Can you trust data-recovery service providers?

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	Can you trust data-recovery service providers? Data-recovery service providers are supposed to be saving important data for you when something goes wrong -- a drive crashes or storage device is dropped, and no backup is available. But do you trust them with the important data you let them recover or could they actually be a source for a data breach? Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications Offloading Telecom Delivers a Big Payback for IT Inaccurate invoices, complicated contracts, slow provisioning and poor support from Telecom carriers wastes time, money and resources. Learn the difference a custom data network solutions provider can deliver. Read Now! In this Issue Public attack code aimed at Windows Web servers works, says Symantec Cybersecurity help exists, focusing it is the trick Who's flying drones in U.S.? ... EFF sues government to find out 10 game-changing space galaxy discoveries Carrier IQ detection tool converted to premium SMS Trojan Lawsuit claims Symantec sells scareware-like products CES: Analysts predict the future of technology Adobe plugs 6 critical holes in Reader WHITE PAPER: Quantum Big Data: Managing Explosive Growth Are you experiencing a data explosion? The trend toward leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage helps IT professionals successfully meet business goals. Learn how to reliably manage, store and access vast amounts of archived data while protecting it and keeping costs low. View Now Public attack code aimed at Windows Web servers works, says Symantec Researchers at Symantec yesterday confirmed that working attack code published Jan. 6 can cripple Web servers running Microsoft's ASP .Net. Read More Cybersecurity help exists, focusing it is the trick There are a ton of groups out there that offer cybersecurty help and guidance, the trick, it seems is finding he right one for you organization. Read More WEBCAST: NetIQ Disaster Recovery Planning and the Cloud Find out how virtualization is the stepping stone to the cloud and how to leverage virtualization technologies today to reduce the cost and improve the performance of your disaster recovery plan. Learn More! Who's flying drones in U.S.? ... EFF sues government to find out Most of us think of drones in the military context - they're being used over there to watch and kill enemy combatants - and, collaterally, innocent civilians. Your opinion of their use likely dovetails with your opinion of the wars. Read More 10 game-changing space galaxy discoveries A massive amount of new astronomical research and discoveries have been shown at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society recently. While the new information covers a variety of areas from supernova explosions to dark matter, research on galaxies has been one of the hottest topic areas. Here we take a look at 10 of the biggest galaxy research images presented at the meeting. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Disaster Recovery for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is the Oracle best practices blueprint for implementing Oracle high availability technologies and is one of the key requirements for any Oracle Fusion Middleware enterprise deployment. Learn more in this whitepaper about the various components of MAA and what this exceptional product can do for you. Learn More! Carrier IQ detection tool converted to premium SMS Trojan Android malware writers are taking advantage of the controversy surrounding Carrier IQ's smartphone tracking software in order to distribute a premium SMS Trojan, security researchers from Symantec warn. Read More Lawsuit claims Symantec sells scareware-like products Symantec has been accused in a lawsuit of California's unfair competition laws and fraudulent inducement by using scareware-like tactics to trick users into buying licenses for its PC utility-type products. Read More CES: Analysts predict the future of technology At least one panel discussion here is focused not on what people can buy now, but what they will be able to buy at CES in the future, at least 10 or more years out. Read More Adobe plugs 6 critical holes in Reader Adobe on Tuesday patched six vulnerabilities in the newest version of its popular Reader PDF viewer, making good on a late-2011 promise when it shipped an emergency update for an older edition. Read More
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