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	'Likejacking' exploit fools Facebook users and friends Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users were hit over the holiday weekend by a trick that spreads a clickjacking worm once the victim has been fooled into "liking" a page. Once that is done the action installs a Trojan and recommends the page to the victim's friends. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue IE6 in death throes, usage drops below 5% 7 open source innovations on the cutting edge Intel talks technology concepts, plans Atom update Cutting-edge Wi-Fi silicon will power high-def video distribution FTC shoves identity theft rule deadline to year-end Using SMP with Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux Free speech online requires anti-SLAPP legislation WHITE PAPER: HP Is your WAN designed with your applications in mind? WAN sourcing has been based on the cost of bandwith and availability. The focus is increasing on sourcing WAN solutions that can meet business needs for application performance. Read about Gartner's structured methodology to design a WAN that both performs well and is cost effective. Read Now IE6 in death throes, usage drops below 5% Usage of Internet Explorer 6 has finally fallen below 5% in the United States and Europe, perhaps signaling the end is near for Microsoft's nine-year-old IE6 browser. Read More 7 open source innovations on the cutting edge Think open source doesn't innovate? Think again. Here are seven projects that are exploring exciting new directions in computing -- for free. 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! Intel talks technology concepts, plans Atom update Intel plans to talk about its future technology and product plans at Computex, but doesn't have any big surprises lined up for the Taiwanese hardware show, which opened Tuesday. Read More Cutting-edge Wi-Fi silicon will power high-def video distribution Quantenna's newest 4x4 MIMO Wi-Fi chipset drops in size, power use and price. But it still has the throughput to spread multiple high-definition video streams through an entire house. Read More WEBCAST: Certeon Get Virtualized WAN Optimization Dramatically improve remote application performance and bandwidth utilization by attending this live Webcast on virtualized WAN optimization. You'll hear why deploying a software-based WAN optimization virtual appliance is an easy and cost effective way to speed response time while lowering network bandwidth requirements. View Now. FTC shoves identity theft rule deadline to year-end Pestered by lawsuits and requests from congress the Federal Trade Commission said it will further delay the enforcement of its Red Flags identity theft protection rule to December 31, 2010, while Congress considers changes to legislation that could alter the rule's coverage areas. Read More Using SMP with Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux A recent post on Microsoft's about Linux support under Hyper-V was interesting. The original poster asked about using Hyper-V's Linux Integration Service (LIS) with an SMP server. If you're using Hyper-V and Linux, you probably already know that Microsoft limits you to a single CPU. My first question is: Why? Read More Free speech online requires anti-SLAPP legislation Perhaps you've read of the Michigan college student who responded to his car being towed, despite his having a parking permit, by posting a Facebook page entitled "Kalamamazoo Residents against T&J Towing." It seems he wasn't the only one tired of getting an indiscriminate hook from T&J and his protest soon attracted hundreds of like-minded victims. It also attracted a lawsuit by T&J. Read More
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