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	FBI warns of growing car-buying cyberscams The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) this week issued an alert about an online car-buying cyberscam that has been rearing its ugly head lately. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Manage multiple computers with ease Central's web-based management console lets you deploy software, proactively monitor and automate tasks. You can even apply all Windows Updates at the same time to keep systems up-to-date and secure. Try it free for 30 days. In this Issue World Gone Mad: Microsoft Security Praised Again? MS Researchers Embracing GIMP? 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Read More Software pirate gets two years in prison for selling counterfeit Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit and Symantec software The US Department of Justice this week said a woman was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $441,035 in restitution for selling more than $400,000 worth of counterfeit software. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Taming the Cloud This whitepaper explores the components of the cloud computing ecosystem, demonstrates how Akamai is delivering services for cloud optimization, and looks forward into the evolution of this dynamic and growing market. Read now Chrome improves anti-malware blocking score by 340% Google's Chrome blocked four times more malicious sites and malware than a year ago, but Firefox 4 was much less effective at warning users of danger than Mozilla's browser last year, according to a report from NSS Labs. 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