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	Spam rates hit five-year low, but phishing is on the rise Thanks to successful botnet shutdowns, the amount of spam oozing through the Internet has dropped considerably over the past year, driving the overall percentage of unwanted email messages to depths unseen since 2006. Phishing, however, is on the rise, according to Symantec's June 2011 "State of Spam & Phishing Report." Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Easier. Faster. Freer. Remote Access for Small Business IT With LogMeIn Free, you can access and support an unlimited number of PCs and Macs from anywhere, anytime. Utilize important files and programs. Perform diagnostic services. Be more productive. Be more effective. All absolutely free. Get it free now » In this Issue For Father's Day: The perfect keyboard Fraud starts after Lulzsec group releases email, passwords U.S. warns of problems in Chinese SCADA software Research tackles power usage in the virtual data center Obama's CIO quits WHITE PAPER: EMC The Changing Role of Network Management Read how new challenges in IT like virtualization and cloud computing are changing the role of Network Managers, who are now required to leverage automation and integrated solutions even further to adapt to these changes. Learn how EMC Ionix Network Solutions help Network Managers overcome these challenges. Read now For Father's Day: The perfect keyboard There's nothing more "personal" about a personal computer than its keyboard. I swear by my 20-year-old Northgate Computer Omnikey 102, a beast that rattles and clucks like a 20-pound rooster. But you don't have to root around in the attic to find a good -- no, great -- keyboard. Several manufacturers are making worthy new keyboards that employ excellent mechanical switch technology. If you're looking for a great hundred-dollar-or-so gift for the dad in your life, these new keyboards warrant your attention. Read More Fraud starts after Lulzsec group releases email, passwords Debbie Crowell never ordered the iPhone, but thanks to a hacking group known as Lulzsec, she spent a good part of her Thursday morning trying to get $712 in charges reversed after someone broke into her Amazon account and ordered it. "They even had me pay for one-day shipping," she said via email Thursday afternoon. Read More U.S. warns of problems in Chinese SCADA software Two vulnerabilities found in industrial control system software made in China but used worldwide could be remotely exploited by attackers, according to a warning issued on Thursday by the U.S. Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). Read More Research tackles power usage in the virtual data center Data center managers are well versed in distributing power efficiently to physical servers. But the proliferation of virtualization, with multiple virtual machines and applications running on a single piece of hardware, has made this task a lot more complicated. Read More Obama's CIO quits The first person ever appointed as the CIO of the federal government, Vivek Kundra, is resigning after two and a half years on the job, the White House said Thursday. There was no hint in the announcement made by Jack Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget, that Kundra's exit was prompted by a shift in the White House's view on IT. Read More
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