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	Four ways to defend against DDoS attacks Given that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming more frequent, it is a good time to review the basics and how you can fight back. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDNetworks Scaling the Great Firewall of China This white paper and FAQ provide a high level understanding of challenges to reaching China with your brand and the types of licenses needed to operate a website reaching consumers, businesses, and employees in China. Read now >> In this Issue INSIDER 5 ways devops can benefit IT 2013 Ig Nobel Prize winners: from opera-loving mice to stargazing dung beetles 70 percent of business users vulnerable to latest Internet Explorer Zero-Day Apple's iPhone 5S reopens debate on sensor data collection Poor design fosters hacker attacks of websites running PHP Snowden's role provided 'perfect cover' for NSA data theft 10 programming languages to make a developer pull his or her hair out Vampire mice and zombie hard drives: USB dangers lurk in Linux Hacking courses offer cybercrooks tips on how to hone skills Energy Department spends $30M to bolster utility cybersecurity tools NSA wants even closer partnership with tech industry Versafe offers a server-side-only approach to fraud detection and prevention HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service Zettaset working toward Big Data encryption for Hadoop How cloud-based disaster recovery is getting more efficient 16 IT Skills in High Demand in 2013 WHITE PAPER: CDNetworks Dynamic Web Acceleration Delivering web applications over the Internet and ensuring reasonable response times for users around the globe is a significant challenge. Find out how Dynamic Web Acceleration can accelerate highly dynamic and interactive web applications aimed at a global audience. Learn more. INSIDER 5 ways devops can benefit IT Devops is about getting the people responsible for creating applications to work more closely with the people who maintain apps in production. The goal? Faster delivery, better quality apps. Read More 2013 Ig Nobel Prize winners: from opera-loving mice to stargazing dung beetles Improbable research efforts honored with Ig Nobel Prizes Read More 70 percent of business users vulnerable to latest Internet Explorer Zero-Day Microsoft alert says all supported versions of Internet Explorer contain a zero day vulnerability that is being actively targeted online, and 70 percent of Windows business users are impacted Read More Apple's iPhone 5S reopens debate on sensor data collection While data collected from sensors can be useful to hackers, it can also help defend against them by alerting companies to unusual behavior Read More Poor design fosters hacker attacks of websites running PHP App language contains open door for Black Hat mischief Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications SDN: The next wave of networking innovation Brocade and IDG bring you this exclusive eBook exploring the impact of today's IT and Data Center challenges on your network. With a focus on software-defined networks, use this eBook to start your evolution toward a flatter, less complex and more agile network architecture—an architecture ready for the future. View Brocade's eBook on SDN Snowden's role provided 'perfect cover' for NSA data theft Fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden's role as a systems administrator provided easy access to classified NSA documents sitting in a file-sharing location on the spy agency's intranet portal. Read More 10 programming languages to make a developer pull his or her hair out When developers discuss the programming languages they hate the most, these names tend to come up - a lot Read More Vampire mice and zombie hard drives: USB dangers lurk in Linux NEW ORLEANS - Linux kernel developer Sarah Sharp is searching for a solution to the problem posed by vampire mice, she said in a presentation at LinuxCon North America Wednesday afternoon. Read More Hacking courses offer cybercrooks tips on how to hone skills A growing number of experienced hackers have begun offering structured hacking courses for crooks seeking to make a career in cybercrime. Read More Energy Department spends $30M to bolster utility cybersecurity tools The Department of Energy today awarded $30 million to a 11 security vendors to develop technology the agency says will better protect nation's electric grid, oil and gas infrastructure from cyber-attack. Read More WEBCAST: HP HP Webcast: Mobile Application Development Join John Jeremiah, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, HP and John Jackson, Research Vice President, Mobile & Connected Platforms, IDC for an interactive discussion on the results of the HP Mobile Application Development Maturity Peer Assessment Tool. Date: September 18 @ 1:00pm EDT Register Now NSA wants even closer partnership with tech industry The National Security Agency's director of information assurance today said the "way to achieve confidence in cyberspace" is to increase collaboration between the government and the high-tech industry — remarks that rang ironic given former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations about how NSA works with industry. Read More Versafe offers a server-side-only approach to fraud detection and prevention Already a success in its native Israel, Versafe is bringing its TotALL Online Fraud Protection Suite to North America. With solutions for web-based and native mobile applications, Versafe protects banking (and other) applications from fraud and other attacks at the application layer, protecting users without requiring them to download software. Read More HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service HP today took the wraps off its Next-Generation Firewall line designed to exert application-level controls and visibility over all traffic related to the enterprise, including mobile devices used in public WiFi settings and traffic from cloud services. Read More Zettaset working toward Big Data encryption for Hadoop Zettaset, which makes management and security software for Hadoop, says it plans to add encryption capabilities by year end. Read More How cloud-based disaster recovery is getting more efficient Through advancements to back-end systems, providers of cloud-based disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) are becoming more efficient at storing customer data and getting faster at restoring sites. Read More 16 IT Skills in High Demand in 2013 What IT skills are the hottest with employers and what forces are driving those career trends? We examined Foote Partners recently released quarterly IT Skills and Certifications Pay index and we spoke with industry experts to find out. Read More
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