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	Acquisition season heats up We're not even out of the summer and the acquisitions have started. Could be a very lively fall! Read More WHITE PAPER: Watchguard 10 questions to ask before you buy an anti‐spam solution With so many anti-spam products on the market, how can you be sure you're getting the best solution for your business network? With these ten critical questions as your guide, you can cut through the marketing hype and zero in on the key features and benefits that should guide your decision. Read now! In this Issue Security program automatically tracks down missing patches Are you the corporate geezer? Virtualize your browser to prevent drive-by malware attacks 'Voice' becomes an application on AT&T's Enterprise VPN What security can learn from the $15M Sprint employee breach NASA preps ultimate Sun mission Hosted service promises to protect corporate documents on smartphones Only 5 (all women) of 135 pass Defcon social engineering test Botnet takedown may yield valuable data Fake antivirus software using ransom threats Microsoft still mum on programs prone to DLL hijacking attacks WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Delivering Faster Applications to Any User, Anywhere This guide looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within a WAN Optimization environment. Read More Security program automatically tracks down missing patches Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. PSI 2.0 is now available in an open beta test, Read More Are you the corporate geezer? Our first Geezer Quiz in 2009 has been so popular that we've created this new set of questions that will test your memory and perhaps also bring on a wave of nostalgia for the days of minicomputers, X.25 and token ring. Keep score and see how well you do at the end... Read More Virtualize your browser to prevent drive-by malware attacks Does Web browsing make you fearful of picking up a virus or downloading malware? It won't if you do your browsing in a virtualized environment on your desktop. Invincea Browser Protection uses virtualization technology to separate untrusted content coming from the Web from the rest of your desktop and network. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Oakwood Worldwide finds $120,000 USD savings with HP EVA Learn how Oakwood Worldwide deployed a virtualized storage solution to minimize yearly lease expenditures while gaining control over provisioning and deployment using the HP EVA8400 SAN. Read Now 'Voice' becomes an application on AT&T's Enterprise VPN AT&T announced last month that its new and existing VPN customers may now add VoIP service to the network solution delivered over AT&T's global network cloud. This option to incorporate voice as a converged VPN application is designed to help customers to consolidate separate "voice and data networks, reduce equipment and maintenance costs, and simplify migrating these complimentary capabilities to a common, secure infrastructure," according to AT&T. Read More What security can learn from the $15M Sprint employee breach Federal prosecutors this week charged nine former Sprint employees with fraud and aggravated identity theft after learning they had cloned customer cell phone numbers to make $15 million worth of calls. According to the complaint from federal prosecutors, the individuals who have been charged worked at Sprint stores in the Bronx, Bergen, N.J., and Tampa, Fla., and used company computers to get confidential information about thousands of customers. The data was used to create the so-called 'clone' cell phones. Of the $15 million worth of calls, a large percentage of them were international calls, said prosecutors. Read More NASA preps ultimate Sun mission NASA today said it had picked five experiments that will ride aboard one of its most ambitious space missions to explore the Sun. Read More DOWNLOAD: Aerohive Free Wi-Fi Planning Tool with New Auto Placement Feature With Aerohive's FREE web-based planning tool, you can plan a Wi-Fi deployment in no time! Upload your floor plan, draw the perimeter and walls using different wall types, and place any of a variety of different Aerohive APs either yourself or with our new auto placement feature to ensure the coverage level you specify. Learn more! Hosted service promises to protect corporate documents on smartphones Confidela's WatchDox is adding support for mobile platforms, starting with Android 2.2. Users can access selected, protected documents. But they can be restricted in being able to forward, print, or copy them. It uses an encrypted version of Flash to display documents, but a native version is being tested now for iOS devices like the iPhone. Read More Only 5 (all women) of 135 pass Defcon social engineering test Organizers of a recent Defcon social engineering contest will release their results next week. One conclusion is that women did well in protecting corporate secrets. Read More Botnet takedown may yield valuable data Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam. Read More Fake antivirus software using ransom threats Fake antivirus programs appear to be adopting some of the money-raising tactics of more threatening ransom malware, security company Fortinet's latest threat report has found. Read More Microsoft still mum on programs prone to DLL hijacking attacks Microsoft on Tuesday again abstained from naming which of its Windows programs, if any, contain bugs that could lead to widespread "DLL load hijacking" attacks. Read More
	Join us on LinkedIn Discuss the networking issues of the day with your colleagues, via Network World's LinkedIn group. Join today! - Jeff Caruso, Executive Online Editor SLIDESHOWS Are you the corporate geezer? Our first Geezer Quiz in 2009 has been so popular that we've created this new set of questions that will test your memory and perhaps also bring on a wave of nostalgia for the days of minicomputers, X.25 and token ring. Keep score and see how well you do at the end. Enjoy! The hottest virtualization products at VMworld With VMworld kicking off in San Francisco, this is one of the biggest weeks of the year in the virtualization industry. VMware, Citrix, EMC and many other companies are releasing new virtualization technologies or adding virtualization capabilities to existing products. Here's a roundup of what's being announced this week. MOST-READ STORIES The most dangerous jobs in technology Burning Man's open source cell phone system could save the world Only 5 (all women) of 135 pass Defcon social engineering test Fake antivirus software using ransom threats Cisco buys wireless smart grid company Linux: A double-edged sword for open source 6 useful Wi-Fi tools for Windows Windows is still relevant in the virtualization era Virtualize your browser to prevent drive-by malware attacks Dell loses 3PAR bidding war to HP
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