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Scariest Black Hat story so far: Power plants at risk
Last night at Black Hat in Las Vegas, security researcher Dillon Beresford showed a group of reporters and government types how he can commandeer the Siemens S7 computers that are control many industrial operations, including power plants. Read More


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The Value of Service-Centric Visibility
IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More

Leaked Verizon Document Reveals Key Launch Dates
September and October could be big months for Verizon Wireless, as it launches several high-end smartphones and new tablets, according to a leaked document. Read More

In pictures: 12 of the slickest designs in enterprise tech gear available today
See what happens when industrial designers take the reins on enterprise gear design. Read More

iPads power productivity gains at MicroStrategy
Secure iPads plug employees into real-time corporate data, speed a range of business processes at software vendor MicroStrategy. Uses bloom as IT creates secure access and data. Read More


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Taming the Data Demons
Taming the data demons: leveraging information in the age of risk explores the framework and advantages of a holistic approach to data risk management, and provides both IT and line-of-business executives with the "why" and "how" to begin putting an end-to-end data risk management program to work in your organization. Learn more

AT&T Cracks Down on Free Tethering and Hotspots
AT&T is putting the boot down on customers who tether their smartphones or turn them into Wi-Fi hotspots without paying extra for the service. Read More

Spam King Sanford Wallace Indicted for Facebook Spam
Notorious spam king Sanford Wallace is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly breaking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009. Read More

After Google rant on Android patents, Microsoft tweets: 'Really?'
In an escalation of the patent battles over Android, Microsoft said it urged Google's legal team to join it in buying up hundreds of Nortel patents, but Google refused. Read More


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Financial Services Firm Reduces Mean Time to Recovery
Literally every second counts, when downtime costs in the tens of thousands of dollars per minute. Learn why one U.S. financial services firm turned to Splunk and implemented a system that provides one global view of multiple logs to dramatically reduce their MTTR and paid for itself in just one month. Read more.

Cisco Videoscape chief resigns
First, Cisco hears calls for it to divest its Scientific-Atlanta cable set-top box business, which it acquired for $7 billion in 2005. Then, Cisco sells a set-top box plant in Mexico, and with it 5,000 jobs. Read More

IEEE Green Communications event is, naturally, online only
The 40,000-plus member IEEE Communications Society will hold the first of what it hopes will be an annual IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (GreenCom) on Sept. 26 - 29. Read More

4 Tips for Keeping Your Data Center Cool This Summer
Summer is hot but data centers need to stay cool, which can be expensive. Here's how IT groups can reduce temperatures and budgets. Read More



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