Low-threat worm caused 'most significant breach' of U.S. military net

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	Low-threat worm caused 'most significant breach' of U.S. military net The most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever was carried out in 2008 by W32.SillyFDC, a low-level-threat worm that got into the network via a thumb drive plugged into a military laptop. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel TCO Whitepaper Comparing competing solutions on equal footing can be difficult. We also know that a system with the lowest purchase price may not have the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) over the lifespan of the IP unified communications system. To help with your comparison, learn the 12 cost components that must be incorporated in any TCO analysis. Read more! In this Issue Rootkit with Blue Screen history now targets 64-bit Windows Employees cranky about Web browsing restrictions Sources to protect you from the zero-day Windows DLL exploit AT&T sees businesses wading slowly into IPv6 Rumored SAP-Red Hat merger seen as a long shot Google improves real-time search engine How to get 150,000 Twitter followers AMD to test upcoming netbook processors in servers Solve Internet Explorer 6 Problems--By Ditching IE6 WHITE PAPER: Brocade The State of Data Center and Network Infrastructure Instead of a preparation method of rip and replace, examine how organizations can follow a more cost-effective strategy of evolving their data centers. Go inside the phased network architecture upgrade, which enables new levels of application flexibility and business agility. Read now! Rootkit with Blue Screen history now targets 64-bit Windows Updates to a new version of the malware dubbed Alureon, TDL and Tidserv are designed to infect 64-bit Windows PCs for the first time. Read More Employees cranky about Web browsing restrictions Workers who can't browse certain Web sites or access particular networks at the office are voicing their complaints, says staffing firm Robert Half Technology. Read More Sources to protect you from the zero-day Windows DLL exploit Even though Microsoft is so far refusing to patch the critical Windows DLL vulnerability that has become the source of an ever growing number of new exploits, you can protect your systems now. But it won't be easy. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Simple Ways to Get the Most from Your Blade Environment This technical brief describes the architecture and the implementation of major technologies in the HP Integrity Servers c-Class server blades. The HP Integrity server blades architecture opens a chapter in server scalability by using a common base 2S (two socket) base blade to build four and eight socket systems. Read Now AT&T sees businesses wading slowly into IPv6 Even though we're due to run out of IPv4 addresses in the next year, AT&T doesn't expect enterprises to be fully IPv6-ready when D-Day arrives. Read More Rumored SAP-Red Hat merger seen as a long shot Rumors swirled once again this week regarding a possible takeover of Red Hat, this time by SAP, but a number of industry observers said Thursday that the prospect is unlikely at best. Read More Google improves real-time search engine Google's real-time search engine, which indexes and serves up status updates, messages and other public content from sites like Twitter and Facebook, now has its own Web address and contains new filtering capabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint "Business-class" Service for the Global Customer Can global customers that are not part of the world's largest global companies get the "business-class" service they deserve? Find out in this white paper. Read More How to get 150,000 Twitter followers Despite sharing every banal aspect of my life in mind-numbing detail, I remain some way short of 150,000 Twitter followers. Even the mighty PC Advisor's informative feed remains a little shy. But UK design magazine Creative Review's Twitter feed has hit the magic number, off the back of a print circulation of 20,000 and a website that delivers around 250,000 page impressions a month (compare that with PC Advisor's 4 million or so views, and you'll see just how impressive a stat that is). Read More AMD to test upcoming netbook processors in servers Advanced Micro Devices is considering the implementation of its upcoming low-power netbook chips based on the new Bobcat architecture in low-end servers, the company said this week. Read More Solve Internet Explorer 6 Problems--By Ditching IE6 Reader John is having a problem with Internet Explorer 6 (which he's running on Windows XP Pro SP3): When he shift-clicks a link to open a page in a new browser window, that window shows up blank. Read More
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