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	NASA, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, World Bank team to offer hackathon Group offers way for software community to crowdsource codejams Technology can make some strange bedfellows.  NASA, Google, Microsoft, The World Bank and Yahoo! are inviting software developers, computer experts and students to a hackathon where they will have a specific time to solve significant software challenges. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Virtualizing Network Connections and Capacity Read this whitepaper to learn how HP FlexFabric can provision your network resources efficiently and securely to accelerate deployment of virtualized workloads. Read Now In this Issue Software bug derailed Windows bid to top Linux in supercomputing speed User activity monitoring answers the age-old questions of who, what and when Prepare for Cyber Monday Shopping Risks UK gov't spends millions on IT security architects Internet hijack claims denied by China Telecom World Toilet Day spotlights the throne Apple patches critical 'drive-by' Safari bugs Antivirus trouble, emergency power and hacking Kinect The X-Force experience in SCADA security and terrorism WHITE PAPER: Tripwire A Pragmatic Approach to SIEM In this white paper, security and compliance eWPxpert Dr. Anton Chuvakin explains how to take advantage of this opportunity. Read Now. Software bug derailed Windows bid to top Linux in supercomputing speed Windows or Linux? Tokyo HPC chief lets users decideA few days ago, we told you about Microsoft's surprising bid to join the petascale computing age. Windows HPC Server, it seems, was able to hit petaflop speeds on Japan's largest supercomputer, but the achievement was not recognized by the bi-annual Top 500 list because Linux performed better on the same machine. Read More User activity monitoring answers the age-old questions of who, what and when The city of Richmond, Va., had a user access problem. Due to an inadvertent misconfiguration of Active Directory, internal users were able to access systems and databases that they shouldn't have had access to. A user activity monitoring tool helped the city see the inappropriate access and lock down their systems. Read More Prepare for Cyber Monday Shopping Risks Some of the greatest bargains of the holiday shopping season are offered online on Cyber Monday. Of course, cyber criminals and malware developers are also gearing up for the biggest online shopping day of the year, so you better have your defenses up before you jump online and start making purchases. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks The Antidote to DNS Cache Poisoning and Other DNS Attacks Domain Name System (DNS) provides one of the most basic but critical functions on the Internet. If DNS isn't working, then your business likely isn't either. Secure your business and web presence with Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). Learn more! UK gov't spends millions on IT security architects The Department of Health (DH) has revealed it spent £10.1 million on information security architects over the past four years, mostly for the £13bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Read More Internet hijack claims denied by China Telecom China Telecom has issued a curt denial that it was complicit in a claimed 'hijacking' of Internet traffic earlier this year that saw large volumes of data between sensitive US military and commercial websites briefly travelling through its serve Read More World Toilet Day spotlights the throne Despite global humor World Toilet Day points to serious issues Today is World Toilet Day and with it comes the requisite humor.  But the underlying purpose of the day is to have people in all countries to take action, increase awareness of toilet user's right to a better toilet environment, and to demand for it from toilet owners. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Protecting Sensitive Data in Non-Production Environments The ideal data privacy solution must provide the necessary data masking techniques to satisfy the simplest and most complex policy requirements. These techniques must produce results that accurately mask context-sensitive data and include a way to propagate masked data elements consistently across applications and operating environments. Read now Apple patches critical 'drive-by' Safari bugs Apple today patched 27 vulnerabilities in Safari for Mac OS X and Windows, 85% of them critical bugs that could be exploited to hijack Macs or PCs. Read More Antivirus trouble, emergency power and hacking Kinect Mark Gibbs points out an issue with Time Machine and Sophos AV, looks at mobile emergency power and is in awe of what hackers are doing with Kinect. Read More The X-Force experience in SCADA security and terrorism At a power plant where they were trying to negotiate a contract for penetration testing, they met resistance from executives who were confident that their systems were so secure that no break-ins were possible. Read More
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