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Thursday, September 03, 2009

iPhone passcode bugs revealed; Is US-CERT ready for a cyber attack?

Is US-CERT Ready for a Cyber Attack?; Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000 virtual switches power VMworld labs but suffer glitches
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iPhone passcode bugs revealed

It has already been proven that the passcode on an iPhone can be removed. The purpose of this article is to point out the false sense of security delivered through Apple's marketing of iPhone features for the enterprise. My testing has revealed that the enterprise security features do not behave correctly and I will point out three flaws with how passwords are handled with the iPhone and EAS. Read full story

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Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000 virtual switches power VMworld labs but suffer glitches
A year after introducing the Nexus 1000 virtual switch, Cisco is using that switch and its unified computing system servers as a proving point at VMworld in San Francisco. A Cisco-based implementation that taps into both EMC and NetApp SANs is powering the show's lab sessions. However, the setup performed so poorly in its first two days that many users were left unable to access the labs, they said.

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