| 20 projects that kept NASA hopping in 2009
From the space shuttle and Mars mission to water on the moon and ice on the Earth, NASA has its hands in a variety of critical projects. Microsoft releases 6 new patches (3 critical) plus two advisories
Six Microsoft patches fix 12 vulnerabilities in IE8, XP, Vista, Windows Server and Office. Microsoft also released two optional patches. Social network and banking scams are on the rise, says Cisco
What do phishing, instant messaging malware, DDoS attacks and 419 scams have in common? According to Cisco Systems, they're all has-been cybercrimes that were supplanted by slicker, more menacing forms of cybercrime over the past year. McAfee appliance watches for network threats
McAfee Tuesday unveiled a security appliance designed to monitor internal corporate traffic flows for worms, viruses and botnet activity in order to block outbreaks traced to corporate computers. Ericsson to lay off up to 1,000 employees
Ericsson plans to cut up to about 1,000 employees, and will in the process close its site in the Swedish town of Gävle, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. AT&T tops in 3G wireless speeds, study finds
Although AT&T has been taking a pounding lately from Verizon ads and from customer satisfaction surveys, a new study suggests that the carrier can take solace in the fact that its 3G wireless network is the fastest in the nation. News podcast: Network World 360
U.S. lawmakers will consider potential changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that could overhaul the board appointed to oversee public corporations' financial practices and lead to altered requirements for future audits. Also, AT&T this week released an application for Apple's iPhone that lets customers submit complaints about dropped calls, poor coverage and substandard voice quality. (6:27) Cisco Completes Acquisition of Cloud Based ScanSafe
ScanSafe is a best of breed software as a service "cloud" web security player. Given that most threats are now propagated via port 80/443 this technology is in high demand. Facebook shuts down Beacon program, donates $9.5 million to settle lawsuit
Facebook has agreed to shut down a program that sparked a lawsuit alleging privacy violations, and set up a $9.5 million fund for a nonprofit foundation that will support online privacy, safety and security. IBM offers hosted Tivoli monitoring for the midmarket
IBM is offering a hosted version of its Tivoli monitoring software for companies that would rather pay a subscription fee than license the product for on-premise use, IBM was set to announce Tuesday. Five technologies to see huge growth in US gov't, group says
Five technologies, including the trendy cloud computing and old workhorse open-source software, will see huge adoption increases in the U.S. government over the next five years, largely driven by efforts to contain costs, according to an analyst firm. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Oracle, Sun, and the Identity Management Waiting Game and An Early Gift for MySQL servers; On Microsoft Subnet: Running Windows 7 on a Mac; On Google Subnet: Will Google be left in the dark over white spaces? Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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