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Cyber-Meltdown: Managing the Message When IT Hits the Fan November 06, 2009 
It started as an act of Web site defacement by some anti-capitalist zealots, attacking one of Canada's largest multinational corporations. You know the kind -- they've got their fingers in all kinds of business pies, from airplane parts to media content to their own very popular brand of hand sanitizer.
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Secure, Real-Time UC: Safe Connections While on the Move November 05, 2009 
Unified Communications holds enormous promise as a coherent, integrated approach to incorporating the full spectrum of business communications modalities, and as direct path to cut through "communications clutter" resulting in accelerated time-to-action. It also offers a cost-effective way to more directly connect the company to its customers.
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ISF Panelists Spar Over Security vs. Anonymity November 03, 2009 
Can the Web's big-time masters of malware really be tracked down? How risky is cloud computing to network security? And what challenges await the Obama administration's plans to lock down the nation's electronic infrastructure -- while at the same time creating a "smart grid?"
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Tech Futurist Sees Rosy Prospects for Net Security November 02, 2009 
Sometime between now and the year 2019, Comcast will start going after botnets and will stop sending malicious Web traffic to its customers. Google will send up more alarms if your search results include possibly infectious links. Microsoft and Apple will get better at plugging holes in their software.
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Alien-Hunting British Hacker Loses Latest Bid to Stay in UK October 10, 2009 
A British man accused of hacking into American military computers has failed in his latest bid to avoid extradition to the U.S., his lawyer said Friday. Gary McKinnon is charged with breaking into dozens of computers belonging to NASA, the U.S. Defense Department and several branches of the U.S. military soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. prosecutors have spent seven years seeking his extradition.
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Certified Ethical Hacker: Not Your Everyday Job October 07, 2009 
Computer infrastructure has become the foundation of businesses, governments, and militaries across the globe. Unfortunately, the onset of computer dependence has only opened a myriad of opportunities for cybercrime and potentially devastating consequences.
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Navigating the New Cybercrime Threatscape, Part 4 September 30, 2009 
Regardless of the agreements or disagreements on how individuals, companies and governments are to combat cybercrime, one fact stands true: Doing nothing is the worst posture to assume. Cyberrisk is as limitless as human determination, ingenuity and ignorance. As such, it is crucial we take the right measures to protect ourselves online.
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Navigating the New Cybercrime Threatscape, Part 3 September 23, 2009 
With the constantly evolving Internet security threatscape, being able to actually get a grasp on the latest threats, let alone arm oneself against them, can seem overwhelming. While there are seemingly limitless best practices in regard to cybersecurity, below are several that should help reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of cybercrime.
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Navigating the New Cybercrime Threatscape, Part 2 September 16, 2009 
The current threatscape, as with any landscape, can be viewed as endless vistas of changing complexities and unfathomable permutations of technologies, network topologies, risk scenarios and user requirements. It's the white noise of this dizzying array of technologies -- built upon an operating system monoculture -- which creates a healthy breeding ground for cybercrime.
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Navigating the New Cybercrime Threatscape, Part 1 September 09, 2009 
Cybercrime is pervasive, pandemic and increasingly connected with other parts of the criminal ecosystem. It ranges from the theft of an individual's identity to the complete disruption of a country's Internet connectivity due to a massive attack against its networking and computing resources.
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Keeping the Internet Dream Alive September 05, 2009 
Goofy videos weren't on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.
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Security Showdown: Cloud Computing vs. On-Premise IT August 24, 2009 
Much of the cloud security debate revolves around perceptions. It's about seeing the glass as half-full. Perhaps it's only a matter of proper practices and means to overcome fear, caution and reluctance to embrace successful cloud computing. Or is the glass half empty -- that in order to ramp up to cloud computing use and practices, a number of potentially onerous and perilous security pitfalls will prove too difficult?
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Hacking Into the High Life August 22, 2009 
Nestled near a row of sultry, silvery-green palm trees and a 205-foot-long infinity pool, room 1508 at the National Hotel on South Beach in Miami is a portrait of Art Deco luxury. It is also where, on May 7, 2008, federal agents seized two computers, $22,000 in cash and a Glock 9 gun from a man known on the Internet as "soupnazi."
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Ex-Informant Charged With Largest Credit Card Heist in US August 18, 2009 
Albert Gonzalez, 28, a hacker already in jail awaiting trial for what was deemed the largest identity theft in the U.S., has apparently topped himself. Along with two unnamed coconspirators, Gonzalez has been indicted by a federal grand jury in New Jersey for an identity theft that trumps the previous recor-setter.
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Hathaway Resignation Leaves Cybersecurity Leadership Void August 05, 2009 
The Obama administration appears to be having as much trouble as its predecessors in decrypting the secrets of how to retain its cybersecurity advisers. Monday's resignation of Melissa Hathaway has Washington insiders and tech industry observers buzzing about yet another roadblock in President Obama's intention to revamp network protection policy.
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The SMB Case for Sending Security Skyward August 03, 2009 
How can we automate and improve the way PC security is delivered as a service? The use of cloud-based anti-virus and security protection services is on the rise, and small to medium-size businesses can find great value in the software-as-a-service approach to manage PC support. Let's also examine how the use of Internet-delivered security provides a strong business opportunity for resellers and channel providers.
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