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Old Windows Server machines can still fend off hacks. Here's how

Network World

If you're running a Windows Server 2003 machine, you have a problem. That's due to the internet release earlier this month of a batch of updates that paint a bulls-eye on computers running Windows Server 2003, according to security researchers. “I Your already-vulnerable computer is now at severe risk of being hacked.

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Cisco’s acquisition history has shaped its evolution

Network World

Founded in 2003, Splunk’s software platform is known for its wide-reaching ability to search, monitor and analyze data from a variety of systems. Founded in 2010, the 400-employee ThousandEyes firm offers a cloud-based software package that analyzes performance of local and wide-area networks and the internet.

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A Closer Look at Net Neutrality: What do you mean when you say it?

CTOvision

The principle is easy enough to understand; this blog recently defined net neutrality as the idea that no law-abiding company should face discrimination and all Internet users should have the same access to any online, legal content. Network neutrality is the sweetspot between overregulation and zero regulation. Has the FCC killed it?

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Enterprise Browsers Reignite the Browser Wars, But This Time for Businesses

Forrester IT

I’ve been in the IT industry long enough to remember the start of the Browser Wars when Internet Explorer took on Netscape in the late 1990s. Safari came along for Mac in 2003, […]. Product names like Mosaic, Netscape, “IE”, and Mozilla (and its next iteration with Firefox) were all part of the browser market development.

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End of an era: Microsoft to shut down Skype, shifting users to Teams, 14 years after $8.5B deal

GeekWire

billion in 2011 to acquire what was once a dominant player in voice and video calls over the internet. Founded in 2003, Skype was acquired two years later by eBay for $2.6 (Microsoft Photo) Before Zoom, before FaceTime, and before video-calling became a default feature of today’s messaging apps there was Skype.

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Millions of websites affected by unpatched flaw in Microsoft IIS 6 web server

Network World

A proof-of-concept exploit has been published for an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, Extended support for this version of IIS ended in July 2015 along with support for its parent product, Windows Server 2003. a version of the web server that's no longer supported but still widely used.

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Goodbye, NAC. Hello, software-defined perimeter

Network World

A wave of internet worms. The early 2000s produced a steady progression of internet worms, including Code Red (2001), Nimda (2001), SQL Slammer (2003), Blaster (2003), Bagel (2004), Sasser (2004), Zotob (2005), etc. Many organizations wanted a combination of NAC and 802.1X

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