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Black duck eggs and other secrets of Chinese hackers

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Black duck eggs and other secrets of Chinese hackers
Black duck eggs on the menu of a Chinese restaurant drew the suspicions of a security consultant reporting to renowned security expert Ira Winkler.The colleague, a former Russian security agent named Stan, was at a new Chinese restaurant in "the middle of nowhere" in the United States, but conspicuously near the R&D center of a Fortune 5 U.S. business. Read More


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Facebook fixing embarrassing privacy bug
Facebook is fixing a Web programming bug that could have allowed hackers to alter profile pages or make restricted information public. Read More

Firefox, Chrome lure business users from Microsoft IE
Microsoft is still the king of the corporate desktop, but rivals Firefox and Google Chrome are making steady gains in the browser market and Apple is gaining OS share. Read More

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Judge rules EMC founder concocted 'sham' $62M tax-shelter
It's difficult to recall a judge using more damning language in a white-collar case, so consider the depth of premeditated wrongdoing necessary to elicit these words from U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor in describing what he found to be an illegal $62-million tax shelter erected by the late founder of EMC, Richard Egan, in conjunction with family members and advisers. Read More

Cloud-based identity management gets a boost
Giving network managers a way to provide access, single sign-on and provisioning controls in cloud-computing environments got a boost today from both Novell and a much smaller competitor, start-up Symplified. Read More

Suse Linux gets virtualization, high availability, and desktop boosts
The Suse Linux Enterprise 11 SP1, which is optimized for physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures, ships early next month. Read More


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