CompendiumNetworking stuff you gotta see.Moved!- May 24, 2005 As promised, Compendium's now running on Drupal. Unfortunately, that means a new URL for both HTML (here and for RSS: (www.networkworld.comcommunityq=blog1feed). My apologies for the inconvenience; I hope the new platform will make it worth it!...http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008944.html Packing up and moving- May 20, 2005 It's been a couple years since we last changed blogging platforms, and now that our main site redesign is finished, I need something to occupy my time, so ... Over the next few weeks, we'll be migrating our Weblogs and forums over to Drupal, an...http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008919.html Skype Not so good on conference calls- May 20, 2005 Nick Aster tries to use Skype on conference calls but discovers that half the time, the thing fails when punching in the conference-call confirmation number: Every once in a while technology fails in ways that can cause me to want to punch holes in walls....http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008918.html Phishing justice, frontier style- May 19, 2005 Netcraft reports that online vigilantes have started taking down phishing sites: ... Phishing sites are commonly found hosted on compromised web servers, where lack of security allows fraudsters to access machines and upload phishing content. If a fraudster exploits these security weaknesses without subsequently securing...http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008910.html Know your Enemy: Phishing- May 19, 2005 Know your Enemy: Phishing is a new paper on the techniques used by phishers, as compiled by he Honeynet Project & Research Alliance: ... Examples of the malware used by phishers to automate harvesting of email addresses and sending of spam email are reviewed, and...http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008909.html What that report on insider attacks didn't discuss- May 18, 2005 Bruce Schneier discusses that Secret ServiceCERT report on insider attacks and says it may have missed an equally important issue - embezzlement and notes it only focuses on people dumb enough to get caught: ... I'm not impressed by the fact that most of the...http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008887.html Another reason to treat employees well- May 17, 2005 Disgruntled technical workers sometimes sabotage their employers' IT systems: ... A negative work-related event triggered most insiders actions. ... From a study released this week by the Secret Service and CERT....http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008881.html When Enron tried to corner the Internet market- May 16, 2005 In 1999, Ken Norton was chief technical officer at Snap, an NBC spinoff that was going to become your broadband content provider (what never heard of them). He posts a fascinating (and long, set aside some time) account of the time he met with Enron...http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008865.html IBM tells employees: Blog this- May 16, 2005 IBM is now actively encouraging all 320,000 employees to blog (apparently, upwards of 9,000 already were blogging). Of course, with such power comes responsibility, specifically, a corporate blogging policy: ... The core principles -- written by IBM bloggers over a period of ten days using...http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008862.html Getting banned by Google- May 13, 2005 Jeff Barr, the developer of Syndic8, a directory of RSS feeds, discusses how his entire site came to be blacklisted by Google, how he' s sorry and how he won't do it again. Basically, he accepted an ad deal he shouldn't have....http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/2005/008854.html |