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	Apple officially responds to iOS consolidated.db "tracking file" controversy Late last week, the Internet was abuzz with news that Apple was tracking the location of its users via a nifty little consolidated.db file that contained a plethora of longitude and latitude coordinates. The fact of the matter is that the existence of the file had been known for some time and was often used by law enforcement agencies during forensic investigations. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies How to Maximize IT Protection and Minimize Downtime No matter how you define a disaster, you need a strategy that provides protection, fast recovery and high availability of your systems, applications and data. Attend this webcast to learn about disaster recovery best practices and the wide range of technologies available to protect your organization. Learn More In this Issue FBI: Romance scams in the air as Royal Wedding fever peaks Disaster Recovery on a Budget After Rustock, botnet rebuilding underway After 40 years, email security still elusive, experts say Mozilla patches Firefox 4, fixes programming bungle Sony: We encrypted PlayStation Network customers' credit card data Latest iPad security threat: fake jailbreak code Cyberthieves loot SMBs, transfer millions to firms in China, FBI warns NY Yankees staffer accidentally e-mails customer list Microsoft comes out looking good in iPhone tracking flap 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! FBI: Romance scams in the air as Royal Wedding fever peaks On the day so much love is in the air from across the pond, the FBI's Internet Complaint Center is warning of an uptick in online romance scams. Read More Disaster Recovery on a Budget Scenario: Backing Up Core Systems Read More After Rustock, botnet rebuilding underway Multiple security providers see more malicious activity, as botnet operators attempt to grow their networks of compromised computers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More After 40 years, email security still elusive, experts say According to the survey, conducted by secure messaging provider VaporSteam Inc., nearly three-fourths of respondents from large companies say they've violated compliance rules via email. Read More Mozilla patches Firefox 4, fixes programming bungle Mozilla has patched Firefox 4 for the first time, fixing eight flaws, including a major programming oversight that left the browser vulnerable to attack on Windows 7. Read More Sony: We encrypted PlayStation Network customers' credit card data Sony encrypted credit card numbers but not the other personal information for 77 million of its PlayStation customers whose data was stolen, according to Sony's daily update about the PlayStation Network hack. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle How Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Deliver Extreme Java View this webcast to learn why Exalogic and Exadata are the definitive engineered platforms for enterprise application and database consolidation, with added advantage of extreme Java and database performance, unmatched reliability and scalability, and cloud-enabling elastic capacity. Register Today! Latest iPad security threat: fake jailbreak code An anonymous coder is messing with the heads of jailbreakers – the folks who develop and run code that lets your Apple iOS device load applications without having to rely solely on the company's iTunes service.  The twist: this code, by design, fails to jailbreak your iPad. Read More Cyberthieves loot SMBs, transfer millions to firms in China, FBI warns Some U.S. companies may unwittingly be funding businesses in China to the tune of millions of dollars. Read More NY Yankees staffer accidentally e-mails customer list A customer service representative with the New York Yankees accidentally e-mailed out personal details on close to 18,000 season ticket holders, the baseball team said Thursday. Read More Microsoft comes out looking good in iPhone tracking flap Microsoft says it doesn't store location tracking history on its smartphones. Furthermore, Microsoft details its WP7 privacy policy, not in legalese written in dense 8-point type buried in its Terms of Service, but in a plain English Q&A format on a Windows Phone Web page titled "Location and my privacy." What we have here is a rare case where Microsoft gets to wear the white hat compared to... Read More
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