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Death notice: In Delaware your social media accounts now go to your heirs Top 5 things to watch for at VMWorld 2014 Facebook says most outbound email is encrypted now Nuclear Regulatory Commission hacked 3 times in 3 years NASA's green rocket fuel set for major space test Symantec folds nine Norton products into one service Senator questions airlines' data privacy practices WHITE PAPER: Dropbox The Truth About Cloud Security "Security" is the number one issue holding business leaders back from the cloud. But does the reality match the perception? Keeping data close to home, on premises, makes business and IT leaders feel inherently more secure. But the truth is, cloud solutions can offer companies real, tangible security advantages. Learn more! Why would Chinese hackers want hospital patient data? The theft of personal data on 4.5 million patients of Community Health Systems by hackers in China highlights the increasing degree to which hospitals are becoming lucrative targets for information theft.Already this year, around 150 incidents of lost or stolen personal data—either due to hacking or ineptitude—have been reported by medical establishments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.In the case of Community Health Systems, hackers stole patient names, addresses, birth dates, telephone numbers and Social Security numbers. They did not steal medical data, Community Health Systems said—but that data can be the real prize in such breaches.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Death notice: In Delaware your social media accounts now go to your heirs Varied death policies of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others cause concern, lead to legislation Read More WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic State of Cloud Security Report In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More Top 5 things to watch for at VMWorld 2014 A year ago everyone wanted to know about VMware’s big plan. The company had just undergone a major executive shakeup, with CEO Paul Maritz leaving to pilot VMware/EMC spinout Pivotal and long-time CTO Steve Herrod departing to join a venture capital firm. Parent company EMC’s COO Pat Gelsinger - former CTO of Intel - stepped in to become VMware’s CEO.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Facebook says most outbound email is encrypted now Nearly all of Facebook’s outbound notification emails are now encrypted while traveling the Internet, a collaborative feat that comes from the technology industry’s push to thwart the NSA’s spying programs.In May, only 58 percent of the social networking site’s email was encrypted when it was sent since the receiving entity must have the technology, called STARTTLS, enabled, wrote Michael Adkins, a messaging integrity engineer at Facebook, on a company blog.Since that time, Microsoft, Yahoo and other email providers have enabled STARTTLS, which has pushed the percentage of Facebook’s encrypted messages to 95 percent, he wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Dropbox The Truth About Cloud Security "Security" is the number one issue holding business leaders back from the cloud. But does the reality match the perception? Keeping data close to home, on premises, makes business and IT leaders feel inherently more secure. But the truth is, cloud solutions can offer companies real, tangible security advantages. Learn more! Nuclear Regulatory Commission hacked 3 times in 3 years “Protecting people and the environment” is listed like a motto on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s website. But hopefully that protection exceeds NRC employee’s abilities to spot targeted spearphishing emails, since falling for the tactic caused the agency to be hacked three times in the past three years.A fraction of NRC’s annual $1 billion budget helps about 4,000 employees attend annual cyber-awareness training which includes warnings about phishing, spearphishing and other methods attackers might exploit to gain entry into the agency’s networks. Apparently not everyone was paying attention and heeded those “don’t-fall-for-phishing” instructions as NextGov learned that the NRC was hacked twice by foreigners and a third time by an unknown attacker.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More NASA's green rocket fuel set for major space test NASA said today it would launch a spacecraft that would for the first time test fire green propellant technology in space.NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) will use a small satellite using a Hydroxyl Ammonium Nitrate fuel/oxidizer mix, developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, is also is known as AF-M315E propellant. This fuel may replace the highly toxic hydrazine and complex bi-propellant systems in-use today, NASA said.+More on Network World: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2014 (so far!); The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2013+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Symantec folds nine Norton products into one service A single product, Norton Security, can be used across Windows, OS X, Android and iOS Read More Senator questions airlines' data privacy practices Jay Rockefeller raises concerns about airlines collecting and sharing personal information Read More
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