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	Cisco offers advice on Target breach In the wake of the Target and Neiman Marcus data breaches, Cisco suggests encryption at the point-of-sale terminal. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAP Get Started with SAP HANA ebook This ebook introduces the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform and describes how it can transform your business. SAP HANA provides standard offerings to help with a range of business issues and can be incorporated into your current infrastructure, with preconfigured software, content and business-user enablement. 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Find out why the survivors of Hurricane Sandy and other recent calamities say they wish they'd had cloud-based business VoIP communications, rather than "the vulnerability and limitations of the premises-based communications we had in place." Learn more >> Massive denial-of-service attacks pick up steam, new nefarious techniques Several online gaming sites were recently hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that used a new type of assault on the victims: a Network Time Protocol Amplification Attack. Read More An Overview of Malware Protection Techniques It should come as no surprise that nowadays malware has become big business. Bad actors are increasingly better funded and improving their approaches for attacking us. We have reached the point where hacking has become industrialized. As vendors develop solutions, attackers continue to innovate. Read More Six tips for BYOD Security from IBM The folks over at the IBM midmarket team have come up with a good slideshow with 6 tips to better BYOD. First let's look at the list and then we can dive in and add some more: 1. Apply mobile device management software 2. Rethink your perimeter strategy Read More How to make 96,000lbs of WWII machinery into high-tech research platform The US Naval Research Laboratory is taking a 96,000-pound piece of World War II-era machinery and turning it into a test-bed for leading edge communications and radar applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies Achieve Guaranteed MS Lync Performance Learn how Gemalto, a world leader in digital security employing over 10,000 professionals in 43 different countries, was able to reduce telecom and IT costs while offering their clients a unified communication solution that delivers excellent performance, visibility, and user experience. Learn more >> Spammers target Google hospitality listings Spammers targeted hospitality-related business listings on Google services, modifying links in what appeared to be an attempt to drive traffic to a hotel bookings site. Read More 10 ways to prep for -- and ace -- a security job interview IT security pros with the right skills are in big demand. Last year, the employment rate for information security managers averaged .9%, as we reported in High CISO employment rates means shortage for security industry. That's as close to actual full employment as one can get. Read More New Blackphone promises secure communications and privacy Playing on mobile users' fears of commercial and government surveillance, two companies are building a phone they say is designed to protect privacy. The joint venture between smartphone manufacturer Geeksphone and encrypted communications provider Silent Circle will unveil the new device called Blackphone at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona next month. Read More Nest owners: Did you drink the Google Kool-Aid or are you concerned about privacy? You likely had to be under a rock to not know about Google's plan to pay $3.2 billion for Nest Labs, which makes smart internet-connected thermostats and smoke alarms. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell and Oracle Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Using Dell Storage This technical whitepaper describes how Dell storage snapshots can be used to offload the Oracle RMAN backups from the production host to backup server thereby reducing the performance impact on the production database. Read now>> Apple will pay out $32.5M to settle FTC iTunes complaints Apple today agreed to pay $32.5 million to settle complaints the Federal Trade Commission said the company billed consumers for millions of dollars of charges incurred by children in kids' mobile apps without their parents' consent. Read More Full-time IT job security increasingly wobbly The decision by the Texas Department of Transportation last June to outsource IT operations fits squarely into an IT job pattern that dominated last year. Read More SD cards are hackable, but probably not on a mass scale All threats are not equally threatening. Read More Franken presses Ford on location data collection practices A U.S. Senator Tuesday pressed Ford for information on its in-car data collection practices, citing recent boasts by an executive at the automaker that it can monitor drivers via integrated navigation system. Read More
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