News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple   17 Jul 2008 08:27 GMT
Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google's second quarter: What to expect   Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...
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The Techie Hall of Shame   16 Jul 2008 23:23 GMT
A SFGate story began this week with the all-too-familiar line--"A disgruntled computer engineer..." before going on to list the disgrace of the day, in this case virtually commandeering San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network and hacking it to deny access to top administrators. He's now locked up with a $5...
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Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter   16 Jul 2008 18:46 GMT
Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
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Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities   16 Jul 2008 17:16 GMT
Billy Rios is at it again.  Rios, Rob Carter, and I have made a year and more of our research into exploiting URI/protocol handler vulnerabilities on numerous operating systems and applications, and it appears Rios has ANOTHER one to go with all that previously reported, as well as his most...
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Supercomputers fight against bird flu   16 Jul 2008 17:13 GMT
A worldwide outbreak of avian or 'bird flu' is still not excluded and health officials recognize that new drugs are needed since new strains of the virus appear everyday. Now, U.S. scientists are using supercomputers to find new drugs to fight the virus and to stay ahead of these mutations....
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New hybrid delivery security architecture   16 Jul 2008 17:12 GMT
Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...
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New hybrid delivery security architecture   16 Jul 2008 17:01 GMT
Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...
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US spam levels up, state of Illinois is the worst offender   16 Jul 2008 16:42 GMT
From MessageLabs: Spam levels for the US in June have reached 86% compared to spam levels at 81.5% in the rest of the world. Breaking this information down further, MessageLabs reports that some US states are more affected than others. Varying socioeconomic factors are thought to affect the spam...
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Adeona offers independent stolen laptop tracking   16 Jul 2008 15:00 GMT
Sorry: hit "post" instead of "save"; this backend system will be the death of me. I first came across Adeona last year when I was doing some external research, and it's only really just come to light. Adeona is an independent system which doesn't rely on any...
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It's a start: Spammer gets jail time   16 Jul 2008 14:45 GMT
There have been a few high profile penalties against spammers of late, but they all lack one key ingredient--jail time. To wit: MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement MySpace's $230 million spam win: Will it really be a deterrent? ...
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