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US cyberwarriors a reluctant crew

The Obama Administration will one day have a whole slate of cybersecurity and cyberwar experts, but that doesn't mean the Defense community will be ready to let loose offensive cyber attacks. According to a report in Sunday's New York Times, planning for such attacks has been in...

Tags: Computer Network, Cyberattack, Attack, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-02

SwitchIP 3.5.6 (Windows)

SwitchIP Address software allows you to modify the IP address of your local machine with a single click. Especially handy for laptop users who travel between sites and need to constantly switch IP address, gateway address, subnet mask. With switchIP you don't waste your time reconfiguring computer network settings every...

Tags: Computer Network, IP, IP Address, Microsoft Windows, Laptop Computer, Yuval Faigel, SwitchIP Address Software, Networking, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-04-22

NetStat Agent 2.1 (Windows)

NetStat Agent is a extremely useful network tool for monitoring and diagnosing. It includes all useful network tools such as netstat, ping, traceroute, ipconfig, dns query nslookup, whois, arp, route and http checker, but in a clean graphical interface. NetStat Agent shows your TCP and UDP connections, the geographical location...

Tags: Computer Network, Network, DNS, IP, Microsoft Windows, Tool, Computer, Flexbyte Software, NetStat Agent, Productivity, Domain Names, Networking, Internet

Software downloads 2008-11-07

Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostage

What inquiring minds want to know about the Terry Childs business is How? How did a network guy earn $149,269 a year - and how could he have locked the city out of its own system so effectively that remediation is going to cost millions without bringing that system down?...

Tags: Computer Network, Network, Payroll, Computer, Productivity, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Networking, Finance, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Cyber confusion. What is the airforce talking about?

If you are like me your eyes cross and you feel a ringing in your ears when you are exposed to military-speak. The acronyms are fun and server to separate insiders from outsiders, kind of a tribal thing. But is sure makes it hard to figure out what is...

Tags: Computer Network, Network, Goal, Air Force, Cyber Command, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Networking, Productivity, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Genetic Algorithm for Framing Rules for Intrusion Detection

With the rapid expansion of computer networks during the past decade, security has become a crucial issue for computer systems. The detection of attacks against computer networks is becoming a harder problem to solve in the field of Network security. Intrusion Detection is an essential mechanism to protect computer systems...

Tags: Algorithm, Computer Network, Network, Computer, Intrusion Detection, Productivity, Engineering, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2007-11-01

Spammer says state law is unconstitutional

Is an anti-spam law unconstitutionally infringe on free speech? That's what a former spammer is arguing to the Virginia Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted in 2003 in the nation's first felony anti-spamming case sentenced to nine years in prison. Prosecutors said...

Tags: Computer Network, Speech, Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-12

China preps for cyberwarfare

An annual report on China's military capabilities reveals that the country is eying cyberweapons, network attacks and other plans to wage information warfare.The report from the Department of Defense outlines China's overall military strategy and touches on some aspects of information warfare in a few throwaway paragraphs in a large...

Tags: General, Government, Security

Blog posts 2007-05-29

A Queueing Analysis for the Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks in Computer Networks

In most network security analysis, researchers mainly focus on qualitative studies on security schemes and possible attacks, and there are few papers on quantitative analysis in the current literature. This paper proposes one queueing model for the evaluation of the Denial of Service DoS attacks in computer networks. The network...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Computer Network, Reed Elsevier Inc., Network, Analysis, Computer, Attack, Security, Networking

White papers 2007-03-18

A Machine Learning Approach to Improve Congestion Control Over Wireless Computer Networks

This paper presents the application of machine learning techniques to the improvement of the congestion control of TCP in wired/wireless networks. TCP is suboptimal in hybrid wired/wireless networks because it reacts in the same way to losses due to congestion and losses due to link errors. The paper thus proposes...

Tags: Computer Network, Congestion Control, Network, Loss, Wireless, University Of Liege, Tcp/Ip, Productivity, Networking

White papers 2007-01-01

The OSI Model: Understanding the Seven Layers of Computer Networks

This white paper will provide you with an understanding of each of the seven layers of the OSI Model, including their functions and their relationships to each other. It will also compare the theoretical OSI model and the functional TCP/IP model.

Tags: Computer, Computer Network, Global Knowledge, Network, OSI

White papers 2006-06-01

Defense in Depth: A Strategy to Secure Federal Networks

U.S. federal agencies depend on their computer network infrastructure to perform critical functions; as a result, successful attacks on government networks can have major consequences on the nation. This paper describes Defense in Depth, a strategy being used by U.S. federal agencies to protect their network infrastructures. This paper also...

Tags: Computer Network, Network, Juniper Networks Inc., Networking, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-04-05

Disk Mirroring - Local or Remote

Advances in storage technologies and significant breakthroughs in both networking technologies and telecommunications make disk mirroring an important tool for data replication, migration, and consolidation as well as backup/restore and business continuation/ disaster recovery. This white paper describes the factors impacting information storage and access in enterprise environments, defines disk...

Tags: Computer Network, Disk, Mirroring, Computer Network Technology, Disk Mirroring, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2003-08-19

Network Technology Advances Quality Assist, Inc., an Educational Consulting Firm

Quality Assist, Inc., an early childhood educational consulting firm, faced communications challenges and computer network shortcomings. With the help of its technology provider, it successfully deployed Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server to improve efficiency, communicate more effectively, and empower its employees to better fulfill their mission of improving children's lives.

Tags: Computer Network, Consulting Company, Network, Network Technology, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Outsourcing, Networking, Productivity, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

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Viewsonic introduces $100 VMP70 HD media player without network connectivity

Viewsonic is best known for its computer monitors, but it also offers HDTVs, mostly through online retailers. Now it hopes to expand its living room presence with its first media player, the VMP70. The good news is that it can handle 1080p HD, though that's...

Tags: ViewSonic Corp., Network, 1080p, Network Connectivity, Media Player, VMP70, Ethernet, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Change Folder Icons 8.6.2 (Windows)

Change Folder Icons is an award-winning tool for Windows that allows you to easily find thousands of bright icons on your computer that you can use as folder icons. Program features: - change the icon of a folder simply and quickly by pressing the right mouse button on it and...

Tags: Icon, Computer, NeSoft, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Windows Security Officer 7.5.5.44 (Windows)

Windows Security Officer is an autonomous provider of log-on and resource restriction security application integrated with, yet independent of, the Windows operating system. It has the capability of providing extremely strong, secure control of who can access a personal computer resources, and exactly what they can do and when they...

Tags: PC, Security Officer, Computer, SSS Lab, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-05

WFilter Enterprise 3.3.163 (Windows)

WFilter is an Internet filtering software that can help organizations to monitor and manage all Internet behaviors on their networks. WFilter intercepts, records and monitors Internet behaviors of users on a network, for the purpose of ensuring policy compliance, or measurement on job performance in an organization. You only need...

Tags: Monitor, Network, Microsoft Windows, IMFirewall Software, WFilter, Internet, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-05