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Friday, June 12, 2009

Pentagon: Sooner is better for cybersecurity testing; Feds dole out $450 million for U.S. jobs lost to outsourcing

VMware's Drummonds apologizes to Microsoft for Hyper-V video; New source of federal revenue: tax private use of work cell phones
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Pentagon: Sooner is better for cybersecurity testing

The director of one of the world's largest software testing operations shares advice about improving the security of IT systems. Read full story

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June 12, 2009

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  5. Saving Unix one kernel at a time
  6. Quiz: Are you a network know it all?
  7. Dell bundling open source applications for SMBs
  8. Cisco and Duke Energy work to build smart grid
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