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December 2, 2011
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HP LaserJet Printers Vulnerable to Attacks, Researchers Warn Millions of Hewlett Packard Co.'s LaserJet printers contain a security weakness that could allow attackers to take control of the systems, steal data from them and issue commands that could cause the devices to overheat and catch fire.
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12 Reasons to Try Linux Mint 12 Multiple desktop options set this new release apart, but the best part for many users may well be that Unity isn't one of them.
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2011's Biggest Security Snafus Perhaps it was an omen of what was to come when the city of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2010 couldn't get a backup system running in its Emergency Operations Center because no one knew the password.
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12 Valuable Tools for Managing Business Macs The knock on managing Macs in business environments has long been Apple's ambivalent attitude toward providing significant enterprise support.
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6 Hot IT Jobs That Will Pay Well in 2012 Despite ominous predictions about how cloud computing will eviscerate IT departments, 2012 is shaping up to be a great year for IT careers.
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Carrier IQ: Researcher Finds Hidden Software Capturing Personal Mobile Data A secret piece of software might be tracking your every move if you own an Android, Blackberry, or Nokia smartphone, a security researcher discovered recently.
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Office 365 'Momentum' Announcement Met With Skepticism Microsoft's declaration this week that Office 365 is enjoying unprecedented levels of sales success didn't fully convince some industry experts.
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Is Cloud Support 'Racing to the Bottom?' There's a phenomenon that economists describe as a "race to the bottom," where vendors compete by undercutting in price, which leads to a reduction in quality and service.
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BlackBerry Mobile Fusion: What You Need to Know BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) today announced a brand new set of enterprise mobility tools, called BlackBerry Mobile Fusion.
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AT&T Fires Back at FCC Staff Report on T-Mobile Deal The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has invited questions about its impartiality with a staff report laying out concerns about AT&T's proposed mobile carrier T-Mobile USA, AT&T said Thursday.
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Are DuckDuckGo's Bing Ties a Problem for Linux Mint? Mint's new default search engine shows an anti-open source bias, some have charged.
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5 Tips To Shop Safe On Cyber Monday If you're planning on letting your fingers do the shopping on Monday, here are five tips to help you stay safe.
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Farewell to Flash Analysis: Maybe Apple's had a point all along; some things just are happier without Flash.
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Ubuntu Shows DistroWatch Decline as Mint Soars The figures are perhaps more surprising given that Canonical released the latest version of Ubuntu, 11.10, on October 13.
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US Agencies Seize 150 Sites Accused of Selling Counterfeit Goods The Justice Department and Customs agents have seized the domain names of 150 websites accused of selling counterfeit products.
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As Cyberattacks Grow, Take Security Seriously No company wants to be the subject of the next headline about a cybersecurity attack or critical data loss.
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AT&T Hackers Have Terrorist Connections, Say Philippines Police UPDATE: AT&T denies a network breach, although some customers' accounts were targeted and accrued fraudulent charges.
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IE9 Continues to Climb on Windows 7 New browser market share stats show Internet Explorer as a whole is flat, but Internet Explorer 9 continues to gain traction and is on pace to be the number one browser on Windows 7.
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How to Bulletproof Your Website Make sure your websites are up, highly available, and able to handle peak capacity this shopping season.
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Trojan Sends Premium-rate SMS Messages, Aims at European and Canadian Android Users A new Android Trojan program that poses as an SMS management application is sending text messages to predefined numbers in Europe and Canada.
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