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	IAM is still evolving Did you know that "Identity and Access Management is undergoing a metamorphosis"? That's what Deloitte's "2010 Financial Services Global Security Study" concludes. What does that mean? 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 Researchers issue homemade patch for PDF zero-day bug Bugs & Fixes: DNS prefetching can cause Safari problems Quantum computing boosted by 'photon walk' chip News quiz: The week in tech AVG to help students battle Facebook status jacking INTERPOL: International ID verification system needed Good security tools now support Verizon Android phones How I got thrown out of an NSA party Seven ways social nets like Facebook and LinkedIn are 'truly evil' Inside Intel's security organization Boeing gets $89M to build unmanned aircraft that can stay aloft for 5 years Google patches Chrome second time this month FTC: Springsteen fans screwed by TicketMaster Web deception get refunds US wants big, revolutionary energy storage systems WHITE PAPER: NetApp Changing the Way You Purchase Storage Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment. Read now! Researchers issue homemade patch for PDF zero-day bug Research firm RamzAfzar this week issued a home-brewed patch that appears to fix a critical bug in the popular Adobe Reader software. Read More Bugs & Fixes: DNS prefetching can cause Safari problems Apple added a significant new feature to Safari in version 5.0.1. It hasn't garnered much attention and you may not have heard about it. It's called DNS prefetching, and its purpose is to speed to the loading of Web pages. Read More Quantum computing boosted by 'photon walk' chip Scientists led by a Bristol University team have pioneered an experimental method for quantum computers to perform calculations using photons travelling inside a silicon chip. Read More News quiz: The week in tech Microsoft re-enters the browser game, Twitter aims for microfame Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent Maximize Bandwidth and Deliver Superior Performance 100G is a leap forward in scaling metro, edge and core networks without performance degradation or the cost and complexity of unnecessary network re-engineering. Alcatel-Lucent is the only supplier to offer deployable 100G solutions in both the IP and optics domains. Read Now. AVG to help students battle Facebook status jacking AVG has launched an online campaign to help university students combat Facebook status jacking. Read More INTERPOL: International ID verification system needed Law enforcement worldwide should focus on developing an international identity verification system, according to INTERPOL secretary general Ronald K. Noble. Read More Good security tools now support Verizon Android phones Verizon today announced that Android smartphones using its network can now run Good Technology's security and management software. Read More How I got thrown out of an NSA party For the National Security Agency, America's high-tech spy agency and guru for military information security, inviting the tech media to attend its first-ever NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition was no easy decision. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Seven ways social nets like Facebook and LinkedIn are 'truly evil' Social networks are a major resource for hackers trying to capture valuable corporate data or run amok inside business networks, the information security director of a major online trading firm told Security Standard attendees. Read More Inside Intel's security organization The "Here You Have" e-mail virus that ripped across the Internet last week didn't leave Intel unscathed: The 80,000-plus employee company had 4,400 employees click on the malware and wound up with 400 infected machines. Read More Boeing gets $89M to build unmanned aircraft that can stay aloft for 5 years One of the more unique unmanned aircraft took a giant step toward reality this week when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) inked an agreement with Boeing to build the SolarEagle, a plane capable of remaining at heights over 60,000ft for over five years. Read More Google patches Chrome second time this month Google patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome this week, including one pegged critical on the Mac. Read More FTC: Springsteen fans screwed by TicketMaster Web deception get refunds The Federal Trade Commission today said it mailed claim forms to 1,018 consumers who are eligible for refunds because they allegedly were steered from the Ticketmaster website to its ticket resale website TicketsNow while buying tickets to attend 2009 Bruce Springsteen concerts. Ticketmaster and its affiliates agreed to pay refunds to some of the concertgoers to settle FTC charges that they used... Read More US wants big, revolutionary energy storage systems Looking for a major new ways to harness wind, solar and other evolving renewable energy, the US Department of Energy today issued a call for advanced large-scale energy stora Read More
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