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Do you know where your security holes are?
We all worry that there's some lurking security problem in our servers. We do what we can, patching, following best practices, keeping up-to-date with training and news. But wouldn't it be great to have an automated tool to check our work? That's the promise of vulnerability analyzers: products that detect problems in configuration, applications, and patches.

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More news

Apple endures a week of legal iTrouble
Maybe Apple is simply paying a price for trying to hog all the lowercase letter i's.

Making screen savers and finding leaks
Making screen savers and finding date leakage, oh my.

Xperia Play: The smartphone for serious gamers
Shaw reviews Xperia Play, by Sony Ericsson.

Gartner: IT should be planning, moving to private clouds
If speedy IT services are important, businesses should be shifting from traditional computing into virtualization in order to build a private cloud that, whether operated by their IT department or with help from a private cloud provider, will give them that edge.

Smartphones and tablets create huge corporate security challenge
Adapting security and management for the new generation of mobile devices -- everything from the Apple iPhone and iPad to Google Android devices to name a few -- is turning out to be a huge corporate challenge.

Data center startups emerging to solve virtualization and cloud problems
A host of new data center startups are coming on the scene to help IT shops handle the challenges posed by virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing.

Regaining perspective on security problems
With all the bad security news that has come out over the last few months, you might think the sky is falling. Once a story catches people's attention, we start seeing it everywhere, kind of like noticing a lot of blue cars after you just bought a blue car. The problem with all this is that it distorts the conversation and we may fail to notice the really important security lessons that can be learned: