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You may have noticed that content update on the site has been a bit slow as of late. All resources have been diverted to the development of a new portal product. The portal has the interim name of "Incognito".
The portal is Classic ASP and CSS based. It is hoped that it will be very modular, easy to build for, and easy to administer. Development has been coming along quite nicely. Watch this space for a link to the dev site!
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Rogue SysAdmin Gives Up Passwords
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Microsoft To Sell User-Created Games
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Intel Drops Price of Core2 Duo
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Facebook Sues Over Copied Design
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RIM Fixes BlackBerry Enterprise Server Vulnerability
Research In Motion has patched a critical vulnerability in its BlackBerry Enterprise Servers that left companies vulnerable to malici ...
Georgia President Victim of DDOS Attack
The Web site for the president of Georgia was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack over the weekend, yet another in a series of cyberattacks attack ...
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