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	9 new Twitter features and tweaks coming in 2015 Twitter came out swinging last week at its first-ever analyst day with a series of plans to improve existing features and add new ones during the coming months. The company faces challenges, but it appears to have finally moved beyond testing and experimentation to deliberate implementation. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Automate Your IT Network with WhatsUp Gold Is network monitoring a time consuming, error-prone issue for your organization? WhatsUp Gold takes the hassle out of monitoring and managing your IT network by helping you track trends and plan for changes with automatic actions and repairs. Eliminate repetitive manual tasks and spend less time troubleshooting with automatic updates and repairs. Want to try out this leading network monitoring software for yourself? Click here for a free trial so you can evaluate the power of this system in your business. In this Issue The next great leap in supercomputing coming by 2023 Cisco open sources security How does a Windows bug go undetected for 19 years? IBM's new enterprise email aims to organize your day Extreme extends SDN products, partners Prominent developers pulling out of Debian as voting deadline nears Apple's remaining co-founders, Woz and Wayne, reminisce about early company relics INSIDER 12 security problems that EMV and tokenization won't solve UC Berkeley, MIT and Stanford split $45M in cybersecurity policy research grants Net Neutrality: It's regulation for the public good, not government takeover WEBCAST: Ciena Corporation   Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals Serious IT breaches happen too often. Is there a way to reduce or eliminate the impact on consumers? Attend this Live Webinar Dec. 2nd,1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT to learn methods for protecting your information resources. Learn More The next great leap in supercomputing coming by 2023 The U.S. has set 2023 as the target date for producing the next great leap in supercomputing, if its plans aren't thwarted by two presidential and four Congressional elections between now and then. It may seem odd to note the role of politics in a story about supercomputing. But as these systems get more complex -- and expensive -- they compete for science dollars from a Congress unafraid of cutting science funding. Read More   Cisco open sources security Cisco this week announced the availability of an open source security framework designed to harness big data analytics to combat data loss. Cisco OpenSOC integrates elements of the Hadoop ecosystem, such as Storm, Kafka, and Elasticsearch, to provide a platform incorporating full-packet capture indexing, storage, data enrichment, stream processing, batch processing, real-time search, and telemetry aggregation. Read More   How does a Windows bug go undetected for 19 years? By now you have likely heard of the 19-year-old Windows bug found by IBM late last week. If not, here's the tl;dr version of it: IBM found a vulnerability in VBScript, Microsoft's alternative to JavaScript which was introduced in Internet Explorer 3.0 and ran on Windows 95. Even today, the bug is impervious to the sandboxing features in Internet Explorer 11. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Forrester 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave Forrester has released its 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave, and for the second consecutive time, IBM is a leader. View Now>> IBM's new enterprise email aims to organize your day IBM is going up against cloud-apps powerhouses Google and Microsoft with its next generation email client, called Verse, designed to enrich email with social media and analysis. Read More   Extreme extends SDN products, partners Extreme Networks this week announced new products and technology partners for its Software Defined Architecture data center product line. Read More   Prominent developers pulling out of Debian as voting deadline nears Four prominent members of the Debian community have stepped down or reduced their involvement in the project as a result of an increasingly bitter argument over the future of the widely influential Linux distribution. Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP Top 5 Truths About Big Data Hype and Security Intelligence Big Data Security Analytics (BDSA) is the subject of exuberant predictions. However, a Gartner analyst points out that no available BDSA solutions come close to these forecasts. Nevertheless, the principles of Big Data are the key to advanced security intelligence. This white paper discusses the key tenets of Big Data. Learn more >> Apple's remaining co-founders, Woz and Wayne, reminisce about early company relics Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak yesterday said he wasn't surprised at the growing interest in early artifacts from the company, including the Apple-1, the first personal computer he designed and created. Read More     INSIDER 12 security problems that EMV and tokenization won't solve On Nov. 1 of next year, merchants that aren't ready to accept chip-based cards instead of the current magnetic-stripe cards will become liable for fraudulent transactions that today are covered by the credit card companies. Read More     UC Berkeley, MIT and Stanford split $45M in cybersecurity policy research grants   The Hewlett Foundation has granted $15M apiece to the University of California at Berkeley, MIT and Stanford University to conduct cybersecurity policy research, bringing to $65 the total that the foundation has committed to such research over the next 5 years. Read More   Net Neutrality: It's regulation for the public good, not government takeover My good friend Chuck Papageorgiou recently wrote a post on his blog he titled Net Neutrality – Policies or Politics. Despite the fact that yesterday was Chuck's birthday, I'm going to disagree strongly with my friend. Read More
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