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	Mobile broadband expansion means jobs growth, experts say Expanding mobile broadband services in the U.S. in the coming years would produce thousands of new jobs and help reverse today's downward employment trend. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Map Critical Network Assets and Dependencies Learn how Riverbed provided the International Herald Tribune with an end-to-end view of application delivery paths – from servers to desktops, and how advanced traffic analysis ensured faster problem resolution and more effective WAN management. Read now! In this Issue MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks IT Blogwatch: Steve Jobs resigns, steps down on health grounds; world shocked Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool Twitter turns on SSL encryption for some users Lawsuit accuses comScore of extensive privacy violations As Hurricane Irene nears, Americans turn again to social networks Steve Jobs at Apple: A timeline WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation The Efficiency Essentials You're Dead Without This white paper takes you inside Diskeeper 2011 and clearly shows you why you shouldn't run your network without it. Learn more. MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks A new technique crafted by MIT researches can detect the tampering that's essential to man-in-the-middle attacks in wireless networks. Read More IT Blogwatch: Steve Jobs resigns, steps down on health grounds; world shocked STEVE JOBS RESIGNS, yell all the headlines this morning. It's believed the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO stepped down due to pancreatic health problems. Is he a visionary or a copycat? An epic manager or a hard taskmaster? And what about his replacement, Tim Cook? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers can find no other story to blog. Read More Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool Developers of the Apache open-source project today warned users of the popular Web server software that a denial-of-service (DoS) tool is circulating that exploits a bug in the program. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast Keep your Blackberry Workforce Agile With the rising numbers of mobile workers, today's businesses can't afford an email outage. Given the nature of the risks involved, as well as the way that wireless email is evolving, firms today need to consider the additional benefits gained by using third-party BlackBerry availability services. Read now Twitter turns on SSL encryption for some users Twitter is slowly turning on automatic encryption on its website, a move following other major providers of web-based services to thwart account hijacking over wireless networks. Read More Lawsuit accuses comScore of extensive privacy violations A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago on Tuesday accused online tracking and analytics firm comScore of surreptitiously collecting Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords and other data from consumer systems. Read More As Hurricane Irene nears, Americans turn again to social networks After an earthquake rattled the East Coast and now a hurricane is roaring toward land, its becoming increasingly clear that social networks are a key part of our disaster response. Read More Steve Jobs at Apple: A timeline Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's CEO on Wednesday and Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook was named as his replacement. Jobs will remain with the company as chairman of the board. Read More
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