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	Mastercard website partially frozen by DDOS attack Hackers partially paralysed Mastercard's website, in an attack thought to be in revenge for the credit card company's decision to stop allowing web users to make donations to WikiLeaks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Cloud –Inspired Data Center Transformation In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO and Computerworld present the latest thinking and explore the latest trends on how data centers are evolving toward the cloud ideal. Read now! In this Issue A Quick Tour of Google Chrome OS 10 Weirdest Celebrity Tech Ads What it's like to get hit with a DDoS attack ZeuS-style banking Trojans seen as greatest threat to online banking: Survey Porn-site visitors could score a payday for theft of their browser histories WikiLeaks founder praised by Pentagon Papers exposer NASA sold PCs without wiping sensitive data HP's green switch modules support Energy Efficient Ethernet standard Mobility drives IPv6 urgency Verizon launches IPv6 transition services BMC and Cisco team up to deliver new cloud platform WHITE PAPER: Sprint A Product's Value Increases with Mobility We're in the middle of a mobility revolution, and if you don't have a mobile strategy yet you need to get on board! Learn More Now A Quick Tour of Google Chrome OS Google peeled back some more layers on Chrome OS today, providing a sense of how the cloud-based operating system will work. The first Chrome OS notebooks won't be available until mid-2011 -- unless you can get into the pilot program for Google's own CR-42 netbook -- so for now, here's a quick look at the OS itself. Read More 10 Weirdest Celebrity Tech Ads When it comes to technology advertising, some companies hire a celebrity, and have them do something ridiculous in the general vicinity of the product. From Mr. T playing nonexistent classes in World of Warcraft to Chuck Norris passing out, we've found the weirdest celebrity tech ads on the Web. Read More What it's like to get hit with a DDoS attack Google. Twitter. Government websites. Fortune 500 companies. All have been victims of crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The attacks have grown in reach and intensity thanks to botnets and a bounty of application flaws. And Akamai Technologies has a seen it all firsthand. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Faster Recovery for Windows Applications and Data Are your backup & recovery plans up to snuff? Will you be able to restore critical systems & data quickly in the event of an outage? Learn valuable information on how to protect Windows applications & data in a distributed environment. Learn about challenges in protecting & restoring Exchange, SQL, & Windows file server, & more. Learn more! ZeuS-style banking Trojans seen as greatest threat to online banking: Survey A survey of financial services professionals at 70 banks found more than half considered real-time man-in-the-middle attacks from banking Trojans such as ZeuS and Clampi on compromised customer computers to be the greatest threat to online banking today. Read More Porn-site visitors could score a payday for theft of their browser histories Visitors to www.youporn.com over the past four years could be in store for a payday if a case against operators of the site proves they stole browser histories from visitors. Read More WikiLeaks founder praised by Pentagon Papers exposer Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for outing the now famous Pentagon Papers in 1971, and a group of ex-intelligence officers have thrown their weight behind WikiLeaks and its founder, saying the current attempt to label WikiLeaks' leaks as trivial compared to the Pentagon Papers is wrong. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Webcast: Is Virtualization Right for SMBs? You've heard that large companies embrace virtualization to consolidate their data centers, reduce costs, and improve operating efficiency and IT service levels. However, your data center only has tens of servers, not hundreds or thousands. Should you consider virtualization as well? View this webcast to learn more. Register now! NASA sold PCs without wiping sensitive data NASA has revealed that 10 computers used for its space shuttle program were sold to the public without being wiped of sensitive data. Read More HP's green switch modules support Energy Efficient Ethernet standard HP this week refreshed its high-end chassis Ethernet switches with modules that conform to the IEEE's Energy Efficient Ethernet standard for reducing power consumption. Read More Mobility drives IPv6 urgency Wireless and mobility play a big role in the urgency to migrate to IPv6. The continual release of shiny new smartphones, tablets and other communications gadgets means that it won't be long before mobile devices will support only IPv6 addresses. Why? At the rate mobile devices are being created – not only for user access, but for wireless machine-to-machine communications, too – there simply won't be any more IPv4 addresses to assign them. Read More Verizon launches IPv6 transition services Organizations struggling to adopt IPv6 could get a hand from a new service offered by Verizon. Read More BMC and Cisco team up to deliver new cloud platform BMC and Cisco have formed a new partnership to offer a new platform for service providers. Read More
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