Developer denies software to beat Chinese censors is malicious UltraSurf is free software designed to promote unrestricted Internet access for citizens of China. Lawmakers strike new tone with proposed bill giving Obama power to shut down Internet The second draft of a Senate cybersecurity bill appears to tone down language that would grant President Obama the power to shut down the Internet. Skype Wiretapping Trojan Publicly Released The Swiss creator of a Skype Trojan that can intercept calls made using the VoIP program has released the Trojan's source code online in an attempt to allow for its widespread detection. Wi-Fi cell phones expected to double in two years Global shipments of Wi-Fi-enabled cell phones are expected to double between 2009 and 2011, at least partially due to the emergence of a slew of smartphones with Wi-Fi capabilities, according to an analyst at ABI Research in New York. Arista's New vEOS Providing Competition for the Cisco Nexus 1000V I wrote a (incendiary?) blog a few weeks ago about using vendor competition in your network to save money. But, to make this work, you first need to have viable vendors to compete. Solid-State Drives Go Mainstream Just about everyone has heard the hype surrounding solid-state drives, but only now are we starting to see SSDs get a foothold as a storage alternative for everyday use. The market is flooded with options, and the performance we've seen from several of the latest drives in our tests back up some of the claims that SSD supporters have made about the technology's advantages. Networking around the World I had an Ah-Ha moment this week when I was overseas and I opened up my web browser to see the following Google page. I guess I should have expected this even though my browser probably has some setting that defines my preferred language as English. Cisco NetFlow is a must have for managing virtual applications in the cloud Last month readers may recall, I did the first Cisco NetFlow Q & A with Xangati founder and CTO Jagan Jagannathan and so for readers who will be attending next week's VMworld, the Q & A followup below might be of interest too. Hard drive encryption on a server is nothing more than useless! Hard drive encryption (data-at-rest encryption) on a server is less secure as it introduces more potential pitfalls. The Importance of Reading RFC's Recently I taught the Network+ class. It's one I teach rarely, and that's too bad because it's one of my favorites; molding new minds and all that. I was reminded of the basics of networking: TCP/IP and its standard behavior, the three-way handshake and all that jazz. How does one learn the inner workings of protocols? You learn them by reading RFC's. 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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