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	Did Harvard Researchers Breach Students' Privacy? When Harvard researchers aggregated Facebook data and supposedly anonymized it, then no one should have been able to identify those users. That was not the case, however, and the "privacy meltdown" caught Harvard researchers in a net of ethical turmoil. The right or wrong of data mining social networks for social-science studies is a bone of contention between privacy watchdogs and researchers. Read... Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Realize More Business Value Read the white paper and learn how IBM Tivoli® Security Management for z/OS® can safeguard your business—and deliver rapid ROI. Read Now In this Issue Development benefits, and security risks, of HTML5 'hybrid' mobile apps 7 free Windows tune-up tools and tips Microsoft yanks security site search after scammers poison results with porn Does your security policy reflect mobility and cloud security? UK claims cybercrime victory after phishing gang sentencing 12 Tech Revolutions That Fizzled 6 vacation ideas from your spam folder WEBCAST: Riverbed Faster Recovery for Windows Applications and Data Are your backup & recovery plans up to snuff? Will you be able to restore critical systems & data quickly in the event of an outage? Learn valuable information on how to protect Windows applications & data in a distributed environment. Learn about challenges in protecting & restoring Exchange, SQL, & Windows file server, & more. Learn more! Development benefits, and security risks, of HTML5 'hybrid' mobile apps So-called hybrid mobile apps are a way to finesse the debate over whether native apps, written in a given language for a specific OS, or web apps, written in HTML5, CSS and Javascript, are best. A pair of well-written blogposts, neither of which are intended as a programmers' tutorial, highlight the emerging opportunities, and risks, of hybrid mobile apps. Read More 7 free Windows tune-up tools and tips You don't need to spend money to keep a Windows computer running in top form. Here's how to fix, clean and maintain Windows using programs you can download now for free. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed 3 Ways WAN Optimization Pays Back One of the most complicated and expensive endeavors that an IT organization ever undertakes is disaster recovery. If you have DR requirements that aren't being met, before you think about buying more bandwidth or looking at other complex solutions, you should really look at Riverbed WAN Optimization. Watch the video to learn more. Learn more! Microsoft yanks security site search after scammers poison results with porn Microsoft on Saturday disabled the search tool on its Safety & Security Center after attackers poisoned results with links to pornographic URLs. Read More Does your security policy reflect mobility and cloud security? Recently I was at a technical meeting and overheard a client say that even though this area had just recently suffered a great deal of damage from several tornados, businesses are still very reluctant to develop or test Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) or Business Continuity Models (BCM). Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Performance Metrics and the Cloud Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More UK claims cybercrime victory after phishing gang sentencing U.K. cybercrime investigators claimed victory with the sentencing of three men on Monday following the prosecution of an organized phishing gang. Read More 12 Tech Revolutions That Fizzled Virtual reality and its oversize helmets. The Segway scooter. AT&T's Picturephone from 1964? These tech innovations and more were supposed to change your life. Whoops! Read More 6 vacation ideas from your spam folder Spammers, take me away! Read More
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