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	Cyber war sabers rattle across the globe A formal Pentagon cyber strategy may define which acts of digital sabotage constitute acts war that warrant conventional military retaliation, but cases clear-cut enough to justify such retaliation may be few and far between, experts say. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Data Protection Strategy for SMB's with Remote Offices This white paper discusses how small and midsize businesses can effectively address their data protection challenges, implementing solutions that help store and protect their business-critical data as they cut costs and improve efficiency and reliability. Read now! In this Issue Microsoft Approves Cybersecurity Plan, PC Health Certificate Plan Gains Support NASA plan takes the Internet into space and beyond Hackers exploit Flash bug in new attacks against Gmail users 2011 timeline of major high tech awards: Cryptographers, Unix pioneers lead the way Why there's no Nobel Prize in Computing Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's property auction raises $232,000 for victims Apple iOS: Why it's the most secure OS, period Big questions about cyberwar eBay Puts Magento In The Cart For It's X.Commerce Platform Police: Man stole nude photos from hacked e-mail accounts WHITE PAPER: Qwest Manage Complexity, Cost and Compliance To outsource or not to outsource IT security—that is the question for enterprises as they face increasingly complex cyber threats. Managed security services can help organizations alleviate the cost and complexity of proactively securing the IT infrastructure. Read Now. Microsoft Approves Cybersecurity Plan, PC Health Certificate Plan Gains Support Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing, has been exceedingly busy. His growing positions of power may eventually make his plan for required "good health certificates" mandatory for all computers or any devices connected to the Internet to have unrestricted access. Read More NASA plan takes the Internet into space and beyond NASA this week said it was looking to build an ambitious Internet-like network that will support solar system-wide communication and navigation services. Read More Hackers exploit Flash bug in new attacks against Gmail users Adobe today confirmed that the Flash Player bug it patched Sunday is being used to steal login credentials of Google's Gmail users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell IT Managers Face Security Challenges with Mobile Devices A recent IDG survey reveals data security is the top barrier to supporting employees' mobile devices. Read more 2011 timeline of major high tech awards: Cryptographers, Unix pioneers lead the way The public key encryption scheme developed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the mid-1970s - and influenced by the work of Ralph Merkle - has now made them all pretty darn famous some three-plus decades later: All three have been inducted in 2011 into the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Read More Why there's no Nobel Prize in Computing When Nobel Prizes are dished out each fall, the most accomplished professionals in computing, telecom and IT have usually been left out in the cold. That's because there is no Nobel Prize for these fields, and it's unlikely there will be one any time soon. Read More Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's property auction raises $232,000 for victims The US Marshals today said the online auction of the personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, raised $232,246 which will be divvied up among to Kaczynski's victims. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer FREE 30-day trialware Bring your largest and most mission-critical server operations to a new level of efficiency and reliability. Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer provides uncompromising peak performance continuously and without requiring downtime or further management. Learn more. Apple iOS: Why it's the most secure OS, period Several factors have combined to make the iPhone's and iPad's operating system into what is arguably the most secure commercial OS -- desktop or mobile Read More Big questions about cyberwar The Pentagon is expected to announce a cyberstrategy this month that concludes a cyberattack on the U.S. can be an act of war, and while the damage from such an assault may warrant that position, hopefully this just amounts to loud barking given the perils involved. Read More eBay Puts Magento In The Cart For It's X.Commerce Platform eBay announced today that they are acquiring the leading open source e-commerce platform, Magento. Magento will serve as a key component of eBays new open commerce platform, X.commerce.  Terms of the acquisition where not announced, but eBay already owned a minority stake in the company since 2010. Combined with PayPal which eBay already owns and eBays existing auction and commerce technology, the... Read More Police: Man stole nude photos from hacked e-mail accounts A 24-year-old Florida man was arrested Thursday on charges that he broke into women's Web mail accounts, looking for explicit photos to post online. Read More
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