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2008's biggest tech crime stories
By Brad Reed
While 2008 didn't see any convictions of corrupt tech execs along the lines of Qwest's Joseph Nacchio or WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers, it did produce convictions for high-profile spammers, botnet operators, porn distributors and online scam artists as well as its share of other high profile network shenanigans, some of which haven't been sorted out in court yet. View slideshow

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Fiber showdown looms as Verizon builds in AT&T territory
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With Gaza conflict, cyberattacks come too
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Google on the prowl, Web attacks increase, social networks unravel: All part of bold 2009 prophesies
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IE lost market share, but think about it...
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On botnets, encryption and mega-worms: Security predictions for 2009
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Securing DNS should trump budget-cutting for enterprise IT, experts say
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Psychic predictions for tech in 2009
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Hacker demos reliable Cisco IOS exploit Security researcher Felix 'FX' Lindner of Phenoelit on Monday gave the first public demonstration of a reliable technique for exploiting buffer overflows in Cisco IOS routers.

Microsoft layoff speculation: 9K to 15K employees?
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Cisco no longer supports third-party VPN links Cisco to customers: We only support ASA IPsec LAN-to-LAN VPNs with other Cisco peers.

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January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
Up for grabs: Two Cisco training courses from Skyline-ATS worth up to $6,990, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500, 15 copies each of the hot book titles Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, IPv6 Security and Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks. Get all the entry details here.


2008 Holiday Gift Guide
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01/05/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. IE lost share to Firefox, Safari and Chrome in December
  2. 9 Web sites IT pros should master in '09
  3. AT&T-Verizon fiber showdown looms
  4. New Androids march into view
  5. 15 amazing Web apps built in 48 hours
  6. FBI issues code cracking challenge
  7. Shanghai woman detained over adult Internet video
  8. Bold 2009 tech prophesies
  9. Juniper poaching Nortel's channels?
  10. With Gaza conflict, cyberattacks come too


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