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We believe many could benefit from this free training however its limited to 100 participants. This participants will then be screened via interview to be shortlisted into the 100 pool.

The training and hands-on classes will be conducted after working hours as well as weekends.

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It is an Unix-like OS that was developed at the Bell Labs. It is not a Linux-variant. More here..http://plan9.bell-labs.com/

On Sunday, 24 February 2008, Pakistan Telecom (AS17557) started an unauthorised announcement of the prefix 208.65.153.0/24. One of Pakistan Telecom's upstream providers, PCCW Global (AS3491) forwarded this announcement to the rest of the Internet, which resulted in the hijacking of YouTube traffic on a global scale.

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FOr those who are interested to get large amount of packet data (a few GBs) with traces of malicious activities, attacks, intrusion attemps, etc. for the their research, visit http://www.iscx.ca/dataset. You need to request and they will send you a torrent file to download the dataset.

I strongly agree with this article. The way v6 blocks are being assigned is leading to major wastage. For example, a home user is given a /64. That's about 18 million trillion addresses, probably I will use about 4 to 5 addresses. What about the rest?

Read more, http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/81528

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Flame botnet recently caused a stir among security experts and extensive work was carried out to trace the origin and capture the bot for analysis.

Realizing this, the creator of Flame has sent a self-destruct command to all the bots to cover his/her track. Read more at …

NAv6 is well-known for its vast expertise and experience in spearheading the IPv6 transition and capacity building in Malaysia and also the various nearby regions. It is also widely known that NAv6’s Certified IPv6 Network Engineer (CNE6) is a certified education program under the IPv6 Forum Global. NAv’6 has trained more than 3,000 IPv6 engineers under the CNE6 program in Malaysia and also countries like Singapore, Australia, India, Thailand and various other…

Before we start talking about Flame malware, you need to understand what malware is. Malware is categorized as following:

1. Viruses: A virus is a type of malware that propagates by inserting a copy of itself into and becoming part of another program. It spreads from one computer to another, leaving infections as it travels. Viruses can range in severity from causing mildly annoying effects to damaging data or software and causing denial-of-service (DoS)…

Malware, especially botnets, is the new paradigm of cyber-threat. Read about two famoust botnets, i.e. Stuxnet and Zeus, which underscore the compelling need for anticrimeware to move beyond the operating system. Get the PDF at mcafee-malware-101-cio.pdf.