The Story of the PING Program

Found this PING history info.

Reference: http://ftp.arl.army.mil/%7Emike/ping.html

A Certified Fraud Examiner – Responsible For The Discovery of The WorldCom Fraud

Found this informative article from Fraud Magazine, on how Cynthia Copper, a CFE and CISA, discovered the accounting fraud in then WorldCom.

Article by By Dick Carozza, Fraud Magazine

Cynthia Cooper just wanted to live a quiet life working for the pride of Mississippi – WorldCom. But as vice president of internal audit she discovered some suspicious entries in the company’s books. Her tenacious investigations uncovered the largest fraud in corporate history.

“Don’t ever allow yourself to be intimidated,” Patsy Ferrell would say to her young daughter, Cynthia, after a grade-school bullying incident. Cynthia remembered that exhortation years later when she discovered fraud of huge proportions at WorldCom. Faced with the decision of vigorously investigating suspicious transactions or looking away, she did the honorable thing and pursued the crimes to the end – but not without months of trepidation, a queasy stomach, and shaking hands. “In many ways, this story is about human nature, about people and choices,” writes Cynthia in the epilogue of her new book, “Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower.” (See excerpt beginning on page 32.) “It shows how power and money can change people, and how easy it is to rationalize, give in to fear, and cave under pressure and intimidation.

It speaks of the importance of living a life of integrity and making decisions we can look back on without regret. It illuminates the value of developing strong boundaries, keeping our paths straight, and guarding against the temptations and trappings of material success.”

In 1994, Cynthia landed a job in internal audit at WorldCom – then known as LDDS – in Jackson, Miss. When the company moved to her hometown of Clinton, Miss., population 23,000, she thought she would settle into a comfortable niche, surrounded by her husband, children, extended family, and lifelong friends. But her nightmare started in the summer of 2002 when, as the vice president of internal audit, she grew increasingly suspicious of some accounting entries. “The more we investigated, the stranger the reactions from some of our colleagues became,” she writes. “No one would give us a straight answer.” Cynthia tells her story to Fraud Magazine from her home in Jackson. Read more…

Reference: http://www.fraud-magazine.com/FeatureArticle.aspx

To learn more on how to become a Certified Fraud Examiner – CFE, check this: http://www.acfe.com/home.asp

The 100 Oldest Domains on the Internet

Found a list on who was the first 100 adapters of the WWW. Here’s the list:

BBN, the 2nd commercial company to register a domain.

1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
30. 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
35. 7-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
36. 7-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
70. 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
71. 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
73. 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
74. 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
76. 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
77. 27-May-1987 UTC.COM
78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
81. 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
82. 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
86. 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
87. 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
88. 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
89. 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
90. 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
91. 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
92. 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
97. 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
97. 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

Reference: http://theforrester.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/the-100-oldest-domains-on-the-internet/

Terry Slattery – the very first Cisco CCIE in history

So who really was the very first Cisco CCIE in history?

Terry Slattery

Terry was helping lead CLI development and training as a consultant to Cisco in 1993 when he first heard about the CCIE program and inquired about participating. Brad Wright (the CCIE program manager) told Terry what he needed to do.

So Terry quickly re-worked his schedule, took the written CCIE qualification test, attended the Cisco troubleshooting class and setup a time for the hands-on test, all within two weeks.

In those days, the hands-on test was two days.
One day of build-it and one day of fix-it after they break it.

Terry passed the hands-on test, designing and building the network in one day, then fixing the things that Stuart Biggs (the lab test creator) broke in just over half a day.

Terry Slattery was awarded the third number – CCIE # 1026, in August 1993, the first non-Cisco person to achieve the CCIE and the first person to pass both the written CCIE test as well as the hands-on CCIE lab test, making Terry Slattery the first real CCIE.

A bunch of Cisco employees soon followed and many of them are still working at Cisco.

Something like five of the first ten CCIEs work in the same building at Cisco.

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Today, Terry Slattery is the Founder and CTO of Netcordia. Terry invented NetMRI, which enables organizations to maximize network effectiveness and ensure compliance by utilizing built-in expert rules to assess, audit, and proactively detect hidden and harmful problems throughout any multi-vendor infrastructure.As a consultant to Cisco who helped lead development of the Cisco IOS CLI, as well as having earned the first real Cisco CCIE number in history, CCIE# 1026, Terry Slattery has become a very revered historical figure within the world of Cisco networking. Stuart Biggs was awarded the second number – CCIE # 1025, because afterall, Stuart created both the CCIE written test as well as the CCIE lab test. Was awarded the second number – CCIE # 1025, because after all, Stuart created both the CCIE written test as well as the CCIE lab test. In summary:

CCIE# 1024 – Cisco Lab

CCIE# 1025 – Stuart Biggs

CCIE# 1026 – Terry Slattery

Reference: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/24325

The history of Cisco CLI

I don’t think many people know the history of the Cisco CLI and the impact it has had on the industry. Other companies are emulating it, as evidenced in recent articles on the topic. Network engineers typically become experts in the Cisco CLI first, then move to other vendor gear, so it makes sense for companies to emulate it. Brad Reese, who writes for Network World’s Cisco Subnet, did an article on the topic on October 5, 2007, Appealing to CCIEs, hardware vendors copy Cisco’s CLI and NetFlow to get into Cisco accounts .

Learn more…

Reference: http://connection.netcordia.com/blogs/terrys_blog/default.aspx