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Monday, February 14, 2011

Please don't remember me

Microsoft's IE chief talks browsing privacy | Visa excludes U.S. merchants to spur secure card adoption

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Please don't remember me
Most people want to be remembered, but there's a growing group of European politicians and bureaucrats that think you want to be forgotten. Read More


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Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager
A Forrester Study commissioned by Oracle. This paper details return-on-investment (ROI) calculations based on real customers' data, and guides you in computing cost savings with user provisioning. Use the model suggested in this report to design your implementation and measure results. Read now

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Microsoft's IE chief talks browsing privacy
Microsoft's release candidate for Internet Explorer 9 -- made available for download this week -- includes a tool that lets users protect themselves from being tracked on the Web. During his recent trip to Germany, we sat down with Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft corporate vice president responsible for the development of Internet Explorer, to discuss privacy, the difference between expected and creepy tracking, Tracking Protection in IE9, market share and how hard it is to get rid of Internet Explorer 6. An edited version of the conversation follows. Read More

Visa excludes U.S. merchants to spur secure card adoption
Visa has excluded U.S. businesses from a worldwide program that incents merchants to deploy more secure payment terminals, because of what it claims is the uncertainty surrounding new debit card rules. Read More


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'Sloppy' Chinese hackers scored data-theft coup with 'Night Dragon'
Chinese hackers who were "incredibly sloppy" still managed to steal gigabytes of data from Western energy companies, a McAfee executive said today. Read More

IBM Watson taps university smarts ahead of Jeopardy! battle
If you have seen any of the video of its preliminary bouts on Jeopardy! you know that IBM's Watson computer is pretty amazing.  One of the main reasons it turns out is that IBM enlisted the intelligence of eight of the country's top universities to make sure Watson has superb question answering ability. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Top 2 Virtualization Challenges
Virtualized data centers must become more highly available to ensure timely access to data. This paper examines the trends toward server consolidation and how WAN optimization technology can address application performance and information availability issues. Read now!

Vendors tap into cloud security concerns with new encryption tools
Security vendors are rolling out new technologies designed to let companies take advantage of cloud computing environments without exposing sensitive data. Read More

IPhone attack reveals passwords in six minutes
Researchers in Germany say they've been able to reveal passwords stored in a locked iPhone in just six minutes and they did it without cracking the phone's passcode. Read More

Low security awareness found across IT
A broad spectrum of IT people, including those close to security functions, appear to have little awareness of key security issues impacting their organizations, a new survey shows. Read More



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Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of AAA Identity Management Security. Enter here.

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