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	McAfee inside: How Intel bid could shake up IT security Intel has pledged that its proposed $7.68 billion McAfee buyout will result in more secure networked devices through an integration of software and hardware that will challenge offerings from other big security vendors and perhaps change the way in which security is delivered to enterprise IT shops. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Reduce Storage Costs through Virtualization A mature technology being deployed by thousands of data centers, Thin Provisioning can provide immediate, significant economic benefits. Read More! In this Issue The World's Worst PowerPoint Presentations Linux community finally fixes six-year-old, critical bug Intel-McAfee Deal: Secure Mobility By Design Panel drafts privacy recommendations for health data exchanges I Quit! 8 Dramatic Ways to Leave Your Job Acquisitions blunting security innovation, say users, analysts How Did My Protected PC Get Infected? Man accused of writing 'squid-octopus' virus How to turn Facebook Places off Reducing Code Risks with Open Source Who are these people who think cybersecurity experts are crying wolf? WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs The Wild, Wild Web: How to Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now The World's Worst PowerPoint Presentations Convoluted flow charts? Tacky, out-of-focus graphics? Huge blocks of text? Welcome to PowerPoint Hell.Most of you have probably had to make a PowerPoint presentation, so you probably know the basic PowerPoint rules: Use a lot of bullet points. Don't overdo the text. Avoid multimedia excesses. Et cetera.It might seem like pretty basic stuff to you, oh PowerPoint Guru, but unfortunately it's not so obvious to some other people. We took a stroll through the PowerPoint presentation-sharing site, Slideshare.net, and found a scarily large number of really bad PowerPoint presentations. Here are some of the worst (or should we say best?) ones of the bunch. Read More Linux community finally fixes six-year-old, critical bug Julie Bort: The Linux kernel folks "silently" pushed out a patch for a critical privilege escalation bug this week. It fixed a hole that could allow an attacker to execute code at the root The patch took two months but the hole was around, and known, for years. Read More Intel-McAfee Deal: Secure Mobility By Design The news of Intel acquiring McAfee for nearly $8 billion caught the tech world off guard and perplexed analysts at face value. The fact is that it doesn't make much sense based on the Intel and McAfee of today, but as the dust settles the deal makes more sense when viewed as a visionary shift with an eye on where technology is headed--everywhere. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateway This industry report covers the email gateway market. Gartner, Inc. positions Symantec Hosted Services in the Leaders quadrant in its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways (anti-spam, anti-virus, outbound content filtering, email encryption, intrusion prevention). Read the entire report. Read Now Panel drafts privacy recommendations for health data exchanges A "tiger team" that advises the federally charted Health IT Policy Committee will submit a list of recommendations on Thursday for ensuring the privacy and security of personally identifiable health information in Health Data Exchanges. Read More I Quit! 8 Dramatic Ways to Leave Your Job When you're ready to say "Take this job and shove it," how should you deliver the message? With thanks to JetBlue's newest hero, here's a look at 8 unique job resignations using everything from song to sheetcake Read More Acquisitions blunting security innovation, say users, analysts Some users and analysts fear that the continuing acquisitions of security vendors by some of the largest firms in the business could have a chilling effect on technology innovation. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Top Ten Web Threats and how to eliminat This paper raises real challenges for IT managers who have to protect the business against malware, keep internet bandwidth available for legitimate business needs and enforce acceptable use policies for the human resource department. Read Now. How Did My Protected PC Get Infected? SUPERAntiSpyware found three Trojans on Bill Artman's PC. Bill asked the Windows forum how this could happen when his PC is protected. Read More Man accused of writing 'squid-octopus' virus A Japanese man has been accused of a bizarre virus attack in which files on infected PCs were destroyed before having their file icons replaced with manga-like drawings of sea creatures. Read More How to turn Facebook Places off Now that Facebook Places has been turned on, users who are uncomfortable with sharing their locations with Facebook friends should consider going through their privacy settings and making sure they aren't sharing more information than they are comfortable with. Read More Reducing Code Risks with Open Source In the old days, the commercial licensing model for software was fairly straightforward -- and somewhat risky: Read More Who are these people who think cybersecurity experts are crying wolf? It happened again Monday that a news report about the threat of cyberattacks was greeted with skepticism. It's happened in the wake of some of my previous posts on the subject that commentors said the security experts warning of the threat are only scaring people in order to sell their security products and consulting services. I'm not sure we can put their warnings in the same category as burglar... Read More
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