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Perhaps the most visible mark women have made on the IT industry of late has been in founding and leading technology companies as senior executives. The 10 female IT leaders highlighted here have pioneered a path to the C-suite.

Three years ago, a luxury retailer with a growing online business faced a nightmare situation: The order fulfillment service provided by its SaaS vendor for online transactions went down for two days during the critical Christmas season. The retailer's website couldn't accept orders for a 48-hour period, resulting in frustrated customers and lost business.

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Consider the modern office layout: Open floor plan, lots of common space flooded with natural light, clusters of "pods" with low partitions (or none), all designed to encourage teamwork, boost productivity and -- management hopes -- improve the bottom line.

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The potential for losing tech talent is on the rise these days. Thanks to an uptick in IT hiring and an increase in retirements among baby boomers, your A-team employee lineup may be in danger.

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Some organizations can earn a profit, or at least reduce the amount they have to pay to dispose of IT equipment, by allowing providers of IT disposal services to sell the assets they take away.

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The potential for losing tech talent is on the rise these days. Thanks to an uptick in IT hiring and an increase in retirements among baby boomers, your A-team employee lineup may be in danger.

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IT departments that practice asset management are learning to master the art of retiring hardware at the right time. But making the decision to retire IT gear is just the beginning; tech managers also need to figure out what to do with the systems that are past their prime.

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For corporate IT managers, the start of the new year brings hope that budgets will grow, workloads will return to normal and the worst of the recession might be over.

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WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO BACKUP YOUR PC? It depends on how often you use your PC, according to security site SpamLaws.com. Tip: Occasional computer users -- …

WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO UPDATE CORPORATE SECURITY POLICIES? At least once a year. This update should be part of an overall risk-management process, says …

WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO PERFORM SCANS ON OPEN PORTS OF A NETWORK? Monthly. For most companies a monthly scan is adequate to ensure that the incoming …

Apparently, there are people out there who want Twitter followers so badly they’re willing to pay for it. In fact, there must be quite a few, since scammers have come up with a way to steal financial information from such folks by offering to sell followers.

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Cybercriminals know how popular text messaging on iPhones is. So when Apple last week announced the release of multimedia messaging service (MMS) on newer versions of the iPhone, they quickly poisoned some Google search results that instead of bringing seekers to information about the new service brought them to sites that download malicious code.

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Social news site Reddit has fallen victim to a cross-site scripting (XSS) worm that spread via comments.

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Cisco on Wednesday released an update to patch a vulnerability found in the SIP service of its Unified Communications Manager.

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Hackers whose goal it is to spread FAKEAV malware are finding new and different ways to help it infect as many Web users as possible.

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What’s the best-selling Trojan kit on the black market today? Zeus. But just because it’s the best selling doesn’t mean it’s the best.

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Members of Microsoft’s European team are presenting a paper at a security conference this week in Geneva that delves into the security issues surrounding cloud computing.

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Last Friday Adobe released a security update to patch a critical vulnerability it is RoboHelp Server 8 software for Windows.

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Koobface, the social-networking worm that’s becoming almost as popular as Facebook itself, has added a new feature for Internet Explorer users who happen to stumble upon its fake Facebook pages.

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