KSU-Networking

A few hours after dark one evening earlier this month, a small quadcopter drone lifted off from the parking lot of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel. It soon trained its built-in camera on its target, a desktop computer's tiny blinking light inside a third-floor office nearby.

Hackers boasted of thefts from Tesco Bank months before the company reported losing £2.5m in an attack. Cybersecurity company Cyberint said it had discovered posts on a variety of dark web forums whose members had described the lender as being a "cash milking cow" and "easy to cash out".

Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement this morning: "Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked." A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had...

Sometimes the internet will take you to places you never expected to go.

This is a fun one. We will do traceroute in lab this semester.

Reading some of these articles, it appears that 100Gbps is becoming common in under ocean cabling systems.

Cases of cybercrime continue to increase with each passing day. On December 16th, a new malware was discovered by Sixgill security researchers on a popular Russian/English cybercrime message board - it is known as Nuke and is being sold in the dark web.

From SDN and network automation to IPv6 and 802.11ac, the big trends in the networking industry demand your attention, and you can find them at Interop Las Vegas.

Turn Key Switches

NASA has successfully completed the first test of the International Space Station's new OPALS laser communications system. OPALS links the ISS to an observatory here on Earth at very high speeds (around 50 megabits per second), allowing for the real-time transmission of high-resolution video among other things.

Wireless charging is not really wireless, in terms of today's technology. The traditional set up involves plugging in a charging pad to a wall and then carefully placing a smartphone or tablet on top of that pad. So you've not really eliminated any cords. The Ossia Cota system could change that.

Basics in how to start a simple home network with little to no knowledge required for setup.