Microsoft’s $100K hacker bounty sounds great but has a lot of loopholes

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	Microsoft's $100K hacker bounty sounds great but has a lot of loopholes Microsoft is offering up to $100,000 for vulnerabilities found in Windows 8.1 that are paired with exploits, but it's pretty much up to Microsoft to decide who gets paid how much based on a set of subjective criteria. Read More WHITE PAPER: Stonesoft Corporation Stonesoft Firewall Appliances for Demanding Environments To keep up with today's sophisticated threats and complex network traffic, a first generation firewall will not do. View now In this Issue Android ransomware marks profitable new era for cybercriminals 7 of 10 leading WordPress plugins are vulnerable You might be a terrorist if . . . you complain about your tap water Geeks and leaks: Top 10 tech whistleblowers of all-time How you are being watched? A case for smartphone tracking Cybercrooks target SMBs with new types of attacks 15 workplace barriers to better code Project Chess helped NSA snoop on your Skype communications WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. 2013 Next Generation Firewall Security Value Map Read this case study to learn how ZapFi enabled comprehensive gateway security and granular application intelligence for large-volumes of wireless and VPN traffic. In addition, ZapFi eliminated overhead and latency, by integrating Dell SonicWALL SuperMassive, TZ Series and Global Management System (GMS) solutions. View Now Android ransomware marks profitable new era for cybercriminals Such ransomware has been used against PCs for years, but is unique on mobile devices, Symantec says Read More 7 of 10 leading WordPress plugins are vulnerable WordPress, is the open source content management system (CMS) that powers more than 60 million web sites or about 18% of all of the sites on the web. One of its biggest advantages is the large number of plugins written by 3rd parties that allow authors to use advanced features within WordPress. Checkmarx Read More You might be a terrorist if . . . you complain about your tap water Now you can add complaining about drinking water to the continuing saga of innocent behaviors and actions listed under ridiculous "you might be a terrorist if" lists. The FBI and DHS have issued thousands of warnings about attacks to contaminate drinking water and threats to water-related infrastructure. However the latest potential domestic terrorist warning was not issued on paper to Mt. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Getting the Most Out of Your Next-Generation Firewall Trends such as BYOD and the adoption of social media and other grey applications as legitimate business tools have had profound effects on organizations of all sizes. Read Now Geeks and leaks: Top 10 tech whistleblowers of all-time Traitors or patriots? Heroes or villains? These 10 engineers, academics, and scientists became famous for blowing the whistle on dubious practices Read More How you are being watched? World-wide look at the technology of public surveillance Read More A case for smartphone tracking It's time for smartphone users to give up the fear of smartphone tracking in favor of letting mobile apps use location for relevancy. The challenge with using location to improve context in mobile apps is engineering a balance of power consumption, accuracy, and coverage. Android has unique advantages in giving app developers the tools for power conservation course and fine-grained control over location,... Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Big Data Requires a Remodeling of the Data Warehouse Take a few moments to learn about a data warehouse appliance that is a massively parallel server optimized to run Microsoft's SQL Server that delivers enterprise scalability, ease of maintenance, and a single version of the truth, all for a low cost. Read Now! Cybercrooks target SMBs with new types of attacks As money and corporate information have morphed from hard currency and blueprints to digital files, small and midsized businesses have become the new banks to rob. In fact, bank robberies across the U.S. have plummeted from 9,400 in 1991 to just 3,870 last year. As Doug Johnson of the American Bankers Association puts it: "As more and more transactions become electronic, more bank crimes become electronic." Read More 15 workplace barriers to better code The product had to ship yesterday. The users are screaming about a missing feature. The boss's boss says we better get moving or else the ax will fall. Nothing ever seems to work as well as it could. Read More Project Chess helped NSA snoop on your Skype communications Before Microsoft owned Skype, way back in 2008 when Skype was an eBay subsidiary, it began Project Chess, a "secret program" for spying on users communications. Anonymous sources told the New York Times that Project Chess was setup "to explore the legal and technical issues in making Skype calls readily available to intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials." Read More
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