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RSS ip s in newsNet bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
News IP networks were bombarded by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks - attempts to make networks unreachable by flooding them with traffic - as intense as 40Gbps, a survey of 70 IP network... [12 Nov 2008]
Unified comms pumps up Tayside fire service
News The unified communications system consists of a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 - in place since last year - and a recently upgraded Nortel IP telephony infrastructure. Communications are kept rock solid by... [04 Nov 2008]
Virtualisation: At risk from attack
News To improve security of virtualised environments, Frost & Sullivan's Milroy said companies need to ensure passwords of VMs are varied enough, and that their IP addresses are not sequential. Graham... [20 Oct 2008]
BBC iPlayer downloads coming to Mac and Linux
News I have asked BBC Research to explore whether we should create/drive an open industry standard for IP-delivered Media On The Go. The BBC iPlayer's download function will soon be coming to Linux and Macs,... [15 Oct 2008]
World Bank hit by cyber intrusion epidemic?
News Two of the attacks appear to come from the same block of IP addresses originating in China. The World Bank Group was first notified of the intrusions by the FBI in September 2007, when the bureau was investigating... [13 Oct 2008]
Security makes a quantum leap
News Voice over IP and videoconferencing data is being transmitted over the network which uses existing optical fibre connections owned by tech giant Siemens. The network is the result of more than four years of work with 41... [10 Oct 2008]
Exeter Uni set for £5.5m wireless makeover
News For international students, the network should eventually enable them to call home for free using IP phones and even view TV programmes in their home countries. Exeter University has embarked on a £5.5m campus-wide... [18 Sep 2008]
Google slashes time to search anonymity by half
News The search giant has said it will now anonymise IP addresses on its server logs after nine months rather than the previous 18 months. Google has taken steps to improve privacy by reducing the time it holds onto data... [09 Sep 2008]
Ex-BT CEO to head up Alcatel-Lucent
News At BT, he led the telco's push into the broadband market and transformation from old-school telco to 'new wave' services company, as well as championing its 21st Century Network (21CN) project to switch to an... [02 Sep 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates web addresses into numerical IP addresses, said Dave Andersen, a computer science professor at Carnegie... [27 Aug 2008]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, claims researcher
News Clayton wrote: "The problem that Ben [Laurie] and I have identified is that an attacker can poison a DNS cache so it serves up the wrong IP address for openid.sun.com. Robin Wilton, a corporate architect for federated... [14 Aug 2008]
Cisco looks to the future with investment plans
News For example, Cisco's unified communications business and its IP telephony businesses were areas where Cisco invested during previous downturns. On Tuesday, Cisco reported profits for its fourth fiscal... [06 Aug 2008]
Apple releases patch for critical flaw
News The DNS translates the common name of a website into its numerical IP address, and is therefore a fundamental component to the internet. Apple released a security update yesterday to users of its Tiger and Leopard... [01 Aug 2008]
Exeter Uni gives £5.5m network upgrade the green light
News The university's St Luke's campus will be upgraded by December and a wireless network and IP phones will be used to further test the project before implementation starts on the main... [17 Jul 2008]
Users' privacy wins in YouTube vs Viacom
News The move comes after a federal court earlier this month ordered Google-owned YouTube to hand over usernames, IP addresses and viewing histories to Viacom - parent company of MTV. YouTube will be allowed to mask important... [15 Jul 2008]
