CIO Magazine: ABC: An Introduction to Network Monitoring

This is what we love to see - CIO magazine breaks down what network monitoring is, why it's important, what network monitoring sees, what's on the market, and how much it will cost.

Network monitoring for a corporate network is a critical IT function that can save money in network performance, employee productivity and infrastructure cost overruns. A network monitoring system monitors an internal network for problems. It can find and help resolve snail-paced webpage downloads, lost-in-space e-mail, questionable user activity and file delivery caused by overloaded, crashed servers, dicey network connections or other devices.

Times of London: China 'tops list' of cyber-hackers seeking U.K. government secrets.

Yesterday, the Pentagon, today, the British military.

China leads the list of countries hacking into government computers that contain Britain’s military and foreign policy secrets, Whitehall sources said yesterday.

The emergence of Beijing as one of the most hostile state hackers has been highlighted in the United States this week, with allegations that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army tried to extract secrets from a computer in the Pentagon office of Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary.

Apparently, they were looking for pirated copies of Halo 3, and thought they had hacked into the computer of Bill Gates.

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Correction: The headline was incorrectly reported as "Network Performance Linds." The actual headline should be "Network Performance Links." No explanation is forthcoming, because the "K" and "D" keys aren't even remotely near each other. Your guess is as good as mine. -ed.