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	Say what? GNU Emacs violates the GPL GPL violations are a dime a dozen. Some are intentional, some are not — but I don't think I've ever seen one quite as surprising as this one. Yes, Richard Stallman has sent out a note letting everybody know that the 23.2 and 23.3 releases of GNU Emacs are in violation of the GPL. Says Stallman, "We have made a very bad mistake." Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk WhitePages Protects their Rich Database Read how Spunk enabled them to protect the site's content and the WhitePages brand by monitoring abusive site traffic and learn how Splunk's in-house search eliminated a data warehouse investment. Learn more. In this Issue 5 misperceptions about deploying IPv6 ACLU to Congress: Cancer of Gov't Secrecy Is Killing America Windows XP is a Rootkit Spawning Pool State on rigged lottery: It's not a bug, it's a feature Pheeeew! I dodged the 'IE users are dumb' hoax story IEEE Green Communications event is, naturally, online only Scariest Black Hat story so far: Power plants at risk WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Economics of Spam Email security threats do not discriminate. Whether you're an organization with 50 employees or a global corporation with 50,000, the reality is that spam and viruses can wreak havoc on your business, drain users' productivity and take a major toll on IT resources. Read now 5 misperceptions about deploying IPv6 We've been very fortunate to have author Shannon McFarland blogging for us as part of our Cisco Subnet community, and he has just completed his list of top five misperceptions about IPv6 deployment. Read More ACLU to Congress: Cancer of Gov't Secrecy Is Killing America American democracy is beyond sick, in fact it's cancerous due to government secrecy cloaking the surveillance of American citizens. According to a new ACLU report, written by Mike German, a former FBI undercover agent, and Jay Stanley, "We are now living in an age of government secrecy run amok." Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Practical and Affordable Disaster Recovery In this Quest white paper by Technology Strategy Research, learn the challenges small and mid-sized business face when implementing virtualization – and how to overcome them. Then get best practices for a strong disaster recovery plan and much more. Read it today. Learn more. Windows XP is a Rootkit Spawning Pool If you're still dragging your feet on moving to Windows 7, consider this: a report from the Czeck antivirus firm Avast notes that three in four PCs infected with rootkits are running Windows XP, and it's not because so many people use aging operating system. Read More State on rigged lottery: It's not a bug, it's a feature Play a Massachusetts state lottery game called Cash WinFall during the right time periods -- a few days every three months -- and with a hefty enough upfront investment - hundreds of thousands of dollars - and you are all but certain to come out a big winner. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya How to Launch a Successful IT Automation Initiative In this paper, we'll look at IT automation from the corporation's perspective, and discuss the steps organizations should take before launching such an initiative. We'll hear from companies that successfully implemented computer automation platforms, what their early steps were and what they would do differently if they could repeat the process. Read now Pheeeew! I dodged the 'IE users are dumb' hoax story Regular readers know my quirks, pet peeves and phobias, with the latter list - at least professionally speaking - topped by a paralyzing fear of falling for and helping to spread one of those hoax news stories. Read More IEEE Green Communications event is, naturally, online only The 40,000-plus member IEEE Communications Society will hold the first of what it hopes will be an annual IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (GreenCom) on Sept. 26 - 29. Read More Scariest Black Hat story so far: Power plants at risk Last night at Black Hat in Las Vegas, security researcher Dillon Beresford showed a group of reporters and government types how he can commandeer the Siemens S7 computers that are control many industrial operations, including power plants. Read More
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