News Week Ending 14 /02/2015

Internet of Things – Wifi encryption key leaked to the internet 

Scary article about how an ‘Internet of things’ in this case a wireless enabled home weather station leaks your wireless encryption key out the internet in the clear!  I’ll shortly be writing a blog about how to use a Palo Alto firewall to detect unwanted sensitive information from leaving your network!

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2884253/personal-weather-stations-can-expose-your-wifi-
network.html#tk.rss_all

Will SDN mean the end of network engineers?

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2881176/sdn/how-network-admins-can-survive-sdn.html#tk.rss_all

Differences in how Fibre Channel and Ethernet Measure Speed

Interesting video by Tony Bourke:

http://datacenteroverlords.com/2015/02/09/differences-in-how-fibre-channel-and-ethernet-measure-speed/

Long Live copper cables!

http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/copper-vs-fiber-whats-best-in-the-next-gen-data-center/a/d-id/1319049?_mc=RSS_NWC_EDT