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  • How to avoid joining a botnet

    HOWTOS -  But Team Cymru's Steve Santorelli presents a combination of techniques that can make their chances of infection much lower. As much as CSOs try to get folks to bone up on safe practices (both online and in the office), there are always going to be… Read More
  • Six essential free Blackberry downloads

    FEATURES -  And it supports the popular Google Reader service so users can import existing collections of RSS feeds from computers to mobile devices.The application works with any BlackBerry or Windows Mobile device, and its preserves their user interfaces so… Read More
  • How to DoS a federal wiretap

    HOWTOS -  These techniques would work on mobile phones or VoIP systems, but not on analog devices, Sherr said. Because the researchers weren't able to test their techniques on real-world systems they don't know for certain that they could thwart a wiretap. Read More
  • Facebook 'unfriending' enters the Oxford dictionary

    NEWS -  Unfriend has real lex-appeal.Other techie terms that were considered: hashtag, intexticated, netbook, paywall and sexting.Oxford didn't ignore Twitter either, citing a notable word cluster including Twitt, Tweeple and other Twitterish terms.Last… Read More
  • Researchers take aim at iPhone, BlackBerry security

    NEWS -  The researchers are developing remote repair techniques that would enable carriers to clean up devices with little or no involvement by the end user. Such methods might require temporarily disabling some of the phones functionality, such as the… Read More
  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    HOWTOS -  This architecture can become unresponsive when it's overwhelmed by the number of requests for content.In the end, the GDGT traffic problems calmed down after the initial launch, thanks to improved database speed and caching techniques that were… Read More
  • Guide to cost optimisation: Four ways to gain operational advantage

    WHITEPAPERS -  This paper is designed to help directors and managers of IT operations teams understand how the right systems management tools and techniques can help drive operational advantage through targeted cost optimisation projects. Read More
  • How to protect your privacy on Facebook and Twitter

    HOWTOS -  They change the password so that the legitimate owner can't get back in, and then they proceed to reach out to the friends of the hijacked account and attempt to extort money from those friends through social engineering.How do you resist such… Read More
  • BitDefender Total Security 2008

    REVIEWS -  It offers slightly reduced levels of protection, which is better than none - a common and very useful approach for gamers.BitDefender Total Security 2008 uses a range of techniques to keep the bane of the internet, spam, under control. Read More
  • Amazon rejects security fears about Elastic Cloud

    NEWS -  The researchers had argued that a VM sitting on the same physical server as a target VM, could monitor shared resources on the server to make highly educated inferences about the target VM.By monitoring CPU and memory cache utilization on the… Read More
 
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Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

IDC discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices...

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Service-oriented security

SOA has become an integral part of enterprise software by providing a framework to efficiently develop software as services that is easily sharable, reusable, and integrated. No where is the need more apparent than in the Identity Management space. Welcome to the age of Service-Oriented Security (SOS).

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Data protection prospective vendor checklist

Organisations need a way to map business needs against all these challenges in procuring a technical solution. To help, SANS has developed the following Prospective Vendor Checklist.

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Unlock the power of the mainframe

This whitepaper presents the notion of CICS as an integration hub based on a component-based, service-oriented architecture supporting Web services. Highlights will review the challenges and contrasted support for Web services natively in CICS.

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Are all VoIP services the same?

Questions to ask your service provider to ensure you get the VoIP service you need
With careful choice of partner, your business can have all the advantages of VoIP access - reduced costs, flexibility and simplicity - without the drawbacks.
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Ride the express lane in the journey to speed ITIL adoption

Explore the challenges in making the journey to ITIL and the criteria for selecting consulting services
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