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Businesses offer best practices for escaping CryptoLocker hell

2013-11-15 14:11:54| InfoWorld: Top News

It is an IT nightmare: Businesses hit with the CryptoLocker malware find their electronic files locked up inside strong encryption and the extortionist operating the malware botnet demanding money to give them the security key that would let companies get their data back.What do you do to escape this crypto hell of ransomware? A few corporations here detail their experiences with the nasty malware and say in many cases back-up and restoration was their only way out.

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New research provides evidence of coal dust escaping from trains

2013-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

OPB: An atmospheric and environmental scientist with the University of Washington gathered air quality samples at two sites next to train tracks in the Northwest. And after testing 450 trains as they passed - roughly 10% of which were carrying coal - Dan Jaffe says some preliminary results from his crowdfunded study are in. We did find an increase in large particles in the air when coal trains pass by and it does suggest that its coal dust and its consistent with coal dust from those trains. One...

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Bye-bye, Big Red? Escaping Oracle's not that easy

2013-11-04 14:40:19| InfoWorld: Top News

Talk to certain folks and you'd believe Oracle is doomed, doomed. Its proprietary database solutions are a prime target for being displaced by the likes of open source contenders MariaDB and PostgreSQL. It's only a matter of time.

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iPad Air: Escaping Apples Reality Distortion Field

2013-10-23 20:24:03| Extremetech

At first glance, with the Apple Reality Distortion Field at full power, the iPad Air seems like an impeccable, immaculate device that could only ever be conceived by the magicians at Apple in California. The iPad Air is some 30% lighter and 20% thinner than the iPad that it replaces, while still retaining the same Retina display and 10 hours of battery life. Somehow, just somehow, Apple made us feel that it had yet again pulled off the impossible. In reality, the iPad Air, while very attractive, isn't remarkable at all.

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