In Through The Out Door

Chinese Hack Attacks on DoD Networks Coordinated:An anonymous reader writes ” The Naval Network Warfare Command says that Chinese hackers are relentlessly targeting Defense Department networks with cyber attacks. The ‘volume, proficiency and sophistication’ of the attacks supports the theory that the attacks are government supported. The motives of the attacks emanating from China include technology theft, intelligence gathering, exfiltration, research on DOD operations and the creation of dormant presences in DOD network for future action. Onlookers warn that current US defenses against these attacks are ‘dysfunctional’, and that more aggressive measures should be taken to ensure government network safety.”

AirPort Extreme: Apple Breaks 90 Mbps:My review of the new AirPort Extreme Base Station is up at Macworld: This lengthy review, aided by several colleagues at the magazine, covers a lot of the basics for home users…. I was able to see consistently high speeds in testing, in excess of 90 Mbps in a single direction over 802.11n to Ethernet (flooding packets from N to Ethernet), and about 50 Mbps when flooding from N to N via the base station…. The Extreme has a minor flaw that won’t bite many people in its ability to pass traffic at full Ethernet speeds across its WAN port when network address translation (NAT) is engaged…. I’ll be writing more soon about particular aspects of the base station, but for now, I’d like to direct you to the technical discussion about the Extreme’s use of IPv6, the next-generation Internet routing protocol that’s been “next generation” for something like eight or nine years now. IPv6 support is found throughout Mac OS X and is fully supported in the Extreme base station–so fully, Ars Technica’s Iljitsch van Beijnum reports, that by default every Mac OS X computer that connects to a new Extreme gateway will be fully reachable through tunneled IPv6 from the rest of the Internet….