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	US 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: Oracle Business Agility Strategies For Midsize Organizations Midsize businesses have enormous IT pressures: building an infrastructure that is flexible, designed to accommodate rapid growth and meets compliance challenges with resources nowhere near larger enterprises. This video whitepaper explains how Oracle is delivering applications specifically for midsize businesses. 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Report blames IT staff for school Webcam 'spying' mess The IT department of the Pennsylvania school district accused of spying on students using their school-issued laptops took the brunt of the blame in an independent report released Monday. Read More 10 hot energy projects that could electrify the world There are thousands of projects underway to change the way the U.S. and the world produces and uses energy. Start-ups are looking to harness the world's ocean waves and build advanced fuel cell that produce data center-class electricity. Read More NASA takes first steps to build new heavy-lift space rocket While some in congress may grumble, NASA has officially begun its search for a next-generation rocket capabl Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Internet censorship in China: The conventional view No one doubts that the government of the People's Republic of China is one of the most repressive regimes on the planet, nor that its repression extends to pervasive interference with its citizens' access to information at all levels, including blocks on Internet-mediated transmission from outside the country and suppression of internal news circulation by indigenous reporters. Read More Wi-Fi key-cracking kits sold in China mean free Internet Dodgy salesmen in China are making money from long-known weaknesses in a Wi-Fi encryption standard, by selling network key-cracking kits for the average user. Read More Fast-spreading P2P worm targets USB drives A crafty new P2P worm appears to be spreading quickly among users of a range of popular file-sharing programs. 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! Keep Your Personal Data Off the Market In 2003, author and security pioneer Simson Garfinkel conducted a study of data he found on second-hand hard drives. On eBay, Garfinkel bought the hard drive from an old ATM machine; it held 827 bank account PINs. Another drive he purchased on eBay had previously been owned by a medical center and contained information on 31,000 credit card numbers. Read More LoveBug worm hit 10 years ago during a simpler time When the LoveBug worm hit 10 years ago, it was a different time when people believed admirers were really reaching out to say "I love you", personal firewalls were turned off by default and executable attachments weren't blocked at e-mail gateways. Read More Lawmakers unveil online privacy legislation Two U.S. lawmakers have released a draft bill that would require companies that collect personal information from customers to disclose how they collect and share that information, but several privacy and consumer groups said the proposal would legalize current privacy violations online. 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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