Hacker group demands 'idiot tax' from payday lender

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	Hacker group demands 'idiot tax' from payday lender Hacker group Rex Mundi has made good on its promise to publish thousands of loan-applicant records it swiped from AmeriCash Advance after the payday lender refused to fork over between $15,000 and $20,000 as an extortion fee -- or, in Rex Mundi's terms, an "idiot tax." Read More WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) Optimizing Virtual Platform Disk Performance In a virtualized environment where resources are shared among multiple virtual machines, file and free space fragmentation impedes performance exponentially. Fragmentation prevention and defragmentation technologies exist to eliminate unnecessary I/O overhead, and improve system performance. Read Now! In this Issue Smartphone security is heading for 'apocalypse' Acer announces sub-$700 Ultrabooks upgradable to Windows 8 Check Point product line provides anti-DDoS protection Catz denies committing Oracle to continued Itanium support WHITE PAPER: Box Disaster Recovery Services Providers Evaluation Improvements in disaster recovery plans and broad business continuity strategies are top-of-mind concerns for leading enterprises today and recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. These key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report. Read Now! Smartphone security is heading for 'apocalypse' The meteoric rise in the smartphone market is creating a dangerous vulnerability in smartphone security - one that may not be patched until the problem expands into what has been dubbed an "apocalypse." Read More Acer announces sub-$700 Ultrabooks upgradable to Windows 8 Acer on Wednesday announced new Timeline Ultra M5 Ultrabooks starting at $679.99 that will be upgradable to Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 Pro for $14.99. The Ultrabooks are just 20.54 millimeters thick with a starting weight of 1.95 kilograms and come with 14-inch and 15.6-inch screens. Two of the Timeline laptops starting at $779.99 have Intel's latest processors, code-named Ivy Bridge, while the $679.99 model has Intel's older and slower Core processor, code-named Sandy Bridge. Read More Check Point product line provides anti-DDoS protection Check Point Software Technologies today announced its first line of products to fight distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS). Check Point's DDoS Protector line of appliances, developed in conjunction with Radware, are intended for use in the enterprise networks, and would typically be placed in front of the firewall at the Internet access point. Read More Catz denies committing Oracle to continued Itanium support Oracle refused to commit to continued porting of its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium platform as part of the companies' settlement over Oracle's hiring of Mark Hurd, Oracle co-President Safra Catz told a judge on Tuesday. HP enterprise business head Ann Livermore at one point proposed several business commitments to be included in the settlement agreement when she and Catz spoke in the wake of Hurd's hiring in September 2010, Catz said. Among those was Oracle agreeing to continue porting its software to Itanium, a chip platform that is predominantly used by HP. Read More
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