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	Who are all these hacker groups? Hacker groups that attack or steal—some estimates say there are as many as 6,000 of such groups online with about 50,000 "bad actors" around the world drifting in and out of them—are a threat, but the goals, methods, effectiveness of these groups varies widely. Read More WHITE PAPER: MSDI Why Third Party Maintenance is Right for You If you're looking to reduce costs and avoid hidden fees with a custom contract that allows you to pay for only what you need, third party maintenance may be the best option for you. Read now In this Issue Microsoft to issue four patches for Windows and Office Messing With Google Street Views Cisco adds tools to scale wide-area video Verizon grabs nearly a third of iPhone market share, analytics firm says Acer adds social-networking button to new laptops Washington Post reports data breach on job ads section Microsoft: No botnet is indestructible Ease your pain with identity management as a service What You Need to Know About Google's New Social Network WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Application Delivery 2.0 Handbook This comprehensive handbook offers guidance on ensuring application delivery with a systematic approach. Read More Microsoft to issue four patches for Windows and Office Microsoft next week will release three patches to fix security holes in all recent versions of Windows desktop and server software and a fourth patch to fix a problem in Office. The most serious patch will come in a critical update that resolves a security hole allowing remote code execution in Windows Vista and Windows 7. The world's most widely used operating system: A pictorial history of Windows... Read More Messing With Google Street Views When people spot Google's Street View cars driving by, they do the darnedest things. Read More Cisco adds tools to scale wide-area video Cisco Systems continued to build its enterprise video infrastructure on Thursday with the ECDS (Enterprise Content Delivery System), a software-hardware platform to ease video management and make distribution of video to remote locations more efficient. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Benefits of an ITIL Help Desk in the Cloud You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades. Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Read More Verizon grabs nearly a third of iPhone market share, analytics firm says Slowly but steadily, Verizon is gaining ground in the race for the most iPhone users. Read More Acer adds social-networking button to new laptops Acer on Thursday announced Gateway laptops with keys that give one-touch access to social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Read More Washington Post reports data breach on job ads section The Washington Post has alerted job seekers who use its employment pages of a data breach that compromised up to 1.27 million accounts. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Unified Communications: Getting the Green Light In these articles, Network World and its sister IDG Enterprise publications explore the rising importance of UC within the enterprise and provide advice on how to create a working strategy. Learn more Microsoft: No botnet is indestructible No botnet is invulnerable, a Microsoft lawyer involved with the Rustock take-down said, countering claims that another botnet was "practically indestructible." Read More Ease your pain with identity management as a service As cloud computing becomes mainstream, it's possible to move almost any type of traditional IT service to the cloud. Identropy offers identity and access management as a service in a private cloud. With Identropy's pre-configured, pre-architected solution, it's possible to get a solution up and running very quickly and at a fraction of the cost of a traditional custom-developed IAM solution. Read More What You Need to Know About Google's New Social Network While the similarities between Facebook and Google+ are obvious, Google's new network may make it a contender in the social media arena. Here's a look at the features it unveiled today. Read More
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