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Internet-Based Distributed Collaborative Environment For Engineering Education And Design
White Papers This paper proposes a Virtual City framework to investigate Internet-based distributed collaborative environment for engineering education and design. The multimedia modules are tied together through the 3D virtual world since each multimedia...
[December 16, 2005, 0:01]
Industry Group Hones Patent Standards
News The technologists who oversee the engineering of the Internet have created a working group to clarify their current policy on including intellectual property in their standards, signalling that they may be inclined to use more proprietary...
[August 5, 2002, 11:09]
Briton Appointed Chair Of IETF
News The Internet Society has announced that Brian Carpenter has been appointed the next chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body responsible for most of the standards that the Internet is built upon.
[March 4, 2005, 16:45]
Alan Cox Hails 64-bit Linux
News He also criticised new guidelines suggested by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) covering the reporting of software security holes. A recent draft protocol from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), for example, has been criticised...
[March 6, 2002, 9:53]
Router Security Hole Threatens Web
News The people who are writing the (Internet engineering) drafts are running out of financing because people aren't listening," Dugan said. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the group that sets the technical standards for the Internet, has...
[March 3, 2003, 10:58]
Red Hat Makes Another Embedded Linux Acquisition
News That group is chartered to provide custom engineering services to developing next-generation Internet infrastructure solutions, including appliances, handhelds, and other post-PC and deeply embedded devices.
[June 15, 2000, 7:43]
Yahoo Adds Anti-spam Tool, Ups Email Storage
News Yahoo and Microsoft have filed with the Internet Engineering Task Force for their technologies to become standards. The technology tries to thwart spam "phishing" attacks where messages pretend to originate from a familiar address and then launch...
[November 15, 2004, 8:30]
Open Letter To Steve Case
News Cc: Vijay Saraswat, Internet Engineering Task Force As you know, The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the...
[July 30, 1999, 14:50]
Future Net: Six Technologies To Make A Bulletproof Web
News Intrigued by this engineering challenge, Heddaya and some of his graduate students started a research project to answer the question: What specific technical problems will the Internet encounter? In addition to serving as co-chairman of the IP Next...
[September 7, 1999, 16:09]
UN Agency Investigates Curbs On Internet Anonymity
News That document was provided to Steve Bellovin, a well-known Columbia University computer scientist, Internet Engineering Steering Group member and Internet Engineering Task Force participant who wrote a traceback proposal eight years ago.
[September 15, 2008, 13:31]
VeriSign Relents On Browser 'hijack'
News In addition, at least seven organisations have criticised VeriSign's wildcard change, including the Internet Society, the Public Interest Registry and several engineering groups within ICANN. On 21 September, Icann asked VeriSign to voluntarily...
[October 6, 2003, 14:20]
'Swiss Army Knife' Virus Appears In A Weekend
News The worm combines multiple attack techniques in an innovative way: spamming, social engineering, virus infection and Trojans. But further research has showed that the worms, which spam themselves using social engineering tactics, share too few...
[November 9, 2004, 13:53]
Analysis: BT Under Pressure To Do The Right Thing. Part II
News While the markets get tougher and tougher in demanding substance from tech investments -- substance in terms of deep engineering expertise, patents, and unique technologies -- as opposed to fluffy, 'portalesque' Internet appeal, there is substance...
[April 3, 2000, 13:01]
Top Engineers Leave Juniper For Start-up
News Juniper Networks has confirmed that two of its top engineering executives have left the company to form a start-up. Anand, vice president of chip engineering, were two of Juniper's earliest employees when the company started eight years ago.
[August 19, 2004, 11:50]
Microsoft Acts On 'download Warning' Flaw
News It is important to note that this is not the exploitation of a security vulnerability, but an attempt by an attacker to use social engineering to convince a user to save an executable file on the hard drive without first receiving the Internet...
[November 23, 2004, 7:50]
Tech Monoculture Study Wins Funding
News We are looking at computers the way a physician would look at genetically related patients, each susceptible to the same disorder," Mike Reiter, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Carnegie Mellon, said in a...
[November 26, 2003, 9:40]
Internet 'heroes And Villains' Vie For ISPA Awards
News BT Wholesale is also on the villains' list "for changing the whole engineering plan for 21CN only six months before the launch date". We regret that we were not able to provide communications providers with more notice, but engineering the world's...
[January 15, 2008, 15:54]
Mac Users 'must Wise Up To Social Engineering'
News The biggest security vulnerability could lie in the fact that OS X users aren't "trained" to monitor and identify social engineering tactics that have been used against Windows-based users for years. Mark Borrie, IT security manager at New Zealand...
[February 21, 2006, 9:20]
Showtime For New Video Compression
News The company positions its technology as a major break from its rivals, offering a rare alternative to video standards developed in the past two decades under the auspices of the Moving Pictures Engineering Group (MPEG).
[March 25, 2002, 11:51]
Vista Security Push Gets Warm Reception
News Microsoft's Black Hat presentations cover various aspects of security in the operating system update, including broad talks on fundamentals and security engineering, and specific sessions on networking technology, Wi-Fi, heap management...
[August 4, 2006, 9:00]
