Issue highlights 1. 300 victims report fake support calls to security org 2. The worst IT project disasters of 2013 3. Tech titans urge surveillance reform 4. Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Too Many Tabs Edition 5. Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive 6. HP shrinks full-sized Haswell desktops with new mini PCs 7. Hackers said to infiltrate European foreign affairs ministries ahead of G20 8. Now, more than ever, Twitter knows exactly where you are 9. Explaining the Senate's 3D-printed gun ruling 10. Private Mars mission beams Lockheed Martin onboard to build spacecraft 11. Products of the week 12.09.13 |
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| The Internet Storm Center, an arm of the SANS Technology Institute, has started collecting reports of fake support calls in an attempt to figure out how prevalent the scam is among computer owners. READ MORE |
| Trends come and go in the technology industry but some things, such as IT system failures, bloom eternal. READ MORE |
| An industry consortium featuring some of the biggest names in technology – including Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Reddit – is urging the Obama Administration to support a major overhaul of laws governing electronic surveillance. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Even if you have adequate antivirus protection, are there still holes in your IT security armor? Is lack of bandwidth to manage the growing list of threats, endpoints, and security systems making your organization vulnerable? Learn more. |
| No. 25 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series features Angry Walter lecturing those who have a tendency to leave an extra tab or 10 open at given time. This group is otherwise known as people like me. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": READ MORE |
| They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. READ MORE |
| Hewlett-Packard has redesigned its beige-boxed desktop PCs, sizing them down into mini-desktops without compromising on components. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors In this paper, Evaluator Group highlights the critical features necessary to move beyond server virtualization by leveraging key integration capabilities between IT components with a particular focus on the important role that storage plays in the evolution of data center architecture. Learn More |
| Hackers of likely Chinese origin infiltrated computers belonging to the foreign affairs ministries of five unnamed European countries ahead of the G20 Summit in September, according to security researchers at FireEye. READ MORE |
| Twitter (TWTR) is stepping up its ability to track the location of its users. The social sharing site has inked a deal to improve its geotracking feature by using a Location Intelligence platform from IT consulting firm Pitney Bowes, PB announced today. READ MORE |
| The U.S. Senate voted in favor of the renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 last night, with the intention of preventing an increase in the production of plastic, 3D-printed guns. READ MORE |
| Private Mars mission planners said today that Lockheed Martin is onboard to build the spacecraft that would land a technology demonstration robot on the Red Planet by 2018. The Mars One group ultimately wants to establish a human outpost on Mars. READ MORE |
| Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as HP and Juniper READ MORE |
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