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	Cautious optimism: Details of Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2012 Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Application Performance Management: The End User is King Managing enterprise IT is no simple task. However, when it comes to critical applications and capabilities that impact end users and influence business results, the need for visibility into and across IT systems is critical. Learn More In this Issue Do you know your cyberthreats? 2012 Outlook: The end of everything? Anonymous, LulzSec, AntiSec, Etc.: A Brief History of Hacktivism A quick look at the creation of computer-language translation efforts -- 58 years ago this month Passwords aren't dead, though maybe yours should be Google patches Chrome, beefs up malicious file blocking tech Do you have a reasonable right to privacy while fishing in an ice shanty? WHITE PAPER: Citrix Ready for 2048-bit SSL? Not with F5. The Iron Age is officially over. The Cloud Age is here. Don't let stronger security compromise performance. NetScaler gives your network a competitive edge with the industry best 2048-bit SSL transaction/sec performance. 2x faster SSL performance than F5. 50% lower SSL costs. Download the Citrix and Verisign White Paper and the NetScaler vs. F5 Performance Comparison now. Do you know your cyberthreats? The watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office this week issued a report that takes a look at what information, or guidance as they call it, is available to help government agencies and public sector companies bulk up their cybersecurity efforts. Read More 2012 Outlook: The end of everything? Gibbs reviews last year's predictions and sees that the end could be nigh ... Read More WHITE PAPER: NetSupport Inc Reducing Hidden Operating Costs Through IT Asset Discovery After reductions in headcount and procurements have been made, cost-cutting strategies are now turning to internal operations, and many IT decision makers are taking a closer look at indirect, or "soft," costs within these departments. Learn More Anonymous, LulzSec, AntiSec, Etc.: A Brief History of Hacktivism The hacktivist collective Anonymous began getting media attention in 2008 with its attacks on the Church of Scientology. Three years later, Anonymous and its many offshoots and associations, including LulzSec, AntiSec, TeamPoison and the Peoples Liberation Front, reached the pinnacle of their infamy with major attacks on powerful corporations and government agencies. Here, CIO.com presents in pictures an abridged (and admittedly U.S.-centric) timeline of hacktivist activity. Read More A quick look at the creation of computer-language translation efforts -- 58 years ago this month Hard to imagine but it has been 58 years since IBM and Georgetown University teamed up to run what they said was at the time the first English-to-Russian language computer translation program. Perhaps even more interesting is that the individual phrases they that were plugged into punch cards and run on the big IBM 701 mainframe in 1954, can now be typed into Google Translate on my smartphone and handled... 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! Passwords aren't dead, though maybe yours should be Despite all those "death to passwords" chants, some say it's still a solid form of authentication -- when users aren't being stupid about theirs. Read More Google patches Chrome, beefs up malicious file blocking tech Google last week patched Chrome 16 and improved the download warnings in the impending Chrome 17. Read More Do you have a reasonable right to privacy while fishing in an ice shanty? If you were brave enough to venture into the freezing winter weather and then hunkered down on a frozen lake, inside an ice fishing hut, would you expect to have a reasonable expectation of privacy? The legal answer so far is "no" at least not in Spring Lake, Illinois, where a strange warrantless search case occurred such as, previously, I had not pondered. Granted, this may not be very techy but it's... Read More
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