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	Hackers offered $100,000 for browser and phone exploits Security company 3Com TippingPoint has jacked up to $100,000 (£65,000) the prize money on offer to anyone able to hack a range of browsers and mobile devices at the forthcoming CanSecWest security conference. Read More WHITE PAPER: Radware Accelerating Next-Generation Data Center Initiatives In today's business landscape, every business looks for solutions to enable key business drivers, such as increasing business productivity, agility, continuity, globalization, and regulatory compliance. Cost effective application delivery lies at the heart of this need. This paper details how to cost-consciously overcome these challenges. Learn More In this Issue Ex-Employee Wreaks Havoc on 100 Cars -- Wirelessly National broadband plan: What's in it for businesses? Estonia defense minister: Cyberattacks will grow NASA, Russian astronauts set records, land back on Earth Facebook users targeted in massive spam run Pushing for software quality assurance New Internet browser threat sneaks by traditional defenses IRS, DOJ use social media sites to track deadbeats, criminal activity WHITE PAPER: Compuware 5 Tips for Getting the Best Web App Performance This eBook, compiled by Network World, explores the pressing issues, from dealing with outages and evaluating performance monitoring services, to the impact of virtualization. Get expert tips to optimize your Web apps. Learn More Now Ex-Employee Wreaks Havoc on 100 Cars -- Wirelessly More than 100 car owners in and around Austin, Texas recently discovered that their cars wouldn't start. Or that their horns wouldn't stop honking -- all night long. Or that their vehicle leases were suddenly (and luckily, temporarily) transferred to deceased rapper Tupac Shakur. Read More National broadband plan: What's in it for businesses? We've heard a lot about how the Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan aims to provide 100 million U.S. households with 100Mbps broadband connections so far, but precious little on how it will affect enterprise users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. Estonia defense minister: Cyberattacks will grow Three years after a widespread cyberattack temporarily shut down the Estonian economy, Estonia's defense minister said such incidents will only continue to grow. Read More NASA, Russian astronauts set records, land back on Earth Bumping back to Earth,  NASA's Jeff Williams and Russian Flight Engineer Max Suraev landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Thursday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the Read More WEBCAST: ShoreTel A Lower Cost Approach to UC Learn about a switch-based architecture that provides the industry's lowest total cost of ownership while exploiting the full power of IP. See why this system beats the market leaders and has over 1 million users like Big Brothers/Big Sisters who candidly discuss their selection process, goals and ultimate success in moving to UC. Learn More! Facebook users targeted in massive spam run Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee. Read More Pushing for software quality assurance In my experience, some programmers and program development managers resist investing time in software quality assurance (SQA). In a recent research article on "Resistance Factors in the Implementation of Software Process Improvement Project in Malaysia," from the Journal of Computer Science 4(3):211-219 (2008), the authors summarized extensive published research on why people resist SQA. Experts have found that there are several categories of stumbling blocks to integrating SQA into the software development process (Table 1, p 213): Read More New Internet browser threat sneaks by traditional defenses An undetectable browser exploit that bares corporate networks to attackers tops the list of the most potentially effective new attacks that have been devised by researchers seeking vulnerabilities to take advantage of, according to a study by White Hat Security. Read More IRS, DOJ use social media sites to track deadbeats, criminal activity The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained documents showing how law enforcement agencies and the Internal Revenue Service are gathering information from social networking sites for their investigations. Read More
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