Is VoIP Ripe for Attack?
"New Rules On Internet Wiretapping Challenged"
Privacy, high-tech, and telecommunications groups argued against new FCC wiretapping regulations in federal court yesterday, claiming the rules would force broadband ISPs to pay for redesigning their networks in order to make it easier for law enforcement to monitor Internet-based phone calls ...
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"A Morass That Immobilizes Europe's IT Workers"
While the European Union was built to level the barriers between nations, Europe's IT labor market is still a bewildering labyrinth of regulations and country-specific certifications. Within the EU, there are more than 100 distinct IT specialist certification programs, and companies frequently ...
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"Old Software Weakening Net's Backbone, Survey Says"
The BIND software used for domain-name resolution is out of date or incorrectly configured on a fifth of DNS servers, leaving them exposed to possible hacker attacks, according to a new survey from the Measurement Factory. The company said DNS servers that run versions of BIND earlier ...
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"Google Supports Open Source Initiatives With Oregon Universities"
Google has contributed a $350,000 grant to an open source initiative sponsored jointly by Oregon State University and Portland State University. Through the grant, the two universities will develop curricula and offer the computing infrastructure to support open source efforts. Google's ...
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"Smart, Robotic Toys May One Day Diagnose Autism at Early Age"
A team of Yale researchers is exploring the application of robotic toys to help diagnose autism, a mental illness whose escalating numbers have raised questions over whether doctors' understanding of the disease has actually improved, or whether it is being diagnosed more liberally due to pressure ...
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"Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends"
While predicting which technologies emerging today will have the staying power to revolutionize the future can at times be a fool's errand, futurists believe that it can be instructive to identify prevailing trends that could lead to the creation of individual devices. Simplicity is one ...
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"Machines Are Catching Up With Human Intelligence"
Artificial intelligence is woven into almost every fiber of human endeavor, including communication, banking, and transportation, and it shows no signs of abating. AI powers information retrieval technologies such as Google, and is in use among pharmaceutical companies in developing new drug ...
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"Automated Analysis of Security-Sensitive Protocols"
To address the uncertainties inherent in the vast array of available security services, the AVISPA software tool allows security protocol designers to plug in the desired protocol and learn of any weaknesses it may have when deployed in a given language. AVISPA's developers, led by ...
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"Making Signatures More Secure"
IBM researchers in San Jose have come up with new software that uses the unique ways individuals sign their names, such as their hand strokes and pressure exerted on the writing pad, to determine the validity of signatures and to detect forgery. If a signature is a 95 percent match of ...
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SC|05 Brings Conference to the Desktop
SC|05, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage, will introduce the first opportunity to "attend" the conference from either a desktop or a local Access Grid node. Delegates unable to go to the conference in Seattle Nov. 12-18, can ...
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"US Keeps R&D Lead as Europeans Fall Further Behind Target"
U.S. companies increased their investment in R&D by 7 percent from 2004 to 2005, while their European counterparts registered an increase of only 2 percent, according to the International Research and Development Scoreboard. South Korea experienced the largest increase--40 ...
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"PC as Personal Companion for Computer Studies"
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $520,000 grant to support the development of a personal computer that will act like a student and assist students in solving problems. University of Illinois at Chicago associate computer science professor Barbara Di Eugenio will develop a ...
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"Overseer of Net Addresses Ends Dispute With VeriSign"
ICANN and VeriSign have settled their dispute centering around the allocation of network addresses, dating back to ICANN's challenge of VeriSign's search service, Sitefinder, claiming that it redirected users who mistyped addresses to VeriSign-controlled sites. After a groundswell ...
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"Google's Battle Over Library Books"
Google's Print Program seeks to bring all the books in the world into a searchable repository that will offer full-text versions whenever possible, though the search company has found itself the target of a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement on a massive scale. Google has offered an opt-out ...
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"Starting Your PC in a Flash"
Bill Gates is urging engineers to create faster hardware to reduce the long-lamented bootup time as computers begin to take over more facets of our life. Gates' vision has computers serving as the locus of audio, video, and other entertainment functions, but the lag time required to make ...
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"Little-Fe: A Portable, Educational PC Cluster"
Little-Fe technology combines the Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD) distribution project with an 8-node mobile computational cluster to offer an easy-to-use high-performance computing resource that is affordable for many K-16 schools. The authors say their goal is "to advance the amount of quality ...
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"Salary Survey: Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal?"
The average pay of IT workers increased just 3 percent in 2005, the same amount as last year, and the fourth straight year of only marginal increases. A recent survey found that 31 percent of IT workers experienced either no increase or a decline in their base salary in 2004. In contrast ...
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"Tools Gain Wider 'Customer' Base"
As the needs of business processes relentlessly change, nondevelopers represent one of the most enduring markets for developer tools, as it has long been the promise of toolmakers to bring application development to within the reach of those outside the programming process. Unified ...
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"Is VoIP Ripe for Attack?"
Enterprise voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems are as vulnerable to exploitation as other data applications, at least in theory. Typical enterprise VoIP systems consist of call control servers that usually run on a popular operating system, softphone or handset client devices, and VoIP ...
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