Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, do so now.
That's what researchers at Symantec and Indiana University are saying, after publishing the results of tests that show how attackers could take over your home router using malicious JavaScript code.
For the attack to work, the bad guys ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft is working on a new tunneling protocol for Vista and Longhorn that will provide secure network access from anywhere on the Net.
The Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) creates a VPN tunnel that travels over Secure-HTTP, eliminating issues associated VPN connections based on the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) or Layer ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The biggest seller of home wireless LAN equipment is set to launch its gear for the next technology generation on Monday, introducing three products based on a draft of the IEEE 802.11n standard.
The still-emerging standard is designed to deliver at least 100 megabits per second of real throughput. That's more ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Steve Gibson from GRC was talking about these "bogon" ip addresses that are still unused on the Internet. He estimates that approximately 40% of our current IP address space is bogon, or simply reserved and unallocated.
If you just look at the first byte or octet of the IP Address, ie n.*.*.* ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
What organizations would want their networks to be, if only they had all the money, time and expertise in the world, is hardly a mystery. Indeed, in a way, the ultimate network is really about nothing more than the Olympics' motto "citius, altius, fortius" rephrased as "faster, more efficient, more ...
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