Networking

It's IT Blogwatch: in which many ISP subscribers could have been at risk of "undetectable" phishing attacks for 18 months. Not to mention analytics, according to Captain Kirk...

Robert McMillan reports:

A vulnerability in servers used by EarthLink to handle mistyped Web page requests may have allowed attackers to launch undetectable phishing attacks against any Internet site, according to a noted Internet security researcher ...

This SAP admin isn't really supposed to be troubleshooting problems with the SAP client on users' desktops. But he occasionally gets calls from bewildered techs who don't know how SAP works, so he tries to help.

One of the holy grails of communications has just happened. Fring is on the iPhone. I just made my first Skype call on my iPhone (over WiFi). It sounded great. I am waiting for a Google Talk friend to come online to try that....

Virtual machine software and new hardware may be the breakthrough thin client advocates have been waiting for.

This company uses a Web interface to its systems, and it's accessible from any PC. The idea is to allow employees to access their company mail when away from the office -- or so this pilot fish assumes.

It's the late 1990s, and wireless LANs are installed at this manufacturing plant. Everything runs smoothly for two months — then, suddenly, complaints start coming in.

Stop all the fuss. Soon it won't matter.
(Or, Beware the Cloud!)

More broadband is not the answer to better performance of "cloud computing."

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Google does an embarrassing volte-face on an App Engine app. Not to mention the 50 greatest comedy sketches of all time...

Heather Harreld Havenstein goes all alliterative on us: [Get a room -Ed.]

Just a day after launching a preview version of its new Google App Engine, Google Inc. yesterday yanked one of the development product's demo applications after a blogosphere brouhaha erupted over its origin. The move came after bloggers contended that the real-time chat demo application for Google App Engine, called HuddleChat, was a copy of the Campfire real-time chat application from 37Signals LLC.

The latest figures for share of the search market should convince Microsoft it's time to give up trying to buy Yahoo. Buying Yahoo won't help in the fight against Google -- it'll only weigh down Microsoft with a sinking company.

The automated attendant at the VA San Diego Medical Center is so .... '90s. The prerecorded message presents callers with this intriguing message ...

The Feds have no objection to rural banks moving from T1 landlines to this secure wireless network.

I spend a fair amount of time at Digg. Recently the general slowness, occasional downtime, and numerous errors are starting to push me toward other sites.

In the last few minutes, I gotten this twice -- one when I first tried to submit an item and then when Digg was supposedly checking for duplicates.

Consultant pilot fish gets a panicked call from a client: "Everything was working fine. We went into a meeting, and when we came out, nothing worked." And client insists no one did anything else.

This Navy pilot fish is stationed on an aircraft carrier, and his boss is the navigator -- who's forever leaving his account logged in with his e-mail open when he leaves the bridge.