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Hacks, false information have some questioning Twitter’s resolve Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an “information-sharing network” are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around. It may not sound like…
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Latest legal maneuver will open the way to appeal massive award granted to patent-holding firm VirnetX Apple will challenge a November 2012 jury verdict that awarded $368 million in damages to Nevada patent-holding company VirnetX, a filing with U.S. regulators showed. In a Form 10-Q filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
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Nearly half of phishing attacks seen during the second half of 2012 involved the use of hacked shared hosting servers, APWG report says Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Forty-seven…
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QUESTION 1 You work as a database administrator at Certkingdom.com. You are in the process of preparing the deployment of a new database that will have 45 gigabytes storage space for the transaction log file, and 280 gigabytes storage space for the database data file. There are approximately six 120 GB disk drives available for…
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QUESTION 1 You work as an administrator at Certkingdom.com. The Certkingdom.com network consists of a single domain named Certkingdom.com. All servers on the Certkingdom.com network have Windows Server 2012 installed. Certkingdom.com has a server, named Certkingdom-SR07, which has two physical disks installed. The C: drive hosts the boot partition, while the D: drive is not…
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QUESTION 1 You work as the Enterprise administrator at Certkingdom.com. The Certkingdom.com network has a domain named Certkingdom.com. The servers on the Certkingdom.com network run Windows Server 2008 and all client computers run Windows Vista. The Certkingdom.com network contains more than 3,000 computers. Certkingdom.com wants to make use of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) updates.…
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QUESTION 1 Certkingdom has hired you as their Database administrator. You create a database on named Development on ABC-DB01 that hosts an instance of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. You perform weekly maintenance and conclude that the Development database growing at about 100 MB on a monthly basis. The network users started complaining about poor…
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BlackBerry, Red Hat, Google and EarthLink say businesses use patent trolls as mercenaries to harass the competition Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for Google, Red…
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A third of all Windows users could still be running XP when Microsoft pulls patch plug in 53 weeks The decline in usage share of Windows XP, which is slated for retirement in 53 weeks, has slowed significantly, hinting that millions of its users will hold onto the operating system much longer than some, including…
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When it comes to education, most people agree, more is better. No one embodies that principle at least in regard to IT certifications better than Jerry Irvine. CIO of IT consulting firm Prescient Solutions and member of the National Cyber Security Task Force, Irvine holds more than 20 IT certifications, of which at least six…