The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship

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The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship

The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 01:50 PM PDT


On Wednesday of this week, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake wrote a provocatively titled blog suggesting that wanna-be entrepreneurs should drop out of college. As with many blogs by intellectual authors, the comments they elicit are often as good, if not better reads that the original post itself. Some of these companies include Adobe , Cisco , Sun , Google and Intel , all of She based this opinion on the amount of successful companies founded by drop-outs, including Facebook , Twitter , Apple and Microsoft , as well as the drop-outs she finds herself investing in as an angel.

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Cisco, others dance around 40G Ethernet for data centers

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


Notwithstanding an aggressive first strike by Extreme Networks, switching vendors are largely mum on when and in what configurations they will ship 40G Ethernet products.

Five top tactics in retail theft today

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


While the lousy economy of the past two years certainly hit retailers hard in the form of slow business, many stores had another problem to contend with as well: Increased theft. 2009 created "the perfect storm in retail shrink," according to Derek Rodner, vice president of product strategy at Agilence, a maker of retail loss prevention products.

India's electronic voting machines are insecure, study finds

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


Indian electronic voting machines (EVMs) are vulnerable to fraud, researchers said this week, and advocated that a paper trail should be maintained to verify the results of balloting.

Researcher: Social networks shouldn't reuse private info

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


A Microsoft researcher argues that user data should not be reused by social networks

Glype 'anonymous' proxy may not cloak your identity

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


A widely used proxy service thought to provide anonymous Web surfing and used to skirt network administrator bans on access to sites like Facebook frequently reveals sensitive information about its users, according to a Swiss security researcher.

Tips for using Twitter, Facebook and other "anti-social networks"

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


Corporations should institute daily one-minute Internet safety lessons that users must complete before they are allowed online, a security expert told Interop attendees this week, but he said even that might not work because attackers pay more attention to the advice than those it is intended to protect.

Cisco ASA and DNSSEC-Probable Issue with Packet Size

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 03:17 AM PDT


DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions), a more secure DNS protocol is to be implemented on May 5th. With the rise of DNS Poisoning and Man-in-the-Middle attacks rising, the Domain Name System will be going to a secure version of DNS next month.

The changes will add digital signatures to the DNS protocol. This will reduce the risk that users will be redirected to rogue sites masquerading as the real deal. But these changes are being implemented with caution. Normal DNS packets are under 512 bytes. According the "The Register", the new secure DNS packets will be much larger than 512 bytes and some existing firewalls could reject them:

Because of this, some pieces of network gear are configured out of the box to reject any UDP packet over 512 bytes on the basis that it's probably broken or malicious. Signed DNSSEC packets are quite a lot bigger that 512 bytes, and from 5 May all the DNS root servers will respond with signed DNSSEC answers.

The K-root server, operated by the RIPE NCC, is now serving the signed root zone as part of a staged global deployment of DNSSEC across the root zone system. Starting with L-root in January 2010, the root servers began serving the signed root zone in batches in the form of a Deliberately Unvalidatable Root Zone (DURZ). This roll out period is scheduled to end in May 2010 and ICANN is scheduled to sign the root zone with real keys and release the trust anchor after 1 July 2010.

More Info:

http://labs.ripe.net/content/testing-your-resolver-dns-reply-size-issues

http://www.ripe.net/news/k-root-signed-dnssec.html

Cisco ASA probable issue with DNS packet size:

DNS inspection on the Cisco ASA in enabled by default. The default maximum packet size of DNS is 512 bytes (see below default configuration):

policy-map type inspect dns preset_dns_map
parameters
message-length maximum 512

Any DNS packet length larger than 512 bytes will be dropped. Since DNSSEC packets will be greater than 512, I have a suspicion that it will be a problem with the Cisco ASA dropping the DNS packets. I have not tested it but in case you run into DNS problems with your network, it is an issue you will have to consider. Maybe the DNS packet length on the ASA inspection will have to be increased as shown below:

policy-map type inspect dns preset_dns_map
parameters
message-length maximum 1024

Again, use the above with caution and maybe run a packet sniffer to verify the DNS packet size before implementing such a change.

Computer contractor gets five years for $2M credit union theft

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


For the second time this week, companies are getting a stark reminder of the danger posed to enterprise networks and assets by insiders with privileged access.

US Air Force phishing test transforms into a problem

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


Sorry Airman Supershaggy, "Transformers 3" is not coming to Andersen Air Force Base. And by the way, you've been phished.

Symantec buys encryption specialist PGP for $300M

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


Symantec will acquire encryption specialist PGP and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for US$300 million and $70 million respectively, the company said on Thursday.

What's wrong with the PCI security standard

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


The security standard used to protect credit cards isn't up to the task and upgrades that are planned for this fall do virtually nothing to improve it, a security expert told Interop attendees this week.

St George Bank apologises for Internet banking woes

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


St George has apologised to customers affected by a technical problem affecting its Internet banking system.

FSA fines Commerzbank for transaction data failures

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has imposed a £595,000 fine on Commerzbank for breaching transaction reporting rules.

Lone IT industry voice speaks out against EU Web filter plan

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


A European proposal to introduce mandatory blocking of child abuse websites poses a threat to the openness of the Internet, according to Ed Black, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA).

Symantec encryption buyouts raise open source, overlap questions

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT


Symantec's announced acquisitions Thursday of data encryption specialists PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies have industry watchers wondering which products will stay and go, and how open source PGP will fare in the wake of the buyouts.