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Our Top Stories 12 IT Outsourcing Predictions for 2012 In 2011, the IT outsourcing industry was marked by smaller deals, leery customers, profit-squeezed IT service providers and a lot of cloud computing talk. Share: Websites and Apps Vulnerable to Low-Bandwidth, Bot-Free Takedown Hackers armed with a single machine and a minimal broadband connection can cripple Web servers, researchers said Wednesday. Share: Smartphones and Tablets March Onward into the Workplace Workers bringing their own devices to work was one of the biggest challenges IT pros faced in 2011, and the trend is on the rise for 2012. Share: Microsoft Ruins Perfect Record with Out-Of-Band Patch Security researchers unveiled a simple technique for crippling Web servers, and forced Microsoft to push an urgent update to address the flaw. 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