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Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool: Is a PAL every Administrator needs

Perfromance Monitoring can be painful... Thanks to this PAL it doesnt have to be that way

Jul 31, 2009 2 mins

Data Breach Enterprise Applications Microsoft

One Cool ISO: Fully Automated Nagios

Review of a fully pakaged Nagios Distro

Jul 31, 2009 5 mins

Cisco Systems Data Breach Open Source

Twitter hack, Red Hat, Linux skewered with Pwnie Awards at Black Hat

Security pros also honored for discovering key software bugs

Jul 31, 2009 2 mins

Microsoft Operating Systems Twitter

P2P ban plan for government gets mixed response

Poorly crafted law could would also block some cost-saving file-sharing tech, some say

Jul 31, 2009 4 mins

Data Center Security

Adobe patches 12 Flash bugs, 3 caused by Microsoft

Microsoft gave Adobe just over two weeks notice of flaws in Visual Studio development code

Jul 31, 2009 4 mins

Malware Network Security Office Suites

Conficker talk sanitized at Black Hat to protect investigation

The criminal ring is very savvy and might have infiltrated the group hunting it down, one investigator says

Jul 31, 2009 5 mins

Network Security Security

Black Hat: Free cloaking software may actually draw attention to traffic it’s supposed to protect

An examination of UltraSurf finds odd activity running in the background

Jul 31, 2009 4 mins

Enterprise Applications Network Security Security

Practicing safe surfing can derail attempts to cruise ‘Net anonymously

Google Safe service can reveal end users even if they hide behind proxies

Jul 31, 2009 3 mins

Enterprise Applications Security

Catalyst Conference tackles terminology

* Common terms can have different meanings in identity arena

Jul 31, 2009 3 mins

NASA, Booz Allen Hamilton find treasure in social networking

Web portals, blogs virtual worlds, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn promote high-tech "cool factor"

Jul 31, 2009 6 mins

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