The government is at it again with several moves designed, according to their press releases, to help the feds fight cybercrime. A recent report by Arbor Networks suggests that 2% of the traffic on the internet at any one point in time is purely for DDoS and other cyberattacks, with peaks of up to 5%. In response, Air Force Colonel Charles W. Williamson III has proposed using outdated hardware to form a massive network of zombies to help them fight back against cybercriminals.

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The FBI has announced that an investigation into counterfeit network components made in China -- and sold to the U.S. government, has recovered about 3,500 fake devices with a value of $3.5 million.

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) was recently released as a critical update to Windows XP systems. This update is welcome in that there is still an investment in core updates with the popular operating system compared to Windows Vista, but it will probably be the last service pack style update with core feature additions. Among the network-related [...]

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HotelChatter.com is a good starting point for road warriors who are looking for virtually any kind of information about hotels. Since 2004, the website has been formally tracking the quality of Wi-Fi service at hotels and here are the results for 2008.

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David Davis explains how Multilink PPP works in combining multiple circuits from the same Internet provider into a single circuit. He also shows you how to configure a Cisco router to handle this setup.

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A great deal is said about P2P in the media, and the government is starting to truly weigh in as P2P has been in the courts, the subject of FCC and FTC hearings, and Congressional action is on the table now. Unfortunately, nobody who knows how much P2P traffic there is has released that [...]

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The WiMAX Forum just announced the formation of a new WiMAX applications laboratory. Only the second one in the world, the MAXWell Lab is located on the University of Maryland campus.

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I feel a sincere obligation to inform readers when something I recommend is going through any kind of a change. Especially applications like Anonymizer, which pertain to user security.

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Active Directory-Integrated DNS zones are unique in a way that the Windows clients may be authenticating to the network from a foreign network. This is to prevent Active Directory registrations that can cause record confusion with standing records from reverse lookups. Consider the following scenario; a mobile user with a Windows-based client connects to your network [...]

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On-line banking has inherent risks. Learn what they are and how to mitigate them.

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