[TechRepublic] FBI seizes servers; What if it happened to you?

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FBI seizes servers: Reminds IT admins to have a back-up plan If the FBI seized your Web servers by mistake, would you be able to keep your site up? Here are five tips to make sure you could. Read more Resource of the day How HP and Fortify helped FICO Implement a Secure Development Lifecycle Hear how FICO increased security testing across their software development lifecycle to deliver more secure applications. They'll talk about how HP Software and Fortify Software helped them deliver more secure software that complies with federal regulations like PCI and how they were able to build more secure applications and minimize the risk of security breaches from hackers that attack web applications. Watch webinar here More from TechRepublic   Poll: Are you reevaluating your cloud strategy? The recent cloud computing disasters may lead some organizations to consider retreating from their cloud plans. Has your cloud strategy changed in recent months? Read more iPhone 5 rumors timeline worth bookmarking Can't keep up with the iPhone 5 rumor mill? You're not alone. CNET created a timeline that tracks the iPhone 5 rumors of 2011 so far. Read more No more excuses: 9 reasons why smart businesses upgrade to Google Apps for Business If you use Google Apps for your business, you should upgrade from the free Google Apps solution to the paid Google Apps for Business solution. Read more Turn your mobile device into a credit card terminal If you need to accept customer payments when you're on-the-go, try the free Credit Card Terminal app, which is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone 7-based devices. Read more How your emails can become public record: The Enron dataset Would you find a massive public archive of emails useful for testing mail filtering software? How would you feel about your emails being part of the archive? Read more Stuff You Should Know team on Scientology, physics, and superpowers Stuff You Should Know just might be the geekiest podcast around. Read our interviews with hosts Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant and producer Jeri Rowland. Read more News from ZDNet   Mozilla to enterprise customers: "Drop dead" The Mozilla Corporation shipped Firefox 5 this week, almost exactly three months after it shipped Firefox 4. New releases are due every six weeks. So what does Mozilla say to reassure enterprise... Read more HP, Cisco: Entering a new era in cloud computing At Structure 2011 in San Francisco, Cisco's Lew Tucker and HP's Joe Weinman talk about emerging cloud technologies and a new era of large-scale geographically dispersed computing. Read more Oracle's Ellison: We're cloud 2.0, multitenancy religion a crock Oracle CEO Larry Ellison tossed a hand grenade at software as a service companies: Their cherished multitenancy architecture is vastly overrated and dated. Read more FTC reportedly eyes antitrust probe of Google: Is search giant too dominant? The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly ready to serve Google with subpoenas in a broad antitrust investigation. Will the mere investigation make Google less competitive? Read more Red Hat declares war against VMware on cloud front Red Hat declared war against VMware on the cloud front today, noting that the rapid expansion of OVA and its own expanding open source platform for cloud computing threatens VMware's Cloud Foundry Read more E-waste law redux: Updated bills pitched as green jobs play But industry group says proposals will backfire and 'stifle' potential for U.S. exports. Read more Are Google Maps and the Apple iPhone breaking up? It's looking like Apple iOS 5 may ditch Google Maps in favor of an in-house mapping solution, if an oddity in the mobile operating system's legal disclaimers is any indication. Read more First Impressions: 8" Vizio tablet coming in late July, $350 [updated] Vizio, the budget-friendly television maker just proved it's possible to create an Android tablet with few compromises for $350. But will you be buying? Read more ComScore: Apple's iPad dominates tablet traffic globally Apple's iPad dominates tablet traffic globally, but the iPhone-Android race is much closer on the smartphone front, according to comScore data. Read more Cloud computing infrastructures will routinely fail, panel says Most of us can agree that we're still in the nascent stages of cloud computing, and that there are a lot of pitfalls to overcome still. But many Silicon Valley players argue that we need to accept... Read more DotCloud expands PaaS offerings for apps worldwide DotCloud, a start-up dedicated to Platform as a Service, is moving on from private beta mode to offering its services to developers and IT departments for deploying their applications worldwide. Read more Google Voice: a step-by-step primer on ditching your land line while keeping your number Google doesn't normally allow you to port a land line phone number to Google Voice. This step-by-step primer shows you how you can do it. Read more Facebook adds Netflix CEO to board of directors Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has joined Facebook's board of directors. Read more Featured multimedia   Gallery: Inside Japan's K Computer - world's top supercomputer The unfinished Fujitsu K Computer, at more than 8 petaflops, is more than three times more powerful than China's second place machine. View on site Gallery: NASA takes a new, closer look at the moon NASA declares the mission of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter a success after beaming back lunar images and measurements in sharper detail than ever before. 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