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	10 scariest hacks from Black Hat and Defcon Researchers showed all manner of serious attacks on everything from browsers to automobiles. Read More WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Why Customers Love VIPRE Business Selecting an antivirus solution for your organization is an important decision. VIPRE Antivirus Business is a high-performance solution that delivers fast, memory-efficient endpoint security with all the necessary functionality you need and nothing you don't — ensuring an optimal end user performance experience. Read now! In this Issue Facebook security practices questioned in wake of Anonymous threat Remote Workers: An Easy Target for APTs NuCaptcha Improves Integration of CAPTCHA System Encrypting Data in the Cloud Brings Win for Texas Deja-vu: DARPA's Mach 20 Falcon dives into ocean after nine-minute flight Researcher Teaches Computers to Detect Spam More Accurately Microsoft Patches Final Pwn2Own IE Bug Heartland unveils mobile-payment device for Android 10 cloud management companies to watch Prosecutor Charges Two in 2010 Sale of IPhone 4 Prototype WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Streamlined Data Protection One of the greatest challenges today is effectively backing up and protecting the vast amounts of data stored throughout an organization. With WAN optimization, you can accelerate network-based backup by 5x and can reduce bandwidth use by up to 95%. Download this paper and learn more about this strategy today. Learn More Facebook security practices questioned in wake of Anonymous threat Even as the shadowy hacker group Anonymous threatens to take on the mighty social-networking site Facebook, claiming the group will 'kill' Facebook on Nov. 5, some researchers are criticizing Facebook security, saying it could be better. Read More Remote Workers: An Easy Target for APTs After Black Hat, DefCon, and the recent McAfee report, you are probably tired of all of the hype around APTs. I agree that the industry has co-opted and obfuscated but these "low-and-slow" attacks are something we need to understand and address before more of our private information and intellectual property flies out the IP-connected door. Read More NuCaptcha Improves Integration of CAPTCHA System A company that makes a security product designed to thwart problems such as comment spam has added new security and customization features for website owners. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Application Delivery 2.0 Handbook This comprehensive handbook offers guidance on ensuring application delivery with a systematic approach. Read More Encrypting Data in the Cloud Brings Win for Texas For his work on the foundations of a new way of encrypting data, Brent Waters from the University of Texas in Austin has been elected as one of this year's Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows. Read More Deja-vu: DARPA's Mach 20 Falcon dives into ocean after nine-minute flight The second test of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) ended in the same fashion it predecessor did, crashing into the Pacific Ocean nine minutes into its flight. Read More Researcher Teaches Computers to Detect Spam More Accurately Without spam detection many of us would spend hours managing the daily load of e-mails. Nina Balcan develops machine learning methods that could be used to develop personalized automatic programs for deciding whether an e-mail is spam or not. For her efforts, the computer scientist from the Georgia Institute of Technology has just been awarded with a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Ten Steps to Increasing Data Center Efficiency You can't manage what you don't monitor. That's why infrastructure monitoring is essential to data center optimization. Emerson Network Power outlines what you should be monitoring, how to monitor it and the results you can expect. Take the proactive approach to infrastructure monitoring. Read now Microsoft Patches Final Pwn2Own IE Bug Microsoft on Tuesday patched the last vulnerability in IE that was used by a researcher in March to win $15,000 at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. Read More Heartland unveils mobile-payment device for Android Heartland Payment Systems today unveiled a mobile-payment device for merchants called "Mobuyle" that works with any Android phone or tablet to handle customer card payments. Read More 10 cloud management companies to watch Managing the cloud is a tricky endeavor. Here are 10 tools and services that can help Read More Prosecutor Charges Two in 2010 Sale of IPhone 4 Prototype A California county district attorney's office has decided not to press charges against Gizmodo or former editor Jason Chen for the blog's part in a 2010 case involving a lost Apple iPhone 4 prototype. Read More
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