Compromised Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail accounts exploited in fake shopping scam In the wake of the posting in online forums of stolen account and password information for thousands of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo e-mail accounts, there's evidence of yet more abuse that entails attackers exploiting that information to hack into compromised accounts over the last few days to send spam aimed at stealing credit cards. Oracle not interested in Cisco rival Brocade You can eliminate Oracle from the list of possible suitors for Brocade, which reportedly put itself on the block this week. Nobel prize latest in long line for Bell Labs With the Nobel award for physics being given this week to Willard Boyle and George Smith for the invention and development of the charge-coupled device, Bell Labs has now amassed 13 Nobel prize winners. Net Neutrality DOES NOT Mean the Internet's Demise Once again our esteemed colleague Johna Till Johnson predicts that the Internet sky is falling -- this time she ominously foretells that net neutrality will destroy peering and make the Internet as we know it go poof. This is nonsense! Peering is a win-win arrangement created and sustained in a net neutral environment, and it will not be destroyed by the status quo. Laptop theft gives 850,000 doctors the blues Another stolen laptop ... and this time we have 850,000 doctors swallowing the bitter pill of knowing that their sensitive professional and personal information may have fallen into hands bent on identity theft. Microsoft, Red Hat hypervisors are friends. The companies? Not so much Microsoft and Red Hat have made good on their February promise to validate that their server operating systems will function properly on one another's hypervisors. Most reporters and pundits aptly note that this just made good business sense and in no way means the two frienemies will fall into each other's arms like best buds, like, for instance Microsoft and Novell. Samsung Android phone gets a name, release date After weeks of anticipation, Sprint today said that starting on Nov. 1 it will sell Samsung's first Android handset available in the United States. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth. Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Building Service-Aware Networks. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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