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Symantec: Cyberthreats skyrocket in volume, sophistication

Symantec Corp. on Tuesday reported more than 286 million new cyberthreats in 2010, accompanied by new "megatrends" on the threat landscape.

Mountain View-based Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) said targeted attacks such as Hydraq and Stuxnet posed a growing threat to enterprises in 2010. Attackers launched targeted attacks against publicly traded, multinational corporations and government agencies, as well as a number of smaller companies

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Yes, Google WILL penalize your site for violating their webmaster terms ...

Just ask JC Penny ... back in Feb. the NYT ran a story discussing why JC Penny ranked so well on so many organic search terms ... they (NYT) hired an outside consultant to investigate, and they found some strange results. After presenting their findings to Google, many of JC Penny's listings were no longer top ranked. Read more at: http://searchengineland.com/new-york-times-exposes-j-c-penney-link-scheme-that-causes-plummeting-rankings-in-google-64529 .

The main lessson from this story, aside from complying with Google's terms, is to know exactly what your outside SEO company is doing on your behalf.

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LinkedIn Launches LinkedIn Today, News From Your Network

Does the web need yet another news aggregator?

LinkedIn thinks so ... with the launch of their LinkedIn Today, they are aiming at the professional market.

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Wow, DotNetNuke is going to C# ...

Might be time for some to take another look at DotNetNuke ... it was just announced that the popular web content management system will be using C# for the core of the upcoming 6.0 release.

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