Botnets - often associated with compromised home computers are actually frequently targeted for small-medium sized business networks. Why? Because SMB's often have valuable data without sufficient resources to protect it. Get the details at darkreading.com. http://www.darkreading.com/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217300483
3. Selecting and Configuring a Firewall
Back to the basics for this one. If you need to secure your network and could use a simple overview of how to go about getting a firewall in place, check out this article on the Techsoup site. Contains a lot of useful links as well. http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/networks/page11176.cfm
4. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Most people have taken an online quiz at one time or another, and for the most part they can seem pretty harmless. But as this article points out, this is not always the case. Beware the fine print and some less than honorable activities with at least some of the quizzes out there. This article gives you the low down on what to look out for. http://www.pcworld.com/article/164527/the_hidden_secrets_of_online_quizzes.html
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