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Top Editors Picks Gallery: Inside the botnets Dancho Danchev: Big botnets like Conficker and Torpig grab the headlines, but smaller botnets, often launched by novice cybercrooks and operating under the radar, never make the news. Until now. Here's an insider's view, based on a year's worth of surveillance, into the work of botnet masters. READ FULL STORY Adobe plans quarterly Patch Day for Reader/Acrobat fixes McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs 'Gumblar' web attacks spreading quickly 3.5m hosts affected by the Conficker worm globally Sponsored Oracle Business Brief: Make Compliance Work for You Download this paper to learn how to make compliance work for you, rather than the other way around, with Oracle solutions for midsize organizations. (Oracle) EMC: Virtualization is ready to run the world's biggest applications Jason Hiner: EMC, which owns virtualization market leader VMware, spent a lot of time at EMC World 2009 this week driving home the point to IT professionals that the entire data center can be virtualized. READ FULL STORY EMC's Tucci: The four next big things in IT EMC World: You still need to manage that data Image Gallery: EMC World 2009 Can EMC keep cloud computing from forking? EMC World: A view of the enterprise from above the cloud Can Microsoft claw back lost market share from Apple? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ad trackers at BrandIndex are suggesting that Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunters" ad campaign allowed Microsoft to overtake Apple in value perception scores with the 18-to-35 age group. Could Microsoft, with the help of Windows 7, claw back lost market share from Apple? READ FULL STORY Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter? Microsoft: Exchange 2007 SP2 required for interop with Exchange 2010 Microsoft's Ozzie defends Microsoft's aggressive online spending Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringement Sponsored Accelerating SAP with Automated Business Process Validation View this 43-minute video to learn about innovative test automation and lifecycle management solutions for SAP software that accelerates delivery and reduces total cost of ownership. (Worksoft) Mac OS X vulnerable to 6-month old Java flaw Ryan Naraine: Attention Mac OS X users: Turn Java off immediately or you could be at high risk of malicious code execution attacks. READ FULL STORY Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws Tored-A email worm for Mac OS X called "lame" Apple Patch Day: 67 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities Intel boosts Atom; New Moblin interface Intel previewed the next-generation Atom chip - giving it a more integrated design intended to improve performance and energy efficiency. Plus, Moblin 2.0 is released with a new interface. READ FULL STORY Intel's next-gen Atom platform - Pine Trail Living with a netbook: The performance penalty Gallery: Intel rebuilds netbooks Featured TalkBack Blog Craigslist sues South Carolina AG Larry Dignan: Craigslist said Wednesday that it is suing South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster for his "direct and public threats to criminally prosecute Craigslist and its management." READ FULL BLOG What do you think? Should South Carolina's Attorney General Henry McMaster back down? Post Your Thoughts in TalkBack Reader TalkBacks IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' "SMBs can save 'beaucoup deniro' by using Linux and hire a certified Linux admin off the street." -- Dietrich T. Schmitz Shame on you, Facebook! 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