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eBay vanishes: old routers stymied by explosive growth in web
eBay vanishes: old routers stymied by explosive growth in web

This week, arbitrary amounts of web traffic slowed or failed outright – including eBay in the UK – due to a long-known limitation on the number of addresses supported by older routers. Within these traffic-handling devices, a phone-book-like lookup technique known as the Border Gateway Protocol matches web page address requests to IP addresses: older routers…

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Update Internet Explorer today
Update Internet Explorer today

Microsoft has now fixed Internet Explorer’s very serious security problem, discovered April 26. Microsoft has provided the corrected versions even for those Internet Explorer versions which run only on their unsupported OS, Windows XP. As we posted here on Tuesday, Microsoft acknowledged that all versions of Internet Explorer contained the flaw, which was already known and exploited by…

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Stop using Internet Explorer ASAP – Security Roundup
Stop using Internet Explorer ASAP – Security Roundup

Stop using Internet Explorer, immediately. Unfortunately, this is no April Fools prank. A devastating security flaw – already being exploited in US industries – has been discovered and is not yet repaired.  It is so serious that the US Department of Homeland Security has moved “to urge users to consider alternative Web browsers until a…

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ILTA2012 LegalIT spending: current low is the New Normal

Notables and Quotables in 2012 •   Overall firm technology spending – as a percentage of firm revenue and based on per attorney spend – is still down from pre-2009 economic downturn. •   63% of all responding firms spend between 2-4% of total firm revenue on technology indicating a new tech budget ‘normal’. •…

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