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	Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day bug in 48 hours Less than 48 hours after receiving a report of a critical flaw in Firefox, Mozilla issued an emergency update on Wednesday that patched the problem. Read More WEBCAST: NetApp Use 50% Less Storage - Guaranteed Listen to this on-demand Webcast and hear Chris Rima of Tucson Electric Power discuss how his organization managed data growth and improved performance with storage and server virtualization. You'll also hear Brian Garrett from ESG and NetApp experts discuss ways to consolidate your Windows® application data, files, and virtual machines. 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Read Now. Symantec writes off $10 million after faulty AV activation Symantec has been forced to write off US$10 million in revenue after a glitch in its sales system prevented some consumers from activating their Norton antivirus software at the time they bought it. Read More Fighting botnets: Service rates reputation of IP addresses Startup service provider ipTrust today said it was offering a program that lets businesses avoid botnets and infected machines by letting them know whether IP addresses are linked to suspicious behavior. Read More Flash Drive 101: Copying Files, Removing Viruses The other day, my wife asked me how to copy a PowerPoint presentation to a flash drive so she could take it with her to school. I was a little shocked. My very own wife doesn't know how to do this? I've failed as a husband! Read More A real-world case study of SCADA security The clear message given in the report was that the water and power distribution networks owned and operated by this organization were vulnerable to serious service disruptions or degradations by moderately trained external personnel without access to internal networks or information. Read More Consumer smartphones to get remote wipes and SIM swap alerts Consumer smartphone users could soon be given access a range of advanced security features previously offered only to large corporates, after equipment maker Juniper announced new software for mobile networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks F5 Application Ready Solutions with VMware View As a VMware partner, F5 has thoroughly tested and documented the benefits of using our Application Delivery Networks with VMware View 4.5. F5 solutions include secure access, single- sign-on, load balancing, and server health monitoring. Read now! Palin e-mail snoop begs court for leniency Sentencing nears in case that also involved whistleblower site Wikileaks Lawyers for 22-year-old David Kernell, whose criminal prying into Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account caused an uproar two months before the 2008 presidential election, is asking a judge for probation instead of the jail term being sought by prosecutors. Read More Ghosts of NASA satellite will haunt Johns Hopkins new data center Johns Hopkins get new lab in former NASA buildingIf researchers at Johns Hopkins forthcoming high-performance data center develop a mysterious, overwhelming urge to develop outer space applications, there may be a reason. Read More SecureMac alerts Mac users to new Trojan Horse SecureMac claims to have discovered a new Trojan Horse in the wild that could cause problems for anyone running a Mac. Read More NASA to auction automated software code generation patents NASA says spacecraft control system translates well into commercial software developmentNASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said it is set to auction an exclusive license to five patents it holds for automated software development on November 11, 2010. NASA said the technology was originally developed to handle coding of control code for spacecraft swarms, but it is applicable to any commercial application where rule-based systems development is used. Read More 56% of all dangerous websites end in .com More than half (56 percent) of all risky websites end in .com, says McAfee. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos How to implement a data loss prevention strategy This paper guides IT professionals through the steps necessary to implement a practical data loss prevention (DLP) strategy. It starts off by quickly looking at what's driving data loss prevention, the consequences of data loss and how it can be comprehensively tackled using Sophos solutions. Read Now Researchers Figure Out How to Beat Indestructible Cookie Evercookie is a JavaScript tool for data miners, was updated recently. Evercookie is a tracking cookie technology of sorts, but it's made using JavaScript, and it doesn't go away when you delete your browser's cookies. Read More Firefox Trojan Targets Older Versions of Windows A new Firefox vulnerability reported on Tuesday affects primarily users of the browser on older versions of Windows, security firm Trend Micro has determined. Read More Fraudsters find holes in debit card fraud detection Over the last few weeks, criminals have been exploiting weak fraud detection systems used for debit cards with "flash" attacks, where hundreds of withdrawals are made over a very short period of time. Read More LimeWire Shut Down Permanently File-sharing program LimeWire has been permanently shut down after a federal judge found it guilty of assisting users in committing copyright infringement "on a massive scale." Read More SAP user group: IT directors frustrated over roadmap secrecy Eighty two percent of IT directors in the UK are frustrated about a lack of clarity from their suppliers over product plans, and are considering switching vendors as a result. Read More
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