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Is the U.S. ready for government-sponsored cyberattacks? This week's 25 most-read stories

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Is the U.S. ready for government-sponsored cyberattacks?

Ellen Messmer By Ellen Messmer
The Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command is ready to defend against cyberattacks. Meanwhile other parts of the U.S. military -- and other countries -- are developing cyber weapons for offensive use. Is the spread of cyber weapons akin to the proliferation of nuclear weapons after World War II? Read full story

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1. Where the IT jobs are: 10 American cities
2. Poster on Chinese forum leaks next-gen iPhone specs
3. Google ran out of bandwidth? ... Google?
4. 20 most useful career sites for IT professionals
5. Death of the mouse
6. Inside a data leak audit
7. Too much experience could be hurting your IT job search
8. "Space snuggie" could shield future astronauts from radiation
9. Products of the Week
10. Data center 10G whets switching companies' appetites

11. Bill would turn Internet flamers into felons
12. Evolution of Ethernet
13. Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition
14. Microsoft: Corporate Vista testers should switch to Win 7 RC
15. 3Com takes another shot at enterprise switching, hoping third time is a charm
16. The Internet sky really is falling
17. Juniper ships 'cloud' switch
18. 10 tech-inspired Mother's Day gifts
19. 12 killer freebie SharePoint add-ons
20. PoE without the PoE switch

21. A buyer's guide to laptops -- from mighty mites to mobile monsters
22. 4chan users trigger DDoS attack ... on 4chan
23. Top 10 technology skills
24. Seven things to love, hate about Windows 7
25. Robot Fight Club


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05/14/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Google ran out of bandwidth?
  2. Where the IT jobs are: 10 American cities
  3. Poster on Chinese forum leaks next-gen iPhone specs
  4. Microsoft IT goes live with its Geneva identity platform
  5. Too much experience could be hurting your IT job search
  6. What Cisco devices will come of the Clearwire deal?
  7. Nortel is certainly taking its time
  8. Microsoft outlines OCS virtualization support
  9. Inside a data leak audit
  10. Full disk encryption comes to Workgroups


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