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Is Snort dead? Depends who you ask

4G-satellite network planned for US next year | Microsoft may face tough patch job with Windows shortcut bug

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Is Snort dead? Depends who you ask
Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead? The Open Information Security Foundation, a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) to come up with next-generation open source IDS/IPS, thinks so. But Snort's creator, Martin Roesch, begs to differ. 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

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.

4G-satellite network planned for US next year
An investment company has hired Nokia Siemens Networks to build a hybrid 4G-satellite mobile network, called LightSquared, across the U.S. to go live next year. Read More

Microsoft may face tough patch job with Windows shortcut bug
Microsoft may have a tough time fixing the recently discovered Windows shortcut vulnerability, a security researcher said today. Read More

FCC: Broadband deployment isn't happening fast enough
Between 14 million and 24 million U.S. residents don't have access to broadband service, and deployment isn't happening fast enough, a report from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission concluded. Read More


WEBCAST: Palo Alto Networks

60 Minutes with Security Visionary Nir Zuk
Join Nir Zuk, network security visionary and founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks, for a live interactive online interview with security analyst Mark Bouchard, CISSP. Watch Nir speak about the state of the information security industry and then pose your toughest questions to him. Learn More!

Hollywood Pushes Movie Streaming Standard, UltraViolet
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a group of 58 Hollywood studios and technology companies, is pinning its hopes for the future of entertainment on UltraViolet, an online digital locker that would allow you to buy a movie once, and stream it over the Internet for free on any other compatible devices. Read More

Google lets Apps admins set usage policies for groups
Google Apps administrators can now set different usage policies for groups within their organization's domains, a feature that many IT departments have requested Google add to this hosted collaboration and communication suite. Read More

Avaya bolsters contact centers, integrates Nortel technology
Avaya is overhauling its contact center software with features designed to boost productivity and also to demonstrate that the company is brimming with innovation it hopes will attract new customers, and keep those it acquired along with Nortel's enterprise division. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

BI for Business Users
This white paper explores how today's advanced business intelligence solutions can put powerful, informative BI information into the hands of more users. Read More

Twitter's tech problems take a toll on developers
The recurrent technical problems that have affected Twitter for the past seven weeks have also taken a toll on developers of external applications built for the microblogging service. Read More

Google Invests in Wind Farm: And 5 More Investments
Google plans to become carbon neutral at the same time promote green energy by entering into a 20-year agreement to buy power from an Iowa wind farm. The farm, part of NextEra Energy Resources in Story and Hardin counties, will sell Google 114 megawatts of renewable power. Google says that the energy it will buy is enough to power several of its data centers. Read More

Intel runs into major WiMax snafu in Taiwan
An apparent lack of communication between Intel and the Taiwan government over the closing of Intel's WiMax Program Office in Taiwan has brewed into a media storm here to rival Apple's Antennagate in the U.S. Read More

Hate Apple, AT&T iPhone Duopoly? Just Wait, It Gets Worse
If you don't own an iPhone, you may feel some smug satisfaction in the ongoing troubles between Apple and its anointed wireless carrier AT&T. And those feelings are likely to be stoked by Fred Vogelstein's excellent article in the latest issue of Wired magazine about that tumultuous relationship. But if you read between the lines, you'll realize that Apple's and AT&T's problems are just the trailer for a horror movie waiting to happen. Read More

Foursquare registers 100 millionth check-in
Foursquare, the location-based social-networking service, registered its 100 millionth "check-in" on Monday evening, the company said Tuesday. Read More



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Robocop ran DOS
Virtually no sci-fi or action flick these days is complete without a computer scene showing a few screens of mysterious scrolling text and a 3D wire-frame model. But where does this vaguely tech-looking stuff come from? Well, more often than not, it comes from a Website, app, or startup screen from the real world at the time the movie was made. Read on for some of the most unexpected tech cameos in movies.

Top Russian spy ring technology screw-ups
Alleged Russian spies arrested last month in cities around the United States seemed to be lacking in spycraft and in urgent need of some IT expertise, based on some of the gaffes they made. They also used some technologies effectively. Here is a summary of their efforts as revealed in court filings against them.

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