[TechRepublic] Lessons to learn from the Twitter worm

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Five security lessons to learn from the Twitter worm A scripting worm struck twitter.com in September. Find out how it revealed an embarrassing error, and learn a few security lessons from Twitter's mistake. Read more Resource of the day On-Demand Videocast: Delivering a WOW! Experience to Customers Today, it's not enough to compete on just price and product. Learn how to deliver a great customer experience that keeps them coming back for more. How to escape SSH sessions without ending them A simple task on the local machine in the middle of using SSH to work on a remote machine does not have to mean ending the SSH session. Read more WinPatrol Cloud Edition leverages collective intelligence MVP Bill Pytlovany created his security utility called WinPatrol 11 years ago. It's time to take another look at the app, because the Cloud Edition makes it even better. Read more Lock your screen while away from the computer Locking your laptop or workstation while away from it is good security sense. Learn a number of different ways to do so, both on MS Windows and common open source Unix-like operating systems. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Five tips to ensure safe online shopping Online shopping is convenient. Unfortunately, that convenience can put your personal and financial information at risk. Michael Kassner shares some lessons he had to learn the hard way. Read more Manage client server OS patching with these best practices Follow these best practices to ensure the server OS patch process runs smoothly and doesn't introduce new issues and possibly sour the client relationship. Read more Five tips for moving disaster recovery to the cloud Companies are beginning to entrust their data to third-party cloud computing services -- but that strategy comes with certain risks. Here's an overview of some of the most critical issues to keep in mind. Read more Programming news: Rubinius 1.1, Eclipse Helios SR1, critical ASP.NET patch Read about using jQuery UI on the Microsoft Content Delivery Network, Titanium+Geo, the OpenOffice fork, using IronRuby on Windows Phone 7, and more. Read more Hal 9000 highlights TR Questions of the Week - October 4, 2010 The questions highlighted in this Questions of the Week post address issues with HAN technology, Windows 7 XP Mode, remote desktop, groups policies, using hosted QuickBooks solutions, and much more. Read more Featured multimedia   10 firewall tools to meet your budget Jack Wallen briefly evaluates the pros and cons of 10 firewall tools (four of them free) that might fit your needs. View on site AVG Anti-Virus Free: faster in 2011 (slideshow) AVG Anti-Virus Free 2011 breathes new life into one of the most popular security programs around with a shorter install, better usability, and faster scans. Tour this year's AVG Free update in this slideshow. View on site Featured Webcast SAP Business Communications Management for Utilities Learn how utilities can improve customer service using SAP Business Communications Management. The software provides a flexible, multichannel, all-IP business communications platform that supports activities from contact centers to field operations. Today's recommended downloads Free White Paper: Achieving Efficient Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) (Epicor Software) 3 Critical Security Products for the Price of Renewing Antivirus: Free Trial (Shavlik Technologies) On-Demand Videocast: Delivering a WOW! Experience to Customers (Oracle) Virtual Client Solutions for Success in a Tricky Economy (Dell) Get Your Sales Team On Board with CRM (Oracle) Five tips for meeting the eDiscovery challenge The time to develop your data archiving strategy is not the day you get hit with an eDiscovery request. Here are a few pointers to help you implement a system that will keep you in compliance. Mobile app galleries 25 must-have Android apps, according to Jason Hiner Must-have iPhone apps, according to Michael Kassner 25 must-have iPhone apps, according to Jason Hiner Must-have Windows Mobile apps, according to Deb Shinder

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