Malicious attackers, a.k.a Black Hats, have thrown a punch at F-Secure, slightly grazing the Finland-based software security vendor but failing to knock it out.
F-Secure on Wednesday posted a notice on its site that it had been a victim of a denial service attack. The DOS attackers managed to slow down the company's external Web site for several hours, but failed to shut it down.
When I interact with people from all around the world discussing IPv6, there continue to be questions about the projected lifetime for IPv4. This article presents consumption rate and lifetime projections based on publicly available Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) data. In addition, there is discussion about why the widely quoted alternative projection may be flawed, thus leading everyone to believe we have much more time than we might.
The national telecom regulator’s panel working on 3G licensing regulations has concluded that the 3G broadband cellular technology will be defined by its data transmission speed.
The panel, chaired by Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, a commissioner of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), yesterday defined 3G, or third generation mobile phone technology, as cellular technology with a minimum data transmission speed of 384 kilobits per second (Kbps) and capable of maintaining a speed of two megabits per second (Mbps).
Dozens of interesting experiments are taking place around the world using WiFi to provide voice and data connectivity in areas of the world where it's difficult to build conventional infrastructure, from Inveneo's work in Uganda with VOIP over WiFi to Nepal Wireless's project to provide connectivity in the Himalayas. Wireless hackers like working with WiFi because the hardware is cheap, the frequency WiFi broadcasts on (2.4Ghz) is usually unlicensed, and because brilliant antenna hackers have been able to send WiFi signals over 100 miles.
A method of discerning the shortest path between two points in a network may reduce bandwidth for peer-to-peer file-sharing communities
An algorithm that finds the shortest path between two points in a computer network is shedding light on the puzzling “six degrees of separation” social phenomenon.
The Ministry of Communications designated French communication firm Alcatel to provide a broadband fibre optic access network that will cover about 60 per cent of the state's telephone subscribers. The focus will be on residential homes and areas.
No details on the value of the contract were provided but the deal will eventually enable the Communications Ministry to offer telephone subscribers in Kuwait voice, video and data services - including high speed Internet - via a fibre optic cable network.
The .uk domain name business is thriving, according to a report by Nominet, the body which manages and oversees .uk domain name registrations.
More than 150 web addresses ending in .uk are created every hour, daily.
Separate research for Nominet also showed that almost half of web users, 47%, are more confident dealing online with companies that have a UK presence.
Nominet said that the rapid rise in take-up of broadband net had boosted the number of registered .uk sites.
The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography.
Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary at the Commerce Department, has asked for a hold to be placed on the contract to run the new top-level domain until the .xxx suffix can receive further scrutiny. The domain was scheduled to receive final approval Tuesday.
Japanese government officials say they will develop a new communications satellite to provide broadband services that are as fast as fiber optic cable.
Japan's Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said the new satellite will make it possible to send and receive data at a maximum speed of 100 megabits per second in mountainous areas and remote islands, as well as aboard Shinkansen bullet trains, airplanes and ships.
Broadband Internet access via TV cables could reach 100 megabits per second as early as next year--50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish company said Wednesday.
Similar data transmission speeds are possible over fiber networks, but these cost much more for the operators to build. "This is a cost-efficient technology, as we use the cable TV networks which are already in place," Jukka Rinnevaara, chief executive of small-cap Finnish broadband equipment maker Teleste, told Reuters.
