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5 ways to stay safe from fake anti-virus malware attack on Macintosh
Macintosh users are finding out the hard way what Microsoft Windows users have known for a long time: Criminals want to sell them fake anti-virus software by scaring them with lies that their computer is infected. Read More


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Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers, 2010
The market for ADCs is consolidating. However, innovation continues, especially among some select smaller players. Although there are clear leaders in the ADC market, enterprises should focus their buying decisions on a vendor's ability to support specific application requirements. Learn more!

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Converged Communications: People and Applications in Synch
Most small and midsize organizations find implementing unified communications a daunting task, between lack of in-house expertise and complex integration issues, it's easy to back burner this project. Find out how to implement a communications strategy in this Collaboration KnowledgeVault. Learn more

Insider data theft costs Bank of America $10 million
A Bank of America insider who sold customer data to criminals cost the bank at least US$10 million in losses. Read More

Google Wallet: Five things you need to know
Now that Google has officially released its Google Wallet mobile payment platform, here are five things you need to know about it. Read More

Oklahoma City using SIEM to crack down on hackers - and wayward employees
Oklahoma City is using technology that not only watches for signs of any hacker activity on its municipal government network, but monitors employee online behavior to assure no one's going out of bounds. Read More


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The Important Role of Storage for Success in Server
This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas—cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management—and illustrates how SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments. Read now!

Researchers crack Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Digg audio captchas
Researchers have figured out how to to crack captchas, making it possible to launch automated attacks against sites such as Microsoft, eBay and Digg where opening phony accounts could be turned into cash. Read More

Hackers steal Hotmail messages thanks to Web flaw
Criminals recently spent more than a week siphoning e-mail messages from Hotmail users' accounts, thanks to a programming bug in Microsoft's website. Read More

Aggressive spammers set up their own URL-shortening sites
Spammers are experimenting with a new tactic to improve their success rate: setting up their own URL-shortening sites as a way to dodge anti-spam software and avoid protections put in place by legitimate URL-shortening sites. Read More


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Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches
How to make a ''firewall sandwich''. Read now. Learn More!

Check Point's new security blades cut both ways
If you're in the market for endpoint protection, Check Point's new R80 Unified Endpoint Security Management product shows promise. Read More

U.S. international cyberspace policy sounds good; will be hard to implement
The ambitious new U.S. strategy for securing the Internet sets critical goals that may be hard to put into practice, experts say, because some of them conflict and pose seemingly insurmountable technical problems. Read More

PlayStation Network hack will cost Sony $170M
Sony expects the hack of the PlayStation Network and will cost it ¥14 billion (US$170 million) this financial year, it said Monday. Read More

Siemens' 'damage control' response to SCADA bug frustrates researcher
Siemens said it intends to fix a vulnerability discovered in its industrial control system products, but the NSS Labs researcher who found the bug says the company seems to be downplaying the seriousness of the problem to save face. Read More

It's the human threat, stupid
Eric O'Neill, the former FBI operative who played a crucial role in the arrest and conviction of FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying against the U.S. for the former Soviet Union and Russia, says security can't rely on tech alone. Read More



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