Stories From The Issue Of » February 26, 2007
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Second Life Opens For Business
Toyota, Circuit City, Dell, Sears, and Adidas have set up shop in the Second Life virtual world. But their stores are empty. Can businesses find a place with any real-world payback in this fantasyland of overindulgence?

Dark Reading -- Risky Business

3G Card Secures Laptops
Lost your laptop full of company secrets? No problem: A prototype PCMCIA card developed by Bell Labs for laptops can lock that data down as soon as you've reported it lost or stolen, and throw away the keys.

Black Hat: Botnets Go One-on-One
The most savvy and sophisticated botnet operators are bringing out the big guns now -- operating deeper underground and staging massive distributed denial-of-service attacks on their adversaries.

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