US Dept. of Energy devises security system to thwart rampant copper thefts

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	US Dept. of Energy devises security system to thwart rampant copper thefts The US Department of Energy and its Oak Ridge National Laboratory has built a security system that is aimed at thwarting at least some of the copper thefts that plague utilities and other large facilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Social Networking and Security Risks Each social networking tool comes with its own set of security concerns which can put your information systems and/or personal data at risk. This white paper will look at some of these risks and identify possible solutions to help protect you, your personal information and your company data. Read now! 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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 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 Chatbots gone wild – and nasty A demo of two robots chatting that a pair of Cornell University Ph.D. students cobbled together for an artificial intelligence course has exploded into a viral video over the past week that has amassed nearly 1.4 million views on YouTube. The video, "AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other" (see below) is based on a Web-based chatbot called Cleverbot that the students gussied up with a text-to-speech... Read More WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu A New Look at Energy-Efficient Servers The family of PRIMERGY® Intel® Architecturebased servers offers a wide range of capacities, performance, and configurations to fit almost any application service requirements. Read now! The big, bad browser quiz Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari -- you know the names of these Web browsers, but do you really know them? Read More Information assurance must adapt to changing technology The new semester has begun at Norwich University and we've had a couple of class sessions for the IS340 Introduction to Information Assurance course. One of the changes I've made in the last year is that I no longer inflict death by PowerPoint on my students; instead of pontificating at them, I just distribute printouts of the lectures (six slides per page), make the PDF and PPTX versions of the slides available to the students through a folder on the course Web site and guide the students in vigorous discussion in every class meeting. We also use a learning platform (an implementation of Moodle) for online discussions, some tests, and submission of assignments. Read More Hackers may have stolen over 200 SSL certificates Hackers may have obtained more than 200 digital certificates from a Dutch company after breaking into its network, including ones for Mozilla, Yahoo and the Tor project, a security researcher reported today. 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. >> Tips for Taming Rogue IT Sure, some rogue IT is the result of unmet technology needs. Other times, it's just the product of misunderstanding or miscommunication. Read More Hackers break into Linux source code site As Linux fans know, there are two kinds of hackers: the good guys who develop free software, such as the Linux kernel, and the bad guys who break into computers. Read More Agency to deliver shared governance, risk compliance service CenITex, the Victorian Government's shared services IT agency, will adopt a new IT governance, risk and compliance (ITGRC) package to improve its information security function. Read More Desktop virtualization users say the technology brings challenges Sacking the old PC in favor of desktop virtualization is starting to grow and the information technology managers taking the lead on that trend offered some perspectives on the networking and security challenges it brings. Read More WikiLeaks cable: Apple slow to counter Chinese fakes Apple did not have a global security team, including in China, until March, 2008, when it hired employees from drug company Pfizer, to counter rampant counterfeiting of its products in China, according to a cable leaked by activist group, WikiLeaks. Read More
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