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	Google still scrambling to recover from DroidDream Android attack Last week's revelation that over 50 apps in the Google Android market were malware-laden has shaken up Google and the security industry to its core. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Lumension Reduce IT Risk with Patch Management Lumension® Patch and Remediation reduces your IT risk by automating and streamlining patch management across heterogeneous operating systems and third party applications. With Lumension, you can take control of both online and offline PCs and reduce your IT complexity. Learn more or evaluate this award-winning solution today Click to continue In this Issue 9 Security Tips for Protecting Mobile Workers Blistering "micro drum" bangs 11 million times per second The eight most important commands on a Cisco ASA security appliance Having a career year? 15 career issues you should know about Tests find security programs fooled by attack vector 4 Virtualization Security Basics to Watch Big Data mining: Who owns your social network data? Backups as an anti-plagiarism tool Apple patches critical Mac bugs with Java updates WHITE PAPER: CA Defending Against Insider Threats Organizations must accept the reality that insider threats are no longer an abstract concept. This paper explains the factors that are increasing the insider threat and details a proactive approach that leverages identity and access management to reduce risk and improve compliance. Learn More 9 Security Tips for Protecting Mobile Workers The new working professional is always connected, and increasingly, the office is Starbucks, an airport, or home. With new flexibility comes new IT security risks for businesses. Basic defenses like antivirus are important, but not enough to keep corporate data from the increasingly sophisticated hacker. Read More Blistering "micro drum" bangs 11 million times per second Micro drum is part of NIST quantum computing experimentsSome heavy metal rock band might love this technology. Scientists with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an electromechanical micro drum that can vibrate an astounding 11 million times per second. Read More The eight most important commands on a Cisco ASA security appliance The Cisco ASA sports thousands of commands, but first you have to master these eight.Here's a guest post sent to me by Don Crawley, author of The Accidental Administrator book series. It is an excerpt from his latest: The Accidental Administrator: Cisco ASA Security Appliance: A Step-by-Step Configuration Guide Read More WEBCAST: Trend Micro Deep Security with Trend Micro Watch this video of users of Trend Micro Deep Security and hear how it is ensuring regulatory compliance and preventing server, desktop and cloud data breaches. View now! Having a career year? 15 career issues you should know about What are the key challenges for your career? As we look across the IT career landscape there are a number of new challenges. The whole IPv6 migration issue has changed some job opportunities for example. Cloud computing offers to bring more IT jobs and security issues could change everyone's job at some point. Here we take a look at some of the hot topics trending in the career world. Read More Tests find security programs fooled by attack vector A new round of antivirus testing found some products fail to detect malware that tries to infect a computer via a different attack vector, such as through a local network fileshare or a USB drive. Read More 4 Virtualization Security Basics to Watch While mobile and smartphone security is the hot topic of the moment among virtualization security gurus, plenty of other virtualization security topics demand IT's attention right now. At the recent RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, the interest in virtualization security ran high - with good reason. Different IT departments are at different points on their virtualization journeys, of course, and some are still thinking about security in the old physical world terms, analysts say. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Going Beyond the Obvious to Find Real Cost Savings This paper, from industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates, explores how workload automation can help IT reduce outages, consolidate vendors, improve integration, and cut costs. Learn more. Download the white paper, "IT Automation: Going Beyond the Obvious to Find Real Cost Savings." Read More! Big Data mining: Who owns your social network data? An attractive application of Hadoop and other Big Data technologies is to analyze users' social activities, sometimes without their express knowledge Read More Backups as an anti-plagiarism tool Over several decades in academia, any professor is likely to encounter at least a few cases of plagiarism from foolish students. One of the most pernicious types of plagiarism involves theft of papers from a roommate's computer. The story usually goes something like this: Read More Apple patches critical Mac bugs with Java updates Apple Tuesday shipped its first Java update for the Mac OS since last fall, when it also disclosed plans to 'deprecate' the Java runtime in Leopard and Snow Leopard. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS 20 awesome tech products at DEMO Build-your-own iPhone and Android apps, cloud services, photo tools and more on display at DEMO Spring 2011. Top 10 Chrome OS extensions Though Google is pitching it as an operating system for netbooks and lightweight notebooks, Chrome OS is essentially the Chrome Web browser bolted on top of a bare minimum version of Linux. The following extensions can improve the user experience of Chrome (OS or browser) to give you some of the functionality found in a traditional operating system. MOST-READ STORIES Ex-Microsoft CTO publishes groundbreaking cookbook Harvard computer scientist Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award iPhone 5 to sport aluminum back, redesigned antenna, A5 chip VMware unleashes virtual desktops for Apple iPad Researchers unmasking anonymous e-mail senders Go for it on fourth down? Ask Coach Watson 5 things iOS 4.3 brings the iPad and iPhone Real ID: DHS national ID nightmare that won't die? Microsoft pushes more Kinect-like user interfaces Researcher blows $15,000 by reporting bug to Google
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