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	Security experts, hackers question AT&T's iPad data safety claim AT&T assured iPad customers that last week's data leak was limited. But two independent security experts say the data could have been used in rare, technically difficult attacks. The original hackers charge that Apple and AT&T are still overlooking a flaw in the iPad's Safari browser. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue In this Issue Hot stuff: Summer gadget guide 2010 Twitter's service disruptions and outages persist Is Bill Gates Delivering a New Einstein Letter? AT&T apologizes, blames hackers for iPad e-mail breach Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns Windows XP SP2 users face end of IE patches White House promises swift action on AT&T infospill You might know your IT roots if… WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Hot stuff: Summer gadget guide 2010 From a solar-powered watch to a speaker for your bike helmet and a nifty geocache finder, these 10 high-tech toys are perfect for summer. Read More Twitter's service disruptions and outages persist Twitter's persistent and disruptive service outages entered a second week, as the company scrambles to bring its site availability back to acceptable levels. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint A Unified Communications Case Study Unified Communications helped Sprint save millions of dollars. Find out how you can save! Learn More Is Bill Gates Delivering a New Einstein Letter? On Aug. 2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to "F.D. Roosevelt, President of the United States," outlining the potential of uranium to create a chain reaction and of Germany's interest in this raw material. His letter was fundamentally about a new type of energy. Read More AT&T apologizes, blames hackers for iPad e-mail breach AT&T issued an apology on Sunday for a hack that exposed thousands of iPad customers' e-mail addresses last week and vowed to work with law enforcement to prosecute those responsible. 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! Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns I've got good news and bad news for those of the misguided perception that Linux is somehow impervious to attack or compromise. The bad news is that it turns out a vast collection of Linux systems may, in fact, be pwned. The good news, at least for IT administrators and organizations that rely on Linux as a server or desktop operating system, is that the Trojan is in a game download so it should have no bearing on Linux in a business setting. Read More Windows XP SP2 users face end of IE patches Barring an unforeseen patch in the next four weeks, users running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) have seen their last security update for Internet Explorer. Read More White House promises swift action on AT&T infospill The White House today reacted with dizzying speed to last week's information spill, triggered by an AT&T Web security lapse that exposed the private email addresses of over 114,000 iPad users, including celebrities, CEOs, and high-ranking military and government officials, among them White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. [satire] Read More You might know your IT roots if… And the more we hear about supposed innovations, the more that we find that our industry is continuing to lose the history – and the significance of that history – of the early days of networking. Read More
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