Security team shoots down second Hlux/Kelihos botnet

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	Security team shoots down second Hlux/Kelihos botnet A team of security experts cooperating globally say they've disabled a large botnet of about 110,000 remotely controlled infected machines dubbed HLux.B/Kelihos.B by interfering in its peer-to-peer connections in a "poisoning" process to sinkhole them, cutting off the botnet's central control point. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC How Data Center Management Software Improves Planning Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enabling the business to respond more quickly to market demands. Learn More In this Issue Cisco acquires home network management company Cloud Computing Calls for Rebuilding Enterprise IT Is Google Drive Coming Soon? CIOs May Be Reluctant to Report Suspicious Activity Review: 7 password managers for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android Using Nagios to Monitor Your Clusters' Health IT Operations Needs to Evolve to Support Cloud Cloud storage vendor wants to ease mobile collaboration 11 Awesome Android Tablet Widgets RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. Cisco acquires home network management company Cisco this week said it plans to acquire privately held ClearAccess, a provider of service provisioning and device management software to service providers. Read More Cloud Computing Calls for Rebuilding Enterprise IT For all of the buzz about cloud computing, there remains confusion about its real implications for an IT organization. CIO.com's Bernard Golden argues that to take full advantage of the cost savings and efficiency improvements of the cloud, CIOs have to rethink their approach to IT. Read More Is Google Drive Coming Soon? The press is once again abuzz with rumors of the mythical Google Drive (GDrive), which will reportedly launch in early April. Read More WEBCAST: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. WAN Optimization: Why go Virtual? In this 3-minute video, you'll learn from CEO Rick Tinsley about Silver Peak's portfolio of virtual WAN Op solutions – from the high end VRX with 20X the capacity of any other virtual appliance to the self-service free downloads on the VX-Xpress Marketplace. Bonus footage includes real world results from two customers. Learn more. CIOs May Be Reluctant to Report Suspicious Activity A consultant says CIOs may not feel comfortable reporting early signs of fraud Read More Review: 7 password managers for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android 1Password and KeePass lead the field in features, flexibility, browser integration, and ease-of-use Read More Using Nagios to Monitor Your Clusters' Health You can enhance the Nagios network monitoring application with plugins. One especially useful plugin lets Nagios monitor the health of your cluster instead of that of individual hosts. Read More WEBCAST: BMC BMC Control-M - Single Point of Control Demo With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything — down to the very last platform and application — from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really — the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can. Learn More! IT Operations Needs to Evolve to Support Cloud To say cloud computing is a big trend today is an understatement. There's not a company I talk to, small or large, that doesn't have cloud on the mind. While much of the focus on cloud has been on lowering the cost of computing, some organizations I have interviewed recently have been focusing on understanding what cloud enables that traditional computing does not. Read More Cloud storage vendor wants to ease mobile collaboration When files are stored in the cloud, many companies need access to them on mobile devices. And once they're on those devices, users want to be able to edit the files and place them back into the cloud. That process has been difficult at times, experts say, but cloud collaboration vendor, Box, is making some moves to address it. Read More 11 Awesome Android Tablet Widgets Give your home screen a massive power boost with these 11 excellent widgets for Android tablets. Read More
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