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May 29, 2011
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Lockheed-Martin Attack Signals New Era of Cyber Espionage The attack on Lockheed-Martin actually started a couple months ago with the breach at RSA Security, and illustrates an insidious evolution of malware and cyber crime.
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MacDefender Malware Morphs to More Dangerous Variant Security experts warn that a new, more dangerous variant of the MacDefender malware has been spotted in the wild.
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Lockheed Martin Acknowledges 'Significant' Cyberattack Lockheed Martin Saturday night acknowledged that it its information systems network had been the target of a "significant and tenacious attack"
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Cloud Security: The 2 Biggest Lies Analysis: Surveys say security is the biggest concern of potential users with respect to public cloud computing.
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Best Free iPhone and iPad Apps of 2011 (So Far) They're new, they're fun, they're useful and best of all, they're free -- Here are 20 iOS apps for work and play.
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Not Too Late for Microsoft Tablets Analysis: Apple may dominate now, but some analysts expect Android and Windows to make serious inroads into tablet technology.
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Former NASDAQ Exec Used Wife's Online Account for Insider Trading A former executive at NASDAQ has pleaded guilty to insider trading, allegedly using his wife's online brokerage account on his work computer.
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Google Wallet: The Debate Rages Convenient, maybe, but worries inclue security, access, participation by merchants and -- oh, yeah -- trust.
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iPad Enters the Cockpit on Alaska Air Pilots will consult digital flight, system, and performance manuals and have easy access to reference cards and other materials.
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Future of Tech: Huge Screens, ARM Servers, Geosocial Everywhere A new "geosocial" app called Sonar is getting attention at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Smartphones Rule in Mobile Market Apple, Samsung, and HTC are the makers of the smartphones that dominate the mobile market, according a recent study by Gartner.
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Beware of Malware Apple Users Even as Mac Defender Details Emerge Theres evidence the Apple scare over malware -- software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems -- may not be over
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Google Wallet Security Has a Weakness Google has gone to great lengths to ensure the security of the Google Wallet mobile payment system, but it still has a weak link that could compromise credit card data.
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Five Reasons Microsoft Can Still Win the Tablet War Microsoft is expected to show off Windows 8 on a tablet next week--a platform that could eventually dominate the tablet market if Microsoft does it right.
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Day 29: Five Things I Like Most About Google Docs Over the course of the last month, I have discovered a variety of features and functions that make Google Docs a valuable productivity platform.
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Make Father's Day Special With These iPad Apps Load up your dad's iPad with this must-have collection of apps this Father's Day for a relatively cheap way of showing him how much he means to you.
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Day 28: My Five Biggest Google Docs Complaints As the month winds to a close, I reflect on the biggest issues I have encountered, and what I have missed most about Microsoft Office.
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