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Submission + - Monitoring 80% of the Internet for Attacks

Submitted by honeygrid on Monday February 05, 2007 @04:50PM

honeygrid writes: Ever wonder where all the attacks on the Internet are coming from? At the RSA conference in San Francisco today, Arbor Networks launched a global Internet threat monitoring site, ATLAS, reportedly monitoring over 80% of the Internet's traffic with scan, attack, DDoS, phishing, and botnet reports identifying attackers all around the world. They appear to have way more data than the SANS Internet Storm Center, and they don't pull their punches when it comes to publishing attack sources — countries, ASNs, hosts, service providers, and organizations. Now if they could just publish attackers' names and addresses... ;-)

Submission + - Is Unix dead? Growing old definitely

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Monday February 05, 2007 @01:32PM

coondoggie writes: "As x86 servers become increasingly capable, IT managers are taking a closer look at their Unix installations to determine whether a move to Linux or Windows might make sense, analysts say. "The defensible hill for Unix is the big, vertically scaling, mission-critical application, which is usually some type of database serving," says Andrew Butler, a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "But increasingly, the appeal of Windows- and Linux-based systems running on cheaper, commodity hardware is becoming more and more compelling." http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/0205-7-speci al-focus.html"

Submission + - Turner to pay Boston $2 Million over ATHF Scare

Submitted by DrEnter on Monday February 05, 2007 @01:22PM

DrEnter writes: After defeating the city of Boston and Homeland Security in a brief conflict last week involving small signs made from christmas tree lights, Turner Broadcasting has agreed to pay each of them $1 million. This is a far cry from the $500+ million Boston was claiming the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "war" had cost them. Maybe they realized that if this actually went to court, they would probably only end up with a bill for the court costs?

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