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"High-end motherboard manufacturer, IWILL Corporation, launches its latest Socket A platform motherboard, KK400 series. KK400 series, with VIA KT400 chipset, support DDR 400/333/266 DRAM up to 3GB and AGP8x that achieves 2.1GB/s bandwidth. KK400 series are also integrated with Serial ATA interface to show you the great performance of this new storage technology! Besides, IWILL KK400 series are also the members of FI series motherboards that support FI Panel to provide the frequently used IO connectors on the front panel."
AOpen AX4G Pro Motherboard Review
"The 845G GMCH is cooled by a passive aluminium heatsink, which is large enough to dissipate heat with an additional fan, and is secured to the PCB with two short retention hooks. An AGP slot, six PCI slots, and one CNR slot are situated just below the cooler in their traditional positions. The AGP slot has a small card-lock mechanism on the end, which can help prevent a card from popping out unexpectedly. The ICH4 Southbridge is located across from the third PCI slot, and integrated support for up to six USB 2.0 channels."
Abit KX7-333R Motherboard Review
"The power of the board and memory is released when the CPU casts away the shackles of a 266MHz Bus. Now that AMD have announced they are moving to a 333Mhz Bus (166Mhz DDR) it will drastically improve the performance of their processors and make boards sporting the KT333, and soon to be mainstream KT400 chipset of use to non-overclockers."
Rather than teaching hackers in the audience how to monitor others' networks, Higbee and Davis said the demonstration was intended to alert network administrators to the danger that many innocent-looking devices could pose to network security.
"We are really attacking the concept of what computers are," he said, adding that many other devices could be used to monitor networks, including TiVo television recording devices, some new "intelligent" vending machines and even printers.
Walking into a company and dropping a device onto the network is a simple way to defeat much of the network security that businesses might erect to keep out attackers, Higbee said.
"Physical access is pretty easy to obtain," he said. "Especially for short moments of time."
Moreover, companies tend to build a wall around their networks, with heavy security at the perimeter--between the Internet and the firm's network--but have little security on the inside. So getting a device on the internal network can give a hacker far more access, they warned.
"The data that is valuable and worth protecting is on the inside," Higbee said. "We want to get on the inside."
The software that Higbee and Davis have created--they stress that they haven't modified the hardware because they don't want to run afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act--is a Linux-based system. The software will first scan the network the Dreamcast console is on and then attempt to create an encrypted network back to the hacker's network.
Dubbed "180-degree" hacking by the duo, the ability to have a device on the inside makes a hacker's job much easier.
"Most people believe that inside traffic is trusted," he said, adding that most of the time a system administrator believes that any traffic coming from the inside is legitimate.
"I truly believe that in this attack...firewalls are pointless," Davis said. "They need to be a lot more aware of what's on their network. They almost have to treat their internal network as the Internet--as an untrusted network."