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	Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anonymous Data routinely gathered in Web logs - IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings - can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing sectors. However, cloud providers usage agreements make the user responsible for protecting servers, applications and data. CloudPassage Halo is the award winning cloud server security platform that has everything you need to secure your cloud servers. Get Free Halo Basic Today! 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Learn More Must-have iPhone/iPad apps for Super Bowl XLVI All the iPhone and iPad apps you'll need for the big game Read More Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing. Read More HTC Android phone flaw fix not coming until next week for some Some users of HTC Android phones will have to wait until next week to get a fix for a problem that could leak credentials used to gain access to Wi-Fi networks, including corporate networks. 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For several hours, fashionistas who wanted to ogle Coach's new Willis handbag on Coach.com or get a deal on its Penelope shoulder bag at Coachfactory.com were redirected to UGNazi's cryptic website. Imagine the confusion--and frustration--the redirect must have caused in their coiffed little heads--not to mention the wear and tear on their manicured nails as they typed and retyped coach.com and coachfactory.com into their browser windows. Read More For 'Malware as a Service' merchants, business is booming Malware merchants have matured, and are more diversified and dangerous than ever. Read More WHITE PAPER: Juniper 3-2-1- Data Center Network Architecture Escalating traffic levels, increasing numbers of applications, and more users have created the need for a data center that can keep pace with demands. Unfortunately, today's data center network is ill-equipped to handle the load, resulting in poor performance. Read how to simplify your network. View Now Apple updates Lion, patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X Apple on Tuesday patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update. Read More Kelihos botnet, once crippled, now gaining strength A botnet that was crippled by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab last September is spamming once again and experts have no recourse to stop it. Read More 5 key points from Google's privacy-policy letter to Congress Google sent a 13-page letter to Congress this week that can be summarized in a single sentence: "We're not being evil." Read More 10 New Open Source Projects You May Not Know About With so many open source software projects under way at any given moment, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all that's going on. Read More
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