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February 18, 2011
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7 Ways to Avoid Getting Hacked by Anonymous The hactivist group Anonymous used a series of simple technical and social exploits to crack the network of security-technology firm HBGary Federal, giving the company a schooling that other network security pros can learn from.
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ZTE V9 and V11 Android-Based Tablets ZTE shoots for the low-budget Android market with its two new tablets.
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U.S. Broadband Map Shows Large Uncovered Areas Two U.S. agencies release the country's first national broadband map. How is your area covered?
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5 Ways to Make Sure You Aren't the Next Wikileak Here are five key tips to help your government agency or enterprise avoid being the source of the next Wikileak.
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New Windows Zero-Day Surfaces as Researcher Releases Attack Code A security researcher yesterday disclosed a new unpatched bug in Windows that some experts believe could be used to remotely hijack a PC.
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iPad App Fills Need for Collaboration in the Cloud A new version of Box's app that lets iPad users collaborate on files in the cloud adds much needed enterprise security features.
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Samsung Adds 10.1-inch Android Honeycomb Tablet Samsung has added the Honeycomb-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 to its line-up of tablets.
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Cloud Meets CRM: How to Track Who's Who In the early days of CRM, it was simple: people were people and companies were companies.
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Google Adds SMS Verification Security to Gmail Google is offering all Gmail users the option to secure their accounts using two-factor authentication
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Stuxnet Scored Quick Hit on First Target, Says Researcher Stuxnet infected its first target just 12 hours after hackers finished the worm, an indication that the malware scored an almost instant bulls-eye, a researcher said today.
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IBM Watson Vanquishes Human Jeopardy Foes IBM's Watson computer has finished a three-night run against human contestants on the Jeopardy game show
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Romanian Pleads Guilty to Role in $2.7M EBay Scam A Romanian man has pleaded guilty to participating in a well-organized scam that took in about US$2.7 million from unsuspecting users of online marketplaces such...
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House Passes Defunding of Net Neutrality Rules The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an amendment to its annual government funding bill that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from...
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Start-ups Offer Cool Tools to Ease IT's Pain If you want to know what IT tools and technologies you'll be using in a few years, it pays to keep an eye on enterprise technology start-ups.
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Tablets and Smartphones Force Cisco to Rethink Security Cisco has unveiled a self-described "complicated" security architecture dubbed SecureX that it says provides a context-aware way to safeguard networks increasingly overrun with smartphones, tablets and virtualization.
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iPad Productivity Tools: 3 Must-Haves More and more traveling executives are leaving their laptops behind in favor of the iPad. They're writing documents, crunching numbers, and sharing files.
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Timing is Everything for New Tax Malware Scam Tax season malware attacks are a dime a dozen, but brilliant timing makes one new threat particularly dangerous.
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Network Quality Matters Most When Buying a Smartphone, Survey Says The battle among mobile operating systems may garner a lot of headlines, but it seems network quality is still the most important factor for smartphone users.
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