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	Microsoft plans double-sized Patch Tuesday next week Microsoft plans to issue nine security updates to patch 13 bugs in Windows, Office and its Web server software next week. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetGear Miercom Lab Testing Summary Report - Email Threat Test In its industry assessment of spam and web filtering products, Miercom tested Cisco, Barracuda and NETGEAR ProSecure. They determined the efficacy of spam filters based on content-analysis accuracy, email virus and malware detection, web filtering, real time web malware detection and more. Learn more. In this Issue Cisco wireless controllers open to attack NSF: Time for an Internet do-over Rackspace pulls plug on Koran-burning church's Web site NASA Mars rover halfway to the promised crater Vulnerability management: The basics Supernova shrapnel slammed into meteorite Epic failures: 11 infamous software bugs Warrants may be needed for cell phone data, court says Hotel operator warns of data breach WHITE PAPER: NetGear NETGEAR® Stream Scanning Technology Security solutions must keep a company safe from the constant barrage of Internet-based threats without slowing down the speed of business. Where other technologies have failed, NETGEAR Stream Scanning architecture successfully achieves this balance. Learn more. Cisco wireless controllers open to attack Cisco this week issued a security advisory for its wireless LAN controllers, which are susceptible to seven vulnerabilities including denial of service, privilege escalation and access control list bypass. The advisory can be found here. Read More NSF: Time for an Internet do-over The National Science Foundation (NSF) has doled out grants worth up to $32 million in total to a pack of universities dedicated to rethinking everything about the Internet from from its core routing system to its security architecture and addressing the emergence of cloud computing and an increasingly mobile society. Read More Rackspace pulls plug on Koran-burning church's Web site Citing violations of its terms of use, Rackspace has deactivated the Web site of that Florida church making worldwide headlines with its threat to burn Korans on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. While the decision is already being criticized in some circles as an affront to free speech, it makes nothing but good sense from a business perspective. From an AFP story: Read More WHITE PAPER: HP HP Business Value of EVA Storage Virtualization This Edison Group report is an independent assessment of the architecture and business benefits of HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). Learn how EVA enables access to the storage in a single array by numerous hosts, tiered storage within the array to different types of drives and better performance than non-virtualized systems. Read Now. NASA Mars rover halfway to the promised crater NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has reached the halfway point of what seems like a forever journey between two large craters on the red planet. Read More Vulnerability management: The basics The more apps companies deploy, the more complicated vulnerability management becomes. In the rush to find every security hole and seal it off from potential hackers, it's easy to let something important slip through. That's especially true if you're an IT administrator juggling several tasks of which security is one. Read More Supernova shrapnel slammed into meteorite Talk about finding a needle in a cosmic haystack. Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Data protection strategy for remote offices Learn how midsize businesses or enterprises with regional data centers or remote offices can effectively address data protection challenges by implementing solutions that help store and protect business critical data, cut costs and improve efficiency and reliability. Read Now Epic failures: 11 infamous software bugs Mark your calendars! Sept. 9 is hereby declared Debugging Day. It's been associated with removing bugs for more than 50 years now but is rarely formally celebrated. So let's start the tradition this year. Read More Warrants may be needed for cell phone data, court says In a precedent-setting decision, a federal appellate court this week ruled that judges have the option of asking prosecutors to obtain a warrant before they are allowed to access to an persons cell phone location data. Read More Hotel operator warns of data breach An operator of upscale hotels and resorts under such widely-known names as Marriott, Sheraton and Westin. Read More
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