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	Malicious activity alert: Anonymous hack-school grads come online in 30 days In about a month the first graduates of the new Anonymous hacking school could start having an impact on the frequency of cybercrime. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Managing Data and Application Security Risks This whitepaper shows how organizations can manage data and application security risks cost-effectively by using IBM Tivoli Data and Application Security to reduce costs and improve ROI. It provides examples of IBM customers who have realized the benefit Read Now In this Issue EU upset by Microsoft warning about US access to EU cloud US intelligence agency wants technology to predict the future from public events Private industry group leaps into the cybercrime fight IPv6 Deployment Misperception: Private IPv4 Address Space and NAT are all I need Bad IT management habits: Break them before they break you Mobile payments, PCI DSS compliance: Some clarity Sniffing open WiFi may be wiretapping judge tells Google Microsoft to retire Office XP, Vista SP1 next week Securing Data on All Devices WHITE PAPER: EMC The Mandate for Converged Infrastructure Management Converged infrastructure is changing the way data centers roll out infrastructure resources and providing a clear and achievable path to cloud computing environments. Effective management of infrastructure is a key capability that can significantly impact the degree of success for data centers going the converged route. Read more EU upset by Microsoft warning about US access to EU cloud Members of the European Parliament have demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the European Union's Data Protection Directive and the United State's Patriot Act. Read More US intelligence agency wants technology to predict the future from public events Publically available data that could be aggregated and used by intelligent systems to predict future events is out there, if you can harness the technology to utilize it. That's one of the driving ideas behind a program that the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) group will detail at a Proposer's Day conference in Washington, DC next month. Read More Private industry group leaps into the cybercrime fight A consortium of eight companies launched a campaign on Tuesday to provide better training for law enforcement agencies in order to tackle cybercrime, which costs the U.K. economy tens of billions of pounds annually. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Best Practices: KVM Smart Card Authentication Systems Selecting a smart card-enabled KVM system? Choose one that supports PKI authentication to multiple servers from a single location and makes the necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. This White Paper examines best practices when evaluating a Smart Card solution. Learn More IPv6 Deployment Misperception: Private IPv4 Address Space and NAT are all I need Over the last 9+ years of doing enterprise IPv6 deployments with customers I have gathered up a list of common misperceptions that the industry, media, vendors and customers have regarding IPv6 deployment in the enterprise. This series of blog posts will focus on the Top 5 misperceptions. Like any good "Top X" list, we start at the bottom. The No. Read More Bad IT management habits: Break them before they break you Every worker develops a few bad habits -- maybe more than a few -- as the years on the job add up. IT pros are no exception: They lose focus or jump to conclusions or put off niggling tasks that could be finished in minutes. Read More Mobile payments, PCI DSS compliance: Some clarity Those hoping for mobile payments PCI compliance answers will have to wait a bit longer, the security council says. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Exceptional Application Experience To improve and ensure the performance and availability of business-critical web applications, organizations need to be able to see and understand the actual user experience. This paper examines the five essentials of application performance monitoring. Learn More Sniffing open WiFi may be wiretapping judge tells Google Looks like Google Street View cars may have been "officially" riding dirty and Google may get slapped hard for its Wi-Spy fiasco. A federal judge did not dismiss the case against Google; instead in the first such decision of its kind, the judge ruled that sniffing open Wi-Fi packets might violate the Federal Wiretap Act. Read More Microsoft to retire Office XP, Vista SP1 next week Microsoft is set to retire 2001's Office XP and the first service pack for Windows Vista next week. Read More Securing Data on All Devices Scenario: Protecting sensitive data on mobile devices Read More
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