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	U.S. Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos Best practices for implementing Windows 7 If you're planning to roll out Windows 7, now is the time to review your endpoint and data protection strategies to make sure that you're taking full advantage of the new security features as well as enhancing your overall security for enterprise deployments. Read Now. In this Issue Happy Star Wars Day: May the 4th be with you Mother's Day gift guide for geeks Hands on with the Cisco 3500 AP and CleanAir Cisco wants to see your network TomTom offers drivers the voice of Darth Vader News podcast: Network World 360 IT Jobs: Data Center Hiring Turns a Corner The LoveBug worm: Ten years later Sophos founders in $300 million buyout deal Half of social networkers post risky information, study finds Legal disclaimers in Exchange 2010: letting the lawyers insert themselves DOWNLOAD: BlackBerry Free Download from RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Download Now. Happy Star Wars Day: May the 4th be with you My son Max enjoys nothing more than a spirited lightsaber duel, so he and his Dad are sure to be merrily locked in mock combat later on, what with it being "Star Wars Day" and all. What? You didn't know? Read More Mother's Day gift guide for geeks Mother's Day gadgets and gizmos are fun, practical and even a bit absurd. Read More Hands on with the Cisco 3500 AP and CleanAir Cisco's release of the 3500 series AP has raised the bar for the competition when it comes to spectrum analysis, by integrating their stand-alone Spectrum Expert card abilities in the access point directly. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! Cisco wants to see your network Although not officially a contest, Cisco's Linksys division this week launched a "Show Us Yours" challenge on Facebook. The company is asking people to post photos of their network setups via the Linksys Facebook page, and tag themselves in the photo). Read More TomTom offers drivers the voice of Darth Vader TomTom is giving UK drivers the chance to get directions from Star Wars baddie Darth Vader. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 Intel Capital and several other groups are investing $40 million into Virtustream, a data center co-location and services company that recently launched a cloud computing service. Also, Apple said Monday it took just 28 days to hit the 1 million iPad sales mark, and that was even before the new 3G version went on sale. (5:41) Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Cloud-Managed WiFi Learn how cloud-managed wireless access points can be self-configured and centrally managed over the web, provide secured access for employees and guests, be scalable for networks of all sizes, and provide a cost savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions. Click here. IT Jobs: Data Center Hiring Turns a Corner Driven to austerity in an economy that only recently appears ready to expand again, companies will likely hire slightly more data center workers this year, according to experts. Read More The LoveBug worm: Ten years later Ten years ago today, on May 4, 2000, a security team with MessageLabs, a provider of messaging security services, came in to work and discovered the number of viruses its system had intercepted in the last several hours was off the charts. Read More Sophos founders in $300 million buyout deal Sophos, the UK-based security and data protection firm, has dropped plans for an IPO and has announced a deal to sell a majority interest in the company to private equity group Apax Partners. Read More Half of social networkers post risky information, study finds A Consumer Reports survey of 2,000 Americans found that more than half post information that leaves them at risk of attack by cybercriminals and others. Read More Legal disclaimers in Exchange 2010: letting the lawyers insert themselves Let's talk about how to manage disclaimers in Exchange 2010. Disclaimers (aka lawyer-speak) are normally used to denote some form of limit or scope for the rights and obligations for parties in a legally-recognized relationship. Read More
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