Goodbye Internet, we hardly knew ye?

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	TOP STORY: Goodbye Internet, we hardly knew ye? This end-of-year article is a looking forward one -- looking forward to a year in which the Internet will be under a multi-pronged attack that threatens to change it irrevocably in ways that may destroy much of the Internet's potential. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Save now with the best deals from CDW. (CDW) Click here to save on desktops, notebooks, LCDs and more. Click to continue Gawker hack analysis reveals incredibly weak passwords The most popular password among nearly 400,000 exposed by the Gawker hack was "12345," according to a security firm's analysis. "So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!" Read More Top 8 Facebook Memes From women sharing their bra colors to college students lying down in odd places, these eight Facebook memes are tough to forget. Read More WHITE PAPER: Yankee Group: Accelerate UC Deployments (Level 3) Unified Communications holds tremendous promise, but deployments have fallen short of the hype. This Yankee Group report analyzes the reasons behind the gap between the UC vision and deployment such as sticking with a TDM network architecture instead of IP. Yankee discusses the value of SIP trunking and offers a SIP trunking vendor checklist. Read More CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby spoke with IDG News Service on the sidelines of the NetWork conference last week and shared some insights into the legendary enterprise IT company's own enterprise IT. Read More Zeus botnet targets holiday shoppers Man-in-the-middle attack uses social engineering to get Macy's, Nordstrom account holders to reveal sensitive information. Read More WHITE PAPER: Defining a Framework for Cloud Adoption (IBM) Read this white paper to understand IBM's framework for cloud computing adoption which establishes common definitions, delivery models and services and identifies key aspects required for a successful cloud computing execution. Read Now 7 Scrooge-worthy scams for the holidays For Beth Jones, a senior threat researcher with Sophos, this time of year means an upswing in fraudulent activity online. Between malware authors looking to infect machines, and identity thieves hoping to con consumers out of credit card information, this is the prime month for behavior that qualifies for the naughty list. Read More Google's Chrome OS doesn't support Java yet Google's prototype Chrome OS laptops do not yet support Java, and support for Flash Player 10.1 is being called a "work in progress." Read More WHITE PAPER: Business Benefits of Collaborative Communications (Alcatel-Lucent) Discover how to increase employee engagement and productivity across your enterprise, even in a tough economy. This Alcatel-Lucent paper, featuring research from Gartner, shows how implementation of context-aware technology can ensure collaborative communications and build competitive advantage. Read now! Firm in H-1B case looks to hire only U.S. workers Peri Software officials say the company's move to hire only U.S. workers for domestic offices is unrelated to its recent settlement of U.S. charges it violated H-1B visa rules. Read More The latest iPhone-to-Verizon rumors: Do you care? The tech rumor mill has once again churned out a report saying that the Apple iPhone is really, truly, super-sure-this-time coming to Verizon in the very near future. Read More Novell users seek answers following $2.2B sale to Attachmate Novell users have questions following the company's $2.2 billion sale to Attachmate, in addition to concerns about Microsoft's true role in the deal. Read More CIO gets six years for embezzlement scheme The former chief information officer at a large U.S. automobile processing company has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for embezzling more than US$500,000 from the company by faking expense reports and reselling company equipment. Read More Why Mozilla doesn't back Free Flash players Despite Apple's best efforts to make it go away, the Web is still littered with Flash-based sites and content. The lack of an open source alternative to Adobe's Flash player is still a major pain point for Linux users and vendors, and the proprietary player is a big source of bug reports for Mozilla. Which brings the question: Why hasn't Mozilla backed one of the projects to create an open source player? Read More FEC puts on hold a call to allow texting of political contributions So it is with a detached outsider's viewpoint that I applaud the Federal Election Commission for applying the brakes to a push by the mobile communications industry that would allow individuals to make political contributions via text message. Read More Huawei Symantec ready to compete in North America The Chengdu, China-based joint venture started in 2008 by China's Huawei networking company and U.S. storage and security company Symantec is now primed to take on the competition in North America, its general manager says. Read More Videoconferencing Early Adopters: Heat Miser and Snow Miser [video] If they can talk over a video phone, why can't we do it? Read More
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