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	The privacy cat is out of the bag There comes a point in many situations where you have to recognize that the cat is not only out of the bag, it has stolen your wallet and your car keys and has taken the I-15 to Vegas. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Quickly Identify Misconfigured Active Directory Permissions What users have access to sensitive files or directories? Find out without tedious manual effort. Troubleshoot permissions issues both locally and on remote shares with SolarWinds free tool, Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory. Easily see what permissions a user or group of users has for an object and why. Get a complete hierarchical view of the effective permission and access rights for a specific file folder or share drive today by downloading the free tool. 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Learn how to overcome this issue in this paper that highlights: - Key WAN characteristics of out of order and lost packets - Packet loss impact on data replication - How MPLS statistics fool network professionals Learn more. iPhone 5 rumor rollup for week ending Aug. 17 For the iOSphere, reading SEC documents is the modern equivalent of the ancient art of haruspicy, reading animal entrails, to learn the future of the Next iPhone. Much is revealed to the trained eye. Read More Back-to-school tech guide 2012 Feel that chill? That's not the end of summer approaching; it's the beginning of another school year. With student budgets in mind, we've gathered 10 items -- gadgets, gear and apps -- that'll improve a college student's life, whether in the classroom, in the dorm or around campus. Read More Scientists find that the Sun is so round, it's scary If you thought the Sun was round -- you'd be right. But astronomers this week said the Sun is so round it's nearly perfect in its roundness. So round that astronomers said if they scaled it to the size of a beach ball, it would be so round that the difference between the widest and narrow diameters would be much less than the width of a human hair. That's round. Read More Cloud company ends 'lifetime' hosting promise Cloud computing company Joyent informed customers this week that a "lifetime" Web hosting offer that it promised more than six years ago would be coming to the end of its life this fall. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. 3 Main Factors Lowering WAN Throughput Upgrading bandwidth does not help improve effective throughput when transferring large amounts of data over a high-capacity WAN. This NetForecast report details the problem's culprits and discusses the effectiveness of TCP acceleration, FEC, packet order correction, and WAN optimization. Learn more. Floods, fires, hurricanes… how do you prepare for data center disasters? Floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, power surges. There are plenty of disasters that can derail your data center operations. How you prepare for the worst? Do you have a disaster preparedness and response plan in place? How confident are you that your company could recover if a significant disaster were to make your main data center inaccessible? Please take our confidential survey and let us know.... Read More Twitter's API Changes: What's In It for Users Changes are coming soon for how third-party applications can use Twitter's application programming interface (API), the software tool an app uses for accessing Twitter content. Read More Biggest Security Management Challenges for Enterprise Organizations In the recently-published ESG Research Report, Security Management and Operations: Changes on the Horizon, ESG surveyed 315 security professionals working at North American=based enterprise organizations (i.e. more than 1,000 employees). We asked these folks to define the biggest security management challenges at their organizations. Not surprisingly, the top response (50%) was "budget constraints."... Read More Antivirus suites struggle to defend against recent exploit-based attacks Many antivirus suites are incapable of effectively blocking malware attacks against two recent and serious Microsoft vulnerabilities despite the fact that real exploits have been circulating since June, testing organisation NSS Labs has found. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cisco Bring Your Own Device This paper explores the challenges mobile devices create for IT, offers key considerations before adopting a BYOD strategy and highlights a comprehensive architecture from Cisco that enables freedom of choice for users while affording IT security and control. Learn more. Top Back-to-School Laptops Do you need to help a family member choose a back-to-school laptop? Are you having trouble deciding what to purchase? Here are some suggestions Read More FAQ: How to get Windows 8 now ... legally Starting yesterday, Microsoft began releasing the final code of Windows 8 to developers, IT professionals and businesses that license the company's products in volume. Read More 11 ways around using more spectrum for mobile data Despite widespread calls for more spectrum to carry mobile data, there is a wide range of technologies already being used or explored that could help to speed up networks or put off the day when more frequencies need to be cleared. Read More Two services that help protect public Wi-Fi users If you're using your computer away from your home network -- whether in a coffee shop, at the airport or in a hotel room -- chances are pretty good that your wireless network (even your wired network in a hotel room) is unsecure. Tools like Firesheep and Reaver can easily be used by hackers to find out personal information from Wi-Fi users on the same Wi-Fi network -- you may think that the guy three tables over is just checking his email, but he could be stealing your credit-card information or passwords. Read More
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