Tuesday, June 21, 2011

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LulzSec hacker group denies it has stolen UK census | Dropbox left document storage accounts open for four hours

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10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions
Make Firefox the browser you want it to be, with extensions for faster, safer, more efficient browsing. Read More


WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks

Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers, 2010
The market for ADCs is consolidating. However, innovation continues, especially among some select smaller players. Although there are clear leaders in the ADC market, enterprises should focus their buying decisions on a vendor's ability to support specific application requirements. Learn more!

WHITE PAPER: Avaya

Bringing Unified Communications to Life
Research indicates enterprises are increasingly integrating video in with the rest of the comm fabric. This creates an integrated comm infrastructure that includes the easy-to-use, consistent capabilities people need. Learn More

LulzSec hacker group denies it has stolen UK census
The hacker group LulzSec denies it has stolen the entire results of the 2011 census for the United Kingdom, but if someone else has, it endorses the theft. Read More

Dropbox left document storage accounts open for four hours
Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off password authentication for its 25 million users for four hours on Monday -- although "much less than 1 percent" of those accounts were accessed during the period, the company said. It is still investigating whether any of those accounts were improperly accessed. Read More


WHITE PAPER: AirMagnet, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Enterasys Networks, HP, and Motorola

Get the Mobility-Free-For-All Under Control
Which is more secure: controlling wireless network access by the device, like an IP address or device type? Or is it by the user identity and that user's access rights and credentials? And how important is location? Learn more!

Innovation Final: Vint Cerf vs. Steve Jobs
In what will be a two-day open voting, it is the Father of the Internet vs. the person who has brought consumerization into the enterprise. Vint Cerf and Steve Jobs have steamrolled their way through the field to get to the finals. It is now a chicken-and-egg situation: without the Internet would Apple's products be as popular today? Or did Apple's products push the Internet to new heights? Vote now! Read More

Mozilla ships Firefox 5, holds to new rapid-release plan
Mozilla today delivered the final version of Firefox 5, the first edition under the new faster-release regime it kicked off earlier this year. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Raritan

Data Center Transformations
Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now!

No. 1 Place To Work in IT: USAA
In February, Michael Lonigro, an IT technical manager at USAA, received a record-breaking performance bonus equal to 18.8% of his annual salary. So did every other USAA employee, thanks to the San Antonio-based financial services company's stellar 2009 performance. The big payout came less than 90 days after USAA staffers received their regular holiday bonuses, which have been awarded to every worker every year since 1930 and equalled two weeks' base pay. Read More

iPhone 5 rumored to sport "radical new case design"
Thanks to Gizmodo, the iPhone 4 unveiling wasn't all that surprising. Sure, there were new iOS and hardware features to behold, but when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 4's new form factor last Summer, the vast majority of the planet had already seen it. Read More

Toyota wants US to relax car radar system rules
Looking to develop new applications and enhance vehicle safety systems, Toyota has asked the Federal Communications Commission to change the rules regarding vehicular radar systems operating in the 76-77 GHz band. Read More

ISVs need to change licensing to fit clouds, says Penguin
More vendors in the high-performance computing (HPC) sector need to become cloud-friendly and offer on-demand product licensing, according to Penguin Computing, which is offering a cloud that has been customized for HPC applications. Read More



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GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
Up for grabs from the Subnets: Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of IPv6 for Enterprise Networks books. Microsoft Subnet: A set of classes for a Microsoft Cert from Webucator and Polycom videoconferencing system. Enter here.

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