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	Search and seizure: No Fourth-Amendment rights at Borders In 2002, the Homeland Security Act established the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) combining a number of U.S. law enforcement andd. The US Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service contributed to the formation of the newly named Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agencies. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Adopting Unified Communications: Key Steps to Consider The faster your business can locate, gather and share information, the more productive and competitive you can be. That's why small and medium enterprises are upgrading to a unified communications (UC) system, which can improve customer service, streamline product development and speed response to new opportunities. Learn more. >> In this Issue Hadoop distro vendor MapR grabs $20 million in funding Air Force awards $25K to inventor of insanely fast device that stops fleeing cars Cyberwar & Certified Lies: 531 Spy Certs target CIA, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla FAA slaps $175,000 fine on MIT for batteries that caught fire at FedEx Security rundown for the week ending Sept. 2 Symantec adds enhancements to Backup Exec 2010 Liar liar, brain's been fired Man gets six years for hacking girls to extort photographs VMware strives to expand security partner ecosystem Mac OS X can't properly revoke dodgy digital certificates WHITE PAPER: Quest Software New NetVault Backup Licensing Model Read a report from an industry-leading analyst to see why traditional backup and recovery licensing methods no longer make sense. You'll learn how you can dramatically cut costs with a different strategy that's more intuitive, reasonable, enduring, and flexible. Download the report today. Read Now! Hadoop distro vendor MapR grabs $20 million in funding MapR Technologies, a provider of distribution for Apache Hadoop, has scored a $20 million round of venture funding led by Redpoint Ventures. Read More Air Force awards $25K to inventor of insanely fast device that stops fleeing cars If you remember the "Dirty Harry" movie "Dead Pool" where a radio controlled corvette model car containing a bomb chases Harry around the streets of San Francisco and eventually detonates under his car destroying it, then you have the general idea of the technology a retired 66-year-old mechanical engineer came up with to win a $25,000 prize from the Air Force Research Laboratory. Read More Cyberwar & Certified Lies: 531 Spy Certs target CIA, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla It's been a big weekend in the spoofed spy cert arena which has guaranteed that Internet giants have not had a long, fun weekend - thanks to DigiNotar which is now and should be blacklisted to hell. It's not just regular Joes in the crosshairs of this attack either, since Intelligence agencies like the CIA, the UK's MI6 and the Israeli Mossad were also targeted by 531 rogue digital certificates. Pretty... Read More WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Economics of Spam Email security threats do not discriminate. Whether you're an organization with 50 employees or a global corporation with 50,000, the reality is that spam and viruses can wreak havoc on your business, drain users' productivity and take a major toll on IT resources. Read now FAA slaps $175,000 fine on MIT for batteries that caught fire at FedEx The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today said it would seek a $175,000 civil penalty against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for alleged violations of Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Regulations. Read More Security rundown for the week ending Sept. 2 A mish-mash of security issues came up this week, everything from how to protect virtualized environments to a system that protects copper in utility sites from robbery and a story about digital certificate thefts. Read More Symantec adds enhancements to Backup Exec 2010 Symantec announced last week at VMworld 2011 that they are adding new V-Ray technology and other enhancements to Backup Exec 2010. Read More WHITE PAPER: Schooner Information Technology The Short Guide to MySQL High-Availability Options The Short Guide to MySQL High-Availability Options: An analysis of today's MySQL high-availability challenges and what asynchronous, semi-synchronous and fully synchronous replication offer toward reducing downtime, achieving full data consistency, automating failover, and simplifying administration. Read now! Liar liar, brain's been fired Gibbs wonders what will happen when we can no longer lie? Read More Man gets six years for hacking girls to extort photographs A 32-year-old paraplegic was sentenced to six years in prison for infecting more than 100 computers in a quest for financial information, nude photographs and thrills. Read More VMware strives to expand security partner ecosystem VMware yesterday said it has added more security vendor partners to its vShield product-development program in which security firms work with the company to develop data protection specifically designed for VMware's flagship virtualization platform, which today is vSphere 5.0. Read More Mac OS X can't properly revoke dodgy digital certificates A programming glitch in Apple's OS X operating system is making it hard for Mac users to tell their computers not to trust digital certificates, exacerbating an ongoing security problem with a Dutch certificate authority that was recently hacked. Read More
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