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	Google Search Strips Privacy from 'Your World' If you signed into your Google account, then you noticed that Google stripped privacy from your digital world. This 'personal' search results change is neither privacy by design, nor by default. Even 'opting-out' per Google signed-in session will not stop others from seeing your data in their Google search results. You are automatically opted-in since there's no privacy setting to exclude your 'social'... Read More WEBCAST: ForeScout Technologies Experts Help CIOs Rethink Threat Prevention This webcast examines sophisticated and targeted threats, security gaps, techniques and new technologies with regards to understanding and defending against zero-day threats, propagating worms, low-and-slow attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). Learn more. In this Issue IBM software eases role-based security operations Is insourcing the new outsourcing? How a Baptist pastor in Florida became the go-to IT guy Hash collision DoS vulnerability fixed in PHP 5.3.9 Sandia Labs touts DNSSEC tool Microsoft to launch real-time threat intelligence feed Managing information security during an innovation void 5 Hot Technology Policy Agenda Items You Need to Watch UPDATED: The Best of CES 2012 Symantec employs scareware sales tactics, lawsuit charges WHITE PAPER: VMware & NetApp Drive IT Efficiency with a Private Cloud Read this success story and find out how NetApp and VMware provided Magna International with a cost-efficient solution. Read Now! IBM software eases role-based security operations IBM this week announced an identity-management analytics tool that eases what can be a tedious job for information-technology managers -- defining roles for employees in order to establish policy-based access to a network and application resources. Read More Is insourcing the new outsourcing? It would be a stretch to insinuate that outsourcing of all manner of work outside the US is subsiding substantially. Read More How a Baptist pastor in Florida became the go-to IT guy As a Baptist pastor, Terrill Gilley says his work calls for him to help worshippers and provide support to the senior pastor at his Florida church located in a rural area outside Orlando. And oh, he's also the network administrator for the church and the school it established. Read More WEBCAST: Aerohive The Cloud's Impact on Branch Office Networking Gartner Vice President & Distinguished Analyst Mark Fabbi explains how cloud-enabled networking allows full functionality in the branch, enterprise-grade visibility and control in real-time, with the ability to provide automated remediation and security to even the most remote branch or teleworker. View Now Hash collision DoS vulnerability fixed in PHP 5.3.9 The PHP development team has released version 5.3.9 of the popular Web development platform in order to address a recently disclosed denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, as well as other security issues and bugs. Read More Sandia Labs touts DNSSEC tool Sandia National Laboratories is touting a free Web-based visualization tool called DNSViz to help domain name registrars, government organizations and others rolling out DNS Security to better manage the technology that federal entities have been mandated to employ. DNSSEC for the .com domain was also enabled last year, with big registrars like GoDaddy.com jumping on board. Read More Microsoft to launch real-time threat intelligence feed Microsoft is looking to share its wealth of security information with the world through a new real-time threat intelligence feed, the company recently announced at the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York. Read More WHITE PAPER: Bradford Networks (BYOD) Unleashed in the Age of IT Consumerization IT departments need to understand what devices are trying to connect to their networks, so they can provide convenient, secure access to those that are authorized, including personal iPads and smartphones. This white paper explains how IT departments can implement a practical and secure strategy and offer the convenience mobile devices provide. Read more Managing information security during an innovation void Although predictions for the coming year are a staple of the season, I will do more than offer an educated guess. I am going on the record with a guarantee: In 2012 we will see an increase in network intrusions from disparate parties trying to create IT infrastructure chaos for a variety of reasons primarily political, financial and economic. An easy prediction perhaps given the trend and yet while I fully trust CSOs and CISOs and security teams are doing all they can to prevent breaches; I am deeply concerned that they still lack the technology to adequately protect IT infrastructure from malicious attacks. Read More 5 Hot Technology Policy Agenda Items You Need to Watch From providing more spectrum space for wireless providers to battling online piracy to creating cybersecurity policy to protecting intellectual property, expect things to heat up in Washington this year. So pour yourself a cup of coffee and read on to learn how lawmakers will impact the tech world in the year ahead. Read More UPDATED: The Best of CES 2012 Smartphones, tablets, unique gadgets and yes, Ultrabooks make a splash at CES 2012 Read More Symantec employs scareware sales tactics, lawsuit charges A Washington man on Tuesday sued Symantec in federal court, accusing it of using the same tactics as fake "scareware" software to sell its PC cleanup utilities. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS CES 2012 ultrabooks and tablets Ultrabooks! Ultrabooks! That's the official biggest buzzword for this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ultrabooks! In honor of these purportedly magical super-thin laptops, we've decided to make a compilation of some of the ultrabooks you'll see at CES next week. And for good measure, we've thrown in a tablet that will garner a lot of attention as well. Enjoy! GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES IBM wins most patents for 19th straight year New era for Web site names begins Thursday 4 sweet smartphones from CES 2012 5 reasons Linux Mint is better than Ubuntu The best of CES 2012 Apple's HDTV and the challenge of subscription programming Microsoft's Steve Ballmer talks Windows 8 Google search strips privacy from "Your World" IPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 Data center networking discontinuity
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