Google hack malware said to be Chinese in origin; Hackers hit Network Solutions customers

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	Google hack malware said to be Chinese in origin One researcher examining a sample of the malware used to attack Google and others for espionage purposes says it clearly is Chinese in origin, citing technical attributes of the Trojan's cyclic redundancy check algorithm. Read More WEBCAST: Actuate Make Smarter Business Decisions with Root Cause Analysis Performance Management and Business Intelligence applications are vital to connecting the dots from the board room down to the front line. Join Jeffrey Hammond, leading analyst at Forrester Research, to learn how an integrated platform can positively impact a company's top and bottom line, through a personalized user experience that helps employees at all levels drive the organization towards operational excellence. Register now! In this Issue Hackers hit Network Solutions customers U.K. dry cleaners finding fewer USB sticks in clothes, but there's a catch Internet heading for 'perfect storm' APNIC: IPv6 adoption delay could create costs News podcast: Network World 360 Military contractors targeted in Chinese attacks, says F-Secure Almost Perfect for CCNA: a Two-Router, Two-Serial Topology Hyena 8.0: A great Admin tool gets even better Microsoft to release emergency IE patch tomorrow WEBCAST: HP Shifting Role of Network Managers Webcast - More and more network managers are tasked with ensuring optimal application performance 24/7. No one wants to be in a position where end users are the first to notice application degradation. This webcast addresses the shifting role of network managers and provides best practices on fault and performance management. View today! Hackers hit Network Solutions customers Hackers have managed to deface several hundred Web sites hosted by Network Solutions, the company said Tuesday. Read More U.K. dry cleaners finding fewer USB sticks in clothes, but there's a catch Carrying memory sticks around in pockets can lead to data loss, according to results of a survey that found 4,500 of the USB devices were absentmindedly left in clothing sent to the cleaners last year in the United Kingdom. Read More Internet heading for 'perfect storm' Attacks on the cloud could cause major global outages and the service providers are now quietly worried at the potential for chaos, a survey of the sector has found. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. This complexity makes app performance management all the more difficult. In this Executive Guide featuring articles from Network World, ComputerWorld and InfoWorld explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. APNIC: IPv6 adoption delay could create costs The accelerating decline of IPv4 address space could end up increasing the cost of Internet access unless the industry speeds up the migration to IPv6 in the near future, according to Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) chief scientist, Geoff Huston. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 Gartner research on Tuesday showed that CIOs who survived 2009 don't expect to see business recover or IT dollars return immediately this year. However, they do intend to makeover their IT departments into leaner, more lightweight entities ready to respond to business needs. Also, more than half of storage customers in a recent survey say they are considering offloading some of their storage needs to cloud providers, despite concerns about security. (6:03) Read More Military contractors targeted in Chinese attacks, says F-Secure A security vendor reports that internal systems of U.S. defense contractors have been targeted by hackers believed based in China. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Optimize Network Management, Achieve ITIL v3 goals The key to truly efficient network management software is the ability to integrate with other management software platforms. Find out how HP now provides a completely new, rich set of out-of-the-box integration with HP software as well as third-party applications. Learn more Almost Perfect for CCNA: a Two-Router, Two-Serial Topology Are two routers enough for practicing CCNA skills in your home lab? Maybe, maybe not. But you can practice a surprising number of CCNA-level router tasks with a two-router lab using the topology suggested in my last post. Read More Hyena 8.0: A great Admin tool gets even better I have made no seceret in the past of how much I like Hyena from System Tools. In terms of functionality, ease of use and price this is one of the best Remote Administration tools money can buy, flat out! Read More Microsoft to release emergency IE patch tomorrow Microsoft will be releasing patch MS10-002 for Internet Explorer tomorrow, Jan. 21, 2010, at about 10 a.m. PST. The out-of-band patch fixes the critical bug responsible for the widely publicized attacks against Google and other corporations. Read More
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