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	Sailpoint offers new take on provisioning I was going to open this issue with the phrase "the more things change, the more they stay the same" but I've used that a lot lately (which probably reflects more on our industry than it does on my thought processes). Instead, I'll say, "Everything old is new again." Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps IT Service Management: Beyond the Myths Discover best practices and supporting technologies that deliver the straightest path to service reliability, operational efficiency and effective ROI. Also, examine three case studies that show how IT service management works in the real world. Read More! 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Learn More IRS security faults leave taxpayer information at risk In this the heavy tax season where billions of dollars and tons of personal information is relayed to and from the government, it's more disconcerting to hear that the Internal Revenue Service is still struggling to keep private information secure. Read More Malware infected memory cards of 3,000 Vodafone mobiles Malware-tainted memory cards may have ended up on as many as 3,000 HTC Magic phones, a greater number than first suspected, Vodafone said Friday. Read More US to develop smart machines with visual intelligence The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is set to develop a system that will let machines or robots have visual intelligence similar to humans.  Read More A quarter of teens have tried hacking A quarter of teens have attempted to hack into other people's online accounts, says Tufin Technologies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! Network Security Renaissance ESG Research indicates that network security spending will be a focus area for 2010. Nearly half (48%) of midsized (i.e. less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) will invest in network security technologies like firewalls, IDS/IPS, gateways, and threat management solutions. Yes, all of these technologies are important components of a defense-in-depth security architecture... Read More Weak states leave EU open to cyberattack EU states need to work far more closely with one another to have any chance of fending off the sort of cyberattacks that caused huge problems for Estonia in 2007, a House of Lords report has said. Read More Google patches Chrome days before hacking contest Google has patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows version of Chrome, including one that earned its finder the first $1,337 check from the company's new bug bounty program Read More Judge approves Facebook's settlement offer in Beacon case A federal judge has approved a proposed settlement by Facebook in a class-action lawsuit involving its now defunct Beacon behavioral tracking service. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ProCurve Break Free from Proprietary Networking See why Gartner and the network industry have positioned HP as a leader and the fastest-growing enterprise Ethernet LAN networking vendor. HP's commitment to industry-standards can help organizations optimize their network. Read now. Spider email joker's website suspended The website of infamous Internet prankster, David Thorne, has been suspended. Read More 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 Two Madoff computer admins indicted Two former computer administrators who worked for convicted financial fraudster Bernard Madoff's investment firm were indicted this week on charges of conspiracy and falsifying financial records. Read More The FBI on Facebook: Watching every move you make It seems 2010 may be the year personal privacy makes a comeback -- that, or it's taking its final breath before it sinks into the tarpits. Every week brings news of some new affront to our personal data, accompanied by a backlash. Lately these stories have been bubbling up on an almost daily basis. Read More
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