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EMC Enhances Incentives to Velocity Reseller Channel Partners
EMC has enhanced its deal registration program and added more incentives for partners and their sales executives who invest in training and attaining certifications for EMC technologies. The enhancements are designed to streamline channel partners’ dealings with EMC at the same time it rewards them for vendor loyalty to the company during challenging economic times.…
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New Browser Flaw Weakens EV SSL Trust
A newly discovered vulnerability in the way web browsers handle high-assurance Extended Validation SSL (EV SSL) certificates may render them ineffective until browser developers fix the problem, security researchers said today. EV SSL certificates were designed several years ago by certificate issuing authorities to combat the growing trust problems with normal domain validated SSL certificates…
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There’s No Such Thing as Ubiquitous Security
A headline in USA Today last week read: “Jakarta blasts puts spotlight on hotel security.” In the same week, a headline on CNN read: “Twitter hack raises questions about ‘cloud computing.” Why are these two headlines linked? It’s because they’re making sweeping assumptions about the consistency of security threats based on two isolated incidents. Let’s…
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Twitter Hack Puts Spotlight on Password Weaknesses
Twitter has been hacked, sort of. Actually, the Google Apps account used by Twitter employees was hacked, which led to the deeper compromise of the Twitter corporate network and the unauthorized release of data regarding the company’s growth plans and credit card numbers of several employees. It’s believed that a hacker named Croll used the…
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Twitter Financial Info Published after Hacking Incident
(Reuters) – Technology news website TechCrunch published on Wednesday sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial projections, offering a rare glimpse into the wildly popular microblogging site. Twitter has a targeted revenue run rate of $140 million by the end of 2010, with the expectation it would record its first revenue — a modest…
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McAfee Says Spammers Could Teach Marketers a Thing or Two
In its’ latest spam report, McAfee Inc. says corporate marketing departments could learn a thing or two on how to better target customers. And governments around the world could improve their national and international business prospects by aggressively combating illegal Internet activities, but don’t hold your breath. Spammers understand their "customers," regardless of the country…