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Here are some interesting links from today:

• Windows passwords easily bypassed over Firewire
  All of the sudden we're starting to see more and more attacks take advantage of what's stored on your computer's RAM — the latest, from New Zealand's Adam Boileau, allows an attacker to unlock Windows passwords in a just a few seconds using a Linux machi
• Dell Latitude XFR D630 Will Stop a Tank Shell (Almost)
  Dell's first fully ruggedized laptop is the Arnold of notebooks: A massive block of a machine that can withstand a SWAT team assault while blowing up Cyberdyne Systems. The D630 meets Department of Defense MIL-STD 810F standards for operation in extreme t

Here are some interesting links from today:

• First spam felony conviction upheld: no free speech to spam
  Virginia's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming. The spammer will serve nine years in prison for sending what authorities believe to be millions of messages over a two-month period in 2003.
  Jeremy Jaynes is the man
• ‘Generation Facebook’ IT skills wasted at work
  businesses are failing to make the most of this innate love of tech. "We've all got email and we've all got access to the internet and so we probably tend to think we're completely up to date. But what we've tended to do in many businesses is we've automa

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• MicroSD Card Low Price Search of the Week
• LinkedIn Now Mobile
  I guess it's inevitable that most social networks will go mobile to survive. Now, the 19 million members of the world's largest professional online network LinkedIn can access this site via mobile phones. Just visit http://m.linkedin.com and enter your ac
• LinkedIn CEO on ‘grown up’ social networking
  Benefits of LinkedIn over Facebook?
  We're about to hit 20 million members and we add 1.2 million users every month, so 300,000 people join every week. And these people are joining because they're all professional and because they're all over the world -
• Oregon State increases reliance on Macs
  While Macs don't comprise a majority of the computers at Oregon State — roughly 150 out of 3,000, or 5 percent — the number of Macs is rising, according to CIO. "Macs are more friendly to PC users than they used to be,"
• Finjan uncovers database storing more than 8,700 stolen FTP credentials
  The San Jose-based vendor announced today that it has uncovered an illegal database containing more than 8,700 stolen File Transfer Protocol server credentials including usernames, passwords and server addresses. Anyone can purchase those credentials and

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Dock Your Old Drives with the Hard Drive USB Dock
  Dock any internal SATA hard drive in this USB dock to turn any internal drive into an external drive on-the-quick.
• What PayPal does with your money
  They've figured out how not to be regulated, and they've done that globally," Quarles said. "[PayPal] has gone to great pains to be not considered a bank

Here are some interesting links from today:

• AT&T, Tenn. Create Medical Info Exchange
  AT&T Inc. is partnering with Tennessee to provide the country's first statewide system to electronically exchange patient medical information, the telecommunications company said Monday.

  The system is designed to securely transmit detailed patient info

• NTT RedTacton Device Turns Your Body Into Swipe Card
  Japanese telecom company NTT is soon to launch a product that transmits data via your body, effectively turning you into a touch-technology swipe card. RedTacton is a card-like gadget that you simply carry anywhere on your person, and it transmits data vi