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	Shark-bitten security researcher takes another chomp out of Oracle database A researcher scored again against Oracle's database by demonstrating at the Black Hat security conference Thursday an exploit that would allow him to take control as an administrator. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Solar Winds Supercharge your use of Active Directory® This terrific trio of free tools makes it easier than ever to add and remove users and computers in Microsoft® Active Directory. Save time with Active Directory management tasks with: Inactive User Account Removal Tool, Inactive Computer Account Removal Tool & User Import Tool. 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Quirkiest Moments at 2012 Black Hat security conference From half-naked booth reps to colorful robots, it wasn't all about security on the exhibit floor and around the conference Read More Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe,' says Valve founder and former Microsoft employee Gabe Newell The former head of Microsoft Game Studios, Ed Fries, interviewed Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell at a reception at the Casual Connect game conference this week in Seattle. As expected, much of the interview revolved around developments at Valve and Newell's opinion on the future of gaming, but at one point the outspoken Newell ripped Microsoft and Windows 8, calling the upcoming... Read More Many Cisco carrier customers planning SDNs A majority of service providers worldwide are considering or planning purchases of software-defined networking (SDN) technologies to simplify network provisioning, and create services and virtual networks (see graphic below). That's the finding of Infonetics Research, which just released a new survey on carriers and their SDN, 40/400G and MPLS control plane strategies. Read More The hidden iPhone: New photos from early 2006 show Apple's design tinkering Even as iPhone 5 fever heats up, Apple-Samsung court case puts focus on original iPhone Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The iEverything Enterprise Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time. Learn more. Global Payments: data breach cost a whopping $84.4 million Global Payments, which back in the spring reported a data breach in which information associated with an estimated 1.4 million payment cards was stolen, has revealed that expenses associated with investigations, fines and remediation has hit $84.4 million. Read More Apple security guru lays out iPad, iPhone crypto architecture at Black Hat A top Apple security guru Thursday presented an in-depth view into the security architecture for iOS, the basis of iPhones and iPad tablets, underscoring the complex certificate-based encryption framework Apple has adopted. Read More Google adds TV as it rolls out Fiber in Kansas City Google Fiber broadband service in Kansas City will cost US$70 per month for 1Gbps Internet access and $120 per month for that service plus TV, the company said Thursday. Read More Windows 8 Update: Desperate for developers? As the deadline looms for the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has launched a virtual lab where developers can tap into virtual instances of the forthcoming operating system and practice writing Metro-style applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Traditional WLAN vs. ADTRAN's Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN) The substantial differences between a traditional hardware controller-based wireless LAN and ADTRAN's virtual wireless LAN (hypervisor-based) are detailed in ADTRAN's WLAN vs. vWLAN comparison chart. Learn more. OpenBSD founder calls Red Hat and Canonical 'traitors' to open source Theo de Raadt, the founder of the OpenBSD project and a well-known figure in the open-source community, attacked commercial Linux vendors Red Hat and Canonical in an interview with ITWire for their plans to work with Microsoft's secure boot system. Read More Olympics could strain enterprise networks The Olympics happen every two years, but according to media watchers and IT professionals, the impact of the Olympics on communications traffic globally from this year's games could be more significant than any in the 116-year history of the modern games. Read More INSIDER How to manage IT contractors Contract IT workers may walk, talk and code like staff, but in fact they're not company employees -- something managers should keep in mind. Insider (registration required) Read More Twitter back up after pre-Olympics crash After suffering an outage that lasted more than an hour and a half today, Twitter is back up and running. Read More
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