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	Can the Obama Administration fix your identity management problems? Can the Obama administration fix your identity management problems? Read More WHITE PAPER: HP HP IT Migrates to an all HP network It's no surprise when a high-tech company uses its own products. However, the story of how HP recently migrated its own network to HP Networking equipment has unique aspects that make it relevant to all enterprises in any industry or market segment. Read now In this Issue Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say Whatever Happened to Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection? Brace for email-attachment malware spree Report: Spam is at a two-year high Military Plans to Squash Civil Unrest in the USA On Linux's 20th anniversary, recounting past slights from Microsoft Mozilla ships Firefox 6, patches 10 vulnerabilities The Real Name mystery UK says Google needs further privacy improvements WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Security Considerations for SMEs It is never possible to guarantee that a company is totally secure or that a breach will not occur, however implementing the latest tools and providing ongoing, end-user education will minimize those risks and allow companies to focus more on growing their business rather than repairing it. Read now! Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers, but the provider has since closed the vulnerabilities. Read More Whatever Happened to Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection? Back in 2007, Microsoft shook the security world when it entered the endpoint security market with what was then called Forefront Client Security (now Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection). Forefront was positioned as the endpoint security market for the commercial market while its sister product, OneCare, was aimed at the consumer market. This created a market fire storm, especially at companies... Read More Brace for email-attachment malware spree A sizeable spike in malicious email attachments is just subsiding, but if history is any indicator, several smaller spikes are about to follow that use even more deceptive means than their predecessors. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed The Network Realities of Desktop Virtualization How do you separate promise from reality? Watch this webinar and learn how to avoid the pitfalls that can doom your virtual desktop projects, and more. Learn more! Report: Spam is at a two-year high Spam - particularly the kind with malicious attachments - is exploding, reaching a two-year high overall, which includes the spike last fall just before the SpamIt operation folded its doors, a security firm says. Read More Military Plans to Squash Civil Unrest in the USA We know the U.S. government monitors social networks for Intelligence, but would that monitoring of technology turn out the same way as it did for the UK if civil unrest and London-like riots happened in the states? Among other things, the UK arrested a 20-year-old man "for allegedly organizing a giant water gun fight via the Blackberry Messenger service and Facebook," and now has sentenced two men... Read More On Linux's 20th anniversary, recounting past slights from Microsoft On the 20th anniversary of Linux. the free operating system's biggest proponents threw a party to celebrate its success and scoff at attacks launched by Microsoft, its biggest rival. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Wide Area Application Architecture and Exchange 2010 Massive consolidation can lead to single points of failure which could interrupt service of critical applications. ESG believes that this risk should be addressed by building applications on a Wide Area Application Architecture (WAAA) foundation, spreading applications across multiple data centers. Learn More! Mozilla ships Firefox 6, patches 10 vulnerabilities Mozilla today released Firefox 6, the second edition since it shifted to a rapid-ship cycle that delivers a new version of the browser every six weeks. Read More The Real Name mystery Sarah Caudwell (pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn, 1939-2000) was a British barrister and writer of detective stories. Sadly, she only finished four novels before her untimely death. Reviews of her work uniformly use words such as witty, delightful, clever, diverting, etc. I happened to be rereading her first ("Thus was Adonis Murdered") while writing last week's newsletters and was struck by a good analogy for the "Real Names" (see "Google+: antisocial networking?") issue. Read More UK says Google needs further privacy improvements Google was praised on Tuesday by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog for strengthening its privacy policies but the agency said the company still needs to improve. Read More
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