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Craigslist countersues eBay, escalating legal fight
Craigslist has countersued eBay, accusing the online auction site of false advertising, trademark infringement and other wrongdoings. Read more...

Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites

Report: Time Capsule sales strong, not hurting AirPort

Security researcher devises rootkit for Cisco's routers

CSC settles government kickbacks case for $1.37M

Hacker posts Chilean government data on 6 million

Hackers create their own social network

Microsoft fixes critical Windows, Word flaws

Phishers scamming IRS rebates, Burma donors

Restaurant chain served up payment card data to hackers

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It's a hard-knock life: 3 rugged notebooks take a beating
Rugged notebooks are designed to stand up to abuse and come back for more. We dropped, drowned and shook these fully ruggedized notebooks to see if they could hold up. Not all survived.

How not to improve backup performance
We all hate false tech advertising. And it's just as prevalent in backup as any other IT category. As good as LTO4 tape is, tape is difficult to keep streaming data to. In most designs, disk should be the initial backup target with tape technology on the back end.

Getting the Best From an Audit
Don't fear the audit. Learn from it. The important thing is that systems should be more secure in the end.

Opinion: Battling information-security Stockholm syndrome
Hating the PCI-DSS security standard when it exists only to help consumers and merchants is a sign that the security industry's not quite right in the head, says Ben Rothke.

Review: PC Tools ThreatFire 3.5 antivirus software
Now in version 3.5, this free utility adds an extra layer of protection to the security software you already have. It blocks an impressive number of threats through behavior-based analysis.

ZoneAlarm ForceField: Two defenses are better than one
Check Point Software's ZoneAlarm ForceField provides an extra defensive layer by cloning your Web browser to catch dangerous software before any damage can be done.

5 ways insiders exploit your network
Internal data theft and sabotage can result in hard costs, compliance-related problems, legal fees, productivity loss and, possibly most costly, loss of reputation.

Opinion: Network managers: good worries, disappointing lapses
VanDyke Software survey shows concerns of network pros, but some issues should be getting more attention than they are.

Opinion: The ugly side of disaster recovery
There are a thousand criteria to account for when selecting a disaster recovery site, but one company found itself falling back on moving its data center in a couple of SUVs every time a hurricane threatened its offices.

Opinion: Benefits of personal health records will eclipse privacy concerns
Jay Cline says the promise of big profits will compel the early providers of personal health records to adopt strict privacy and security practices. The real question is, Which platform will we trust most?

Specialists have retrieved about 99% of the data on a disk drive on board the crashed space shuttle Columbia. Don't miss the photographs of the recovered drive.
These big ideas were supposed to revolutionize technology, but they never actually appeared. In a few cases, you'll be glad they didn't.
Nearly 20 years after the first Internet worm, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes stock of the malware/anti-malware landscape and spotlights how the two sides are approaching the battle.
Though some thought it was released too soon, Mac OS X 10.5 has matured into a solid operating system, says reviewer Michael DeAgonia.
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Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?
The New Foundation of Storage: Xiotech's Intelligent Storage Element
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