| Report: Nortel CEO on his way out
Nortel Networks' CEO Mike Zafirovski will leave the troubled provider of telecommunications equipment in the coming weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing anonymous sources. Patch Tuesday has a beating waiting for Windows
Admins better make the morning coffee strong and black this coming Tuesday. Microsoft has nine security bulletins - five of them critical - set to come out next week. DDOS attackers continue hitting Twitter, Facebook, Google
The distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that knocked out Twitter for hours and affected other sites like Facebook, Google's Blogger and LiveJournal on Thursday continued all day Friday and may persist throughout the weekend. Security researchers zero in on Twitter hackers
Security experts are making progress in their efforts to identify the hackers responsible for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that that crippled Twitter for several hours yesterday. Mozilla delivers first preview of Firefox 3.6
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1, the first public preview of what the company says will be a minor browser upgrade currently slated to ship this November. FCC begins latest probe of broadband access
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun its latest inquiry into the state of broadband in the U.S., an annual effort that touches on areas of growing national debate. Gazelle, Nozzle, Nemesis, SNARE, Vanish: Yep, must be a security conference
I'm a sucker for research projects with catchy names and a slew of them will be discussed at next week's Usenix Security Symposium in Montreal. Wireless shows promise for stimulus money
As the Aug. 14 broadband stimulus application deadline approaches, it's noteworthy that wireless has already played a successful role in earlier programs created to get far-flung U.S. citizens "connected." Wireless has proven itself a sustainable model in several rural areas, potentially setting the stage for other, forthcoming deployments using stimulus funds. Panasonic's Evolta robot cycles into the record books
The little Panasonic robot manages to make it more than 5 times around the famous Le Mans track in France on just 2 AA batteries in 24 hours for a new Guinness World record. Harvesting algae to power sophisticated unmanned aircraft
One wouldn't typically associate greenish-colored algae plants with advanced unmanned aircraft but General Atomics is out to change that. 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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