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6 free network vulnerability scanners
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WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc.

Managing BitLocker With SafeGuard Enterprise
This whitepaper explains how Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise secures your data wherever it's stored; and how it allows you to support diverse platforms and encryption products including BitLocker. Learn More

How IBM is starting to look at lot like Amazon in the cloud
Log on to a portal, swipe a credit card and get access to virtual machines, storage, SaaS applications and dozens of other cloud-based services. No long-term contracts, no on-site, in-person planning teams or months-long roll out initiatives. Log on and spin up. Guess which company offers these services? Amazon Web Services was the first. But after this week IBM - yes the kings of the big IT-project... Read More

New products of the week 04.28.14
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as IBM and Dell Read More

FBI/IC3 alert says phishing attacks on phone customers is rising again
Phishing attacks coming from fraudsters acting like your phone company are again on the upswing according to a new warning from the FBI and its partner agency the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Read More

How one woman kept her pregnancy a secret from online advertisers
By now, the story of Target's role in informing a Minnesota father of his teenage daughter's pregnancy has become sort of an urban legend about the risks of data-based advertising. Read More

Don't forget how close Microsoft came to losing Novell lawsuit
How close? Hung-jury close. No, make that single-juror, hung-jury close ... and even that single juror didn't see Microsoft as blameless. Read More

INSIDER

It's Time for Spring Cleaning in the IT Closet

CIOs: Here's how to reduce the clutter in your IT operation and ensure that simplicity becomes part of your corporate culture. Read More

MIT students to receive $100 in Bitcoin
The MIT Bitcoin Club is handing out $100 in the cryptocurrenty to MIT undergrads next September. The club's co-founder Jeremy Rubin gave a pretty convincing reason for the giveaway: Read More

First Look: Firefox 29
Mozilla brings its A-game to the latest version of Firefox browser. Read More

The data center of 2025 revealed
A survey that challenged IT managers to imagine the data center of 2025 offers up some optimistic, even surprising, findings. Read More

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Fave Raves: 33 tech pros share their favorite IT products

It takes many tools to keep IT systems running smoothly, and tech pros have their personal favorites. What made the cut?

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