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Examples of the different kinds of personal data available online, as well as its value on the black market, is available in a new report (PDF) from Intel Security's McAfee Labs. The report looks at pricing for credit cards, bank account login details, and other stolen personal information.

It starts with Basic Training – boot camp – where raw recruits are rousted from their beds early in the morning to begin a daily regimen designed to instill discipline and order. From how to make their beds and fold their clothes to hours of physical fitness training to learning to march in step with their fellow recruits, the objective is to prepare the mind and body of each soldier for service. Perhaps even more importantly, it conditions recruits to work together as a team to achieve their shared goals ... Читать дальше...

Linux is great. It's fast. It's stable. It's free (in more ways than one).

It isn’t hard for just about anyone to change or alter an image these days -- and that can be a problem.

Joe Belfiore, the vice president of the OS group and most visible cheerleader for the struggling Windows Phone business, is taking a year off from work to sail around the world with his family.

Buyers of Dell and Hewlett-Packard PCs may have paid over the odds for their optical drives as a result of a cartel arrangement between eight component manufacturers.

Smart TVs in conference rooms. Brainy heating and air-conditioning systems. Internet-connected light bulbs. Intelligent devices controlling manufacturing processes. Smart watches and fitness devices everywhere.

Two studies, one from HP, and one from DNS and security vendor OpenDNS, took a look at the dangers IoT devices pose, and both concluded the same thing: They’re real, they’re here, and they’re more widespread than you might imagine. Following are summaries of each study.

An escalation in the frequency, severity and impact of cybersecurity attacks damaging corporate operations, finances and reputations is forcing boards of directors to take more active roles in their company's defensive posture. However, the level of participation in their companies' risk mitigation strategy remains lacking, according to new research from PwC.

Docker containers have spread like wildfire across the technology industry, and now one of the biggest companies behind the movement has taken a big step toward making it easier to manage application containers across various infrastructure environments.

Like many vendors across the cloud computing and hosting market, Amazon Web Services is evolving its platform in an attempt to convince customers that its cloud is the best place to run application containers.

In light of recent advances in attacks against the SHA-1 cryptographic function, Mozilla is considering banning digital certificates signed with the algorithm sooner than expected.

Dell and Microsoft have teamed up to sell a converged system that combines servers, storage and software in an integrated box which they say can connect easily to Microsoft's Azure cloud services.

Many of the world's top tech companies want to put a stop to the fundamentally flawed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) bill which is on the Senate floor.

Dell CEO and Chairman Michael Dell is a few pen strokes away from buying a house in the city of Boston, Fortune reports, which may help assuage concerns here in Massachusetts that his company’s recent $67 billion purchase of EMC will result in the storage powerhouse and its some 9,500 local employees moving to Texas.

Wireless has become so commonplace we now take it for granted. It is essential not only for phones, but it is also unleashing the new universe of connected devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT has taken off and will grow exponentially in the next few years. It is certain to bring embedded connectivity to all types of equipment and products used in industries, business, and society, and it is already opening up compelling new product categories, such as smart wearables.

Oracle has fixed a vulnerability in Java that a Russian cyberespionage group used to launch stealthy attacks earlier this year.

Increasingly there is agreement that the future of enterprise IT, at least for most large organizations, is a hybrid model whereby enterprises leverage not only their existing, legacy infrastructures but also a cloud of all flavors - public and private. At the same time organizations will increasingly move up the stack and not only leverage raw infrastructure, but also embrace platform-level services.

When I reviewed the Amazon Mobile SDK and competing products from Microsoft and Google in March, I said, “While the AWS Mobile SDK does what it sets out to do, developing with it is not for novices, JavaScript programmers, or the faint of heart.” I went on to conclude, “The AWS Mobile SDK might be a good choice for native app developers who already have a commitment to Amazon services. If you want an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use MBaaS, look elsewhere.”

CSO covered how “Lack of security in small companies means big risk for the enterprise” because attackers who compromise small concerns in the federated enterprise do so in order to hack large companies.

Be realistic about DevOps and automation

Containers, orchestration, automation, full remote management, cloud-style distributed app development, continuous developer-continuous deployment and devops are the wave of future IT, and what sophisticated IT departments should be aiming for in the future. But there’s almost certainly at least one server your business relies on that is a unique and special snowflake -- a pet you’ve named, rather than just another head of cattle in your data center that you can easily replace if it ever fails. Читать дальше...

Recruiting, interviewing, onboarding and training new employees takes time and money -- two of any company's most valuable resources. So you might think that after investing new employees, companies would continue to help grow their careers within the business. However, that isn't always the case, and middle managers often find their time is split between A players and C or D players, while B players often go ignored. But there is a cost associated with ignoring B players, because with a little attention... Читать дальше...

All ambitious IT professionals know they need impeccable technical skills, a strong work ethic and a gift for fostering collaboration in order to rise through the ranks. But beyond that, what X factor sets future leaders apart from their colleagues — and what habits can you adopt to put yourself on a similar path?

Malvertising is the latest way for criminals to infect your computer with malware – and the only thing you need to do to allow it is to visit your favorite website that relies on advertising. 

The way businesses architect their operations to take best advantage of mobile technology, and the way they manage those mobile devices, are likely to evolve in the near future – but the precise nature of that evolution is far from obvious, according to an expert panel at the M-Enterprise event held Tuesday in Boston.