Ex-NSA employee making email more secure

Survey: Tech workers seek larger salaries in 2014 Step-by-step: Your social media job-hunting guide ITworld Today February 03, 2014 Share this email Former NSA employee looks to make email more secure In 2004, Will Ackerly joined the NSA right out of college. Now in private sector, he's joined forces with his businessman brother to make your email more secure. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Survey: Tech workers seek larger salaries in 2014 2. Step-by-step: Your social media job-hunting guide 3. Hackers use a trick to deliver Zeus banking malware 4. Unix: Tracking down ghost accounts 5. Facebook gears up for its 10th birthday 6. FTC: Medical transcription firm allowed histories to be on search engine 7. Twitter buys 900 IBM patents, dodging a potential infringement suit 8. Report: Chatter about Nadella's appointment as Microsoft CEO grows louder 9. 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READ MORE Hackers use a trick to deliver Zeus banking malware Hackers found a new way to slip past security software and deliver Zeus, a long-known malicious software program that steals online banking details. READ MORE Unix: Tracking down ghost accounts Are you confident that all the accounts you manage are still required and still current? Or might some of them be ghost accounts that you should have blocked five years ago? Here's how to check for last activity. READ MORE White Paper: Tintri Tintri VMstore Storage for Virtualization and Cloud Tintri VMstore's storage intelligence, infrastructure insight and VM control delivers unparalleled performance and efficiency, making deployment and operation of virtualization completely predictable, and enabling higher IT productivity. Read now! Facebook gears up for its 10th birthday Facebook will celebrate its 10th birthday on Tuesday, an occasion likely to spur an outpouring of reflection on its past and speculation about its future. READ MORE FTC: Medical transcription firm allowed histories to be on search engine A medical transcription company has agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that its inadequate security measures allowed the personal information, including medical histories and examination notes, of thousands of people to be published on the Internet. READ MORE Twitter buys 900 IBM patents, dodging a potential infringement suit Twitter has acquired over 900 patents from IBM, a move likely intended to settle IBM's claims that Twitter was infringing on at least three of its patents. READ MORE Report: Chatter about Nadella's appointment as Microsoft CEO grows louder Satya Nadella has been offered the Microsoft CEO job and is currently negotiating a contract with the company's board, according to The Wall Street Journal. READ MORE BOOK GIVEAWAY: A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Five will win. Enter the drawing today! 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