Separated at birth: Tech honchos and their famous lookalikes Tech titans are often one of a kind characters. But some Silicon Valley kingpins have virtual twins lurking in Hollywood and Washington, D.C. Who might play Marc Benioff or Carly Fiorina? Here's a look. Xerox to buy ACS for $6.4 billion Xerox has agreed to buy Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for $6.4 billion, in a move it hopes will allow it to expand beyond the field of document management, it said Monday. UNC data breach exposes 163,000 SSNs The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began notifying about 163,000 women about the potential compromise of their Social Security numbers and other personal information after a hacker breached a system containing the data. IRS scam now world's biggest e-mail virus problem Criminals are waging a nasty online campaign right now, hoping that their victims' fears of the tax collecter will lead them to inadvertently install malicious software. Adobe, McAfee to combine DRM and data-loss prevention Adobe Systems and McAfee will jointly develop a product that combines digital rights management capabilities with technology designed to prevent data from leaking outside corporate networks, the companies said Monday. To fight worms, use ants To combat worms, Trojans and other malware, a team of security researchers wants to use ants. Palm snags prominent Web technologists Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, who have led the Mozilla developer lab, are now directors of the Palm Developer Relations team. Ways that employees breach data (podcast) David Ting from Imprivata discusses the ways employees can inadvertently, intentionally and ignorantly cause data breaches, and whether current IT security practices can stop them. Cisco thanks NIST for its time on smart grid Cisco "noted its appreciation" for the work the National Institute of Standards and Technology put into the development of the draft NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards. In a statement of its appreciation, however, Cisco did not come out and tacitly support or endorse the draft. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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