As promised, Compendium's now running on Drupal. Unfortunately, that means a new URL for both HTML (here and for RSS: (www.networkworld.com/community/?q=blog/1/feed). My apologies for the inconvenience; I hope the new platform will make it worth it!...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Bruce Schneier discusses that Secret Service/CERT 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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
Dion Hinchcliffe takes a look at all the possible Web services description specs, you know, like WSDL, SSDL, NSDL, RSWS, RSDL and WRDL. Via Tim Bray....
The Enterprise IA Roadmap is: A diagram that helps information architects and other designers make their enterprise's content easier to find regardless of which department maintains it. The goal is to integrate content from across departmental "silos" in ways that make sense to users. Via...
A new paper by some MIT researchers suggest it might be fairly easy for attackers to use SSH to launch lots of worms: ... We found that a surprisingly large fraction of the known hosts entries were to hosts on distant networks, that the bulk...
You tell end users how to protect ZIP files with a password and sooner or later, one of them is going to forget the password. Dave Piscitello is currently playing with an app that promises to open such files up. Mike McBride, meanwhile, is happy...
SecurityMonkey notes boring photos in a magazine distributed by some British railroad are enlivened by a shot of a whiteboard showing user names and passwords. Hopefully not for the systems that decide which tracks the trains run on. ......
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