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	Top U.S. domain name registrars lag on DNS security The leading domain name registrars in the United States appear to be dragging their feet on the deployment of DNS Security Extensions, an emerging standard that prevents an insidious type of hacking attack where network traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or user knowing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Top Five Benefits of Video Conferencing From obvious benefits, like reduced travel costs, to a few less apparent advantages, see what Polycom customers, resellers and industry analysts are saying about the power of video conferencing. Read More In this Issue Is your city a cybercrime center? Hot space projects produce cool cosmic discoveries It does not take a village -- or a country Network Security Renaissance Russia arrests WorldPay hackers after FBI plea Mozilla extends security tool to other browsers Privacy as a contract Mozilla confirms critical Firefox bug UK lags behind in information transparency, says BCS 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. Is your city a cybercrime center? Are some cities in the U.S. worse in terms of cybercrime than others? Read More Hot space projects produce cool cosmic discoveries In the past month or so there has been a plethora of wicked cool discoveries coming from NASA satellites and space-watching missions across the globe. Never-before-seen photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Mars moon Phobos, black hole formation and a new exoplanet are just a few of the amazing images. Read More It does not take a village -- or a country olumnist Scott Bradner says concerns of a "cyberwar" miss the main threat to network infrastructures. To date, essentially all cyberattacks where the perpetrators have been identified have been the work of small groups of individuals. 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 Russia arrests WorldPay hackers after FBI plea Three men accused of being involved an audacious attack on US ATM machines in 2008 have been arrested by the feared Russian Security Service (FSB) in an event that is being interpreted as marking a sea change in Russian policy towards cybercrime. Read More Mozilla extends security tool to other browsers Mozilla is preparing a tool to give users of rival browsers, including Internet Explorer (IE), Chrome, Safari and Opera, a way to find out whether important add-ons are up to date. 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! Privacy as a contract The FTC held a roundtable -- actually a series of talks and panels -- last week on the issue of privacy. The commission, it seems, is worried that rules to protect privacy have not kept up with technology. But is government in general and the Federal Trade Commission, in particular, the right place to create privacy rules? Should there be privacy rules at all? Read More Mozilla confirms critical Firefox bug Mozilla confirmed a critical vulnerability in the newest version of Firefox, and said it would plug the hole by the end of the month. Read More UK lags behind in information transparency, says BCS Members of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, have ranked the UK fourth in terms of the perceived openness of the government making information available to the general public. Read More
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