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	Government engineers actively plan for cyberwar Governments are arming themselves to their cyber-teeth with offensive and counter-defense cyber weapons, and there's little enterprises can do to avoid the fray. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Three Steps to Effective Cloud Planning & Design Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Learn More! In this Issue Windows 8 picture password is 'Fisher-Price toy' says father of 2-factor authentication History's infamous social engineers Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues Ramnit worm goes after Facebook credentials Two new security books ponder: Just how vulnerable are we? Check Point supports cloud security for Amazon Web Services Microsoft researcher: Passwords aren't dead but they need fixing Privacy 2012: I know what you did at 3:30 a.m. More SCADA security flaws surface Network World's 2011 Tech News Quiz SpyEye malware borrows Zeus trick to mask fraud WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL Next-Gen Firewalls for K-12: Hall County Schools How Hall County Schools leverages SonicWALL Appliance Intelligence, Control and Visualization for bandwidth management and prioritization of application traffic for VoIP, video conferencing and social media resources. Read now. Windows 8 picture password is 'Fisher-Price toy' says father of 2-factor authentication The Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun, but it's not very good security, according to the inventor of RSA's SecurID token. Read More History's infamous social engineers Read More Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues Schools are for learning, and the information technology and security professionals who support networks and applications in the nation's K-12 and university systems are discovering new tactics in what can be challenging IT environments. Here we talk to four professionals in the education realm to get a sense for their top IT issues and what they do to handle them. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Virtualization and Business Continuity In this report, Enterprise Strategy Group reviews how HP's portfolio of hardware, software, and services can provide the foundational support for VMware environments. Read Now! Ramnit worm goes after Facebook credentials A pervasive worm has expanded its reach to now steal login and password details for Facebook users, warned security vendor Seculert, which found a server holding 45,000 login credentials. Read More Two new security books ponder: Just how vulnerable are we? Two recently-published books, "America the Vulnerable" by Joel Brenner, a former official at the National Security Agency (NSA) and "When Gadgets Betray Us," by writer and security analyst Robert Vamosi, have one theme in common: We've come to depend on modern networks and technology, but the compromise of them by attackers is a serious threat to both individuals and society as a whole. Read More Check Point supports cloud security for Amazon Web Services Check Point and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to enable Check Point Security Gateway functionality to boost cloud security for business assets. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Microsoft researcher: Passwords aren't dead but they need fixing Password use needs an overhaul that is driven not by guesswork but by actually understanding the real damage that can be done when password security is compromised, according to a Microsoft researcher. Read More Privacy 2012: I know what you did at 3:30 a.m. For a peek into what experts expect this year and beyond when it comes to privacy, we turn to the Rebecca Herold (aka the Privacy Professor) for answers. Read More More SCADA security flaws surface Numerous new authentication issues saddle Siemens' industrial control applications. Read More Network World's 2011 Tech News Quiz From Lulzsec to Apple patents to AT&T merger proposals, here's the year in multiple-choice questions Read More SpyEye malware borrows Zeus trick to mask fraud A powerful bank-fraud software program, SpyEye, has been seen with a feature designed to keep victims in the dark long after fraud has taken place, according to security vendor Trusteer. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 10 essential data center appliances With all of the noise in data center networking focused on switches, fabrics and lossless Ethernet standards, appliances like WAN optimizers and application accelerators are often overlooked. But they are important components of the data center/cloud infrastructure, especially as organizations virtualize desktop applications for remote sites. Here's a listing of 10 of the top players, and their products, in data center appliances. 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 IPad 3 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 3 iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 Cisco dumps the UMI personal telepresence very quietly IT pros lament: Low pay, no perks 2 days for amateur hacker to hack smart meter, fake readings Bandwidth bottlenecks loom large in the cloud 5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 Tips from IT professionals Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 The future is now: CES 2012 video sneak peek
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