600,000+ estimate of Mac botnet likely on target

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	Security experts: 600,000+ estimate of Mac botnet likely on target Security experts today could not confirm claims by a little-known Russian antivirus company that more than 600,000 Macs have been infected with a zero-day-exploiting Trojan, but they said the number was within reason. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobility KnowledgeVault How "mobile ready" is your infrastructure? This Mobility Knowledge Vault provides a wide variety of expert advice on how to strike a balance between end user ease-of-use and security. View now In this Issue Oracle CSO trashes PCI rules Google co-founder spotted wearing Google Goggles Dell says AppAssure now its premier backup product From CIO.com: Windows 8: The Metro Start Screen Stops Me Google responds to European questionnaire on data protection 10 ways your smartphone knows where you are A quarter of the world's households now have Wi-Fi, survey says HTC Q1 profit sinks by 70% Lenovo to take pre-orders for smart TV product in China Preston Gralla: Microsoft subsidizes developers up to $600,000 per Windows Phone app RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Oracle CSO trashes PCI rules Oracle chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson is calling on vendors of payment application software to join the company in opposing certain security vulnerability reporting requirements of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. Read More Google co-founder spotted wearing Google Goggles The same day that Google took the wraps off its computerized eye glasses, the company's co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted wearing a pair while out to dinner. Read More Dell says AppAssure now its premier backup product Dell's first in a flurry of software acquisitions was backup vendor AppAssure, which Dell said will be its primary data protection application even as it still resells Symantec and CommVault products. Read More From CIO.com: Windows 8: The Metro Start Screen Stops Me Microsoft has been praising Windows 8 as a reimagining of Windows, but CIO.com's Shane O'Neill can't see past the shoddy design of the Metro start screen. Read More Google responds to European questionnaire on data protection Google has responded to questions from European privacy regulators about its new privacy policy, but only managed to answer 24 of the 69 questions, according to a copy of the letter published by Google. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed Optimizing your web page loading time is essential for retaining your website visitors. Download Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed to learn how front-end optimization can improve Time to Action for your web and mobile content, and how it can be done in front of your existing CDN with minimal integration required. Learn More! 10 ways your smartphone knows where you are One of the most important capabilities that smartphones now have is knowing where they are. A smartphone can combine its location with many other pieces of data to make new services available. Read More A quarter of the world's households now have Wi-Fi, survey says A total of 439 million households around the world had installed a Wi-Fi-based home network at the end of 2011, equivalent to 25% of all households, according to market research company Strategy Analytics. Read More HTC Q1 profit sinks by 70% High Tech Computer reported a 70% year-on-year fall in net profit for the first quarter, as the Taiwanese handset maker transitioned to a new line of smartphones it hopes will lift earnings. Read More Lenovo to take pre-orders for smart TV product in China Lenovo will start accepting pre-orders for its smart TVs on April 10 in China, as the company prepares to test the waters with the new product on its home turf. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft subsidizes developers up to $600,000 per Windows Phone app How desperate is Microsoft to get developers to write apps for Windows Phone? The company is willing to subsidize them up to $600,000 per app. Read More
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