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	Microsoft may turn to Windows Defender for unprotected PCs Microsoft may eventually automatically turn on Windows Defender for PCs that are left-- deliberately or not--in an unprotected state, executives said Monday afternoon. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Solutionary Just Released: Solutionary Q3 Threat Intelligence Report The Solutionary Security Engineering Research Team (SERT) Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report contains results from analysis performed during the third quarter of 2013, focusing on hacktivist activity and anomalous network traffic and providing actionable recommendations for strengthening security. Get your copy now. 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Read Now Seven essentials for VM management and security Virtualization isn't a new trend, these days it's an essential element of infrastructure design and management. However, while common for the most part, organizations are still learning as they go when it comes to cloud-based initiatives. Read More Police are shooting James Bond-like GPS bullets at cars Police in four U.S. states have begun using a new "gun" installed in squad cars that, when activated with a button inside the car, emerges from behind the front grill of the car to shoot GPS tracking devices at vehicles they are pursuing, according to the BBC. Read More The coolest Air Force UFO videos National Archives features UFO-related images, interviews Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More NASA: On millions of teeny-tiny copper hairs and orbital debris Imagine 500 million short copper wires - no longer than the tip of your index finger -- floating in space creating what amounts to an antenna belt that could be used to send messages and conduct other space communications research. That would describe the 1960s era Project Space Needles or Project West Ford as it was sometimes called that NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last undertook... Read More Scramble to fix Healthcare.gov site heightens security risks The ongoing scramble to fix glitches affecting the troubled Healthcare.gov website could heighten security risks and introduce fresh vulnerabilities into an already fragile system. Read More 5 Best and 5 Worst Cities for IT Salaries Want to know where IT professionals make the highest -- and the lowest -- salaries? We dig into Kforce's 2014 Salary and Employment Guide to see where today's tech workers make the most and the least, the top paying IT roles in each city, and the cost of living for each community. Read More WEBCAST: HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault According to market research, more than 60 percent of enterprises will have adopted some form of cloud computing by 2013. Learn how your organization can benefit from the scalability, flexibility, and performance that the cloud offers through the short videos and other resources in this HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault. View Now 'Joe the IT Guy' video exceeds not-so-lofty expectations I so expected to hate this video from SysAid's "Joe the IT Guy" that it was all I could do to click the start button. But since I did - and watched all two minutes and 56 seconds, smiling more than once - I figure it's only fair to give you the opportunity to make your own judgment. Read More Security concerns prompt supoena for Healthcare.gov data A U.S. House committee chairman, citing security concerns, today ordered a Healthcare.gov contractor to provide detailed information about its work on the project. Read More Start-up Threat Stack aims to protect Linux-based clouds from hackers Start-up Threat Stack says it's making its hacker-detection for the cloud software available for controlled beta testing this week, with general availability expected before the end of the year. Read More That's no poltergeist invading your privacy: Spooky spying hacks make homes seem haunted Back in the day, 1990s and early 2000s, you didn't hear too much about remote administration tools (RAT), so victims of early RATs like Back Orifice, Netbus or Sub7 would often freak out when the CD-tray would open or close on its own, music files would play for no reason, emails would be snatched from thin air, or files, icons, the clock and task manager would disappear. Read More
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