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Navy researchers refuse to admit chain-of-accidents spy drone delivery system is a joke

Posted January 6, 2012 - 7:00 pm

The Naval Research Lab has come up with a super-stealthy, super-silly way to get tiny drones into enemy territory undetected. First you fly a balloon up to 60,000 feet and tell it to drop a mid-size drone. That dron flies as far as it can and then it drops a smaller drone that drops a Russian nesting doll whose intent is to confuse the enemy so much it just gives up.
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Virus attack gets convicted murderer a new trial

Posted January 5, 2012 - 1:48 pm

A stenographer who ignored the belt-and-suspenders policy of transcribing trials on both paper and disk was fired after a virus destroyed data on her computer, destroying the only transcript of a murder conviction, which was thrown out by appellate court that had no record to consider.
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Security researcher blows whistle on gaping Siemens' security flaw 'coverup'

Posted December 21, 2011 - 3:44 pm

Researcher Billy Rios, who has done security at Verisign, E&Y, the Dept. of Defense and other big organizations, blogged about a series of blatanly obvious security holes in Siemens' SIMATIC industrial control system, flaws Siemens claims do not exist.
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Intel is trying to kill your servers and broil your geeks

Posted December 13, 2011 - 5:16 pm

Intel is urging customers to run data centers 10 degrees to 20 degrees hotter than usual to save A/C costs, using Intel Node Manager to manage heat and avoid trouble. It also thinks you should get rid of UPSs, the water cooler and that brochure you keep fanning yourself with...
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Crashed drone is a shot in ongoing cyberwar with Iran, not just a spy plane

Posted December 7, 2011 - 1:18 pm

Iran claims it shot down a U.S. RQ-170 spy drone, but won't release proof or say if a new Russian electronic counter-measures system brought it down. Killed or crashed, the drone is one shot in a a cyber/real war using malware, murder and explosive sabotage as weapons.
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Disaster recovery 101: What you need to know

Posted December 5, 2011 - 6:00 pm

Some good starting points for those new to the discipline.
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U.S. power grid is a big, soft target for cyberattack, MIT study shows

Posted December 5, 2011 - 1:23 pm

Mistaken reports that an Illinois water utility was hacked have reduced the angst about Stuxnet-like attacks on U.S. utilities, but the risk is actually worse than ever and increasing in scope every day according to a comprehensive 2-year study of power utilities from MIT.
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VirtualSharp to enable disaster recovery to public clouds

Posted December 1, 2011 - 5:13 pm

VirtualSharp hopes to soon let its customers set up disaster recovery plans that fail over from their private clouds to public clouds, the company announced this week at the CloudBeat conference in Redwood City, California.
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NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service

Posted November 29, 2011 - 12:37 pm

NetApp is teaming up with Iron Mountain to offer its StorageGRID object storage software with two Iron Mountain medical data archiving services: the Digital Record Center for Medical Images and its vendor-neutral archive offering.
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formatted my pc drive . data once recovered but image not as once before formatted.

Posted November 21, 2011 - 4:12 pm

i want my complete data back as was before formatted. wats any software in market to make images as before formated. and complete data back.? help
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Two U.S. satellites pwned in '07, '08; new report blames China

Posted November 18, 2011 - 12:48 pm

Though it couldn't pin responsibility to China, the U.S. commission examining security issues between the U.S. and China warns we'd better get ready for wars that start with bad guys killing our satellites.
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The Green Grid on modular data centers

Posted November 17, 2011 - 11:32 pm

Your data center in a container
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Some in Anonymous ready to strike at anything in wake of Wall Street raid

Posted November 16, 2011 - 2:54 pm

Following the raid that collapsed the first, most ad hoc, most effective of the Occupy Wall Street movement occupations, hacktivists go back online, flaming in frustration, but also prepping for the next stage.
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Iran admits Duqu attack; denies report its nukes are for war, not power

Posted November 14, 2011 - 1:11 pm

The head of Iran's cybersecurity military unit said Iran had developed an antivirus tool that works against Duqu and the virus was under control. It was the first confirmation son-of-Stuxnet had appeared in Iran.
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Is it really possible to hack a 747's engines in-flight?

Posted November 14, 2011 - 12:18 pm

Hightly automated Boeing 747s are not only 'flying Unix hosts,' they're hackable as well. The FAA has required Boeing and Airbus both to tighten security, making hacking one of the less likely ways to ruin a flight.
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Site Recovery Manager 5.0 ups the ante

Posted November 8, 2011 - 4:52 pm

VMware's Site Recovery Manager 5.0 adds much needed features, yielding a self-contained business continuity solution.
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Virtual Machine cloud replication and restoration to boom

Posted November 8, 2011 - 7:09 am

Over the next two years, about 30% of midsize businesses will be using a recovery in the cloud service aimed at replicating and restoring virtual machine instances, according to Gartner.
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5 hot tech projects to boost your IT career

Posted November 7, 2011 - 7:06 am

Take the reins of any of these five forward-looking initiatives and become an IT hero in the eyes of upper management
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Data center and cloud providers talk security, performance and easing concerns

Posted November 2, 2011 - 10:27 am

Worried that a data center in the cloud is too risky?
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Business continuity spending not a top budget priority

Posted November 1, 2011 - 3:48 pm

Organizations continue to spend on business continuity and disaster recovery, but BC/DR is still not a budget top priority, according to newly-released data from Forrester Research.
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Houston bank implements virtualized data recovery

Posted October 31, 2011 - 5:57 pm

Woodforest National Bank implements a replication system for its virtualized data center in the Gulf Coast
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Disaster recovery on a budget

Posted October 31, 2011 - 3:41 pm

CIOs are always looking for disaster recovery options that don’t break the bank. Members from the CIO Executive Council share their tactics. Add your opinion and advice.
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Where there are clouds, there's lightning (and other cloud disaster tips)

Posted October 31, 2011 - 12:43 pm

They say that lightning doesn't strike twice, but apparently a single bolt of lightning can take out two cloud provider data centers at once.
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FBI wants a second, secure Internet; how about policing the one we have?

Posted October 28, 2011 - 1:20 pm

Top officials of the FBI and CIA have called for construction of a second, more secure Internet for critical systems. The NSA and Pentagon want responsibility localized to players in specific areas. No agency is responsible for coordinating all the pieces, so gaps remain.
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Duqu, Stuxnet link unclear

Posted October 26, 2011 - 10:34 pm

A report by Dell SecureWorks debunks the idea that the newly discovered Duqu Trojan is related to last year's Stuxnet worm or was created by the same authors.
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