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	'Unhackable' Android can be hacked Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Unleashing Stranded Power and Cooling from Data Centers This white paper examines the underlying roots of today's data center power and cooling crisis and outlines five steps businesses can take to support intensifying IT requirements economically by removing inefficiencies from their power and cooling infrastructure. Read More In this Issue Understanding Web 2.0 security in the workplace Bad guys could read RFID passports at 217 feet, maybe a lot more Microsoft's bug reports fail to produce prompt patches Amazon launches two new Kindles, one with Wi-Fi only News podcast: Network World 360 FBI details worst social networking cyber crime problems Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent win AT&T IP domain Google crowned 'king of malware' Microsoft wins a Pwnie for failure 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. Understanding Web 2.0 security in the workplace Check Point and Ponemon Institute asked where Web 2.0 security risks rank on the list of priorities. Read More Bad guys could read RFID passports at 217 feet, maybe a lot more Radio frequency ID tags embedded in U.S. passports can be read hundreds of feet away, potentially making it inexpensive and easy to pick American tourists out of crowds for illicit purposes, "spychips", a demonstration at Black Hat 2010 showed. Read More Microsoft's bug reports fail to produce prompt patches The Microsoft Vulnerability Research program said Wednesday that third party developers have patched less than half the bugs it reported to them over the past 12 months. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Planning Guide: SAP to Red Hat Migration Lower costs and improve performance migrating SAP to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Download this guide today and discover how you can perform a basic installation and migration in less than 1 day. Examine pre- and post-migration considerations and other upfront planning topics to help avoid potential problems. Read more Amazon launches two new Kindles, one with Wi-Fi only Amazon has launched two new Kindle e-readers priced at $139 and $189, with the cheaper version a Wi-Fi-only e-reader and $10 less than the Wi-Fi-only Nook. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 Hackers appear to be increasingly counting on configuration problems and programming errors rather than software vulnerabilities in order to steal information from computer systems, according to a new study from Verizon. Also, Juniper Networks this week announced it is acquiring privately held SMobile Systems, a developer of security software for smartphones and tablets, for $70 million in cash. (4:27) Read More FBI details worst social networking cyber crime problems The FBI has in the past two years seen a major uptick in the use social networking accounts such as Facebook and MySpace for cyber crime and today it detailed that problem to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Read More WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Hitachi Storage Solutions at Work To address information growth, ensure all patient medical records are preserved properly, and support long term medical research, Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital turned to the high quality, reliable storage environment created by Hitachi storage and software. Read Now Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent win AT&T IP domain As expected, AT&T this week named Cisco among its three suppliers for the carrier's IP/MPLS network "domain." The other two are Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent. Read More Google crowned 'king of malware' Google has been crowned the 'king of malware' by security company Barracuda Networks, linking to twice as much malware as search rivals Bing, Yahoo and Twitter combined. Read More Microsoft wins a Pwnie for failure Microsoft has earned the dubious distinction of having the Most Epic FAIL of the last year in computer security with a browser cross-site scripting (XSS) filter that actually exacerbated the problem. The company was given the award at the conclusion of the annual Blackhat 2010 security conference Wednesday in Las Vegas. Read More
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