NetFlash: Technologist turns fashionista, school traps infected PCs and more

NetFlash: Technologist turns fashionista, school traps infected
PCs and more
10/21/05

In this issue:

* Technologist turns fashionista
* School traps infected PCs in its web
* Exploit circulating for newly patched Oracle bug
* EMC to buy document capture vendor Captiva
* Cartoon of the Week
* The top fives
* Today on Layer 8
* Links related to NetFlash
* Featured reader resource
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NETFLASH: BREAKING NEWS FROM NETWORKWORLD.COM

By Jeff Caruso

New York, London, Paris, Milan - and now the Internet. A network
start-up veteran has used his expertise to bring together the
worlds of women's fashion and e-commerce, and neither will be
the same again.
Technologist turns fashionista
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9298

School traps infected PCs in its web

In J.R.R. Tolkien's book, Shelob was a giant spider who mainly
caught Orcs in its web. IT staffers at the University of
Indianapolis have created a Shelob that catches PCs before they
can hurt anything else in a network.
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9299

Exploit circulating for newly patched Oracle bug

Database administrators now have a little added incentive to
install Oracle's latest security patches, released earlier this
week. Malicious software is now circulating that can crash an
unpatched database server, and one security expert predicted
that more malware targeting the 89 recently patched
vulnerabilities is on the way.
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9300

EMC to buy document capture vendor Captiva

EMC agreed Thursday to acquire Captiva Software, a maker of
software for digitally capturing documents, for about $275
million.
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9301

Cartoon of the Week

Get a sneak peek at Monday's cartoon.
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9302

The Top Fives

Every day we bring you the most-read stories in this newsletter
- but what about the most-read blogs, opinions and newsletters?
Today you can see the best of the week on our home page (scroll
down to "The Top Fives").
http://www.networkworld.com/?net&story=home

Today on Layer 8, where we're always hunkered down:

School offers virtual gym class; "BlackBerry Thumb" on the rise;
get apps for your Tivo; and two sentenced to death over
cybercafe fire; all this today and more at your home for
not-just-networking news.
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/?net&story=layer8

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. Cisco bets a billion dollars on India
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9303
2. Motorola sues Zafirovski over Nortel job
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9304
3. Cisco finally brings security push to LAN
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9048
4. WiMAX just around the corner
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9093
5. High-tech dorms move to head of the class at colleges
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash9305

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To contact: Jeff Caruso

Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World.
He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing,
and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs
newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. Contact him
at mailto:jcaruso@nww.com
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