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Ex-Fannie Mae employee accused of planting computer time bomb; This week's top 25 most-read stories

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Ex-Fannie Mae employee accused of planting computer time bomb
By Ellen Messmer
Ex-Fannie Mae computer engineer is charged in setting computer time bomb, according to published reports. Read full story

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This week's top 25 most-read stories

1. Don't Fear the Penguin: A Newbie's Guide to Linux
2. Online privacy tips for teens... and the adults who ignore them
3. Tech industry's most famous Super Bowl ads
4. Downadup/Conflicker worm: When will the next shoe fall?
5. Google M-Lab provides a window into your ISP
6. HP readies for Cisco's data center assault
7. In Las Vegas, data center takes power and cooling to the limit
8. Open source identity: Linux founder Linus Torvalds
9. Cisco sets data center blast
10. iPhone to get global flat-fee voice service

11. FAQ: How to protect your PC against the Downadup worm
12. Thinking outside the storage box
13. FTC slaps Do Not Call Violators with $1.2 Million in penalties
14. Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage DLC now available
15. What's the Conficker worm got to do with NAC?
16. 10 woeful tales of data gone missing
17. Most notable IT layoffs of 2008
18. Five innovative flash-based products for enterprise storage
19. IBM confirms layoffs
20. Go fly yourself: Unmanned aircraft technology puts twist on self-flight

21. Mobile feds: We want our BlackBerries, too
22. Top 10 YouTube hacking videos
23. 2009's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries
24. Machine machinations: Smart robot capable of hunting for its own "food"
25. 10 of the Worst Moments in Network Security History

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01/29/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Google M-Lab provides a window into your ISP
  2. Don't fear the penguin: A newbie's guide to Linux
  3. Laid-off Nortel workers lobby for severance
  4. Online privacy tips for teens . . . and the adults who ignore them
  5. World's first 2Tb drive launched in Australia
  6. New Data Center: storage
  7. Tech industry's most famous Super Bowl ads
  8. Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage DLC now available
  9. Ex-Fannie Mae employee accused of planting computer time bomb
  10. FTC slaps Do Not Call violators with $1.2 million in penalties


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