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Supercomputer Staff Help Nation’s Archivists with Digital-Preservation Expertise
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In the Digital Age, there is an urgent need to preserve vital electronic records to capture our nation’s history, which can vanish in an instant with the crash of a hard drive, or more gradually in migration to new and incompatible hardware and software.
Daunting challenges to reliable preserv...
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AOL security tools raise adware questions
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Just days after posting details of searches made by hundreds of thousands of subscribers, AOL LLC is in hot water again with consumer advocates. This time the issue is with the company's Active Virus Shield anti-virus software, released last week.
At issue is the software's licensing agreement...
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Firefox 2.0 delayed by bug outbreak
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The new version of open-source browser Firefox has been delayed for a month.
Version 2.0, code named Bon Echo, had been due on Sept. 26 but will now make its debut on Oct. 24. The test schedule has also been adjusted, with the second beta now appearing a week late on Aug. 23.
The delay has been put down...
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Book explores specter of Internet terrorism
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Terror on the Internet hardly sounds like a book title to reassure public sector IT security organizations. But, ironically, it does.
Written by security researcher Gabriel Weimann and published by the United States Institute of Peace, the book acknowledges that war is being waged on the Inter...
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Are your IT assets as secure as you think?
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North American organizations are exposing themselves to significant security and financial risks because of the inability to properly manage their IT assets, according to a recent report from Softchoice Corp.
High instances of missing anti-virus software, unpatched software, the prevale...
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FileMaker wraps up successful developer conference
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(http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/07/10/filemaker/index.php),
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Yahoo tests antiphishing service
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Yahoo Inc. is testing a security service designed to prevent Web surfers from landing on sites that look like they are from Yahoo but that are fake ones set up by fraudsters to carry out phishing scams.
The service lets users know if they have landed on a legitimate Yahoo sign-in Web page, preventing...
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UK engineers claims to run chip at record speed
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Engineers at the University of Southampton have set a world record, running a bipolar transistor at a heat-inducing 110GHz.
Boffins at the university's School of Electronics and Computer Science discovered that by adding fluorine "implants" to the base of a bi-polar transistor, it could be ma...
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Dealing with worst-case scenarios
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Imagine a natural disaster the likes of Hurricane Katrina or a terrorist attack on a major U.S. city wipes out business operations. In the mad dash to get back online as quickly as possible, security protocols and procedures take a back seat to regaining business continuity. And that's when a second...
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Users keep tabs on vendor backdating
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Some of the most recognizable and trusted names in the network industry are under scrutiny - both internally and from the U.S. government - for manipulating the dates of stock option grants to enrich their recipients further.
Top executives at storage switch maker Brocade Communications and vo...
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