From Windows from Vista to 8.1, Microsoft Year-end Patch Tuesday hits 'em all

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	From Windows from Vista to 8.1, Microsoft Year-end Patch Tuesday hits 'em all Microsoft is wrapping up the year's Patch Tuesday bulletins next week with 11 more fixes, pushing the total for 2013 to 106, up from last year's total of 83. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Four Steps toward Planning a Successful Email Migration Email migrations isn't as simple as purchasing new hardware and moving user accounts. Strong planning and good tools are also essential. In this tech brief, learn how you can execute four key steps in your email migration, and the tools that make it easy and secure. Read now! In this Issue Cloud Security Alliance offers ultra-high cloud security plan National Science Foundation IT guy gets smacked for stealing $94,493 worth of electronic goodies Using BYOD? Get SaaS-based mobile device security Foundation exec slams Microsoft for 'meaningless' security pledge Study finds zero-day vulnerabilities abound in popular software Get a Password Manager Now Navy blasts drone from submerged sub Data breaches have eroded consumer faith in security, Fujitsu finds Microsoft says government snooping constitutes an APT event IBM blames ISPs for 'offensive' Internet ... back in 1994 New website lets users check if their online credentials were exposed in large data leaks WHITE PAPER: New Relic Secure, Reliable & Proven APM for the Enterprise Your organization depends on your web applications to do business -- from customer facing eCommerce,banking or travel applications, to mission-critical applications for your employees or partners. When it comes to performance, visitors' expectations for service and reliability are high. Read Now Cloud Security Alliance offers ultra-high cloud security plan The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is putting forward an innovative encryption-based security architecture for software-defined networks and cloud environments that draws some of its inspiration from high-security networks used by the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. Read More National Science Foundation IT guy gets smacked for stealing $94,493 worth of electronic goodies This IT guy had an all-together different idea of how to spend government money. The Department of Justice today said James Troy Clark, 51, of Fredericksburg, Va., an IT specialist with the National Science Foundation plead guilty this week to theft of government property totaling more than $90,000. [IN THE NEWS: Bitcoin's highest highs, lowest lows] Read More Using BYOD? Get SaaS-based mobile device security CISOs' number one concern about allowing BYOD is the security of enterprise data. 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Read More Study finds zero-day vulnerabilities abound in popular software Subscribers to organizations that sell exploits for vulnerabilities not yet known to software developers gain daily access to scores of flaws in the world's most popular technology, a study shows. Read More Get a Password Manager Now Well maybe it is just the time of year, or maybe it's the time of man (extra points if you know what song that is from), but password thefts are popping up all over. First the Read More WHITE PAPER: Stratacache Maximizing the Online Experience with Cache Technology In this enlightening interview, we explore how retail cache technology reduces latency and diminishes bandwidth requirements for an optimal user experience. Learn More. Navy blasts drone from submerged sub The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory said it has successfully launched an unmanned electric fuel cell aircraft from a submerged submarine. Read More Data breaches have eroded consumer faith in security, Fujitsu finds A decade of data breaches has left barely one in ten UK consumers with faith in the ability of large organisations to safeguard their personal data, a survey for Fujitsu has revealed. Read More Microsoft says government snooping constitutes an APT event Microsoft isn't happy, and their top lawyer had plenty to say about protecting customer information this week in a blog post that announced the company's efforts to implement wide-reaching encryption. Read More IBM blames ISPs for 'offensive' Internet ... back in 1994 1994: It was a simpler time, when IBM sold an operating system called OS/2 version 3.0 (a.k.a. OS/2 Warp) and corporate lawyers could plausibly imagine people venturing onto the Internet and being shocked - shocked! - to find "objectionable" content there. Read More New website lets users check if their online credentials were exposed in large data leaks A new website allows Internet users to check if their usernames and passwords were exposed in some of the largest data breaches in recent years. Read More
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