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German hackers release tool that could let one laptop take down a server farm

Posted October 25, 2011 - 5:02 pm

German hackers THC released a tool that keeps asking for new SSL certificates until the server crashes, in the hope someone will fix the flaw. Anonymous' new #RefRef uses a similar approach, using endless JavaScripts rather than SSL. Resource exhaustion is the new DDOS
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Wash your hands: ATMs are germ havens

Posted October 25, 2011 - 12:15 am

A swab test conducted in six U.S. cities of 10 items commonly found in public places showed high levels of a type of germs that cause the common cold and the flu.
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Poop scooping robot demonstrates how to make expensive tech really attractive

Posted October 19, 2011 - 11:12 am

If you rate the value of the task by how unpleasant it is and how much you'd pay to get someone else to do it, robotics researchers at U. Penn. just changed the whole cost/benefit question of personal service robots for consumers.
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What’s behind Iceland’s first major data center?

Posted October 14, 2011 - 10:40 am

A bedrock of granite sits under this data center. Where is it?
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JetBlue supports iPhone -- as long as it's the employee's device

Posted October 11, 2011 - 2:32 pm

Over the past several years, JetBlue has transformed itself from a traditional IT infrastructure with multiple data centers run by its employees to an almost completely outsourced model with virtual everything, from desktops to servers.
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BlackBerry outages continue; hit Europe, Middle East and Asia

Posted October 11, 2011 - 11:40 am

Some BlackBerry users throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia experienced outages or delays for about 12 hours Monday, and appeared to be experiencing a second outage today, according to Twitter feeds from carriers in the U.K. and Egypt and other reports.
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'Violent hacker/police clashes turn out to be more hijinks than oppression

Posted October 7, 2011 - 9:11 am

Protests Wednsday night in New York appeared to explode in violence if all you saw was the live video from participants. Actually it was the most mainstream political protest event yet in a movement spreading to Los Angeles, Boston and a range of other cities, too.
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Enterasys CEO: Total cost of ownership sets us apart

Posted October 6, 2011 - 6:54 pm

How's this for a challenge? The CEO dies suddenly and you're tabbed to take his place -- on the heels of your network infrastructure company entering into a major new strategic partnership and in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Oh, did I mention your competition includes some companies named Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks, among others? That's life for Chris Crowell, CEO of Enterasys Networks, who took over in 2009 shortly after predecessor Mike Fabiaschi's untimely death.
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AFCOM offers up disaster recovery best practices

Posted September 23, 2011 - 5:00 pm

Read this, especially if you one of the more-than-we-thought who don’t have a DR plan.
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Mozy ships hard drives to cloud backup customers

Posted September 23, 2011 - 9:06 am

Mozy has begun shipping hard drives to users of its MozyPro online backup service in order to speed up the initial full copy of data to be stored off site.
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Cisco’s data center deluge [video]

Posted September 20, 2011 - 11:10 am

Cisco finds the cool in the warm Texas clime.
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Data center lock-down is top concern.

Posted September 15, 2011 - 10:14 am

Data center security an afterthought? Survey says: No!
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Cisco unveils dual role-data center

Posted September 14, 2011 - 9:40 am

Cisco this week opened up a new data center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with a dual role: application development and disaster recovery (DR) for its production data centers in Texas.
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WikiLeaks posts minute-by-minute tribute to emergency response to 9/11 attacks

Posted September 12, 2011 - 2:23 pm

WikiLeaks yesterday re-enacted the 9/11 terrorist attacks by re-posting in real time the pager text messages of Pentagon, FBI and FEMA responders that show the confusion, grief and horror as hardened military and emergency responders realize the scope of the tragedy.
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2010's IT Companies to Watch: Where are they now?

Posted September 12, 2011 - 6:49 am

A year later, we take a look at the progress made by 2010's 25 New IT Companies to Watch.
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9/11: Are Lessons Learned Still Being Applied?

Posted September 9, 2011 - 7:36 pm

Disaster - is your IT continuity and contingency plan ready for another 9/11?
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Emergency 2.0 Wiki

Posted September 9, 2011 - 4:44 pm

Australia and the rest of the world had been hit with a spate of natural disasters in the past 12 months, whereby Emergency 2.0 Wiki was born from out of the rubble.
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September 11, 2001 remembered

Posted September 9, 2011 - 3:18 pm

The attacks on September 11, 2001 showed the world that the worst possible scenario can actually happen. Here's a look at how far we've come in the 10 years since -- and how far we have yet to go.
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9/11: Top lessons learned for disaster recovery

Posted September 9, 2011 - 9:57 am

In the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, physical security, human contingency planning and an evolution in technological capabilities have improved the odds that business can carry on during -- and after -- a disaster.
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9/11 continues to influence IT strategy

Posted September 8, 2011 - 11:41 am

Many companies had refined their IT disaster recovery programs prior to 9/11, but the attacks exposed a lack of attention to continuity of business operations.
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U.S. still no better prepared for cyber-terrorism than before 9/11 attacks

Posted September 7, 2011 - 2:28 pm

Think tank report on security in the U.S. since the 9/11 attacks warns the potential for cyber-terrorism is "not science fiction," but that plans to deal with it apparently were.
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Major data centers prove their mettle with Irene

Posted August 30, 2011 - 11:25 am

Irene vs. IT: IT wins!
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IBM develops new weather prediction software

Posted August 30, 2011 - 11:25 am

The technology could give several days warning for impending floods.
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Tips from Hurricane Irene blackout zone: Coffee shops, crowds, crazed commuters

Posted August 29, 2011 - 5:28 pm

When the plugs are dead and internet access is off, you can't just hit the nearest Starbucks and log in. Finding a good spot to work from means breaking away from the crowd.
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Peer-to-peer, wireless network could help in disasters

Posted August 29, 2011 - 2:42 pm

A Georgia Tech professor envisions greater reliance on device-to-device communications using typical consumer phones after a disaster.
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