FCC still has ton of explaining to do on Wi-Fi blocking rules

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	FCC still has ton of explaining to do on Wi-Fi blocking rules The FCC has been very clear that it didn’t approve of a Marriott International hotel’s blocking of convention center attendees’ Wi-Fi hotspots: It fined the hospitality company $600,000 last fall and issued a stern warning on Jan. 27 that such wireless network interference by others will not be tolerated either.But what remains murky to IT shops and wireless LAN product vendors is exactly what constitutes illegal “Wi-Fi blocking”:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Why your existing solution might not be adequate To meet the demands of today's business landscape, IT staffs must take steps to secure and integrate their information assets, while satisfying compliance mandates and optimizing corporate efficiency. This white paper presents managed file transfer (MFT) as a way to meet corporate information and data management requirements. 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Social business can be combined with mobility and cloud to enable organizations to innovate and execute faster. Infographic ties to the Use Case patterns white paper. Learn More INSIDER Free and cheap ways to learn about IT security Whether you're an IT student or have been in the field for many years, the learning never stops, especially in regards to security. Hackers are discovering vulnerabilities in our software and systems 24/7. They'll always find new ways to steal data, infect computers and wreak havoc in the digital world.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More How three small credit card transactions could reveal your identity A new study suggests anonymous data sets aren't very anonymous after all Read More Now the FTC has its say on hotel Wi-Fi First the FCC slapped Marriott International with a $600K fine for Wi-Fi blocking and issued a follow-up enforcement warning to the masses. Now the FTC has issued a hotel Wi-Fi warning of its own.This one, however, is aimed more at would-be Wi-Fi users rather than establishments offering or blocking Wi-Fi access. The warning begins: When you travel, have you used your hotel’s Wi-Fi – maybe to pay a few bills or catch up on a report you need to read? You may want to think twice before logging in to accounts over hotel Wi-Fi. Hackers are using security vulnerabilities in hotel Wi-Fi to steal people’s passwords and other sensitive information.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Insurance giant Anthem discloses huge customer & employee data breach Anthem, one of the largest U.S. health insurers, said Wednesday one of its IT systems was breached, resulting in the loss of customer and employee information including income data.The insurer, which set up a special web page on Wednesday addressing the breach, said it will still assessing the impact of the attack. 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Tintri's VMstore appliance combines flash, disk, inline deduplication, and other software magic to provide cost-effective, high-performance storage specifically for virtual machines.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More Some hackers are unknowingly gathering intel for the NSA The U.S. National Security Agency and its intelligence partners are reportedly sifting through data stolen by state-sponsored and freelance hackers on a regular basis in search of valuable information.Despite constantly warning about the threat of hackers and pushing for their prosecution, the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada and the U.K. are happy to ride their coattails when it serves their interests, news website The Intercept reported Wednesday.“Hackers are stealing the emails of some of our targets... by collecting the hackers’ ‘take’ we 1) get access to the emails ourselves and 2) get insights into who’s being hacked,” a page from an internal wiki used by the agencies reads. The page, last modified in 2012, was among the files leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to journalists and was published by The Intercept.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Verizon to allow opt-out from mobile 'supercookies' An identifer on people's phone creates cookies that can't be deleted Read More Dangerous IE vulnerability opens door to powerful phishing attacks The flaw can be used to steal authentication cookies and inject rogue code into websites Read More WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Which Virtualization Architecture is Most Efficient? Over 61,000 virtualization customers have weighed in. Join the webcast and hear how other companies like yours are using virtualization to their benefit. Learn More US takes another shot at stopping warrantless reading of emails The bill was introduced Wednesday in the Senate and House of Representatives Read More The end for 1024-bit SSL certificates is near, Mozilla kills a few more Website owners still using 1024-bit SSL certificates should replace them with 2048-bit ones Read More Adobe starts patching latest Flash flaw Auto-updates should be available Wednesday, with a manual update coming Thursday Read More New spyware targets iOS devices, steals pictures and data Spyware from a pro-Russian group is targeting iPhones, whether they're jailbroken or not, says Trend Micro Read More MobileIron seeks to secure corporate data on personal clouds New service wants to keep data secure while allowing employees to use personal services Read More INSIDER Southwest Airlines' CTO talks about tech and business transformation Craig Maccubbin is CTO of Southwest Airlines, which is already the largest domestic airline in the U.S. and still growing rapidly. He has 500 employees in his technology operations organization, out of about 1,000 employees in technology overall, and he reports to the CIO along with peers in operations, commercial, enterprise management and product solutions. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Maccubbin to learn about technology management in this high pressure environment.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
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