July that it was planning to recruit "clever young people" to fight the cyberwars against domestic and especially foreign cyberoperatives. Android security chief: Mobile-phone attacks coming As smartphones become more popular, they're going to get some unwanted attention from criminals, Google's head of Android security said Wednesday. NSF grant targets computer robustness, disaster recovery The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded more than $1 million to Colorado State University professors tasked with making computer systems and networks robust enough to handle everything from lightning strikes to terrorist attacks. CA Ties Management Suites to Amazon's Cloud There's no question that cloud-computing infrastructures will become a significant part the IT plans of large corporations, according to analysts. The question, at least right now, is how well those hybrid internal/external infrastructures will be managed. Can unmanned aircraft mix safely with commercial aviation? The Federal Aviation Administration this week signed a research and development agreement with GE Aviation to come up with a way to safely mix the burgeoning amounts of unmanned aircraft with commercial aviation. August Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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