FCC sets new rules to govern PSTN transition

	U.S. Internet connection speeds still lag behind other developed nations | Attackers could use Internet route hijacking to get fraudulent HTTPS certificates
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	FCC sets new rules to govern PSTN transition The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took steps last week to regulate the transition of legacy PSTN networks as telcos replace their copper with fiber and move their circuit switched networks to fully IP-based platforms. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : Citrix Systems eGuide: WAN Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World examines the benefits of WAN virtualization and some recent trends in this area. Read on to learn how WAN virtualization can help your organization. Learn More In this Issue U.S. Internet connection speeds still lag behind other developed nations Attackers could use Internet route hijacking to get fraudulent HTTPS certificates Cleaning up botnets takes years, if ever, to complete OneDrive's new sharing funtionality is live, notifies users when files are changed Some Yahoo Mail users menaced by zombified deleted emails : Citrix Systems eGuide: WAN Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World examines the benefits of WAN virtualization and some recent trends in this area. Read on to learn how WAN virtualization can help your organization. Learn More U.S. Internet connection speeds still lag behind other developed nations The average U.S. Internet connection speed continues to lag behind that of many other developed nations, according to the latest State of the Internet report from CDN and cloud service provider Akamai. In the first quarter of 2015, Akamai said, the average U.S. Internet connection speed was 11.9Mbps - considerably below the 23.6Mbps mark posted by South Korea, which had the fastest average connection speed worldwide. The top 10 was dominated by countries from Europe and east Asia, including Ireland, Hong Kong, Sweden and the Netherlands. The U.S. placed 19th in the rankings.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : Citrix Systems eGuide: WAN Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World examines the benefits of WAN virtualization and some recent trends in this area. Read on to learn how WAN virtualization can help your organization. Learn More Attackers could use Internet route hijacking to get fraudulent HTTPS certificates Inherent insecurity in the routing protocol that links networks on the Internet poses a direct threat to the infrastructure that secures communications between users and websites.The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is used by computer network operators to exchange information about which Internet Protocol (IP) addresses they own and how they should be routed, was designed at a time when the Internet was small and operators trusted each other implicitly, without any form of validation.If one operator, or autonomous system (AS), advertises routes for a block of IP addresses that it doesn’t own and its upstream provider passes on the information to others, the traffic intended for those addresses might get sent to the rogue operator.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : Citrix Systems eGuide: WAN Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World examines the benefits of WAN virtualization and some recent trends in this area. Read on to learn how WAN virtualization can help your organization. Learn More Cleaning up botnets takes years, if ever, to complete In late 2008, a worm called Conficker began infecting millions of computers, startling the computer security community into action.Conficker’s quick spread was so alarming that an organization was formed called the Conficker Working Group that was tasked with stopping the botnet and finding its creators.Many countries also formed their own groups that worked with Internet service providers to remove infections from users’ computers. But seven years later, there are still about 1 million computers around the world infected with the malware despite the years-long cleanup effort.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More OneDrive's new sharing funtionality is live, notifies users when files are changed Microsoft's online storage service ups its collaboration chops in run-up to Office 2016 launch Read More Some Yahoo Mail users menaced by zombified deleted emails For Yahoo Mail users, some messages just won’t stay dead.Some users of the company’s popular Mail service report that messages they’ve deleted are reappearing in their inboxes, an issue that some say is a recurring problem.Since the beginning of July, more than 100 complaints have been posted in a forum devoted to Yahoo’s email service. Some users say hundreds if not thousands of emails that they had previously deleted have reappeared. Others say the emails continue to reappear after being deleted again.“I have deleted thousands of emails just to find them still in my inbox,” one user wrote on Monday. “I have better things to do than sit at this computer and do something over and over and over again,” the person wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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