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Browns’ Anderson exploits chance
Baltimore Sun, United States - Dec 14, 2006By Edward Lee. In the “what have you done for me lately” world of professional football, quarterback Derek Anderson knows that his …

Software delivers visibility into business performance.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release), NY - Dec 5, 2006December 5, 2006 - Embedded in Cape Clear 6.7 Enterprise Service Bus platform, Cape Clear Business Activity Monitoring software monitors real-time and …

CITTIO Joins Retail Broadband Alliance
Business Wire (press release), CA - Dec 19, 2006SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CITTIO Inc., the innovation leader in automated network and systems monitoring software, today announced that it has joined the …

Cassatt adds Xen, VLANs to Collage
SearchServerVirtualization.com, MA - Dec 11, 2006… Open source network management and monitoring software provider Hyperic has extended its Hyperic HQ software to be able to “see” VMware virtual machines in …

Opalis updates IT automation suite
IT Week, UK - Dec 7, 2006… this meant firms could set up a policy that will automatically transfer work over to a new virtual machine, for example, when monitoring software notifies the …

Collect phone calls from jail are often costly for prisoners and …
Record-Searchlight (subscription), CA - Dec 3, 2006… The telephone company is better able to provide the high-tech call monitoring software and equipment than county officials, Van Buskirk said. …

2007 Technology Wish List
Playfuls - Safety from malware Call it spyware. Call it malware. The effect is the same: there’s software out there that wants to steal your identity, your user names and passwords, and rob you of your peace of mind. And the problem is getting worse, not better

The semiannual Intel Developer Forum showcases the microprocessor
eWeek - In this eWEEK Podcast : Intel’s Fall Developer Forum kicks off; Symantec reports rise in malware attacks; Hurd is implicated in the HP spy scandal; SIM conference finds upbeat CIOs. In eWEEK Labs, Director Jim Rapoza discusses the eWEEK Labs top

Trojan varsity boys split; girls soccer wins, 1-0
Hi-Desert Star, CA - Dec 27, 2006By Dave Miller / Hi-Desert Star. YUCCA VALLEY Yucca Valley High School varsity boys and girls soccer teams hosted alumni matches Saturday on Trojan Field. …

Trojan receivers Jarrett, Smith are super
Toledo Blade, OH - 8 hours agoBy DAVE HACKENBERG. PASADENA, Calif. - They are known to insiders as Batman and Robin, and it isn’t hard to tell which is which. …

Dengue arrives in Ambala
Tribune - at pump house, Ph-III at water works, Sector 39, and permission to install transmission towers on buildings of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation; estimate for designing, supplying, erecting, testing and commissioning of remote computer surveillance

Inside the National Post
National Post - It’s a fascinating look at pre-computer surveillance techniques, although there are a few puzzling plot twists when audiences may wish they could similarly rewind the movie. We are intermittently thrown back to Wilson’s wartime days, when the nascent

New Technologies Improve Video Surveillance 
Surveillance cameras are sprouting up in more and more places, forming an ever more powerful tool for solving crimes after they happen. But what about using them to prevent or stop criminal and terrorist acts? This requires that someone, or something, watch these rapidly multiplying video feeds 24-7.

Police blotter: Google searches nab wireless hacker 
In this week’s installment, a wireless provider’s disgruntled ex-employee finds his Google searches used against him.

Google Search Convicts Hacker 
An anonymous reader writes “Google search terms have helped convict a wireless hacker. The queries the hacker performed were introduced into evidence at court, where Matthew Schuster was charged with disrupting his former employer’s wireless network and imitating other users’ MAC addresses to obtain access. From the article: ‘Court documents are ambiguous and don’t reveal how the FBI discovered …

Google Searches Being Used In Court 
News.com, via Search Engine Land, reports that computer expert Matthew Schuster was sentenced to 15 months in prison for hacking his ex-company, Alpha Computer Services… and he was found guilty partly due to Google searches like “make device interfere wireless network” that were used against him. News.com’s Declan McCullagh writes: Court documents are ambiguous and don’t reveal how the FBI …

Security in 2007: Zero-Day World Puts Bull’s-Eye on Vista 
The big security questions that experts say will be answered in 2007: Who will find the first major Vista flaw? Is spam going to be canned? Will there be a month of Apple bugs?

Month of Apple Bugs Debuts in January 
An anonymous reader writes “A pair of security researchers has picked January 2007 as the Month of Apple Bugs, a project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple’s OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it. According to a post over at The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog, the project is being put together by researchers …

Allchin defends Vista’s security credentials 
The argument between Sophos and Microsoft over the security of Windows Vista took another turn on Tuesday when Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin stepped in to try and calm things down.

Hackers call on Skype to spread Trojan 
Malware authors are using Skype to help spread a pair of Trojan packages. The malware does not exploit flaws in Skype as such, as a computer worm might …

FTC gets broader authority to pursue foreign spammers 
A new law grants the agency more authority to pursue international online scammers. WASHINGTON It’s the start of an Interpol for the Internet.

One for the home team 
Jody Adewale has only a minor role as a USC fullback but plays a major one caring for his family — ‘our shining angel,’ his mother says Four days before Christmas, and the bare fir sits in the middle of the cluttered living room, undecorated, unlighted, no presents, the only music coming from sirens that rattle the thin walls.

2006 holiday tournaments 
(at Myrtle Beach) Tuesday St. Johns (DC) vs Pinewood Prep (SC), 5:15 p.m. Arlington Country Day (FL) vs Latta (SC), 7 p.m. Pennsbury (PA) vs Wilson (SC), 8:45 p.m. Wednesday Galena (NV) vs Miami Senior (FL), 1:45 p.m. Chaminade-Madonna (FL) vs Bishop OConnell (VA), 3:30 p.m. Scott County (KY) vs Socastee (SC), 5:15 p.m. St. Edwards (OH) vs Father Henry Carr (Canada), 7 p.m. Mt. St. Josephs (MD) …

Vista Exploit Surfaces on Russian Hacker Site 
Datamation writes “Exploit code for Windows Vista (though at this point only proof-of-concept code) has been published to a Russian hacker site, Eweek reports. Certain strings sent through the ‘MessageBox’ API apparently cause memory corruption. Though this is obviously cause for concern, at the moment it would seem access to the system would already be required to make use of the exploit. …

Shockers lose in Las Vegas again 
Wichita State can only hope what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. The eighth-ranked Shockers lost their second straight game Saturday, a 60-56 defeat to Southern Cal at Orleans Arena in the third-place game of the Las Vegas Holiday Classic.

German Net Scammers Sentenced To Four Years 
The two men were part of an Internet auto-dialing scam that netted them more than 12 million euros, or $15.8 million.