Spammers exploiting CAN-SPAM loopholes; Research on DDos Tactics

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Amir Lev: Spammer trick: exploiting CAN-SPAM loopholes
Here’s a sneaky trick that some spammers are trying, in an attempt to stay on the right side of the law. When we think of ’spammers’, we usually picture an offshore group of criminal individuals, pushing fake pills from websites that are outside the direct reach of U.S. law. But there’s another group of spammers, who are closer to home… Read More

Why Your Small Business Needs a Real Server
You could realize the advantages of running a workplace where employees, partners, and customers can access information whenever they need it, wherever they are. You and your business could truly work from anywhere. and enjoy the protection of having a consistent way to back up data so that critical information survives individual desktop crashes or laptop losses. Read More

DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together
Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess Click to continue

What researchers are learning about DDoS tactics
Two IT security specialists — one with experience in dealing with DDoS attacks against government systems, the other a specialist from the corporate side — share what they’ve learned about the targets chosen for DDoS attacks and how to adjust security strategies based on those lessons. Read More

Microsoft seeks legal protections for data stored in cloud
Microsoft’s top lawyer today called on Congress to enact legislation that would protect data store in the computing cloud. Read More

Airnergy’s Wi-Fi power harvester: Is it real or not?
Airnergy, a Wi-Fi hotspot power harvester under development by Audiovox Accessories Corp., is either an intriguing green power technology for smartphones or complete alchemy, depending on whom you ask. Read More

Data center density hits the wall
The newest servers concentrate more power into a smaller footprint. Some experts advocate spreading the servers out to mitigate the heat problem, but others say water-based cooling is inevitable. Read More

Data Center Survival Guide
Today’s data center has become very complex and hard to manage. This drives up costs, power and cooling requirements and provisioning time. It also makes the entire network inefficient, difficult to scale and vulnerable to security breaches. New technologies and services, such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Oriented Architecture (WOA), Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) will make the situation worse, taking an even bigger bite out of data center performance and bandwidth—and presenting new security challenges. The Juniper Data Center Survival Guide shows IT professionals how to survive in this increasingly complicated environment. It explains how to simplify your infrastructure and network management now with Juniper Networks®. It identifies four of the most difficult challenges you face today in your data center—and the simple steps you can take with Juniper Networks to not only survive the onslaught of new applications and services, but enable your data center to thrive. Read More!

Why data center temperatures have moderated
After a huge spike a few years ago, better power-management tools, multicore chips and advanced power supplies have helped keep temps down. But, ironically, virtualization may make things hotter again. Read More

‘Sudden failure’ Wednesday morning brings Twitter down
Twitter addicts had to entertain themselves with something other than the social network and microblogging site for more than an hour Wednesday morning. Read More

Clinton to challenge Internet censorship in policy address
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will raise the issue of Google’s ongoing battles in China in a broad policy address on Internet freedom she plans to make Thursday in Washington, D.C. Read More

LA’s move to Google Apps is underway
The cyberattacks on Google systems from withing China have not caused Los Angeles officials to reasses plans to replace desktop applications with he hosted Google Apps office suite. Read More

10 great iPhone apps for business users
A grab bag of handy productivity apps that can make your iPhone as useful as can be. Read More

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