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	Will IE 9 be safe for corporate Web apps? Microsoft responds to that issue and reports of compatibility flawsI attended the launch party Microsoft threw this morning in San Francisco for Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate, which is the "final milestone," as host Ryan Gavin (see photo) put it, before the final release to Web (RTW), coming in the near future. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: St. Bernard, now doing business as EdgeWave More Power, Lower Price, Earn $15 GC iPrism Web Security's 500h appliance delivers 1Gbps of throughput for unrivalled speed and performance across your enterprise. We've got the power to handle your biggest pipeline. We'll try to match the cost of your current solution, or any competitive offer you have. You'll earn cash just for checking us out. Click here for the EdgeWave Bid Desk. In this Issue Microsoft's IE chief talks browsing privacy 'Sloppy' Chinese hackers scored data-theft coup with 'Night Dragon' New services enforce security in the public cloud Visa excludes U.S. merchants to spur secure card adoption IBM Watson taps university smarts ahead of Jeopardy! battle Stuxnet struck five targets in Iran, say researchers Mozilla adds 'Do Not Track' to newest Firefox 4 beta Facebook Privacy: 4 Valuable Yet Hard to Find Settings DOWNLOAD: Qualys Inc. QualysGuard Security & Compliance Suite Trial The 14-day Trial includes: • Unlimited network mapping and discovery • Unlimited network perimeter scans • PCI Compliance scanning • Web application security scanning • IT security policy creation, scanning and reporting Sign up for your free trial today! Learn more! 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 '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 WEBCAST: Palo Alto Networks Choosing Enterprise Firewall for 2011 & Beyond Firewalls are evolving. Application visibility and control has made its way to the forefront of the requirements list for enterprise firewalls. We are dedicating this episode of 60 Minutes with Nir Zuk to the more practical considerations around choosing an enterprise firewall. Learn more! New services enforce security in the public cloud In Gartner's 2011 CIO Agenda survey, 43% of CIOs say that within four years they expect to have the majority of their IT running in the cloud or on SaaS technologies. Before they can put their applications in the cloud, they need to address the issues of security and compliance. Traditional tools don't migrate well to the public cloud. Now there are new services from startup CloudPassage that get to the heart of security on replicated virtual servers. 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 WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Compare PC Online Backup and Recovery Service Providers Online backup and recovery service providers have emerged from different market spaces and have different product focuses and business drivers. These providers can be grouped into three categories. This white paper helps IT professionals distinguish between these categories of service providers. Read Now! 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 Stuxnet struck five targets in Iran, say researchers Symantec researchers today said that the notorious Stuxnet worm targeted five separate organizations -- all with a presence in Iran -- and that attacks began in June 2009, more than a year before experts raised the alarm. Read More Mozilla adds 'Do Not Track' to newest Firefox 4 beta Mozilla has rolled out the eleventh beta of Firefox 4, adding the "Do Not Track" feature it touted three weeks ago to the browser. Read More Facebook Privacy: 4 Valuable Yet Hard to Find Settings According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll released this week, 70 percent of Facebook members are "somewhat" or "very concerned" about their privacy. Take into account the site's past privacy flubs and it's easy to see why: a privacy breach, prevalent "scammy" apps and constant change keep Facebook users on their toes. Read More
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