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Fail-Safe: Achieving 100% Uptime for Crucial Web Services

There's no substitute for testing redundancy measures, both from an IT and general utilities perspective. It's easy for many providers to claim iron-clad redundancy, but without adequate testing, it's impossible to ensure that the purported measures are effective. It's much less stressful and less detrimental to discover and solve a problem during routine testing than at a critical juncture -- on Black ...more
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Five Ways to Stop Mass SQL Injection Attacks

A new wave of mass SQL injection attacks seen in mid-August to hit over half a million websites, including parts of Apple's site serves as a weighty reminder of the growing prevalence of mass injections and of SQL injections in general as a favorite means of hackers to tap into organizations' infrastructure and data resources.

In light of these attacks, security researchers believe ...more
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Jobs Jabs At Google, Google Jabs Back

Most Apple press conferences start off with some statistics and state-of-the-company type stuff. Wednesday was no different, and Jobs noted that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS-based devices per day. He made sure to specify that that's 230,000 new devices being activated each day. That figure includes iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt recently let fly ...more
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AOL Rejects Bing and Renews Search Ties To Google

When Microsoft launched its Bing decision engine in 2009, it may have held out hope for an alliance with AOL. In fact, there were even rumors that Microsoft would buy out the struggling Internet service provider. But AOL has shunned Bing in favor of Microsoft's online nemesis, Google.

On Thursday, Google announced a five-year renewal and expansion with AOL. Google will continue ...more
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IPv6 Transition Poses New Security Threats

The countdown to the saturation of the IPv4 address supply is now down to a matter of months: and along with the vast address space of the next-generation IPv6 architecture comes more built-in network security as well as some new potential security threats.

IPv6 has been in the works for over a decade now, but with the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space expected anywhere from ...more
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