Microsoft's Ballmer attacked by egg-tosser
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was forced to take cover behind a lectern Monday during an address at Corvinus University of Budapest after a student began shouting and tossing eggs.

Mass SQL injection attack targets Chinese Web sites
Web sites across China and Taiwan are being hit by a mass SQL injection attack that has implanted malware in thousands of Web sites, according to a security company in Taiwan.

Meet the winners of the High School IT-Olympics
Dozens of Iowa high school teams from grades 9-12 battled in three contests: Robotics, Cyber Defense and Game Design. These students also learned there's a future in information technology.

Is an online backup service OK for your data stockpiles?
Online data backups and e-mail archiving finally turning the storage-as-a-service dream into a business reality.

I spy your PC: Researchers find new ways to steal data
Researchers have developed two new techniques for stealing data from a computer that use some unlikely hacking tools: cameras and telescopes.

Popular open source spam filter gets boost
SpamAssassin, popular open source spam-filtering software, will have deadlier aim thanks to an add-on tool that is being offered free of charge to small businesses and individuals by MailChannels.

BlackBerry server upgrade to face stern tests
The 5.0 release of BlackBerry Enterprise Server, due late this year, will test not only enterprise BlackBerry administrators but also its creator, Research in Motion. At stake will be whether RIM's software can perform ...

PODCAST

Single sign-on in a Web 2.0 world
TriCipher's MyOneLogin lets corporations roll out single sign-on to employees accessing multiple internal and external Web sites. Network World's Jason Meserve talks with TriCipher's Jon Brody about the security ramifications of single sign-on and how companies can leverage the technology. (9:26)

LIVE CHAT

Crimeware: understanding new attacks and defenses, with authors Markus Jakobsson and Zulfikar Ramzan
Join internationally acclaimed security scientists and authors Markus Jakobsson and Zulfikar Ramzan for a live chat on Wednesday May 28 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST where they will answer your questions about advanced IT threats. Some of the spooky new tools financially motivated attackers are using today include rootkits, bot networks, spyware, adware and click fraud. But you can learn to protect your networks. PLUS, attendees of the chat will be eligible to win one of 10 copies of the authors' latest book Crimeware: understanding new attacks and defenses.

BLOGS

Buzzblog: The real sticking point with Microsoft/Yahoo!
Microsoft's desperate struggle to acquire Yahoo! has gotten hung up not on disagreement over a fair price for the latter's online advertising operations, sources say, but rather the value of Yahoo!'s iconic exclamation point.

Six free security tools you shouldn't live without
Security pro Tyson Kopczynski will surprise you with his picks of the six free security tools that all IT folks should know about and use.

Wireless SIP devices gain momentum
Nickasch: While most "proprietary-like" vendors have extensive wireless mobility solutions, the standards-based SIP protocol has recently been lacking in the availability of quality wireless SIP endpoints. However, the competition seems to be increasing as German developer and manufacturer Snom introduced the "m3" to the North American market, a wireless SIP handset that uses DECT to communicate to an IP base station.

Burning Down Your VPN with Super Broadband Speeds
Morris: I read an article earlier this year about how Comcast is planning to upgrade broadband access speeds to as fast at 160 Mbps. From almost all perspectives, this is great. Faster broadband means a better user experience, interactive applications, and HDTV. But what does this mean for VPN access to work?

The World Needs “BSM Lite”
Sevcik and Wetzel: Business Service Management (BSM) is the holy grail of good IT management, and achieving it using the current crop of IT management tools from the "big four" management platform vendors is about as hard as finding the real holy grail. The world needs a simpler, less expensive, more responsive way of achieving BSM.

Today on Cisco Subnet
Should Cisco pursue a marriage with EMC? Some say the that deal makes sense as the Next Big Thing; Janitors to go on strike at Cisco, other Valley offices; What's the full cost of Cisco TelePresence?

Today on Microsoft Subnet
SharePoint planning now a part of Software Assurance; Microsoft considers new kind of deal with Yahoo; Yahoo! Only Makes Microsoft Distant #2 In Search; Are open source advocates growing soft over Microsoft?

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