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Comment Re:Why don't enterprises use their own VPN (Score 1) 33

by ZESTA (#60370067) Attached to: Hacker Leaks Passwords For 900+ Enterprise VPN Servers

Pulse Secure *is* something that is run by enterprises as "their own." It is either a physical appliance or a virtual appliance that you run on your own infrastructure. No different in concept that any other "do it yourself" VPN, other than you actually have enterprise-level support.

This vulnerability is horrible, but it is not like any other piece of software would inherently be better, be it proprietary, open source, or whatever.

Comment Re:Okay (Score 1) 33

by ZESTA (#60369619) Attached to: Hacker Leaks Passwords For 900+ Enterprise VPN Servers

This story is about physical VPN servers owned by enterprises that happen to be Pulse Secure appliances (which are basically off the shelf servers running Linux and the VPN software on top).

This is not about a VPN service.
It is not "cloud based"

All of these comments seem to be missing that.

How is running a different piece of software on your own hardware any different that running an appliance? Are you saying that vulnerabilities only exist with hardware/software packages? Are you suggesting that every company that needs VPN features should build their own from scratch to avoid any "third parties" ? That is ridiculous.

Comment Re:US IPv6 (Score 1) 282

by ZESTA (#33942134) Attached to: NRO Warns They Are On Final IPv4 Address Blocks

This is either a poorly worded joke, or you have absolutely no clue how network routing works.

Most people will not be going to ARIN for an assignment, they will get addresses from their ISP, just like with IPv4.

For those of us who need to be multi-homed, the one-time fee we pay to ARIN for the allocation is not significant enough for it to be a concern at all. For ISPs, it is essentially free, as you only pay for the larger of the IPv4 or IPv6 fee.

Also, because of multi-homing, and large entities with multiple locations, you cannot attach IP addresses to any physical location.
Science

New Type of Superconductivity Spotted 71

Posted by Soulskill from the hard-to-resist dept.
sciencehabit writes with this excerpt from a story about research into an unusual form of superconductivity:"Superconductors, materials that carry electricity without resistance, can be divided into two broad groups depending on how they react to a magnetic field — or so physicists thought. New experiments show that one well-studied superconductor actually belongs to both groups at the same time. The advance may not immediately lead to new gadgets and applications, but it suggests that superconductivity, which has already netted four Nobel Prizes, may be an even richer phenomenon than previously thought."
Wii

HD Wii By 2011? 245

Posted by Soulskill from the wiisearch-and-development dept.
1Up noticed an interesting post up at WhatTheyPlay which put together some public information with more from private sources suggesting that the next version of the Wii console is planned for 2011. Quoting: "Unlike previous console transitions from Nintendo, the new system will be presented as a true successor to the Wii, and is being dubbed by those that have seen the presentation as 'Wii HD.' There is no indication if this will be its eventual name, but the nature of the transition has been characterized as similar to 'the shift from Game Boy to Game Boy Advance,' where familiar, key elements were left intact while the core hardware was made more powerful. It is expected by all those that we have spoken to on the subject that the new device will retain the Wii name in part."

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