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For networking pros, every month is Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Network World

When National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) was launched in October 2004, it was a modest affair, offering anodyne advice to individual Americans and US businesses along the lines of making sure to update your antivirus software twice a year.

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20th National Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off

Network World

The designation became official in 2004, when President George W. Keep in mind that in 2004, security practice often involved little more than updating antivirus software. Bush and Congress declared October to be National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

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USPTO denies OpenAI’s attempts to trademark ‘ChatGPT’ and ‘GPT’

GeekWire

The trademark examining attorney wrote, in part: … Internet evidence shows that “CHAT” means “a synchronous exchange of remarks over a computer network.” ” We’ve contacted OpenAI for comment on the USPTO rulings. 7 , and was reported earlier today by Hacker News and Boing Boing.

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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

GeekWire

Jeff Hussey, CEO and co-founder of Tempered Networks, and his wife on a trip to Austria. Jeff Hussey , co-founder and CEO of Seattle’s Tempered Networks, is not a believer in long-term work-from-home practices. “We Hussey left the F5 board of directors in 2004. His office at Tempered Networks has views of Puget Sounds.

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Ahead of Patch Tuesday, a cautionary tale

Computerworld Vertical IT

Microsoft has officially deemed Windows 10 version 2004 as “ready for business,” but I’d argue it still needs a bit more help to be fully ready for consumers. This case involves one AskWoody subscriber who told me recently that each time he upgraded to Windows 10 2004 the installation would break his computer.

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Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace

Trends in the Living Networks

and Google are doing in the space, the article continues: As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks. was that employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive than those at tables for four, thanks to more chance conversations and larger social networks.

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Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users

Trends in the Living Networks

While I closely followed the social networking space at the time, I didn’t join many. When I was writing Living Networks in 2002 there were no true social networking applications in existence. As it happens this model closer to LinkedIn than any of the other major social networking platforms of today.

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