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	CMU Computer Science School's epic admissions blunder A timeline/roundup of Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science School mistakenly accepting 800 applicants to its grad program, only to send out rejection notices hours later Read More WHITE PAPER: Nasuni Shadow IT in the Enterprise This report reveals insights from more than 1,000 corporate IT users about their usage of Dropbox and personal mobile devices for work. Read this paper to gain an understanding for where consumer solutions are being used and if IT policies are effective in addressing the challenges associated with Shadow IT. Learn More. In this Issue INSIDER Your IT security infrastructure, rebooted for 2015 Most memorable SNL tech skits & bits INSIDER 5 tricks to improve poor TCP performance Tens of thousands of home routers at risk with duplicate SSH keys Long-awaited Blackphone tablet may emerge at MWC Personal weather stations can expose your Wi-Fi network Lenovo PCs ship with adware that puts computers at risk INSIDER Beware of hot foreign spies who want to steal your data What's in a typo? More evidence tying North Korea to the Sony hack Fanny superworm likely the precursor to Stuxnet Cybercriminal gang plunders up to $1 billion from banks over two years How to remove the dangerous Superfish adware preinstalled on Lenovo PCs Federal Cybersecurity Duplicity Commercial spyware invades enterprises INSIDER IT careers: How to switch industries and survive WHITE PAPER: Nasuni Bulk Data Migration in the Cloud In tests of cloud-to-cloud transfers, Nasuni compared the top three CSPs from its most recent State of Cloud Storage report – Amazon S3, Microsoft Windows Azure and Rackspace – and compared transfer rates among them. Learn More INSIDER Your IT security infrastructure, rebooted for 2015 Consider the IT trends of recent years: the emergence of cloud computing and the "as-a-service" model, the growth of social media as a corporate marketing and collaboration tool, and the increase in the use of mobile technology — all of which have helped give rise to an increasingly distributed workforce.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More Most memorable SNL tech skits & bits In the wake of SNL celebrating its 40th anniversary this past weekend (complete with a free SNL 40 iOS app), we take a trip back through some of Saturday Night Live's most memorable techie skits and bits. Feel free to hit me up if there are good ones I missed (I purposely left out a few NSFW ones).With smartphones, computers and the Internet going mainstream in recent years, tech has become a much more prevalent subject on the late night show.Google Glass Tech's diversity problemTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER 5 tricks to improve poor TCP performance Transmission Control Protocol carries the vast majority of the data transmitted across both the public Internet and private intranets. Web sessions using HTTP, file transfers, file sharing and system backups typically use TCP. Windows desktop configurations loaded at start-up are TCP based.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More Tens of thousands of home routers at risk with duplicate SSH keys The setup mistake could put the routers at risk of being compromised Read More Long-awaited Blackphone tablet may emerge at MWC The secure device maker is also holding a press conference at the show where the tablet could be announced Read More WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. Cloud: Delivering Performance in Shared Environments This whitepaper explores how service providers use VMTurbo to provide consistent performance across all workloads, as well as the three roles a responsible managed service provider (MSP) takes in order to accomplish that directive. Learn More Personal weather stations can expose your Wi-Fi network Netatmo weather stations upload Wi-Fi passwords and SSIDs to the company's servers over insecure connections Read More Lenovo PCs ship with adware that puts computers at risk Superfish software installed on Lenovo computers uses a self-generated root certificate to intercept HTTPS communications Read More INSIDER Beware of hot foreign spies who want to steal your data “We’re probably looking at a 300-percent increase in cases involving hot foreign spies, sex, and dating in the last year over the previous year,” says T. Casey Fleming, CEO, BLACKOPS Partners Corporation, a management consulting company on security to the Fortune 500.Mitigating foreign spiesTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More What's in a typo? More evidence tying North Korea to the Sony hack A security firm says code used against Sony has similarities to other malware linked to North Korea Read More Fanny superworm likely the precursor to Stuxnet The worm, used by the Equation cyberespionage group, relied on zero-day exploits that were later used in Stuxnet Read More WHITE PAPER: Nasuni Nasuni in Architecture and Construction Environments Firms in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) verticals face a unique challenge – enabling collaboration amongst projects and teams dispersed across the globe. Adding to the complexity of the situation are the large files created due to programs such as AutoCAD, Revit, and Bentley MicroStation. Learn More Cybercriminal gang plunders up to $1 billion from banks over two years Once inside a bank's network, the gang studied how it performed wire transfers in order to better mask fraud Read More How to remove the dangerous Superfish adware preinstalled on Lenovo PCs Lenovo’s been caught going a bit too far in its quest for bloatware money, and the results have put its users at risk. The company has been preloading Superfish, a "visual search" tool that includes adware that fakes the encryption certificates for every HTTPS-protected site you visit, on its PCs since at least the middle of 2014. Essentially, the software conducts a man-in-the-middle attack to fill the websites you visit with ads, and leaves you vulnerable to hackers in its wake.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: Free security tools you should try You can read all the sordid details here. This article is dedicated to helping you discover whether your Lenovo PC is infected with Superfish, and how to eradicate it if you are.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Federal Cybersecurity Duplicity As part of a whistle-stop tour of Northern California, President Obama held a White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University last Friday.  Much to the delight of the Silicon Valley crowd, the President signed an executive order (right there on stage at Stanford) to promote data sharing about digital threats.  The summit also highlighted industry leaders like Apple CEO Tim Cook, and large critical infrastructure organizations like Bank of America and Pacific Gas & Electric Co.The President picked the right location for his cybersecurity bully pulpit.  The Peninsula is a nexus of technology optimism, constantly focused on the new new thing.  The event also attracted the Sand Hill Road crowd, eager to capitalize on national cybersecurity gaga. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Commercial spyware invades enterprises Two out of every 1,000 employee smartphones in the U.S., on average, are infected with commercial "child-monitoring" spyware, according to a study by security firms Lacoon Mobile Security and Check Point.For larger organizations, the infection rates are even higher, according to Michael Shaulov, CEO of Lacoon.The study started with 900,000 smartphones connected to corporate Wi-Fi networks around the world, looking for any of the 18 most common commercially-available mobile surveillance kits.On average, 0.12 percent of all devices worldwide were infected, with Austria in the lead at 0.36 percent, followed by the U.S. at 0.21 percent.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER IT careers: How to switch industries and survive After David Berry had spent a quarter of a century specializing in consumer products, he'd had enough. He'd worked for Pepsi, Dannon, Haagen-Dazs, Burger King and others, holding down various IT positions and eventually making it to CIO. It was time to switch to a new industry -- but were other industries interested in him?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
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