| ITworld Today | | | | Laptops and desktops will be interactive, get 3D depth-sensing cameras and be free of wires. READ MORE | | | Issue highlights 1. 12 life-changing social media resolutions 2. Think that software library is safe to use? Not so fast! 3. WIN THIS BOOK: Learning Swift Programming 4. INSIDER SolidWorks talks about what's next in 3D design 5. China's state-run media tells citizens to 'accept' Gmail block 6. What the Sony breach means for security in 2015 7. The Internet of Things, explained 8. The Onion's 10 greatest gags about Google 9. Microsoft adds TouchDevelop capabilities to Windows App Studio | | WHITE PAPER: Onapsis Inc. Threats affecting the SAP application layer are frequently overlooked, leaving systems exposed to malicious attacks. This SAP Insider highlights the security blinds spots and explains how automated assessment and audit solutions enable organizations to monitor, detect, prioritize, and prevent threats to close security gaps and mitigate risks. Learn More | | Want to transform your life? No, not your real life. Your online social media life. Here's how. READ MORE | | Flaws in third-party software libraries often find their way into products, a problem that will occupy developers and sysadmins next year. READ MORE | | We've got 5 copies to give to some lucky readers. Enter for your chance to win! READ MORE | | Simulation, parallel development, built-in collaboration and 3D printing help further streamline product development. READ MORE | | WEBCAST: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc VDI deployment is on the rise and expected to deliver significant operational advantages—but will it? Some VDI projects don't make it past the proof-of-concept stage due to poor performance. Many more fail to deliver tangible benefits because they can't scale to support a wide user base. View Now>> | | While Global Times offers no explanation for outage, rages at Western reports that claim the government was behind service suspension. READ MORE | | The Sony breach has wide reaching implications for security and offers a wake up call to many organizations. But as Beth Rothke explains, not everyone will learn from the lessons of this incident. READ MORE | | Everybody's talking about it, billions are being spent on it, and it will impact all of our lives sooner rather than later. Our primer explains what all the fuss is about. READ MORE | | "America's Finest News Source," better known as The Onion, has been poking fun at Google for more than a decade. Here are 10 of what we believe are its better efforts. READ MORE | | However, developers wanting to upgrade Windows 8.0 apps must use Visual Studio 2013. READ MORE | | : BMC Software In the past, the needs of the business have often overruled the requirements of compliance, but in light of recent security breaches and compliance failures, this attitude is no longer an option. Organizations must modernize their approach to compliance and close the SecOps gap with a strategy designed for today's complex, dynamic IT environments. Learn More | | | | | | | |  
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Should Chief Marketing Officers be involved in security and privacy decisions?
In a report issued today by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the management consulting firm urged Chief Marketing Officers to get more involved in data protection. Read More
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Application Security eGuide
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9 data breaches that cost someone their job
Notable breach-related job losses in 2014. Read More
6 old-school tricks to protect your passwords
If you're caught in password purgatory, try these 6 old-school password tricks. Read More
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Is your Smartphone Secure Enough?
Learn how Samsung KNOX's multi-layered approach to mobile security protects against malicious apps, prevents attacks from one domain spreading to another domain and more. Learn More
Google wants to turn browser signals of Web encryption upside down
Chrome security engineers have proposed that all websites that don't encrypt traffic be marked as insecure by browsers. Read More
Reader question: Do you know the laws that govern personal information in the cloud?
Keep your eyes open to data privacy regimes and cross-border communication. Read More
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Texas Instruments builds an alternative energy for the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is nothing without batteries and plugs. But it's possible to build a sensor network that uses harvested energy that comes from changes in temperature, vibrations, wind and light, as Texas Instruments will demonstrate at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Read More
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Securing Keys and Certificates to Critical Assets
Today's most devastating cyber attacks—including ShellShock, Heartbleed and Zombie Zero—prey on trust. And that puts your digital certificates at risk. This informative resource center explores how next-generation trust protection can help you combat today's attacks, ensuring trusted access to critical assets. Learn More
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A Fully Dynamic Network Mapping Solution
Accurate network diagrams are the Holy Grail in enterprise network management – most network teams know they should be documenting their networks but haven't found a universally good way of doing it. Learn More
Cisco's greatest hits, 2014 edition
A busy 30th year for the networking kingpin. Read More
SDN in 2014: A year of non-stop action
The past year was a frantic one in the SDN industry as Cisco, Juniper and many others made strategic and tactical moves to either get out ahead of the curve on software-defined networking, or try to offset its momentum. Read More
The hottest wireless technology is now sound!
There's been a surge of innovations that harness sound waves to transmit data and do other creative things. Here's what's going on. Read More
Support for security tech tops iSoc's Africa plan for 2015
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Identity As a Revenue Generator
Identity is a fundamental requirement to digital growth. Businesses and organizations cannot properly take advantage of mobile, cloud, or Internet of Things (IoT) technologies without a scalable and repeatable identity strategy. View Now>>
IDG Contributor Network: Why Nest could be your next best investment
I never intended to buy a Nest thermostat. But as I was moving towards networked devices within my home, I had begun to really dislike my old-fashioned thermostat. That was one of the few devices I wished I could control from my phone.This is our second winter in the U.S., and unlike Europe, here we have a less efficient centralized indoor air system that heats or cools the entire house instead of just the room you are in.I also have to admit that I didn't enjoy the cold trek from my bed to the living room to change the temperature. On top of this, our current thermostat was way too limited and I could not schedule it the way I wanted. And worse: if we left home for vacation and forget to turn the system off, there was nothing we could do.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
6 simple tricks for protecting your passwords
We all know that the current username-and-password system is broken. With Russian hackers reportedly sitting on over a billion passwords, and new breaches hitting the news on a regular basis, it's fair to assume that if hackers don't have your password already, they're about to."Most websites and companies require passwords that are at least eight characters long, contain lower and upper case characters, a number, and one or more special characters," says Vicent Berk, CEO of network security firm FlowTraq.These kinds of password policies have actually reduced security overall, argues Jacob West, CTO at HP Enterprise Security Products. "We need to bring some sanity back to our password policies," he says. "A human will never be able to meet these requirements."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
Holiday blues: 49% of network managers, sysadmins expect to work the holidays
Will you be stuck working or on-call as 2014 comes to a close? If so, you're not alone.This year, 49% of IT pros expect to work over the holidays, according to network management vendor Ipswitch. Nearly the same number (48%) will be thinking about work even if they're not called into the office.Ipswitch polled 206 IT pros in the U.S. for its second annual "Happy Holidays?" survey.Past experience shows it's necessary: 33% of IT pros said their company has experienced a major network outage during a holiday.More common for IT pros is the need to deal with employees' offsite IT issues. The most common problems employees experience when the office is closed for the holidays are: inability to access the network remotely (cited by 57%); poor application performance (18%); forgotten passwords (18%); and malfunctioning laptops (7%).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Exploits for dangerous network time protocol vulnerabilities can compromise systems
Remote code execution vulnerabilities in the standard implementation of the network time protocol (NTP) can be exploited by attackers to compromise servers, embedded devices and even critical infrastructure systems that run UNIX-like operating systems.The flaws, which can be exploited by sending specially crafted packets to machines running a vulnerable version of the NTP daemon (ntpd), pose a greater threat to systems where the service runs under a highly privileged user account such as root.However, even if the ntpd user has limited privileges, attackers could leverage other privilege escalation flaws to gain root access after exploiting the NTP flaws.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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