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	Hackers spied on 300,000 Iranians using fake Google certificate About 300,000 Iranians had their Gmail accounts compromised and their messages read by hackers, according to a forensics firm that has investigated the theft of hundreds of digital certificates from a Dutch company. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. In this Issue Are costly SSDs worth the money? 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While such cost reduction is important, companies often overlook equally critical strategic decisions – opportunities to use valuable business information to strengthen product and service offerings and emerge ahead of the competition. Read More! Are costly SSDs worth the money? Enterprise users say absolutely Solid-state storage based on NAND flash can be a pricey option to install in a data center, but I/O hungry applications such as server and desktop virtualization are prompting IT managers to install them -- with the caveat that they must be strategically placed for the best, most cost-effective results. Read More Dell partners with China's Baidu to launch smartphone Dell has partnered with China's largest search engine Baidu to launch a smartphone, in a move that could help both companies tap the country's growing mobile phone market. Read More Microsoft: Stolen SSL certs can't be used to install malware via Windows Update Microsoft said that a digital certificate stolen from a Dutch company could not be used to force-feed customers malware through its Windows Update service. Read More Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad The tally of digital certificates stolen from a Dutch company in July has exploded to more than 500, including ones for intelligence services like the CIA, the U.K.'s MI6 and Israel's Mossad, a Mozilla developer said Sunday. Read More Samsung wipes Galaxy Tab 7.7 from stand after court order Samsung Electronics erased all traces of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its exhibition stand at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin on Saturday, just two days after launching the tablet there. Read More 9 handy utilities for optimizing your Windows desktop and display No matter the size of your Windows desktop, you can get more out of it with the help of free and low-cost tools. Here's how. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Virtualization reduces costs and complexity Virtualization is not just for large enterprises. It can also be a key strategy for small and mid-size businesses. This paper explains virtualization, its benefits for mid-sized business and how IBM's virtualization strategy can help these companies reduce costs, improve services and simplify management. Read Now From CIO.com: Summer of Google: 10 hot new features Some businesses embraced the relaxed pace of summer, but not Google. Check out how Google was beating the heat and rolled out 10 new tools for shopping, tracking weather and more. Read More Elgan: Will tablets soon be free? The path to success for iPad competitors is low, low pricing. And the best way to get there is probably aggressive subsidies, writes columnist Mike Elgan. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone 5 ships October, claims rumor machine With classic clumsy style I dropped my iPhone this morning and smashed its display. This means I'm so in the market for a new one: good news then that iPhone 5 production has begun and it looks likely to reach us next month (October)... Read More Ex-employee wiped financial data from bikini bar At the Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas, you can get burgers and beer served to you by cute waitresses wearing denim shorts and bikini tops. And if you're David Palmer, a recently fired IT worker, you can also break into a U.S. military contractor's computer systems and wipe out payroll files, wreaking havoc at its customers. Read More Turkish hackers strike websites with DNS hack A Turkish hacking group managed to tamper with Internet addressing records over the weekend, redirecting dozens of websites belonging to companies including Microsoft, UPS and Vodafone to different web pages controlled by the hackers. Read More Judge in Oracle, Google case may order mediation As the trial date nears in Oracle's dispute with Google over Android, the judge overseeing the case is proposing a last-ditch mediation. Read More Delphi, C++ to goose desktop apps In an attempt to enliven staid business applications, development tools vendor Embarcadero has updated its RAD Studio IDE (integrated developer environment) for Delphi and C++ applications, the company announced Friday. Read More
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