Spammers have taken advantage of a vulnerability in Facebook to spread auto-replicating links, a trick that makes it possible to spread crud without using social engineering. Simply clicking on any application spam links was enough to "share" the application to the user's wall, net security firm F-Secure explains, adding that the links had stopped working by late on Monday. While Facebook has...

A global policing role for Internet service providers (ISPs) has been deleted from the latest Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) draft leaked onto the world wide web. The progress of the ACTA treaty deliberations has regularly been leaked online with nearly every working draft getting an airing. This time a rights organisation called the Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is hosting a...

Global handset vendors and PC makers including Nokia, LG Electronics and Hewlett-Packard Co are moving into the new category of devices, between traditional PCs and smartphones, taking a cue from Apple. Dell Inc said last month it was launching its new tablet device, the Dell Streak, to U.S. customers. "We see huge potential for this kind of product," YH Lee, head of marketing at Samsung...

Google is fighting back against an anti-trust inquiry ordered by Texas' attorney general, saying that some of the companies making complaints have links to Microsoft. The review centers on whether Google's closely-guarded algorithm for generating search results is genuinely impartial, or whether it's manipulated to hamper competition. But Google says it's confident that it can demonstrate that...

Netgear has announced what may well be the world's first consumer networking products based on the as-yet-unratified IEEE P1910 next-gen powerline Ethernet standard. Netgear's Powerline AV 500 series comprises single-adaptor and two-adaptor starter kits. Each adaptor delivers speeds of up to 500Mb/s, Netgear said, fed through a Gigabit Ethernet port. Of course, the devil is in the "up to",...

The SMCWBR11S-N is an all-in-one networking solution for connecting and sharing a high speed Internet connection. This multi-functional broadband router combines Internet access sharing, with a 150Mbps wireless access point, a NAT/ SPI firewall for online security and a user-friendly web-based management interface in one convenient device. With security being a key consideration, theSMCWBR11S-N...

The LW310V2 is a wireless router with one 10/100Base-T WAN port and four 10/100Base-T LAN ports.

The integrated access point complies with IEEE 802.11n (draft 2.0), providing wireless transmission speeds of up to 300Mbps. It is WDS compatible and uses WEP and WPA/WPA2 wireless encryption. A WPS button allows for easy wireless security configuration.

This router provides VPN pass-through...

The W307R is a 300Mbps Wireless-N router, wireless access point, four-port switch, and firewall all-in-one.

Utilizing advanced MIMO technology, WLAN range is double that of 802.11g products. The W330R also provides WDS (Wireless Distribution System), enabling the bridging of other wireless routers and extending wireless coverage.

Plenty of features are bundled to better secure and...

The MO251V2 is a wireless ADSL2+ router. It has four 10/100 Base-T Ethernet ports and provides WAN throughput of up to 24Mbps.

The integrated AP complies with IEEE 802.11g standard, providing wireless transmission speeds of up to 54Mbps. It also supports WEP and WPA/WPA2 wireless encryption.

The MO251V2 can be easily configured via Web-based configuration utility.

This router is...

ZyXEL P-870HN-51b supports dual-mode functionality that enables service providers to support both ATM and PTM networks with a single device. It offers bi-directional high speed VDSL2, VDSL connection with speed up to 100/45Mbps in PTM mode and 24/1Mbps ADSL2+/ADSL2/ADSL connections in ATM mode.

The integrated AP complies with IEEE 802.11n, providing wireless transmission speeds of up to...

The WRTM-178GN is a wireless router with one 10/100Base-T WAN port and four 10/100/1000Base-T LAN ports.

The integrated access point complies with IEEE 802.11n, providing wireless transmission speeds of up to 300Mbps. It provides WEP and WPA/WPA2 wireless encryption and uses WMM (QoS) to prioritize the traffic over the network.

This router provides VPN pass-through for IPSec, L2TP and...

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...