NY Times website down for HOURS. Hacked by China again?

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	Richi Jennings: NY Times website down for HOURS. Hacked by China again? Rent-a-quotes yell "Cyber Attack!" The New York Times website went down for more than two hours yesterday. It limped along for a few hours after it came back. Naturally, this led some to speculate that China has been up to it's old tricks again. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers blog the meta-news. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Virtualize Desktop Infrastructures With EMC VSPEX Transform your Microsoft Application environment with simple, efficient, and flexible virtualization solutions. EMC® VSPEX™ Private Cloud solutions improve accessibility, centralize management, and increase performance for mission critical Microsoft Applications. Learn More In this Issue Jonny Evans: Google StreetView quits the street to capture UK history Preston Gralla: Suit against Microsoft over Surface RT: Valid points, or evidence of bottom-feeding lawyers? JR Raphael: How to bring Google Voice Search to your desktop browser Antone Gonsalves: Following the evolution of cybercrime, mobile security Darlene Storm: Hacked wireless baby monitor lets pervert spy on and cuss at baby girl John W. Thompson: Data center consolidation: Lessons learned along the way Sharky: Sometimes a little LESS automation works better WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc. Simplifying the Transition to Exchange 2010 Summers Labs relied on a bare-bones AS/AV product, until a plan for a complete infrastructure refresh opened the door to a more comprehensive solution. Read this case study to learn how a cloud-based email management solution greatly simplified the company's transition to Exchange 2010. Learn More. Jonny Evans: Google StreetView quits the street to capture UK history The world is coming to StreetView -- including the beautiful yet hard to reach parts of it, thanks to a backpack-carried 'Trekker' photography system and Google Maps, with the latest venture setting out to capture the historically fascinating canal banks and riversides of the UK. Read More Preston Gralla: Suit against Microsoft over Surface RT: Valid points, or evidence of bottom-feeding lawyers? Another day, another lawsuit, this one alleging that Microsoft purposely misled investors over the poor prospects of its Surface RT tablets. Does the class-action lawsuit have validity, or is it just one more instance of lawyers trying to cash in on bad news, a sign of a legal system gone amok? Read More JR Raphael: How to bring Google Voice Search to your desktop browser Google Voice Search just got a lot more powerful -- and with one simple tweak, you can make it a core part of your desktop browsing experience. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Intelligent IT Operations: Making IT Smarter Consolidating IT event management in a centralized operations bridge can help you increase efficiency in the short term while setting the stage for greater competitiveness over the long term. Read Now! Antone Gonsalves: Following the evolution of cybercrime, mobile security I am ecstatic, and a bit nervous, to offer my first blog post to Computerworld.com readers interested in mobile security. When offered the opportunity, I jumped at the chance of writing commentary on what I see as the most fascinating segment of the security industry. Mounting pressure Read More Darlene Storm: Hacked wireless baby monitor lets pervert spy on and cuss at baby girl Imagine remote attackers going beyond secretly eyeing the inside of your house via your wireless camera, to spying on and cursing at your child via the wireless baby monitor. The pervert that hacked into a Houston family's video baby monitor provides a cautionary tale demonstrating the importance of securing wireless devices like IP cameras to protect your privacy. Read More John W. Thompson: Data center consolidation: Lessons learned along the way Thoughtful and strategic data center consolidation can enable better agility, improve asset utilization levels and drive significant cost savings. Read More Sharky: Sometimes a little LESS automation works better It's the early 1990s and this company builds a brand new campus with state-of-the-art control automation systems for each of the five buildings -- and one of them is perfect for special events. Read More
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