Security: While end-users certainly get their share of attention for presenting enormous danger to your networks, outside threats are real and many. “The idea that a remote attacker can launch a series of bytes against your computers, then gain control over them, always brings the greatest fear to administrators,” Roger Grimes espouses in Protect against external threats. But you can take action, beginning with inventorying your network, then disabling unneeded services, just to get started. From the Test Center: To Blaze Adviser 6.5, Fair Issac has added more than 20 new features and improvements, one of the most useful being the verification and testing framework. “For large scale, enterprise-wide applications, Blaze Adviser is a top choice due to the breadth and depth of the feature set,” Steven Nunez writes. That said, Nunez explains that, “Some of these features, most notably the rule lifecycle maintenance tools, are still a bit immature.” Read the full review. The news beat: AMD launches Spider, its platform for boosting graphics, performance-per-watt, and high-definition video. Dell shows off an all-in-one computer, the XPS One, which houses the monitor and CPU in one. EarthLink hints that it might sell the municipal Wi-Fi unit that created networks in Philadelphia and other cities. And Mozilla says it will patch a 9-month old bug in Firefox after security researches demonstrated that the vulnerability was more serious than originally thought. Security