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	The most dangerous jobs in technology In the world of information technology, some professions are particularly perilous. Whether you're risking psychological stress or your very life, these fields aren't for the faint of heart. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Dallas Register Now for IT Roadmap Dallas You're invited to register for IT Roadmap Conference & Expo in Dallas, compliments of Network World! This one-day conference is the most practical, cost-effective way to network with fellow IT executives, gain insights on the latest IT technologies, trend and challenges, and gather relevant solutions you can apply to meet your business needs. Sign up now at no charge! In this Issue Women did well on Defcon social engineering test CodePlex's Walli: No need to overhaul open source definition, licenses Buzzblog: Kindle owner on her continuing love of 'real' books NASA preps ultimate Sun mission Hurricane tracking apps for iPhone and iPad Microsoft uses Bing home page to push IE8 Latest Skype beta offers group video calls for 10 Security program automatically tracks down missing patches Virtualize your browser to prevent drive-by malware attacks WHITE PAPER: Brocade Top 3 Best Practices for Virtualization Management Get virtualization right and make the most of your investments in the technology. Download this whitepaper today and examine the top 3 best practices for virtual infrastructure management. Read now! Women did well on Defcon social engineering test Organizers of a recent Defcon social engineering contest will release their results next week. One conclusion is that women did well in protecting corporate secrets. Read More CodePlex's Walli: No need to overhaul open source definition, licenses Julie Bort: As long as Microsoft exists, there will be those who believe it's the KGB of the open source world, secretly doing everything it can to destroy FOSS. The CodePlex Foundation's Stephen Walli tries to dispel that notion. Read More Buzzblog: Kindle owner on her continuing love of 'real' books Slate today has an anti-Kindle rant from a 26-year-old fellow and I must say that I found his reasoning not all that compelling. However, a comment on the piece from a Kindle owner does fit nicely into my own thinking about the future of print, so I thought I'd share it with you here. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xerox Xerox Enterprise Print Services: improved business results Xerox has the tools, methodologies and experience to help reduce your total cost of ownership by up to 30% or more. We give you complete control over your enterprise print infrastructure and provide full transparency of all internal and external print-related spend. Read Now. NASA preps ultimate Sun mission NASA today said it had picked five experiments that will ride aboard one of its most ambitious space missions to explore the Sun. Read More Hurricane tracking apps for iPhone and iPad If you've been paying a lot of attention to Danielle, Earl, and Fiona lately -- no, you won't find pics of them on TMZ.com -- then a hurricane-tracking app, built specifically for your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, may help feed your curiosity about storms. Read More Microsoft uses Bing home page to push IE8 Microsoft on Thursday started featuring a small advertisement on its Bing home page for Internet Explorer 8 in an apparent effort to encourage more people to migrate to the latest version of its browser. 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 Latest Skype beta offers group video calls for 10 The latest beta version of Skype offers the ability to do group video calls with up to 10 people. Read More Security program automatically tracks down missing patches Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. Read More Virtualize your browser to prevent drive-by malware attacks Does Web browsing make you fearful of picking up a virus or downloading malware? It won't if you do your browsing in a virtualized environment on your desktop. Invincea Browser Protection uses virtualization technology to separate untrusted content coming from the Web from the rest of your desktop and network. Read More
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