Setting up an
internet firewall to prevent students exchanging e-mail and instant messages that might contain exam questions or answers
The value added services are eFax, iVOD (HD Movie Streaming Service), Channel Rating (TV Channel Viewship), BOD (Bandwidth on Demand), EFence (Intrusion Prevention and Alert System), Live TV Streaming, NMX TV (Your World of Entertainment), Nwatch (Watch your premises), Modern Home Cabling Guidelines, Ubroadkast, Video Conferencing, eView (connect from anywhere), Nwall (
Internet Firewall Solution), NFi (a managed Wi-Fi service), NDrive (plug and play from anywhere) and E-Collaboration.
China likes to build walls, be that the Qin Dynasty Great Wall of 221 BCE or the Great
Internet Firewall of today, blocking eight of the world's 25 most-trafficked websites.
Blogger Zhang Jialong asked if the United States would get together with the "Chinese who aspire for freedom" and help "tear down the great
Internet firewall", complaining that US companies were helping Beijing block access to sites like Twitter.
Earlier this year Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicted that China's
Internet firewall was destined to fall under increasing pressure from the country's online users.
President Obama touched on the right points about the importance of respecting human rights when visiting China, but he undermined his message by failing to meet beforehand with the Dalai Lama and by flubbing his response to a question about the Chinese
Internet firewall, by suggesting that censorship might represent a different "tradition" rather than an obvious violation of freedom of expression.
In particular, it offers greater security, as the software is hosted behind a company's
Internet firewall, and content cannot be seen by non-employees.
<p>Eric Schultze, CTO for Shavlik Technologies, said last week that the WINS issue "is an unauthenticated server-side attack -- the bad guy simply points and shoots some packets at the WINS server and they can execute code of their choice on that server." He noted, however, that the attack is most likely to come from inside a user's network because the necessary port -- Port 42 -- to execute the attack is usually blocked at the
Internet firewall. <p>Regardless, his recommendation was to "patch this right away on your WINS servers."<p>Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle, also said last week that the WINS vulnerability could become a "potential worm vector." <p>Copyright 2009 IDG Middle East.