Mandarin Oriental removes malware after payment card breach

Luxury hotelier Mandarin Oriental has removed malicious software that was used to steal credit card data from some of its hotels in the U.S. and Europe, the company said Thursday.The security codes for the cards were not compromised, it said, although it wasn't clear if that referred to the cards' PIN (personal identification number) or the three-digit CVV code on the back. No other personal information was taken, the company said in a statement.An investigation is underway by law enforcement and forensic specialists. An "isolated number of hotels in the U.S. and Europe were affected," but none in Asia, the company said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, March 6

Bill targeting data brokers rises from the deadTheir last try failed to pass in 2014, but four U.S. senators have brought back legislation to rein in the data broker business. The law would allow consumers to see and correct personal information held by data brokers, and let them put a halt to having their information shared or sold for marketing purposes. The Data Broker Accountability and Transparency Act, introduced Thursday, is needed because data brokers are a “shadow industry of surreptitious data collection that has amassed covert dossiers on hundreds of millions of Americans,” Sen. Edward Markey said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, March 6

Bill targeting data brokers rises from the deadTheir last try failed to pass in 2014, but four U.S. senators have brought back legislation to rein in the data broker business. The law would allow consumers to see and correct personal information held by data brokers, and let them put a halt to having their information shared or sold for marketing purposes. The Data Broker Accountability and Transparency Act, introduced Thursday, is needed because data brokers are a “shadow industry of surreptitious data collection that has amassed covert dossiers on hundreds of millions of Americans,” Sen. Edward Markey said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Scalable Load Balancing with Avi Networks on Software Gone Wild

How many times have you received exact specifications of the traffic the e-commerce platform you have to deploy will generate? How do you buy a load balancer (application delivery controller in marketese) to support that (somewhat unknown) amount of traffic? In most cases, you buy a box that’s several times too big for the traffic the site is receiving most of the time, and still crashes under peak load.

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SAP to cut 2,200 jobs, plans to recreate them in other parts of the company

SAP will cut over 2,200 jobs this year in activities where it sees no future, but plans to create others around cloud services and its HANA in-memory database offering, where it sees more potential.“There won’t be any impact on customers. We will ensure that we have sufficient hand-over time between colleagues who might be leaving and others taking over,” a company spokeswoman said Friday.The restructuring will affect about 3 percent of SAP’s 74,400 employees. Workers in Germany, France, the U.K. and the U.S. will be offered early retirement, or the opportunity to switch jobs and work for other divisions of the company. Staff in Europe won’t be forced to leave, but lay-offs can’t be avoided elsewhere, said the spokeswoman.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

5900/5930 R2416 Released!

5900 and 5930 have now updated firmware: R2416. This is a major new release for both platforms. Take a look at the release notes, since there are many enhancements for both platforms. 5900: https://h10145.www1.hp.com/downloads/SoftwareReleases.aspx?ProductNumber=JC772A&lang=&cc=&prodSeriesId= 5930: https://h10145.www1.hp.com/downloads/SoftwareReleases.aspx?ProductNumber=JG726A&lang=&cc=&prodSeriesId= For the 5900, this … Continue reading →

Fujitsu tech can track heavily blurred people in security videos

Fujitsu has developed image-processing technology that can be used to track people in security camera footage, even when the images are heavily blurred to protect their privacy.Fujitsu Laboratories said its technology is the first of its kind that can detect people from low-resolution imagery in which faces are indistinguishable.Detecting the movements of people could be useful for retail design, reducing pedestrian congestion in crowded urban areas or improving evacuation routes for emergencies, it said.Fujitsu used computer-vision algorithms to analyze the imagery and identify the rough shapes, such as heads and torsos, that remain even if the image is heavily pixelated. The system can pick out multiple people in a frame, even if they overlap.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Amazon opens store on Alibaba to sell imported goods in China

To reach more Chinese consumers, Amazon.com has opened an imported goods store on an Alibaba Group site.The new store will officially launch next month on Alibaba’s Tmall.com site, and will function as a pilot project, Amazon said Friday.Amazon already has its own e-commerce site geared for the country, but its share of China’s online retail market is only 0.8 percent, according to Beijing-based research firm Analysys International.Alibaba, in contrast, controls three quarters of the market through its Tmall and Taobao Marketplace sites, and has 265 million monthly active users.The Chinese market is fiercely competitive, as Amazon is not only competing against Alibaba, but also scores of other smaller e-commerce providers routinely offering promotional deals on products.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Hello, I’m 47321

And now the big reveal. The reason I haven’t been blogging or doing much of anything for some time now is because I’ve had a teeny tiny side project going on:

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And this week I passed the lab exam! I am CCIE 47321 (Routing and Switching).

Copyright Joel Knight. All Rights Reserved.
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ISIS supporters operated at least 46,000 Twitter accounts, study finds

Supporters of the Islamic extremist group known as ISIS operated at least 46,000 Twitter accounts at the end of last year, a new study says, underscoring the challenge facing social networks as they become powerful tools for propaganda and recruitment.The accounts were in use between September and December, and while not all were active at the same time, the estimate is a conservative one. The actual number could be as high as 70,000, according to the study, which was commissioned by Google Ideas and published by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How we upgraded the entire Network Infrastructure in 2 weeks

I work as a Network Engineer at a Research Center in Silicon Valley. Being the only ‘network guy’ here, I’m responsible for the management of all networking devices like Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Radius Servers, VPNs, Wireless controllers, Linux servers,  etc, etc… For a couple years, we have been trying to replace our ageing and end-of-life […]

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EVPN. The Essential Parts.

In a blog post back in October 2013 I said I would write about the essential parts of EVPN that make it a powerful foundation for data center network virtualization.  Well just when you thought I'd fallen off the map, I'm back.  :)

After several years as an Internet draft, EVPN has finally emerged as RFC7432.  To celebrate this I created a presentation, EVPN - The Essential Parts, that I hope will be helpful to people who are interested.

Use cases are intentionally left out of this presentation as I prefer the reader to creatively consider whether their own use cases can be supported with the basic features that I describe.

Let me know your thoughts and I will try to expand/improve this presentation or create other presentations to address them.

EVPN - The Essential Parts

Self-driving car technology could end up in robots

The development of self-driving cars could spur advancements in robotics and cause other ripple effects, potentially benefitting society in a variety of ways.Autonomous cars as well as robots rely on artificial intelligence, image recognition, GPS and processors, among other technologies, notes a report from consulting firm McKinsey. Some of the hardware used in self-driving cars could find its way into robots, lowering production costs and the price for consumers.Self-driving cars could also help people grow accustomed to other machines, like robots, that can complete tasks without the need for human intervention.Commonly used parts could allow auto mechanics to fix robots as well, said the report, released Thursday. Infrastructure like machine-to-machine communication networks could also be shared.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco gets Computer History Museum haven

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., this week said it had created a Cisco Archive that promises to document and preserve the networking giant’s impact on the industry and Internet.+More on Network World: What network technology is going to shake up your WAN?+In a blog post, Paula Jabloner the first Director of the newly established Cisco Archive wrote about one of the more significant events the Archive will preserve: “It was 1989. Kirk Lougheed of Cisco and Yakov Rekhter of IBM were having lunch in a meeting hall cafeteria at an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) conference. They wrote a new routing protocol that became RFC (Request for Comment) 1105, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), known to many as the “Two Napkin Protocol” — in reference to the napkins they used to capture their thoughts.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Apple may offer personal engravings on the Apple Watch

In just a few days, Tim Cook will take the stage and give us the full scoop on all of the Apple Watch details that we've been yearning for. First and foremost, it stands to reason that we'll finally get a pricing matrix for the Apple Watch. Indeed, recent rumors about potential pricing for the device have been all over the map, with some claiming that the gold models of the Edition lineup may cost upwards of $10,000.As for other tidbits, a rumor from the French-language site iPhonote relayed an interesting Apple Watch rumor earlier today, namely that Apple will offer a personal engraving option for buyers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google’s new car insurance site lets you compare rates

Google has launched a new auto insurance site in the U.S. designed to simplify for consumers the process of shopping for policies.Google Compare Auto Insurance, launched Thursday, is a free site that prompts users to enter the typical sorts of questions for getting an auto quote, like information about the car, the person’s driving history and location. Do that, and then Google spits back a bunch of quotes and coverage details from different providers. From there, Google can link users with the provider of their choice by phone or website, to complete a purchase.People can also access the service through a regular Google search for “car insurance.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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