| Bots, bombs and weird science: The wackiest stories of 2009
When hard core high-tech and humanity mix you can count on some wacky or just down-right cool things happening. What we have here is our list of 25 the wackiest stories from 2009 featuring everything from high-tech toilet battles and 1,000 mph cars to shape-shifting robots and levitating mice. When will Cisco issue a statement addressing US-CERT Clientless SSL VPN Vulnerability Note VU#261869?
The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-CERT, has issued a warning on its website that certain networking products from Cisco and Juniper are vulnerable to an exploit in which hackers could gain broad access to corporate networks, then steal confidential data, install malicious software or turn PCs into spam servers. Both Cisco and Juniper were notified about... Security firm retracts 'black screen' claims, apologizes to Microsoft
Prevx, the U.K. security company that started a firestorm after claiming recent Windows security updates caused a widespread "black screen" lock-out of users' PCs has retracted its claims and publicly apologized to Microsoft. The VEPA standard -- a potential game changer?
I recently spoke with Extreme Networks about its data center networking strategy. One of the highlights for me was Extreme's plan to embrace the Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) standard being developed in the IEEE. In simple terms, VEPA off-loads all switching activities from today's hypervisor-based virtual switches to actual physical switches. There is a bit of debate between HP and Cisco... Two sentenced to prison for online money laundering
Two Bulgarians have been sentenced for their roles in an online money-laundering scheme that collected about US$1.2 million from U.S. residents and sent it to a criminal group in Eastern Europe, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Pencast: ATM Hacks 101
We've got an experiment here with multimedia tutorials – the pencast. Using a Livescribe Pulse smartpen, we recorded a "whiteboard"-like session that had Adam Bosnian from Cyber-Ark Software discussing a topic, drawing concepts on the paper with the pen, and recording audio. The result is this pencast: Adam talks about the different types of ATM (money machine, not the network) hacks that cyber-criminals... New Facebook Privacy Controls Just Weeks Away
Remember those privacy changes that Facebook announced last July? They are about to be implemented across the network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in an open letter posted on the site. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: The CCIE has gotten a lot harder, data shows and Can Santa Deliver a Hummin' Dynamips Platform for Christmas?; On Microsoft Subnet: Prevx apologizes, backtracks on claims that Microsoft patch causes black screen; On Google Subnet: Google changes rules for Google News to placate publishers Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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