| Fake ATM doesn't last long at hacker meet
Criminals running an ATM card-skimming scam made a big mistake this week: They tried to hit the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas. Defense Deparment eyes hacker con for new recruits
The U.S. Air Force has found an unlikely source of new recruits: The yearly Defcon hacking conference, which runs Thursday through Sunday in Las Vegas. Why I built a Ubuntu PC out of an Old Carpet Cleaner
PC cases come in many form factors, but they're all basically boxes that lack personality. This doesn't have to be the case (pun intended), as my Carpet Cleaner PC very well proves. Yes, this is a working Ubuntu PC built out of an old Bissell Carpet Machine. Some IT skills hot, even in down economy
Foote Partners' latest analysis shows that pay for 28 IT skills and certifications is on the rise, while 46 skills and certifications saw a decrease in pay in Q2. CCIE Recertification – Not Again!
This week I passed a CCIE written/recertification exam for the 8th time in my life. In September I will achieve 10 years of maintaining my CCIE certification. However, this isn't the last time I will have to recertify. Cisco's policies state that a CCIE must continue to take a recertification exam every 2 years forever, and ever, and ever. How much will you spend on application downtime this year?
Phurnace Software commissions Hurwitz & Associates to survey some 250 IT professionals about the cost of application maintenance, personnel and downtime. Cisco WAAS rival Riverbed looking to buy?
Riverbed might be on the acquisition trail, according to this dispatch from TheStreet.com. The WAN optimization company, which competes with Cisco and its WAAS Networking in the (Thunder) Clouds
With cloud federations over the Internet, QoS is going to be nonexistent. Yes, you can control QoS internally before it reaches your Internet exit point and queue the traffic outbound to the Internet, but after that it's all best effort. Video rental records are afforded more privacy protections than your online data.
Today at Defcon 17 I attended an interesting talk given by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) where they talked about some of the case law that is shaping our countries IT related laws. Twitter hack, Red Hat, Linux skewered with Pwnie Awards at Black Hat
Think of the annual Pwnie Awards delivered at the Black Hat conference as a geek version of athe Oscars - if they were combined with the tongue-in-cheek Razzies that celebrate the worst of Hollywood. Twitter, Linux and Red Hat were among honorees that didn't go unscathed this time around. Four tech spats that could be settled over a beer with Obama
If sitting down with the President of the United States and quaffing a few brewskis can really help tamp down controversy over a highly-charged race issue then perhaps the President could pull up a bar stool and settle some far less vital disagreements plaguing the tech industry. July Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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