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	20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need, and getting things done -- or having a tech meltdown. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Self-Healing, Self-Optimizing Wireless Optimize 802.11n performance with Cisco CleanAir technology. The Cisco Aironet 3500 Series Access Point has hardware-based wireless spectrum analysis, which locates and then fixes interference problems, getting you back to business quickly. Learn More Click to continue In this Issue Microsoft 'working' on patch for critical Windows vulnerability Eset discovers second variation of Stuxnet worm Products of the Week Facebook user satisfaction 'abysmal' News podcast: Network World 360 Open source has created software overload After worm, Siemens says don't change passwords United Nations Making Slow Progress on Cybersecurity No iPhone bumpers here, NASA revamps historic 9 million lb Mars antenna REPORT: Radiant Logic, Inc Download Latest Gartner Report on IdM Today's centralized identity infrastructure can't keep up with tomorrow's increasingly federated demands, from user-centric identity, to Identity-as-a-Service, and the cloud. In "The Emerging Architecture of Identity Management," Gartner outlines a vision for tomorrow's identity landscape--one with virtualization at its core. Download the report--free! Microsoft 'working' on patch for critical Windows vulnerability Microsoft is now working on a patch to prevent exploits of a newly discovered vulnerability that affects all versions of Windows. Read More Eset discovers second variation of Stuxnet worm Researchers at Eset have discovered a second variant of the Stuxnet worm that uses a recently disclosed Windows vulnerability to attack Siemens industrial machines . Read More Products of the Week Our round-up of intriguing new products from Sophos, Fortinet, Dell, among others. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Best Practices for Design, Architecture and Management This document provides NetApp best practices for architecting, sizing, and deploying a VMware® VDI environment on NetApp® storage. Learn more. Facebook user satisfaction 'abysmal' While Facebook is expected to announce this week that its grabbed its 500 millionth user, a new study shows that not everyone is so happy with the social networking site. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 After releasing its own handset to compete with Apple's iPhone, Lenovo looks like it may be preparing to take on the iPad. The Chinese company plans on releasing its own tablet PC at the end of the year. Also, Network-1 Security Solutions, an acquirer and licensor of intellectual property, says it has settled its Power-over-Ethernet patent infringement case against Cisco and five other companies. (5:08) Read More Open source has created software overload Last week, Stephen O'Grady from RedMonk came all the way down to Waltham from Portland, ME (or I guess that must be up, if Maine is "Down East") to speak with us at Black Duck. His was happy to report that open source is alive and well and made a number of interesting points about the software market and open source. Read More 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 After worm, Siemens says don't change passwords Although a newly discovered worm could allow criminals to break into Siemens' industrial automation systems using a default password, Siemens is telling customers to leave their passwords alone. Read More United Nations Making Slow Progress on Cybersecurity Good news: Last Friday, 15 countries including the United States, Russia, and China agreed upon a set of recommendations to the United Nations secretary general that will serve as the basis for negotiating an International computer security treaty. Bad news: Getting this far took far too long. While diplomats wraggled over wording and process, the state of cybersecurity severely degraded. Read More No iPhone bumpers here, NASA revamps historic 9 million lb Mars antenna The ubiquitous antenna was all the buzz last week as Apple tried to squelch the latest glitch in its popular iPhone. But those antenna issues have nothing on the renovations NASA is taking on to reinvigorate its 70-meter-wide (230-foot-wide) "Mars antenna." Read More
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