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	The Sony Playstation breach notification letter that broke 77 million hearts The Sony PlayStation Network data breach that exposed personal and password information -- and possibly credit cards -- of an estimated 77 million people is already considered one of tech history's worst security failures. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin™ Compared This ebook will provide the fundamental differences between the Netezza TwinFin® and Oracle Exadata solutions from the perspectives of query performance, simplicity of operation and value. The ebook will help you determine which solutions best meet your business needs and how to achieve optimal results from your data. Read now In this Issue Delay announcing Sony PlayStation Network breach may be linked to criminal investigation In South Park, Apple knows where you are – just like in real life CEO salaries: 10 travesties, trends and token gestures Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security? Microsoft fixes Office flaws found in Patch Tuesday updates Should your DBAs be certified? Google patches 27 Chrome bugs, pays out record bounties The Gearhead Top Ten Tools WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Copeland Toyota Saves 70% in Data Protection Costs By replacing their tape backup solution with comprehensive cloud data protection from Iron Mountain, car dealer saves 70% in data protection costs and achieves instant point-in-moment restores. Read Now! Delay announcing Sony PlayStation Network breach may be linked to criminal investigation It's still unclear why it took Sony so long to admit it lost customers' personally identifiable information in the wake of the PlayStation Network attack, but the real reason may have more to do with legal considerations than how long it took the company to discover the losses, experts say. Read More In South Park, Apple knows where you are – just like in real life Steve Jobs gets the "South Park" treatment. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now! CEO salaries: 10 travesties, trends and token gestures As companies rode out the recession and slowly regained some sales momentum in 2010, profits started improving and stock prices began to recover. For CEOs that could only mean one thing: pay raises. Read More Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security? A survey of 127 of cloud computing providers suggests many regard security as being mainly their customer's problem, and indeed, see their own proficiencies in low cost and speed of deployment services. Read More WEBCAST: Juniper Networks Securing the Next-generation Datacenter For the security teams responsible for safeguarding corporate IT assets, these trends present a host of challenges, necessitating several new capabilities and approaches to ensure ongoing, effective security Learn more! Microsoft fixes Office flaws found in Patch Tuesday updates Microsoft today issued a fix for a problem in its Outlook 2007 email client caused by an update that shipped two weeks ago. Read More Should your DBAs be certified? Should you require your people to get certs?  This is a topic that's been a near holy war for years now... esp with the Microsoft exams.  The problem is that it's really hard to protect an exam from cheaters.  So there are plenty of cheat sites out there where you can just buy the answers to the exams and after just a couple days of memorizing, you can pass a test with flying colors and be a real... Read More Google patches 27 Chrome bugs, pays out record bounties Google today patched 27 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it boosted the "stable" build of the browser to version 11 on Windows, Mac and Linux. Read More The Gearhead Top Ten Tools Gearhead author Mark Gibbs picks his top ten everyday tools … the tools he can't live without … Read More
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