Eye-opening optical research projects that could supercharge the Internet

Nikola Alic, a photonics research scientist at the University of California’s Qualcomm Institute in San Diego, argues that optical research offers the best hope for helping the Internet accommodate the ever growing flow of multimedia services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Eye-opening optical research projects that could supercharge the Internet

802.11ah Goes The Distance

The new WiFi HaLow standard may sacrifice some speed, but the benefits are worth it.

Dear $Vendor Reps, Align Your SDN Story with Reality

A while ago someone posted a link to an article that links to LinkedIn’s blog post describing their switch-building efforts to the LinkedIn SDN group (how’s that for a circular reference?), and a consultant from Brocade felt compelled to share his wisdom with the world. Unfortunately he got most of the facts wrong.

Malware targets all Android phones — except those in Russia

A malware program for Android seen advertised on Russian underground forums in the last few months appears to have made its first big debut.MazarBOT can take full control of a phone and appears to be targeting online banking customers, wrote Peter Kruse, an IT security expert and founder of CSIS Security Group, based in Copenhagen, which does deep investigations into online crime for financial services companies."Until now, MazarBOT has been advertised for sale on several websites on the Dark Web, but this is the first time we’ve seen this code to be deployed in active attacks," Kruse wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Attackers try to compromise Magento with a fake patch

Attackers are still trying to find Magento installations that haven't patched a particularly bad vulnerability, this time trying to trick people into downloading a fake patch.The bogus patch purports to fix a flaw known as the Shoplift Bug, or SUPEE-5344, wrote Denis Sinegubko, a senior malware researcher with Sucuri."While the patch was released February 2015, many sites unfortunately did not update," he wrote. "This gave hackers an opportunity to compromise thousands of Magento powered online stores."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cross Browser Compatible

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen.

She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then Continue reading

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Building Websites for All Devices

Deploying Code to Devices Through your NMS

note: It’s come to my attention that WordPress is truncating some of my posts so that the right hand side is blocked by the side bar. My apologies for the this. I’ll get it fixed ( or more likely move to GH pages ) as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience

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If you’re luck enough to have an NMS as powerful as HPE IMC then you already have a very capable system which has a ton of APIs that you probably didn’t even know about. IMC isn’t the only NMS which has APIs these days, but it’s the one we’re going to be looking at here.

We’ve spent the last few posts ( here, here, and here running through creating some network configurations through the Jinja2 templating language.

There are at least a couple of immediate benefits to this approach:

Consistency in the configuration between devices
Accuracy in the commands going into your devices

But the one large draw back is that you’ve still got to cut and paste that configuration into your device somehow, which is not the ideal scenario. We’re trying to get away from touching our devices.

In this Continue reading

Security Strategies That Cross Boundaries

Tim Wilson, chair of Interop's Security Track, discusses collaboration between networking and security pros, the changes taking place on the attack front, and how enterprises can respond and proactively protect their organizations' assets.

Learn more about the Security Track and register for Interop, May 2-6 in Las Vegas.

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Windows 10 calls home a lot; Russia hikes tech tax and intends to switch to Linux

“We are breeding the cow and they are milking it” - German Klimenko, Vladimir Putin’s new Internet czar on Google, Microsoft, and Apple doing business in Russia Keith Weller, USDA / Wikimedia When it comes to high tech, American companies dominate the Russian market and, perhaps not surprisingly, that doesn’t site well with the Russian government which would prefer to see homegrown offerings such as Yandex and Mail.ru get more market traction. The consequence, according to Bloomberg, is a plan by the Russian government to increase the taxes the American tech giants by 18 percent. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here