3Com mounts school WiFi fightback
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Touts 'second-generation wireless' against health hysteria 3Com has decided to fight the hysteria over WiFi in schools. The company has hooked up with a reseller that specialises in the education market called 802.UK to promote "second-generation wireless" - by which it means enterprise-class managed WLANs - for schools.â¦
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To protect computer networks against attacks, students learn to 'think like a hacker.'
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By WATSON LOIS  MORE THAN 2000 schools across the country have taken steps to limit student access to the web as concern grows over social networking sites like bebo. com.
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College students now are wired, wireless, Sidekicked, Facebooked, YouTubed and bleeping with instant messages and text messages. But try getting an important announcement out to everyone on campus.
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Pah - we sneer at your global economies of scale! More dismal news for the US consumer. After the simultaneous failure of Municipal Wi-Fi projects in three major US cities - something we predicted four years ago - faster, cheaper mobile data looks further away than ever.â¦
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One of the big selling points of Apple&#39;s iPhone is the ability to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, but I.T. pros at Duke University might say otherwise. The iPhones on campus are flooding the school&#39;s wireless LAN with as many as 18,000 access requests per second, temporarily knocking out access points for 10 to 15 minutes at a time, according to Kevin Miller, Duke&#39;s assistant director of communications infrastructure.
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Wireless vendors are committed to building 3G systems despite the fear that users will turn up their nose at all the extra bandwidth.
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The amount of money secondary schools spend on ICT has risen by a third in a year, figures show.
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It's ZoneAlarm...but it's a router. You can't download it, but it's a firewall with the ZA brand on it.  What's going on? It's not really the ZoneAlarm we've come to know, but instead, a perimeter security device plus wireless router from CheckPoint that's being marketed, for the first time in that company's history, to the consumer. For $199, it had better make a pretty strong case.
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The hardware networking company is trying to break out of the doldrums.
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Pennsylvania may block Philly's Wi-Fi plan. [News.com Extra]
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Punts 802.11a kit at gamers, multi-room music streamers
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Wireless devices slip past anti-gadget policies to open a new communications channel to lawmakers.
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Letter: Setting the record straight on network location awareness and Vista Group Policy.
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Wi-fi users could be at risk as researchers reveal another attack on the security built into networks.
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(InfoWorld) - Duke University said Friday that widely publicizedÂ problems with its campus wireless networkÂ it had originally blamed on Apple iPhones had instead been traced to Cisco Systems hardware. A fix has been applied, the school added. For their part, Apple supporters blasted Duke for falsely accusing the new iPhone for playing a part in the flap. First reported last Wednesday by Computerworld's sister publication Network World, the problem involved failures of up to 30 wireless access points at a time across Duke's Durham, N.C. campus. The cause, school IT administrators thought then, was the built-in Wi-Fi adapters on iPhones, which were pinging the hotspots with thousands of address requests each second. The relatively small number of iPhones registered to Duke's wireless LAN -- just 150, according to the Network World story -- were nevertheless hogging bandwidth with endless address requests and taking down access points for 10 to 15 minutes at a stretch. Friday, Duke's chief information officer, Tracy Futhey, posted a note on the university's Web site thatÂ fingeredÂ an unspecified Cisco issue for the trouble. "Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based network issue," said Futhey. "Cisco has provided a fix that has been applied to Duke's network and there have been no recurrences of the problem since." Futhey also took exception with news reports that she said made it sound like Duke's wireless infrastructure was falling apart, and that the iPhone wouldn't work with its network. "The reality is that a particular set of conditions made the Duke wireless network experience some minor and temporary disruptions in service," she argued. "Those conditions involve our deployment of a very large Cisco-based wireless network that supports multiple network protocols. "Earlier reports that this was a problem with the iPhone in particular have proved to be inaccurate," Futhey added. Those reports, however, were largely based on a statement by another Duke administrator, Kevin Miller, assistant director of communications infrastructure with the school's Office of Information Technology, who pinned the blame on the iPhone. "I don't believe it's a Cisco problem in any way, shape or form," Miller told Network World on July 18. Neither Duke nor Cisco spelled out the applied fix or the root cause. Cisco did not immediately reply to a request for additional information. Not surprisingly, Apple and iPhone supporters were angry at Duke for rushing to judgment. "They should not have 'announced' that it was the iPhone until after the problem was resolved," said a user identified as "jwilkinson1977" on Apple's iPhone support forum. "It's just bad publicity and wasn't warranted." Traditional college rivalries even played a part in the Duke bashing. "I think Dook [sic] owes Apple an apology!!!!!!!" wrote another user, pegged as Evangelist on the same thread. "Of course, I am a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, if that makes a difference.....AND IT DOES! I knew all along that the percentile was like 99.99999999999988998 that Dook had either done or not done something." Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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There&#39;s a wireless router gathering dust in Bob LaRocca&#39;s office. It&#39;s yours if you can hack into his network.First, some background: &#160;LaRocca is director of IT security with the School District of Palm Beach County in Florida, where he oversees a network of 60,000 computers in 175 schools and which he says covers more acres than any other school district east of the Mississippi River. Computer security has traditionally been a low priority in the public school system, but that&#39;s not the case in Palm Beach County.That&#39;s because a computer breach stung the school system in a very public way two years ago when local papers reported that Jeff Yorston, a student at one of the county&#39;s schools, got hold of an administrative password and gave himself an &quot;A&quot; in a French class he never took. He also managed to boost the grades of a few friends.Yorston was discovered when another student complained that her ex-boyfriend -- with worse grades than she had -- was accepted into the University of Florida while she had been rejected. He has since paid a fine and agreed to state supervision in connection with the charges, according to the Palm Beach Post.After an investigation, county officials discovered that they hadn&#39;t been hacked. Instead the breach occurred because of a leaked password. &quot;One of the administrators lent her password out to one of the students who was working on a project,&quot; LaRocca said. &quot;That&#39;s what happens when you share passwords. We could put $1 million worth of controls in place, but when I give you my password, all bets are off.&quot;LaRocca says that the grades-changing incident was &quot;a wake-up call for the district,&quot; which has now made security a top priority.Palm Beach County has spent more than $1.5 million over the past two years overhauling systems throughout the county&#39;s schools. It has upgraded the county&#39;s desktops with anti-virus, host intrusion prevention, and network access control software from McAfee. Network-based intrusion detection and content filtering have also been added, and the county is now logging its grading systems, which have much stricter access controls.The county has also made security awareness a priority, taking steps to educate users about safe online behavior.And that&#39;s where the hacking challenge comes in. LaRocca issued it as part of an April security awareness event held at county schools, setting up a target server that attackers would have to break into in order to claim the prize. This type of &quot;capture the flag&quot; game is popular at hacking conferences.Any students who might see the contest as a chance to hack the system, change their grades, and win a router need to think again. &quot;We set up a honeypot server that they specifically had to hack into and capture a flag,&quot; he said. &quot;We didn&#39;t say if you go in and change your grades you&#39;ll get a router.&quot;That hasn&#39;t deterred some attackers. Thanks to the publicity surrounding his Wi-Fi challenge, LaRocca says the schools are being hit by about 16,000 online attacks per day.Still, LaRocca says the insider threat remains his biggest concern. &quot;All my hackers are inside the network,&quot; he said. &quot;I&#39;m not too worried about the ones from the outside.&quot;