Thursday, December 25, 2008

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 25/12/2008



Year in review: Green IT

Green was again IT’s favourite colour this year as both vendors and companies continue to tackle the eco-friendly issues of the data centre, server room, and trash-heap.
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2008's biggest IT mergers and acquisitions
This year's top 15 M&As amounted to almost US$65 billion and involved companies specializing in areas such as IT services to network hardware to wireless technology and security
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Bono hands over $100 million to iPhone rival Palm
Just in time for Christmas. U2 lead singer Bono plays Santa to Palm with $100 million cash infusion that could give the struggling smart phone maker a fighting chance against Apple's iPhone
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Bogus antivirus peddlers use Microsoft, IRS sites
Scammers have used so-called redirector links to Microsoft.com and IRS.gov domains among many others flog fake antivirus software which actually harvests login names and passwords. Find out how this strategy help cyber crooks get high Google search results
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Year in review: Bell unintentionally sparks net neutrality debate
Do you remember the time when nobody was talking about net neutrality? It was back in March, just before Bell Canada made headlines for traffic shaping peer-to-peer traffic on its network. Read about one of the biggest IT-related stories of the year and why it was intensely debated by all Canadians
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Cyber crooks exploit recession, social media in '09
Cybercrime becomes all about building online communities, as crooks step up efforts to take advanatge of the global fear over the recession and harness emerging social net technologies to spread malware
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Microsoft issues SQL attack warning
A critical flaw in Microsofts SQL Server can be exploited to run unauthorized software on systems running versions of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005
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Massive Unisys layoff to hit 1,300 jobs
The headcount reduction which began Monday will continue into 2009. Read about other cost cutting measures aimed at saving the company $225 million
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Penetration testing: dead in 2009?
Is the practice of penetration testing headed the way of desktop publishing and the PDA? Well probably not dead as is dead and gone, it just won't be as cool as it was before. Here's a look at the possible reincarnation of penetration testing
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Year in review: TJX still impacting IT security
While IT organizations are seeing their budgets shrink in many areas this year, security has certainly not been one of them. Find out why IT security was spared the cut
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