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EMC Unveils Solid-State Memory Card for Servers

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EMC's first PCIe NAND flash card puts a measure of storage directly into any server for speeding up high-transaction applications. - Storage, security and virtualization giant EMC had never encroached on the server business in the past, but it's now literally getting inside them, thanks to a new product it introduced Feb. 6. Completing a promise it made at EMC world in May 2011, EMC unveiled its first PCIe NAND flash card that ...

BBC News – Hackers outwit online banking identity security systems

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IBM Speeds Up XIV Storage System Gen3 With SSD Caching

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IBM announced enhancements to its XIV Storage System Gen3 including a new performance boosting solid state drive (SSD) caching option, and a new app to monitor their XIV storage from their iPhone. - IBM has announced several enhancements to its XIV Storage System Gen3 including a new solid state drive (SSD) caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times, and a new Apple iPhone app that lets users monitor their XIV storage environment from virtually anywhere. The IBM X...

BlackBerry 10 Pushed With an Eye Toward Developers

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RIM's renewed push for developers is basically an attempt to get them onboard with the upcoming BlackBerry 10. - Research In Motions BlackBerry DevCon Europe conference, which started Feb. 7 in Amsterdam, placed third-party developers front and center. Highlighting what he called RIMs “commitment to our development community,” RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told the developer audience gathered for his Feb. 7 key...

FDIC Guidance Clarification

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Thank you to everyone who wrote in on the FDIC FIL 3- 2012 guidance to banks.......

Swedish Government Website Targeted by Hackers (February 4, 2012)

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Hackers claiming affiliation with Anonymous have launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Swedish government's main website.......

Manning to Face All Charges in Court Martial (February 3, 2012)

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The commander of the US Army Military District of Washington has announced that Pfc.......

Commerce Dept’s Economic Development Administration Suffers Cyber Attack (February 2 & 3, 2012)

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The computer network of US Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) has been hit with what appears to be a virus, forcing EDA to disable email and Internet access until an investigation determines the cause and scope of the problem.......

BT Junkie Takes Itself Offline Voluntarily (February 6, 2012)

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BT Junkie, a torrent search engine that is unaffiliated with BitTorrent, has voluntarily shuttered its website, ostensibly over concerns that it may be the target of law enforcement action similar to that which forced the shutdown of Megaupload.......

Film Company Includes Owners of Unsecured WiFi Networks in Filesharing Lawsuit (February 6, 2012)

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A California company has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from more than 50 named and unnamed Massachusetts individuals for participating in illegal filesharing.......