Interop: Avaya breathes new life into Nortel enterprise

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• Interop: Avaya breathes new life into Nortel enterprise
• Opt-in ISP-level Internet filter wasn't feasible: Academics
• SA police to roll out 300 tazers
• Europe considers new cybercrime agency
• PwC: Security breach costs triple in 2 years for UK firms
• Top Ten IT issues addressed at Melbourne Summit
• PDF exploits explode, continue climb in 2010
• Eight out of ten UK firms were hacked in 2009
• China drops out of spam 'dirty dozen'
• To Analyze CCNA exams
• Interop: HP sees no China-related threat to U.S. business
• Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict
• InfoSec: NHS worst culprit for data breaches
• New Threat: Undetectable Facebook Scams
• Texas man to plead guilty to building botnet-for-hire
• From Microsoft to Adobe insecurity: One man's journey

Interop: Avaya breathes new life into Nortel enterprise Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT Avaya's data networking business – obtained from its recent $900 million acquisition of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions group – grew 30% in the company's second quarter, while its government business grew 15%, indications that momentum has returned following Nortel's bankruptcy.

Opt-in ISP-level Internet filter wasn't feasible: Academics Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT An opt-in/opt-out ISP-level filter, first suggested in the February 2008 Feasibility Study into ISP Level Content Filtering, was never a feasible alternative to the current ACMA blacklist, according to academics and industry experts.

SA police to roll out 300 tazers Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT South Australia Police is to roll out 300 'electronic control devices', commonly known as Tazers, over the next three years.

Europe considers new cybercrime agency Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT European ministers are considering establishing a new agency that would tie together law enforcement agencies and other entities dedicated to fighting cybercrime.

PwC: Security breach costs triple in 2 years for UK firms Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT A record number of security breaches is costing UK firms billions of pounds, according to a new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Top Ten IT issues addressed at Melbourne Summit Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT The Autumn Members Meeting held last week in Melbourne by the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) has presented on the top ten issues facing university IT directors in 2010.

PDF exploits explode, continue climb in 2010 Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT Exploits of Adobe's PDF format jumped dramatically last year, and continue to climb during 2010, a McAfee security researcher said.

Eight out of ten UK firms were hacked in 2009 Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT Eight in 10 UK firms experienced one or more attacks via the internet last year, according to a new survey.

China drops out of spam 'dirty dozen' Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT China has dropped out of one security vendor's 'dirty dozen' of the top spam-sending nations for the first time.

To Analyze CCNA exams Posted: 29 Apr 2010 02:08 AM PDT With the rapid development of the internet, the demand for network engineers is growing at an unprecedented speed, which thus leads to the unprecedented increase demand for network engineer certification education and tests. So, what kinds of Cisco Certificate Test are there presently? How to attend Cisco Certificate Test? Everyone who once participated in the Computer Class International Certification Tests, probably have heard the Prometric Examination Company. Prometric is the biggest global company in technology-enabled testing and assessment services with 4000 Authorized Prometric Test Centers (APTC) across the world to be responsible for the certificate exams in IT industry. The company has set up the licensing Examination Center (ATPC) in major cities of many countries all the world and is responsible for providing IT industry certification exams. It can provide students the certification examinations of world famous IT companies including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Sun HP, Linux, Adobe, IBM / Lotus, Intel, Lucent, SCO, Novell, Compaq and so on. Cisco Certificate test is carried under computer networking environment. The Cisco company puts its own exam item bank into the system of the Promet-ric test company whose examination system then generates different papers for candidates registering for tests. As the knowledge is developing too fast, the Cisco test database will also be updated according to its updated new products. Take 640-802 as an example, it has two types of exams: standardized exams and self-accommodated exams. Because the adaptive test is an item of new test technology, it makes the computer become not only the information receiver in the exam any more. It has a certain degree of intelligence, which can do real-time analysis according to the examinee scores of answering at present, judge the ken and mastery of examinees and then decide the difficulty of next question. In the Cisco 640-460 exams, first they give a medium difficulty question, if answered correctly, the next question difficulty will increase somewhat, if the answer is wrong, the next question will be easier, examinees are not allowed to check the questions done before. This exam largely avoids the rote and the exam questions spilled out, and really play a role in testing the understanding to the concept for candidates, and now a number of certification exams use this test form. The test items of the current IT certificate exams include multiple choice test (single choice, multiple choices or both), situation test, match, experiment test. It is true of 640-822 exam. After examination the word pass or no pass will be shown on the computer, and your transcripts will be printed out with the mark of every kind of skills on it. You can know your strong and week points so that you may make up for it. Relate Exam: Pass4sure 352-001 : 640-553 HardCopy Pass4sure 640-802 : 640-802 Preparation Labs Pass4sure 640-721 : Implementing Cisco Unified Wireless Networking Essentials (IUWNE)

Interop: HP sees no China-related threat to U.S. business Posted: 28 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT HP's immersion into China stemming from the purchase of 3Com does not present challenges as far as landing enterprise accounts in North America, specifically with large governmental institutions, according to the company's networking chief.

Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT Terry Childs' guilty conviction struck a nerve with IT staffers this week.

InfoSec: NHS worst culprit for data breaches Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT The NHS has reported the highest number of serious data breaches of any organistion since November 2007, according to disclosures revealed by the Information Commissioner's Office.

New Threat: Undetectable Facebook Scams Posted: 28 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT I recently received two Facebook e-mail notifications that set my security spider-sense tingling. Nothing was obviously wrong with the e-mail messages, which said that my friend had tagged a photo of me and then commented on it. But something about a reference to an app named "Who stalks into your profile" just didn't feel right.

Texas man to plead guilty to building botnet-for-hire Posted: 28 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP -- just to show off its firepower to a potential customer.

From Microsoft to Adobe insecurity: One man's journey Posted: 28 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT Marc Maiffret spent the earlier part of his career shedding light on major Microsoft vulnerabilities. In his new gig, names have changed but not the threats.

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