Does your security policy reflect mobility and cloud security?

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	Does your security policy reflect mobility and cloud security? Recently I was at a technical meeting and overheard a client say that even though this area had just recently suffered a great deal of damage from several tornados, businesses are still very reluctant to develop or test Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) or Business Continuity Models (BCM). Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remote Support for PCs, Macs, Tablets and Smartphones Provide instant, on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue. Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs and smartphones anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try Rescue free, today. In this Issue Did Harvard Researchers Breach Students' Privacy? Development benefits, and security risks, of HTML5 'hybrid' mobile apps Cool iPhone space-watching apps US intelligence agency wants technology to predict the future from public events UK claims cybercrime victory after phishing gang sentencing 7 free Windows tune-up tools and tips Cloud services as part of a BC/DR plan after a terror attack Who are all these hacker groups? Microsoft yanks security site search after scammers poison results with porn Online Social Security Statement in limbo as agency adjusts for future Apathy, law enforcement complications keep cybercrime hopping WHITE PAPER: Quest Software 7 Keys to Making or Breaking Your Exchange Infrastructure Are you getting maximum performance from your Exchange environment? See how to get full control - while simplifying maintenance. Read this Quest white paper. Read now! Did Harvard Researchers Breach Students' Privacy? When Harvard researchers aggregated Facebook data and supposedly anonymized it, then no one should have been able to identify those users. That was not the case, however, and the "privacy meltdown" caught Harvard researchers in a net of ethical turmoil. The right or wrong of data mining social networks for social-science studies is a bone of contention between privacy watchdogs and researchers. Read... Read More Development benefits, and security risks, of HTML5 'hybrid' mobile apps So-called hybrid mobile apps are a way to finesse the debate over whether native apps, written in a given language for a specific OS, or web apps, written in HTML5, CSS and Javascript, are best. A pair of well-written blogposts, neither of which are intended as a programmers' tutorial, highlight the emerging opportunities, and risks, of hybrid mobile apps. Read More Cool iPhone space-watching apps NASA, space shuttle launch, star gazing, space weather lead package of cool iPhone apps Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, Avaya, Brocade, IBM, and Juniper An Approach that Meets the Requirements of Cloud Computing The advent of cloud computing changes the approach to data center networks in terms of throughput and resilience. The ability to scale, control, visualize and customize the cloud network is an important evolution to a "data center-in-the-box" approach. Learn more! US intelligence agency wants technology to predict the future from public events Publically available data that could be aggregated and used by intelligent systems to predict future events is out there, if you can harness the technology to utilize it. That's one of the driving ideas behind a program that the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) group will detail at a Proposer's Day conference in Washington, DC next month. Read More UK claims cybercrime victory after phishing gang sentencing U.K. cybercrime investigators claimed victory with the sentencing of three men on Monday following the prosecution of an organized phishing gang. Read More 7 free Windows tune-up tools and tips You don't need to spend money to keep a Windows computer running in top form. Here's how to fix, clean and maintain Windows using programs you can download now for free. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Unified Communications: Getting the Green Light In these articles, Network World and its sister IDG Enterprise publications explore the rising importance of UC within the enterprise and provide advice on how to create a working strategy. Learn more Cloud services as part of a BC/DR plan after a terror attack I was talking to a friend about data security over lunch today and we discussed 'dirty bombs' and a what-if scenario for small-and-medium sized businesses. Read More Who are all these hacker groups? Hacker groups that attack or steal—some estimates say there are as many as 6,000 of such groups online with about 50,000 "bad actors" around the world drifting in and out of them—are a threat, but the goals, methods, effectiveness of these groups varies widely. Read More Microsoft yanks security site search after scammers poison results with porn Microsoft on Saturday disabled the search tool on its Safety & Security Center after attackers poisoned results with links to pornographic URLs. Read More Online Social Security Statement in limbo as agency adjusts for future While the debate over Social Security benefits is heating up in Congress one of the most basic ways everyone interacts with the agency - the yearly Social Security Statement - is in limbo as the agency struggles to move it online. Read More Apathy, law enforcement complications keep cybercrime hopping General public apathy and collaboration with the law enforcement community assure that cybercrimes of all sorts will continue to rise. Read More
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