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	Cellphone kill switches: Finally some good security news Read More WEBCAST: Brocade Communications Top 3 Network Challenges Limiting IT Agility Are technical challenges preventing you from building cloud infrastructures? This Webinar will explain the top three challenges facing network architects today, along with the key steps for improving IT agility. View Now>> In this Issue DARPA developing the ultimate auto-pilot software Satellite communication systems rife with security flaws, vulnerable to remote hacks Can we talk? Internet of Things vendors face a communications 'mess' Michaels says breach at its stores affected nearly 3M payment cards Why security professionals need to get more creative with penetration testing (and how to do it) The IRS uses computers?! The horror! WHITE PAPER: Plantronics Unleash your UC Potential By Putting Users First What's holding back Unified Communications (UC) adoption? Too often, today's solutions are simply too hard to use. Now, survey results show high-quality audio and a simple and intuitive user experience can turbo-charge acceptance. Read this exclusive report from Plantronics and IDG to learn how you can start making the most of UC. Read now! DARPA developing the ultimate auto-pilot software Call it the ultimate auto-pilot - an automated system that can help take care of all phases of aircraft flight-even perhaps helping pilots overcome system failures in-flight. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will in May detail a new program called Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) that would build upon what the agency called the considerable advances that have been made in aircraft automation systems over the past 50 years, as well as the advances made in remotely piloted aircraft automation, to help reduce pilot workload, augment mission performance and improve aircraft safety. Read More Satellite communication systems rife with security flaws, vulnerable to remote hacks Security researchers have found that many satellite communication systems have vulnerabilities and design flaws that can let remote attackers intercept, manipulate, block and in some cases take full control of critical communications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Online, Huawei, Netapp, Symantec Seamless Cloud Using the cloud to complement on-premise IT resources is one of the nirvana states envisioned for cloud computing, letting you architect for normal workloads and then burst to the cloud when necessary. View Now>> Can we talk? Internet of Things vendors face a communications 'mess' Vendors will tell you that the Internet of Things (IoT) has arrived. We're here to tell you that it hasn't. Read More Michaels says breach at its stores affected nearly 3M payment cards About 2.6 million payment cards at Michaels Stores and another 400,000 at subsidiary Aaron Brothers may have been affected in a card skimming attack that compromised its point-of-sale systems, the retailer said Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Management Insight - CI Needs and Vendor Performance Service and support, providing a foundation for cloud computing and other factors are considered "price of entry" capabilities for prospective CI vendors among IT decision-makers. Download this whitepaper to learn more Learn More>> Why security professionals need to get more creative with penetration testing (and how to do it) Security professionals have long been running penetration tests against their firewalls and other security systems to find weaknesses that need to be addressed. Read More The IRS uses computers?! The horror! It's impossible to imagine the Internal Revenue Service or most other number-crunching agencies or companies working without computers. But when the IRS went to computers -- the Automatic Data Processing system --there was an uproar. The agency went so far as to produce a short film on the topic called Right On The Button, to convince the public computers were a good thing. Read More
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