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	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 WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage Buying Criteria for Shared Virtual Infrastructure You can't make the best storage decisions for your business if you're not asking the right questions. This new RFP template makes it easy. It reflects today's IT reality and includes the key criteria to consider so you can position your organization for the future. Learn more! In this Issue Forrester: Trust no one when it comes to IT security Three wicked cool car teams split $10M X Prize for advanced, fuel efficient vehicles Stuff I Learned from My 3 Biggest Network Screw Ups Inside Intel's security organization Good security tools now support Verizon Android phones How I got thrown out of an NSA party Former Yahoo! exec. tries to outwit, outplay, outlast "Survivor" WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent A 'hands-free' approach to optical networking With unmatched scalability and performance, Alcatel-Lucent has a future-proof, Carrier-grade WDM solution which enables the flexibility, intelligence and reduced time to revenue data centers require and offers key tools for successful deployment: training, network management, spares and support. Read now Forrester: Trust no one when it comes to IT security Forrester Research is releasing a report titled "Introducing the Zero-Trust Model of Information Network" in conjunction with its Security Forum event in Boston this week. Read More Three wicked cool car teams split $10M X Prize for advanced, fuel efficient vehicles After a brutal 30-month competition that initially pitted 136 car development teams against each other, the X Prize Foundation today split the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize to three teams who developed super fuel-efficient vehic Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Information Protection Survey Small Mid Business The SMB Information Protection survey sheds light on the risks SMBs are facing, what they are doing about it and how much it is costing them. Read this report to learn the simple steps SMBs can take to improve their information protection footing. Read Now. Stuff I Learned from My 3 Biggest Network Screw Ups My grandmother used to tell me that while painful, mistakes always make the most interesting stories and teach the best lessons. I certainly, do not go out to an account hoping to trash out someones network so I can learn stuff. If that was the case, the only thing I would learn is resume building 101. 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 WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Top 10 Reasons for Using Server Online Backup and Recovery Data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. Read now 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 Former Yahoo! exec. tries to outwit, outplay, outlast "Survivor" He made it through the first week anyway. Marty Piombo, currently the Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships for digital media firm SkyTide and former VP and GM of Yahoo! Mobile Latin America is getting down and dirty as part of the cast for the venerable CBS reality show Survivor.   Read More
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