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	Windows XP's countdown to retirement: T-minus 500 days We are now less than 500 days from the end of support for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Office 2003. Looking at the size of the existing XP population, that makes me rather nervous. Read More WEBCAST: VIPRE Antivirus Business Mobile and Data Protection: Securing Today's Enterprise Date: 12/13 at 2:00pm EST This webcast discusses the benefits and risks of today's mobile enterprise, patch management techniques, and how to secure your extended network environment. Learn More In this Issue Antivirus software a waste of money for businesses, report suggests Creepy surveillance: Mannequins secretly record shoppers and profile behaviors Google: Gov't spying spiked & Microsoft leads the pack for copyright complaints Pay no heed to Facebook status updates concerning copyright ownership Digital watchdogs warn of spam, privacy issues with Facebook changes Java inventor James Gosling building smart marine robots McAfee wants his guns back, admits poor aim RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! Antivirus software a waste of money for businesses, report suggests Antivirus software is now so ineffective at detecting new malware threats most enterprises are probably wasting their money buying it, an analysis by security firm Imperva has concluded. Read More Creepy surveillance: Mannequins secretly record shoppers and profile behaviors It's doubtful you ever stop to think about all of the overhead security surveillance cameras in stores, but you are aware it's there. A new twist on secretly spying on shoppers would put the camera at your eye level because it is hidden in the eye socket of $5,130 Almax mannequins. If you think dolls are a bit creepy, then how about life-sized dolls that can record a shopper's "age range; gender; race;... Read More WEBCAST: PhoneFactor Strong Security for Remote Workers Is Just a Phone Call Away Live Webcast: Thursday November 29th at 2:00pm Join Steve Dispensa, PhoneFactor Chief Technology Officer, and Sarah Fender, PhoneFactor Vice President of Marketing & Product Management, to learn how phone-based authentication is helping companies tackle complex authentication challenges. Learn More Google: Gov't spying spiked & Microsoft leads the pack for copyright complaints The United States is leading the race, but in this case, it's a very bad thing. The race is actually "government requests for disclosure of user data from Google accounts or services." The USA comes in first in government snooping with a total of 7,969 user data requests from January to June 2012, but that was tied into 16,281 user accounts. Google complied fully or at least in some degree with 90%... Read More Pay no heed to Facebook status updates concerning copyright ownership On Monday morning, I noticed a few posts on my Facebook newsfeed that were a bit bizarre. All of the posts in question were the same and read as follows. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Unified Threat Management: A Better Approach to Security In this Webcast you will learn how Unified Threat Management (UTM) combines firewall, IPS, Web filtering, antivirus and more in a single box to combat a broad range of threats efficiently and economically. Learn More. Digital watchdogs warn of spam, privacy issues with Facebook changes Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Read More Java inventor James Gosling building smart marine robots James Gosling, the inventor of the Java programming language when he worked at Sun Microsystems, finds the security framework for Java he designed still stands up after all these years. In fact he's using it today to design marine robots that can be sent across the ocean to gather weather data or carry out research projects. Read More McAfee wants his guns back, admits poor aim As we enter week three of this bizarre saga, please don't forget that reportedly on-the-lam John McAfee is a "person of interest" in the shooting death of his next-door neighbor. And I say that as much as a reminder to myself as anyone, given the seemingly inappropriate entertainment value that I am deriving from McAfee's frequent blog posts and tweets. Read More
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