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If you suspect that you’ve responded to a phishing scam with personal or financial information or entered this information into a fake Web site, take these steps to minimize any damage.
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When an economic downturn starts to hurt, businesses often hunker down and cut costs. But new technology solutions may be necessary for survival and growth—and they may not be as expensive as you think when you consider their return on investment (ROI). In this three-part series, we’ll review what ROI is, explain how an ROI [...]

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Gartner recently released the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls where they placed Palo Alto Networks in the visionary quadrant.  Gartner acknowledged the following key points about Palo Alto Networks:
“Taking a next-generation firewall approach to the market, Palo AltoNetworks saw rapid growth in 2009 and meets the inclusion criteria for this edition of the [...]

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Phishing, pronounced “fishing,” is a type of online identity theft that uses e-mail and fraudulent Web sites that are designed to steal your personal data or information such as credit card numbers, passwords, account data, or other information. Follow these guidelines to help protect yourself from phishing scams sent through e-mail.
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We all want to minimize costs – both planned and unexpected – but not at the expense of keeping systems and essential equipment running smoothly. Businesses without an IT department often wait until something breaks to call in an expert for help, or simply rely on the most techy person in the office to take [...]

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A malicious piece of software making the rounds on news websites recently is believed to be behind the compromise of over 75,000 systems in over 2,500 international organizations – many of which are government agencies and large Fortune 500 companies.
Called the Kneber botnet after the name in the email used to register the initial domain [...]

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These days there’s a lot of buzz about “going green” – helping preserve the environment, conserving energy, and looking for sustainable ways to grow the economy. The IT industry is doing its part as well, with “green computing,” which is basically computing by more efficient and sustainable means. You can get on board with some [...]

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Microsoft recently released a number of security bulletins and patches addressing vulnerabilities in Windows and Office that are of high risk to users. It’s widely believed that many will be exploited by hackers within the next 30 days. One of them could potentially allow hackers or malware authors to easily compromise systems by tricking users [...]

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We’ve been having a lot of conversations lately with prospective customers about virtual environments and the relative merits of VMware and Citrix XenServer. It has been very interesting to find out what people seem to think versus the apparent reality. Obviously each manufacturer claims that their product is superior to the other in every possible [...]

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Millions of us stay connected with friends, family and business contacts on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn and other social networking sites.
Some of the information posted on your personal site may seem harmless for the social networker, but could be a score for identity thieves.  Cybercriminals scan social networking pages to gather personal information for their [...]

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