Microsoft Monday night issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer. Earlier in the day, the company said it was investigating the incident which emerged over the weekend when someone published the exploit code to the Bugtraq mailing list. By Monday night, Microsoft switched gears and issued the...

Google will combine second-by-second set-top data from TiVo with data from Dish Network, which will let the Web giant track the viewing habits associated with more than 5 million TV sets - and sell ads with more precision. With the additional data, Google will be able to "substantially enhance the measurement and accountability" of ad impressions for inventory sold using the Google TV Ads...

Microsoft has been locked in secret talks with Rupert Murdoch over the weekend as the pair try to work out a Google shafting deal over news searches. Apparently Redmond is offering Murdoch cash in exchange for him pulling his news websites from Google's search. Sources claim that the talks took place after News Corp executives approached Microsoft suggesting a deal. As reported by TG Daily...

YouTube is set to become a regular feature of televisions, but only through its partners' hardware. So far one company been blocked from accessing YouTube videos on its set-top box pursuant to a July 2008 change in YouTube’s terms of service, with others soon to follow, according to sources close to the situation. Syabas, which has had about 16 months to sign a contract with Google's YouTube...

Chrome OS is a natural evolution of the work that’s been done on the Chrome browser, Sundar Pichai, VP of product management, and Chrome OS engineering director Matthew Papakipos said when they unveiled it at Google’s Mountain View campus on Thursday. The operating system is designed to imbue web applications with the "full functionality of desktop applications." As for the reasons behind the...

The GT724WG is an ADSL1/2/2+ wireless router with one RJ-11 WAN port, four 10/100Mbps LAN ports and a single USB 1.1 port, used for connecting client PCs to the router. It provides WAN throughput of up to 24Mbps.

The integrated access point complies with the IEEE 802.11b/g standards, providing wireless transmission speeds of up to 54Mbps. It supports WEP and WPA wireless encryption and 802.1x...

The EW-7416APn is an 802.11n (draft 2.0) wireless access point. It has a single 10/100Base-T Ethernet port and can operate in Access point, Wireless client, Wireless bridge and Repeater modes.

This access point can act as a DHCP server. It uses WMM (QoS) to prioritize the traffic over the network and supports WEP and WPA/WPA2 wireless encryption. A WPS button allows for worry-free wireless...

The ENDSL-A2+4R2 is an ADSL1/2/2+ router with one RJ-11 WAN port, four 10/100Mbps LAN ports and an USB 1.1 port, used for connecting client PCs to the router. This device provides WAN throughput of up to 24Mbps.

This router supports VPN pass-through for IPSec, L2TP and PPTP. It features a built-in firewall to protect the network against malicious attacks.

The router can be easily...

The EnduraLINK ER-1088 is a broadband router with 8 10/100Mbps WAN ports and 8 10/100Mbps LAN ports, providing WAN throughput of up to 80Mbps. It supports auto-failover and a number of different load balancing methods (bytes tx+rx, packets tx+rx, established sessions, IP addresses, auto-learning, round robin, weighted round robin, etc.).

This router supports VPN pass-through for IPSec and...

The GT704WG is an ADSL1/2/2+ wireless router with one RJ-11 WAN port, four 10/100Mbps LAN ports and a single USB 1.1 port, used for connecting client PCs to the router. It provides WAN throughput of up to 24Mbps.

The integrated access point complies with the IEEE 802.11b/g standards, providing wireless transmission speeds of up to 54Mbps. It supports WEP and WPA wireless encryption and 802.1x...

The Actiontec M1000 is a Modular DSL router, that consists of several modules. The base unit is a one-port Ethernet/USB ADSL2+ modem. An expansion port is included on top of the unit for attaching the wireless expansion module.

Modular add-ons include a Wireless Expansion Module, 4-port Ethernet switch for wired networking, a HomePlug AV adapter for powerline networking, and a VoIP...

Introduction With the popularity of wireless networks and mobile computing, an overall understanding of common security issues has become not only relevant, but very necessary for both home/SOHO users and IT professionals alike. This article is aimed at illustrating current security flaws in WEP/WPA/WPA2. Successfully cracking a wireless network assumes some basic familiarity with networking principles and terminology, as well as working with command-line tools. A basic familiarity...

This article is intended as a primer on some TCP/IP networking concepts and factors that determine an optimal TCP Receive Window.   The TCP Window  The TCP Window is the amount of outstanding data (unacknowledged by the recepient) that can remain in the network. After sending that amount of data, the sender stops and waits for acknowledgement back from the receiver that it has gotten some of it. As such, this value is probably the single most important...

Microsoft enforces a limit on half-open TCP/IP connections that is hard-coded in tcpip.sys. The maximum simultaneous half-open (incomplete) outbound TCP connection attempts per second that the system can make is intended to limit the spread of malicious viruses and worms, as well as limit the possibility of launching a DDoS attack. However, it has proven to also limit some applications using many TCP connections, such as P2P and P2PTV programs. When the OS reaches the half-open...

Windows Vista introduces a number of new features to the TCP/IP stack, including CTCP, and TCP Window Auto-Tuning. This new implementation works much better by default than previous Windows versions with broadband internet connections, and is able to adjust the RWIN value on the fly, depending on the BDP (bandwidth-delay product). This, however, introduces some problems with older routers and restricts the user from tweaking some of the TCP/IP parameters. Still, there is always some room for...

Introduction The Travel Mate 292XC is a part of the 290 Series laptops from Acer. There is a large range of models within the 290 series with different specifications, some Centrino based, and others just Pentium M. This particular model being reviewed, the LX-T3505.455, is a Celeron M 330 processor version and it is a very well priced for its specifications. This model was purchased for about $599.99 CAD and has the following specs: Processor: Intel Celeron M 330 Processor...

Introduction D-Link was founded in 1986, and since then has catered to both consumer and SOHO users. D-Link is already a well known name in the home networking market, however in the past D-Link products have been considered inferior to those of their competitors such as Linksys (Cisco) and Netgear (Bay Networks). Recently this stigma has begun to disappear with D-Link taking a large portion of the home and SOHO markets. The D-Link DI-524 is one of the company's new series of Wireless-G routers,...

Introduction Compex is an established, yet forward-thinking company in the networking, wireless and telecommunications industry. The company was founded in 1987 and focuses on designing, development and manufacturing a complete line of networking products for the home, SOHO, broadband, and WLAN market needs. The NetPassage 26G is a notable addition to the wireless wave of broadband routers that is sweeping the current home/SOHO market. It comes with a...

Netgear is well known in the networking market.  Originally a consumer-oriented subsidiary of Bay Networks, they have since been spun off to become their own company.  Some of the first consumer routers came out of Netgear, and they have been a major player in the home networking scene.  Their latest line of products sports a new sleek look, a major change of the square purple boxes for which they were known.  Personally, I was a fan of the old box, but then again, not everybody wants a...