Münchhausen Syndrome by Internet: Deceiving the sympathetic

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	Münchhausen Syndrome by Internet: Deceiving the sympathetic A recent development along these lines that may concern tech-savvy readers is a similar disorder that some specialists are calling "Münchhausen Syndrome by Internet." Some disturbed people have been found to lie about their real or even nonexistent illnesses, apparently to obtain attention and psychological support from well-meaning participants in mental-health or illness-related support groups online. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Technology Fueling the Next Phase of Storage Optimization ESG examines trends influencing the adoption of deduplication and the limitations of existing solutions and details how HP is best positioned to deliver highly efficient deduplication solutions based on its new HP StoreOnce deplication technology Read now In this Issue 5 ways to stay safe from fake anti-virus malware attack on Macintosh Checking In On Check Point Department of Energy brings public electric car recharging stations online Google patches critical Chrome bugs An EU firewall won't protect kids, says top legislator PlayStation Network and Cloud Security Russian company cracks iOS 4 hardware encryption Lawmakers question Obama cybersecurity proposal NASA will end communications with Mars rover Spirit WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company The Netezza Data Appliance Architecture Success in any enterprise depends on having the best available information in time to make sound decisions. Read now 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 Checking In On Check Point I attended the Check Point analyst event on Monday of this week in Chicago. It's been a while since Check Point got the analysts together so there was plenty of catching up to do. Read More Department of Energy brings public electric car recharging stations online The Oak Ridge National Laboratory today said it had completed the first 25 of 125 solar-assisted electric vehicle charging stations between Knoxville and Memphis, Tenn. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software A Cost-Effective Solution for ITSM If you're tired of the costly upgrades and difficult implementations other vendors put you through, BMC Remedy OnDemand offers an alternative. It can be implemented in days and significantly lower overall IT Service Management costs. Read the white paper to learn more about BMC Remedy OnDemand. Read More Today! Google patches critical Chrome bugs Google on Tuesday patched several vulnerabilities in Chrome, including two a French security company said could be used to bypass the browser's anti-exploit technology. Read More An EU firewall won't protect kids, says top legislator The European Union's top legislator on digital issues has said that education and awareness are the best way to protect children online, dealing a blow to plans for a so-called European Union firewall. Read More PlayStation Network and Cloud Security Pundits around the industry are using the repeated – and successful -- attacks on Sony's Playstation Network as proof clouds aren't secure. But what's "cloudy" about PSN? It is the antithesis of the cloud: a closed architecture, which happens to use the internet to connect locked-down clients (PS3s) to a closed, proprietary server (PSN). Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more! Russian company cracks iOS 4 hardware encryption Having cracked Apple iPhone backups last year, Russian security company ElcomSoft appears to have found a reliable way to beat the layered encryption system used to secure data held on the smartphone itself. Read More Lawmakers question Obama cybersecurity proposal Critics question parts of the Obama administration's new cybersecurity proposal. Read More NASA will end communications with Mars rover Spirit NASA today said it will make one last attempt on Wednesday to communicate with its long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated with scientists on March 22, 2010. Read More
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