12 surprising ways personal technology betrays your privacy

EBay spins off PayPal into separate company LAST CHANCE: Enter to win 'Understanding Big Data Scalability' (eBook) ITworld Today September 30, 2014 12 surprising ways personal technology betrays your privacy It's not just your boss or the government that's spying on you, it's also the devices and technologies you embrace. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. EBay spins off PayPal into separate company 2. LAST CHANCE: Enter to win 'Understanding Big Data Scalability' (eBook) 3. Attacks against Shellshock continue as updated patches hit the Web 4. Apple patches Bash vulnerability in OS X 5. Hands-off! Gesture-based smartphone control is coming 6. How to map a local folder to a drive letter in Windows 7. Laptop vs. tablets: how they compare for true productivity 8. China clears iPhone 6 for sale only after security tweaks 9. Inside the NSA's private cloud White Paper: Infoblox Get the Most ouf of DNS in an Active Directory Environment By enhancing DNS services provided to Active Directory (AD), IT organizations see immediate benefits in performance, speed, and accuracy of data across DNS and AD. Read this white paper to learn how to transform your Microsoft environment today. Learn more >> EBay spins off PayPal into separate company EBay's board of directors has approved a plan to separate the company's eBay and PayPal businesses into independent publicly traded companies next year. READ MORE LAST CHANCE: Enter to win 'Understanding Big Data Scalability' (eBook) Five will win. Enter now! The drawing ends today. READ MORE Attacks against Shellshock continue as updated patches hit the Web Updated patches are in the works, but criminals are targeting the flaw now. READ MORE Apple patches Bash vulnerability in OS X Apple released a patch Monday for Shellshock, a serious software vulnerability disclosed last week, although the company had said it posed no risk to most users. READ MORE White Paper: PC Connection The Server Solution That Delivers More Simplify your server infrastructure with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) with Intel® Xeon® processors. Get ready to ease provisioning, manage sprawl, and decrease costs. Learn more >> Hands-off! Gesture-based smartphone control is coming New technology may soon allow you to control your phone without touching or talking to it. READ MORE How to map a local folder to a drive letter in Windows Mock network environments and map hidden paths for easy access. READ MORE Laptop vs. tablets: how they compare for true productivity Memory, storage, display size and other factors all make a difference in getting things done. READ MORE China clears iPhone 6 for sale only after security tweaks A Chinese regulator has claimed it found security flaws in Apple's iOS software that could steal user's data. READ MORE Inside the NSA's private cloud National Security Agency is building its private cloud on commodity hardware, opens source software. READ MORE White Paper: 8x8, Inc How to Save with Hosted PBX Does your phone system lack Fortune 500 communication features? Are you ready to cut your phone bill in half? Download this new eBook to quickly learn how cloud communications deliver these 4 benefits Learn more. DON'T MISS... Head-scratchers: 10 confounding programming language features Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop 15 simple, secret Windows tips and tricks to save you time Superclass: 14 of the world's best living programmers The 10 best laptops of 2014 (so far) ITWORLD GIVEAWAYS: Enter now for your chance to win! Help Your Kids with Computer Coding Take your kids from browsing to building the web. Fun projects throughout let kids start putting their computer skills into practice and build their own code using Scratch programming and Python. Enter now! Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours (Learning Lab) Quickly teach yourself to create dynamic, interactive Web pages with this interactive online course, featuring step-by-step lessons, expert video instruction, live code editing, and interactive quizzes. Enter now! Understanding Big Data Scalability (eBook) Two start-to-finish case studies walk through planning and implementation, offering practical, actionable insights for every technical professional who must scale a database tier for today's most common high-volume big data applications. Enter now! Follow ITworld You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information. If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 ITworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **