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16 terrible computer pranks that could get you fired
Look, you're an adult human being. You're better than this. Don't do any of the things in this slideshow. Read More


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Threat Brief: A Detailed Analysis of Targeted Email Attacks
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A New Class of Firewall – Internal Network Firewall (INFW)
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INSIDER
Network World: 2015 State of the Network survey
The transformation of Network IT into a collaborative and agile team that is positioned to respond to rapid changes in technology is underway, according to Network World’s 2015 State of the Network survey. And IT decision-makers are optimistic that adopting advanced networking technologies will have a positive impact on IT operations.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More

'Compliance fatigue' sets in
With compliance frameworks expanding, becoming more complicated and covering more things, some organizations say they are overwhelmed with trying to keep up. Experts are sympathetic, but say the alternative is to increase the risk of being breached, which would be much worse. Read More

Meet the White House's new open source-happy IT director
Who is this guy?The White House has plucked 28-year-old David Recordon, engineering director at Facebook, as its first IT Director. A strong open source advocate with a decidedly non-button-down appearance, Recordon will be charged with modernizing the White House’s technology. Here’s a closer look at one of our newest public servants…To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

About 25 US states oppose sale of RadioShack's customer data
Some states like Texas, Oregon, and Pennsylvania have filed objections in bankruptcy court Read More


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Leverage Analytics to grow customer life-time value
Consumer expectations are changing; retailers today have challenges in all fronts from acquiring to growing to retaining profitable customer base. 81% of consumers expect the same brand experience across all channels. Learn More

Database pioneer Stonebraker rocks $1M "Nobel Prize in Computing"
ACM Michael Stonebraker, whose database software breakthroughs helped to tame information overload long before we referred to it as big data, is the recipient of the 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award, a.k.a. the “Nobel Prize in Computing.”The annual Association for Computing Machinery honor, which now includes a jacked-up $1M prize funded by Google, recognizes Stonebraker “for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

INSIDER
When Intuit's network gets taxed, it turns to Riverbed performance management tools
Ted Turner, Senior Network Engineer at Intuit, discusses with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix, how the company’s business is changing and how it relies on different tools to keep up. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More

Top enterprise IT companies where people want to work
Poachable, a Seattle startup that specializes in connecting passive job-seekers with companies looking to hire, says enterprise network and IT companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Cisco are among the most desirable places to work. But largely consumer-focused companies, like Google, Apple and Amazon, are even more attractive.Poachable, which describes itself as an anonymous talent marketplace in that recruiting companies don’t know the identities of candidates until the candidates want them to, has started crunching data based on 2,000 algorithm- and human-powered match suggestions it now makes each month. Poachable claims to have 25,000 passive job seekers in its system and 200 active employers using its service, and it is payments from those companies that generate the startup’s revenue.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

Cisco patches autonomic networking flaws in IOS routers and switches
The flaws could allow attackers to gain limited access over affected devices or to disrupt their normal operation Read More


WEBCAST: IBM Corporation

5 Ways Elastic Storage Provides Performance and Scalability
Please Join IBM and Nuance Communications Inc. to learn how Nuance uses IBM Elastic Storage to improve the power of their voice recognition applications by managing storage growth, cost and complexity while increasing performance. Learn More

Microsoft blacklists latest rogue SSL certificates, Mozilla mulls sanctions for issuer
Microsoft revoked trust in an intermediate CA certificate that was used to issue unauthorized certificates for Google websites Read More

Zero day, Web browser vulnerabilities spike in 2014
Secunia found that overall more than 83 percent of vulnerabilities had patches ready when the flaws became public Read More

Android flaw puts personal data at risk for millions
A flaw in Android could allow apps to be modified or replaced by malware, Palo Alto Networks said. Read More

Dell support tool put PCs at risk of malware infection
Weak authentication in Dell's System Detect utility could have enabled drive-by malware attacks Read More

INSIDER
School district gets an HP SDN makeover to address wireless growth, security problems
Faced with exponential growth in wireless devices and an increasingly digital curriculum, Jeff Dietsche, Systems and Infrastructure Manager for the South Washington County Schools in Minnesota, decided his only hope was to deal with a single vendor and use SDN to streamline operations. Dietsche tells the tale to Network World Editor in Chief John Dix.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More


SLIDESHOWS

7 things we want to see in the Surface Pro 4

Perhaps a "Surface Pro 4" will debut at the same time or soon after Windows 10 launches. Here's what we'd like to see in the Surface Pro 4.

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