Thursday, February 17, 2011

How IT pros cheat on certification exams

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How IT pros cheat on certification exams
Incidents of cheating on IT certifications are on the rise, a trend that experts say is an outward sign of the desperation felt by out-of-work and under-employed IT professionals. Read More


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Stolen HBGary e-mails indicate it was planning a "new breed of rootkit"
E-mails stolen by hactivist group Anonymous indicate that the security company it targeted was proposing to make a "new breed of rootkit" and that it passed along the plan to a technology firm that caters to the federal government. Read More

Microsoft builds speedy flash bridge between RAM and hard disk
Microsoft research project makes flash storage work more efficiently in conjunction with RAM and hard disk for speedier reads and writes. Read More

RSA: Act now on cyberwar, security experts caution
The time has arrived for the U.S. to develop a strategic plan for dealing with threats against critical infrastructure and those targeting U.S. economic interests, security experts said at the RSA conference. Read More


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Jennings explains his Jeopardy loss to Watson
In the final analysis, Watson's dismantling of human Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter was so one-sided as to render any rematch unlikely: After all, Watson will only get better; Jennings and Rutter, not so much. Read More

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1 comment:

  1. Informative post!

    This post may not sound good knowing that cheating is an activity of degrading the professionalism of IT Experts, but, thanks for posting for we are now aware of what is the recent news about what's happening in the IT industry.

    Keep it up!

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