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Read Now Microsoft slates another monster Patch Tuesday Microsoft plans to deliver a record 17 security updates next week to patch 40 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SharePoint and Exchange. Read More Google "fixes" another Microsoft product Google has a habit of cleaning up after Microsoft's mess. At least, that's what Sergey, Larry and Eric would like you to believe. Read More 2011 Innovations Awards Honorees: Computer Hardware Take a peek at the future of computing. These unique desktops, laptops, components, and cases were honored as part of the 2011 CES Innovations Awards. Read More 7 reasons security pros fail Dan Lohrmann provides a visual version of his tips for professional success. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Cloud as the Next Generation of Service Delivery Exceptional growth in data is driving a need to transform the delivery of services. Understand the "road map" to transform and learn how IBM adds value at every step from virtualization, consolidation, automation, and ultimately cloud computing. Learn More Why Whack-a-Mole won't work against the likes of Wikileaks Security expert Bruce Schneier weighs in with five points about Wikileaks, and the fourth rests upon the fact that any secret is only as secure as the least trusted person who knows it. This has little to do with WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks is just a website. The real story is that "least trusted person" who decided to violate his security clearance and make these cables public. Read More The story behind the IETF's sFlow standard for switched network monitoring HP has developed quite a reputation in recent years for being a prime buyer of management software companies, from its $1.6 billion buyout of Opsware in 2007 to its more recent $1.5 billion purchase of ArcSight, a maker of security and information event management products. But HP Labs has also been known to spawn a management start-up or two as well. Read More Feds to cut 800-plus data centers by 2015 Federal CIO Vivek Kundra yesterday released a 25-point plan for restructuring federal IT operations to boost productivity to private sector levels. Read More Feds charge two EMC employees with stealing more than $1M in equipment Two EMC employees were charged with stealing company equipment and distributing it to a local reseller, which then sold it over the Internet. 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 'Human cloud' of skilled workers growing in importance Online labor by independent "cloud" workers probably represents nearly US$1 billion per year in earnings in the U.S., said Elance President and CEO Fabio Rosati, who expects the federal government to consider gathering statistics about the sector beginning next year. Read More Teen arrested for selling Call of Duty DDoS tool A teenager in Manchester has been arrested after being caught selling a 'booting tool' used to attack and kick players of the hugely popular Call of Duty online game. Read More Has progress been made in fighting DDoS attacks? As the distributed denial-of-service attacks spawned by this week's WikiLeaks events continue, network operators are discussing what progress, if any, has been made over the past decade to detect and thwart DoS attacks. 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