The SSL certificate industry can and should be replaced

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	The SSL certificate industry can and should be replaced The SSL certificate authorities like Comodo that have had their security undermined by hackers shouldn't be trusted, and in fact, the way the entire SSL certificate industry of today works can and should be replaced with something better, says Moxie Marlinspike, a security expert who's come up with a plan he says will do that. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011 IT Roadmap Washington, DC - 12/7/11 Register Now! IT Roadmap is the one day, cost free, professional-level conference and expo that's full of job-ready solutions you can put to work now. IT Roadmap surrounds you with technology's most-followed analysts and the industry's most-innovative solution providers, all focused entirely on building the roadmap you need in crucial areas of enterprise IT. Click to continue In this Issue Computer infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes 4 valuable additions to your cloud security toolkit Microsoft launches Firefox, Chrome attack campaign Five generic domain names and their journey through time Do Nearly Half of Americans Really Want a Windows Tablet? Huawei asks U.S. to explain its exclusion from emergency network project Cisco preps virtual desktops for video Patch Tuesday: IE bug could spread virus; .Net affects Mac users Is Cisco losing thought leadership in the networking industry? Cellphones will become a way to attack otherwise protected devices: report Don't get carried away by Hadoop's 'gee whiz' factor RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Zyrion CIOs demand visibility to IT service performance Cloud, Virtualization, Mobility, Unified Computing and more, are all creating new, complex IT management challenges. Organizations want integrated service-centric monitoring solutions for service impact visibility and SLA compliance, executive dashboards, datacenter manager operational reporting, and service problem analysis. Read More. Computer infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes Zero-day exploits are nerve-racking for IT professionals but are far less dangerous than unpatched older vulnerabilities for which fixes are available, Microsoft says. Read More 4 valuable additions to your cloud security toolkit If you ask IT execs why they're hesitant about moving to the public cloud, security comes up at the top of the list. But security vendors are responding to these concerns with a raft of new products. Here are four interesting cloud security tools that we tested. Read More Microsoft launches Firefox, Chrome attack campaign In what has become a classic Microsoft-ism, the folks in Redmond on Tuesday launched a website to convince the world that Internet Explorer is the only true safe browser, at least in comparison to Chrome and Firefox. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: WildPackets See the Entire Network: Past & Present SNMP. Flow-based network statistics. Both deliver incomplete views of what's in your network. Introducing WatchPoint - a network monitoring for analysis solution that shows real-time problems and tells you why there's a problem. Download your free kit to learn how to create one view to rule them all. No wizardry required. Click to continue Five generic domain names and their journey through time Remember the go-go days of the 1990s, when dot-com domain names based on ordinary nouns and verbs were snapped up by hopeful companies? Here's a look at five very generic domain names, and where they've been. Read More Do Nearly Half of Americans Really Want a Windows Tablet? The iPad is the runaway success story of the tablet market. So why did a recent survey found almost half of people polled want a Windows-based tablet? It could be there is a desire for a real alternative. Read More Huawei asks U.S. to explain its exclusion from emergency network project China's Huawei Technologies has called on the U.S. Department of Commerce to explain why the company is apparently being excluded from participation in the construction of a national wireless network for emergency responders. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Sainsbury's Safeguards Supply Chain for over 800 Stores Sainsbury operates the second largest online food retailer in the U.K. See their approach to gain better visibility to 1,800 devices and ensure high-availability of its network to safeguard the supply chain for over 800 stores and 100,000 online shoppers per week. Read now Cisco preps virtual desktops for video Cisco this week filled out its desktop virtualization product line by adding a thin client that improves processing and bandwidth utilization for voice and video. Read More Patch Tuesday: IE bug could spread virus; .Net affects Mac users There were no big surprises in this month's Patch Tuesday. Microsoft issued eight updates, two critical, to fix 23 vulnerabilities. However the two critical patches are doozies. One of them fixes all versions of Internet Explorer on all versions of Windows and the other fixes .Net/Silverlight. Read More Is Cisco losing thought leadership in the networking industry? If you work in networking, you've gotta have love for Cisco. Like most of us, I first learned about networking through Cisco, and attaining the CCIE certification would prove to be the basis for launching my career. Read More Cellphones will become a way to attack otherwise protected devices: report Mobile phones will become an increasing menace to network security that could drop malware onto protected devices when they dock to sync or plug into USB ports to charge, security experts say in a Georgia Tech report. Read More Don't get carried away by Hadoop's 'gee whiz' factor Companies should take a pragmatic approach to implementing Hadoop for their "big data" requirements, a new report released Tuesday by analyst firm Forrester Research urges. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 26 helpful open source network management tools Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, configure and map their networked devices. Here are 26 examples of open source network management software tools to help you do your job. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES 5 cloud security companies to watch Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft iPhone 5 rumor roll-up (continued) for week ending Oct. 7 Cops: 'Eureka, I found it' on cell phone with no warrant required Watch large hadron collider collisions with an Android app Beware of the iCloud Fedora 17 recognized as beefy miracle Huawei gunning for Cisco in the enterprise Google launches Dart as a JavaScript killer 8 ways to become a cloud security expert
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