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Adobe patches 13 critical PDF bugs in first quarterly update; Evolution of the CSO Security Strategies Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Ultrium Keep Storage Costs in Check with Tape The Clipper Group outlines the real costs of migrating to a disk-based storage. You will learn about the dramatic differences between tape-based and disk-based storage in regards to floor space, hardware and energy costs. Find out why tape storage, especially, LTO-4, should be part of your long-term storage plans. Spotlight Story Working with consultants One of the great developments of evolution and of civilization was specialization or the division of labor: allowing individuals to become really good at specific tasks without having to worry about all the other kinds of activity required to support life. Read full story Related News: FBI warns of Asian-specific telephone extortion scam The FBI today said it was warning what it called Asian business owners of a nationwide attempt to extort money via threats of violence over the phone. Offering very little detail, the FBI said the telephone calls appear to be originating from foreign countries. The caller acquires an adequate amount of open source information about the victim through Internet searches. This misleads the victim into believing the subject has personal knowledge about the victim. Adobe patches 13 critical PDF bugs in first quarterly update Adobe issued its first regularly-scheduled security updates on Tuesday, fixing at least 13 critical flaws reported by outside researchers and secretly patching an unspecified number of bugs found by its own team. Evolution of the CSO It's been almost 15 years since David Kent first came to Genzyme, a biotech firm headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., that develops medical treatments for ailments such as certain genetic diseases and some forms of cancer. In 1994, the company had less than $200 million in sales, and only about 1,000 employees-a stark contrast to its worldwide workforce of 11,000 today and the $4.6 billion in revenue it reported in 2008. Securing the cloud Everyone these days seems to want to talk about "the cloud". Cloud computing is the latest buzz phrase that all vendors seem  to want to attach to their product. But, as I mentioned some weeks ago ("Identity management is key to the proper operation of cloud computing", proper identity management is often lacking in the rush to cloud-enable services and applications. While the Cloud Computing Manifesto (see that earlier newsletter) pays lip service to identity needs, what's actually happening in the marketplace? June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Windows 7 + Windows Server 2008 We found 5 things to love and 5 things to hate about Microsoft's latest operating system versions. Open-source management Here are nine management apps that won't break the bank. Meet Visualization Requirements with Ease Think beyond the current structure of a report and personalize it with Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) Interactive Viewer. Register for this Live Webcast scheduled for Wednesday, July 15 at 2:00 p.m. EDT/11:00 a.m. PDT, to learn how. Meet data visualization requirements faster and with less development by making BIRT web output interactive. 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