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Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the launch of new dates for our Webinars for
LIRs.
The RIPE NCC Webinars are live, one hour online training courses that
allow participants to interact with our trainers without leaving their
desks. We focus on the topics and issues most important for LIRs.
Register now at
https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/e-learning/webinars
Participation is limited to 20 people, so don't hesitate if you want
to take part!
If you have questions, please email<e-learning(a)ripe.net>.
We look forward to seeing you online.
Kind regards,
RIPE NCC Training Services
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Folks,
We have just released SI6 Networks' IPv6 Toolkit v1.3.4: a
security assessment and troubleshooting toolkit for the IPv6 protocol
suite.
The toolkit is available at:
<http://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6toolkit>, where you can find a
the usual tarball, a GPG-signed version of it, a link to the toolkit's
GIT repository, etc.
This release features:
* IPv6-host tracking support in the scan6 tool.
* A new tool, address6, to analyze IPv6 addresses
* Minor bug fixes
The toolkit runs on (at least) the latest versions of Linux, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, and MacOS.
Please send any bug reports and/or feature requests to
<fgont(a)si6networks.com>.
As always, you can get the latest news on IPv6 security research and
tools by following us on Twitter: @SI6Networks.
And if you're into IPv6 hacking, please consider joining the
ipv6hackers mailing list:
<http://www.si6networks.com/community/mailing-lists.html>.
Thanks!
Best regards,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont(a)si6networks.com
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We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on
the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP
( http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 ) organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia
from University of Georgia, USA.
We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the
same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper
had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from
that paper include:
(1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa
(2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic
(3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or inheritance
(4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model
(5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer
(6). Laptop is an example for a super computer
(7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware
Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it
was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without
any reviews) and we were invited to submit the final paper and a
payment of $500+ fee to present the paper. We decided to use the
fee for better purposes than making Prof. Hamid Arabnia (Chairman
of WORLDCOMP) rich. After that, we received few reminders from
WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded.
We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any thoughts
to submit a paper to WORLDCOMP. DBLP and other indexing agencies
have stopped indexing WORLDCOMP’s proceedings since 2011 due to its fakeness.
See http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html for of one of the
conferences of WORLDCOMP and notice that there is no listing after 2010. See
http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf for comments from well-known researchers
about WORLDCOMP. If WORLDCOMP is not fake then why did DBLP suddenly stopped
listing the proceedings after?
The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from “scientific”
to “other” (i.e., junk or non-technical) at any time. See the comments
http://www.mail-archive.com/tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu/msg05168.html
of a respected researcher on this. Better not to have a paper than
having it in WORLDCOMP and spoil the resume and peace of mind forever!
Our study revealed that WORLDCOMP is a money making business,
using University of Georgia mask, for Prof. Hamid Arabnia. He is throwing
out a small chunk of that money (around 20 dollars per paper published
in WORLDCOMP’s proceedings) to his puppet (Mr. Ashu Solo or A.M.G. Solo)
who publicizes WORLDCOMP and also defends it at various forums, using
fake/anonymous names. The puppet uses fake names and defames other conferences
to divert traffic to WORLDCOMP. He also makes anonymous phone calls and
threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (see Item 7 in Section 5 of
http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf ).That is, the puppet does all
his best to get a maximum number of papers published at WORLDCOMP to
get more money into his (and Prof. Hamid Arabnia’s) pockets.
Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP until 2012) has refused to
provide the venue for WORLDCOMP’13 because of the fears of their image
being tarnished due to WORLDCOMP’s fraudulent activities. WORLDCOMP’13
will be held at a different resort.
WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013.
The paper submission deadline for WORLDCOMP’13 was March 18 and it was
extended to April 6 and now it is extended to April 20 (it may be extended
again) but still there are no committee members, no reviewers, and there is no
conference Chairman. The only contact details available on WORLDCOMP’s
website is just an email address! Prof. Hamid Arabnia expends the deadline
to get more papers (means, more registration fee into his pocket!).
Let us make a direct request to Prof. Hamid arabnia: publish all reviews for
all the papers (after blocking identifiable details) since 2000 conference.
Reveal the names and affiliations of all the reviewers (for each year)
and how many papers each reviewer had reviewed on average. We also request
him to look at the Open Challenge at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1
Sorry for posting to multiple lists. Spreading the word is the only way to stop
this bogus conference. Please forward this message to other mailing lists and people.
We are shocked with Prof. Hamid Arabnia and his puppet’s activities
http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the
keyword worldcomp fake for additional links.
