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	Fake femme fatale shows social network risks Social networking pages featuring the profile of a fake Navy cyberthreat analyst attracted some 300 friends in the intelligence, military and security communities in an experiment conducted by a security researcher. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Extreme Networks From Physical to Virtual to the Cloud The migration from a dedicated infrastructure to a shared and outsourced cloud infrastructure is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. With Extreme Networks "Four Pillars" strategy, Enterprises and Hosting Centers of any scale can approach change in a logical and affordable, stepwise fashion. Read More In this Issue Say what? 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"It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I'm OK with that," he said during a keynote speech at the company's annual partner conference. After years of defending Vista -- and asking this particular group to vigorously do so -- one of Microsoft's top executives was now using the brand name as a synonym for "broken, disastrous flop." Nice. It got me thinking about quotes that have and will go down in history from the industry's most famous executives. Can you guess who made the following statements? Read More Nearly 13 Million Have Been Hit With Identity Theft Nearly 13 million people have suffered from identity theft so far this year. That's ridiculous! Lax security threatens to hammer a nail in the coffin for privacy. Read More Defcon social engineering contest stirs concerns A capture-the-flag-style competition slated to take place at Defcon later this month has raised eyebrows at a number of companies who are concerned they will be embarrassed or negatively impacted in some way. CSO first reported the CTF challenge earlier this month in Defcon contest to spotlight social engineering. The challenge asks contestants to collect information about a "target" company, which they are assigned to by contest coordinators at the web site social-engineer.org. Read More Terabyte-sized Java apps now possible The new version of Terracotta Ehcache distributed Java caching software can hold several hundred million objects simultaneously Read More RIM offers peek at multimedia features of new OS Research In Motion has been slowly releasing details of its forthcoming BlackBerry 6 operating system and this week outlined some of the multimedia features. Read More Next-Gen 'Droid 2' Smartphone First to Get Froyo OS The upcoming Motorola Droid 2 smartphone is set to be the first phone to ship with highly anticipated next-gen Android mobile operating system 2.2 Froyo pre-installed, according to reports. The successor to the original Droid is expected to arrive in stores in August, just after its older sibling, the Motorola Droid X, is due to receive the Android 2.2 update. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys Justifying IT Security The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk. Read now! USB 3.0: Five Things You Need to Know It's one of the most successful and versatile computer interfaces out there, and it's getting a major update. Read More Facebook tries to boost shaky image as it passes 500 million users Facebook's public image has taken a beating lately from privacy complaints, "abysmal" customer satisfaction ratings, and an upcoming movie that paints CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a negative light. But Facebook's Zuckerberg tried to combat the company's shaky public image today as he announced that, as expected, the site has reached 500 million users worldwide. Read More Thoughts on Protection from Hardware-based Malware Well this is disturbing. Apparently Dell shipped several models of their PowerEdge line of servers with Trojans built into the actual hardware of the server (well, the firmware I suppose). Dell is issuing fixes for this particular problem, but this really highlights the growing risk and sophistication of malware developers. Read More Boeing shows off commercial spacecraft Boeing today released the first public glimpse of the commercial spacecraft it is working on under an $18 million contract with NASA. Read More
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