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	Cisco: Thousands of web hosting centers now launchpads for attacks Web hosting centers around the world are being compromised by cyber-criminals that use them to launch major attacks against business and government, says Cisco in its annual security report. This threat really gained full steam last year, the company says. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Fighting Fraud Videos: IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager Short videos about IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager (IIM) for Fraud. IIM optimizes the investigation of fraud for customers across many industries in both the commercial and public sector space. Learn More. In this Issue Security nightmare worsens for Windows XP's end of days NSA hacking tools will find their way to criminals eventually Cisco fixes remote access vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Access Control System Security startup Impermium joining Google Feds issue Top 10 most wanted transportation safety advances How to Bring Shadow IT Under Control Snapchat, Bitly and Kik Messenger targeted by spammers Starbucks vows to beef up security on its iPhone app Security firm IDs malware used in Target attack Juniper announces Firefly Suite for virtual-machine security Hackathon geared toward the 'liberation' of data from public PDF documents WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Pitfalls To Avoid In Combining Acceleration Technologies This May 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. report looks at the impact of website performance on customer satisfaction and revenue, and why meeting high expectations is more complex than ever. Learn More Security nightmare worsens for Windows XP's end of days You all know (or better know) by now that Microsoft will end all support for Windows XP on April 8. Now the company is doubling down, saying it will end support for the XP version of Microsoft Security Essentials, the company's free security and antivirus application. That means no more updates, no more additions to the antivirus signatures, nothing. If a virus appears on April 9, you better have someone... Read More NSA hacking tools will find their way to criminals eventually The U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly developed technology to commandeer computers even when they are off the Internet, and security experts warn it's only a matter of time before similar tools become part of cybercriminals' toolbox. Read More Cisco fixes remote access vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Access Control System Cisco Systems has released software updates for its Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) in order to patch three vulnerabilities that could give remote attackers administrative access to the platform and allow them to execute OS-level commands without authorization. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc When Disaster Strikes, Can the Cloud Save Your Business? 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 >> Security startup Impermium joining Google Security company Impermium has joined Google to help boost the Internet giant's already considerable expertise in countering spam and abuse. Read More Feds issue Top 10 most wanted transportation safety advances Travel, be it by car, airplane or rail has a certain component of danger to it, that's just the behavior of the humans who operate that equipment, the equipment itself and in many cases, Mother Nature. Read More How to Bring Shadow IT Under Control Most business units these days are leveraging cloud services, and a majority of them are bypassing IT to do it, according to a new study. While many IT departments want to take charge of provisioning cloud services, it may make more sense to get your arms around compliance and governance first. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc Gartner's Unified Communications as a Service Report See what Gartner Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory firm, has to say about choosing the right Unified Communications solution for your business. Gartner's Magic Quadrant compares 16 of the leading UCaaS providers and names 8x8 a leader based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Learn more >> Snapchat, Bitly and Kik Messenger targeted by spammers You have to give spammers credit for effort: Symantec found a spam campaign that manages to abuse three Web services at the same time. Read More Starbucks vows to beef up security on its iPhone app Starbucks today promised to update its iOS app to calm a storm of interest in a report this week that claimed criminals could easily nab the app's credentials from a stolen iPhone. Read More Security firm IDs malware used in Target attack A security company that worked with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate the data breach at Target identified the malware used in the attack as a sophisticated derivative of a previously known Trojan. Read More Juniper announces Firefly Suite for virtual-machine security Juniper today announced its Firefly Suite for virtual-machine security, a set of software-based products for VMware and KVM that contain the security and switching capabilities found in Juniper's SRX Series Services Gateway, as well as Junos Space Virtual Director. Read More Hackathon geared toward the 'liberation' of data from public PDF documents Massive amounts of unstructured data are held in the form of PDF documents, but extracting key figures and words out of PDFs in a programmatic manner can be difficult and costly. This poses a challenge to public-interest groups, journalists and others who are interested in running large-scale analyses on PDF documents in order to uncover valuable insights. Read More
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