HP Introduces New IPS and Security Services

A core component of modern enterprise security is the IPS (Intrusion Prevention System). HP is now advancing its TippingPoint IPS portfolio with the new NX platform, which it says can deliver as much as 13 Gigabits per second of IPS inspection throughput. The purpose-built, modular platform enables administrators to plug in new ports or different types of ports. "The operating system is the TippingPoint Operating system, and the box is a custom built box with custom silicon to make sure we get the best performance," Callahan said.
The NX is also what is known as a Next Generation IPS (NGIPS), device as it bundles in application awareness. The NGIPS market is a competitive one, with rivals like IBM debuting its own system. The IBM Security Network Protection XGS 5000platform, announced in July, can handle up to 2.5 Gbps of inspected traffic.
HP's product includes a reputation feed, which enables the TippingPoint IPS to block access to known bad IP addresses, whether outbound or inbound.
"The NX platform brings in the idea to also do security based on reputation feeds," Callahan said. "So it's not only pattern and filter matching."

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Announcement by ICANN

The Fellowship Program has demonstrated success in its mission to build capacity in the ICANN multi-stakeholder environment through focused interactive engagement between newcomers to ICANN and community members at each of the ICANN meetings. The program seeks to identify members of the Internet community who either have not previously been able to participate in ICANN processes and constituent organizations, or those who require further exposure to the Internet community and its work but cannot travel and attend a meeting without financial support. This outreach program seeks participants from developing regions and countries of the world, in order to help create a broader base of knowledgeable constituents who will become the new voice of experience in their regions and beyond.

Applications to become an ICANN Fellow are assessed for each meeting by an independent selection committee. Priority is given to applicants who: meet minimum program requirements; are current residents of developing and least developed nations in the five ICANN regions; and are interested in participating in the ICANN multi-stakeholder process and its supporting organizations, advisory committees or stakeholder groups. An effort will be made to include participants from the Asia-Pacific region as the site of the ICANN meeting.

All confirmed fellowship participants must comply with the terms and conditions of the Fellowship program, as outlined at http://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships/terms-conditions. As stated within these terms and conditions, ICANN is a California non-profit public benefit corporation and must therefore comply with all the laws and regulations of California and the United States. Fellows are responsible for obtaining all travel visas once accepted into the program. ICANN will purchase tickets for Fellows after all necessary documentation has been obtained and Fellows demonstrate that they have obtained all necessary travel visas.

Once all of the requirements for travel are met, the Fellowship program arranges for and covers the costs for airfare and hotel, as well as providing a stipend to assist with some meeting and subsistence costs. The stipend is provided after each selected candidate successfully completes the requirements of the Fellowship program, Recipients will be expected to actively participate in and contribute to ICANN processes during and after the meeting. As always, registration for ICANN's meetings is free for anyone wanting to attend.

This announement was sourced from :

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-19sep12-en.htm

Dates announced for DomainFest 2013

With less than four months remaining in the year,everybody was wondering when the DomainFest conference will take place or if the conference has been canceled .

Oversee announced through an email that the DomainFest 2013 conference will take place February 5-8 at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica,California.The hotel is reserved only for the conference attendees,as it has been for the last years.

Oversee will announce other information about the conference,such as the conference agenda,online registration and hotel room rates in early October.

Moreover,you can submit your domain name for the auction that will be held in conjuction with the event by December 14th,2012 .

July 2013 ICANN Meeting to be held in Durban,South Africa

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced recently that the 14-19 July 2013 Public Meeting will be held in Durban,South Africa .

ICANN has approved the proposal submitted by the .ZA Domain Name Authority this week.Therefore ,ICANN's July 2013 Public Meeting will be held from July 14 to July 19,2013 .The budget will not exceed $2,473M,according to ICANN .

Durban is South Africa's third largest city .Moreover,it is also considered a popular tourist destination.

This is the second ICANN meeting in 2013.The first one is being held in Beijing,from April 7 to April 11,2013 .The third and the last ICANN meeting in 2013 will be held from November 17 to November 21,2013.

Former Motorola Employee Sentenced to Four Years Imprisonment for Trade Secrets Theft

A former Motorola employee, charged with the theft of trade secrets from the company, was sentenced by a federal court in Illinois on Wednesday to four years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Hanjuan Jin, 41, a nine-year Motorola software engineer, conducted a "purposeful raid to steal technology," U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo said while imposing the sentence, according to a statement by the department.

The Judge did not however find her guilty of three counts of economic espionage for the benefit of China and its military, although he found by a preponderance of the evidence, that Jin "was willing to betray her naturalized country," according to the department. Jin had earlier been convicted by the court of three counts of theft of trade secrets.

Judge Castillo's order was not immediately available on the website of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division where Jin was on trial.

Jin, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, was stopped from traveling on a one-way ticket to China on Feb. 28, 2007 at O'Hare International Airport by U.S. customs officials who are said to have seized from her possession more than 1,000 electronic and paper documents from Motorola.

The trade secrets relate to the proprietary iDEN (Integrated Digital Enhanced Network) technology of Motorola which was subsequently renamed as Motorola Solutions, after its separation from Motorola Mobility in 2011. Jin was said to be secretly working for Sun Kaisens, a Chinese company that developed telecommunications technology for the Chinese military, at the time of the customs seizure of the documents.

Jin pursued employment with Sun Kaisens in 2006 while on sick leave from Motorola, and worked for the company on projects for the military between November 2006 and February 2007, according to the Justice Department.

On Feb. 26, 2007, Jin returned to Motorola, purportedly to resume full-time work, but was not given any assignments. On that day and the day after she accessed documents from Motorola's internal network and was also seen removing from the premises physical documents and other material, according to the Department of Justice. By Feb. 27 she had also sent an email to Motorola appearing to volunteer for a layoff.

The federal authorities said they also recovered from Jin multiple classified Chinese military documents, written in Chinese and in many cases marked "secret" by the Chinese military that described certain telecommunication projects for the Chinese military.

In a submission to the court on Tuesday, Jin's lawyers from the Federal Public Defender Program had asked for a non-custodial sentence, citing evidence admitted at trial and the court's findings that Jin intended to prepare herself for her next job with the material seized from her, and did not plan to share it with Sun Kaisens.

The government had in a filing on Monday asked for a sentence for Jin of between 70 to 96 months of imprisonment.

Jin was also fined US$20,000 and ordered to remain in home confinement with electronic monitoring until starting her sentence on Oct. 25.

(pcworld.com)