I used to leech Internet access from a neighbor, but after they gave me grief about it, I set up my own wireless network and am paying for my own Internet. Good citizen, right? Problem is, every time I start up my trusty old MacBook it automatically picks my neighbor’s network and I have to [...]
When Nikki Craft woke up one morning recently and checked her websites, they were not working. In fact, all 20 of her high-traffic websites were down. After further investigation into the issue, she learned that the domain names had been suspended by the registrar due to invalid WHOIS data on the domain name WHOIS record–here [...]
It was very common to see unsecured and open wireless networks when the technology was first emerging. As wireless networks and devices became more popular, awareness of how unsafe these open wireless networks really are also grew. Secure wireless technologies quickly became the norm, and now it often seems difficult to find an open/unsecured network. [...]
While nothing can match the surge in network business that presented itself with the birth of the World Wide Web, current network business opportunities arise from the current and logical interest in the virtualization of much of the hardware in the server room.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols recently published an article on ZDNet entitled You must be at least this secure to ride on the Internet. It is Steven’s position that there should be denial of access to the Internet for those users/computers found to have malware, bots, or other malicious code. This denial would continue until the aforementioned user [...]
Often, system administrators, and for that matter, developers, have a need to test packets and code that utilizes a certain network design. Setting up and deploying a duplicate “test” network is usually beyond the resources of most organizations. Actually connecting routers and switches and machines together, configured for production and another configured for development, is [...]
Contrary to popular rumors, Red Hat’s recent webcast was not to announce an imminent acquisition. Red Hat instead laid out an ambitious cloud strategy, going as far as claiming that only Microsoft and Red Hat are positioned to deliver an end-to-end cloud stack. However, the most important announcement from Red Hat may well be overshadowed [...]
This past week, Google and Verizon introduced a joint legislative proposal. Shortly thereafter, blogs and forums filled with buzz and chatter over this two-page document. Many of those blogs and posts were targeted at Google, claiming that they are proposing things in violation of net neutrality. What exactly is net neutrality, and why is Google [...]
Back in June, the IEEE finally approved the 802.3ba standard. The standard began to be investigated back in mid-2006, and has finally culminated in the new 802.3 standard. This is the first time two connection speeds have been specified in one standard. The previously fastest IEEE standard was 802.3av for 10 Gb/s.
HP has introduced new high-performance security solutions aimed at preventing network breaches in a converged infrastructure by offering comprehensive data protection across both physical and virtual environments.