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Year of the cloud? Not until it can shield world's Mitnicks

We need to talk about Kevin CEE Kevin Mitnick has a problem. As the world's number one hacker and the first to be sent to prison for hacking - a whopping sentence for his crimes - his website is an obvious target for script kiddies looking to make their mark.…

LogicMonitor Bolsters Hosted Monitoring Service to Empower MSPs and DevOps

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Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA?

Wednesday is here, and with it sites around the internet are going under temporary blackout to protest two pieces of legislation currently making their way through the U.S. Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA). Wikipedia, reddit, the Free Software Foundation, Google, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, imgur, Mozilla, and many others have all made major ...

SOPA Uncensored: You Speak Out

Several internet giants either blacked out today, or came out strongly against SOPA and PIPA . ReadWriteWeb covered the issue, noting who spoke out , who blacked out and who jumped in to fill any gaps . You can see all of our coverage of SOPA and PIPA all in one place. Sponsor But covering a story fully often means turning the lens back to the community. The community of readers here at ...