Monday, September 23, 2013

LinkedIn denies harvesting user email accounts without permission

Utility sets IT department on path to self-destruction

NSA spying fiasco sending customers overseas

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September 23, 2013
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LinkedIn denies harvesting user email accounts without permission

LinkedIn denied over the weekend charges that the company breaks into the email accounts of its members without permission to harvest contacts' addresses.

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Issue highlights

1. Utility sets IT department on path to self-destruction

2. NSA spying fiasco sending customers overseas

3. The two outsiders attracting Microsoft's attention for Steve Ballmer's job

4. INSIDER How to protect corporate data from angry ex-employees

5. DEC's demise may offer a lesson for Microsoft

6. Security org raises Internet threat level after seeing expanded IE attacks

7. Oracle's Ellison promises 'ungodly' database speed with new in-memory option

8. Torvalds on a backdoor into Linux

9. Prime time for Cisco vulnerabilities

10. A requiem for BlackBerry

11. Homeless people hired to wait in line for iPhone 5s left unpaid

12. GitHub's top 10 rock-star projects

13. 'A man wearing an iMac on his head'

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Utility sets IT department on path to self-destruction

Northeast Utilities has told IT employees that is considering outsourcing IT work to India-based offshore firms, putting as many as 400 IT jobs at risk. READ MORE

NSA spying fiasco sending customers overseas

The spectacle of National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposing the covert spying nature of US federal officials has sent ripple waves through the technology industry -- especially in the outsourcing arena. READ MORE

The two outsiders attracting Microsoft's attention for Steve Ballmer's job

As I said in a prior blog post, I feel Microsoft's problems are too big for an insider to handle. This person will have allegiances, friendships and biases that may cloud his or her judgment at a time when cold, hard decisions need to be made. It seems I'm not alone. READ MORE

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How to protect corporate data from angry ex-employees

The vast majority of employees who leave a company are honest, upstanding corporate citizens. But you never know when someone might leave on bad terms and then attempt to hack back into your corporate systems. READ MORE

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DEC's demise may offer a lesson for Microsoft

With Microsoft facing an almost insurmountable challenge to remain viable, some see parallels between the software giant and DEC, the high-flying tech titan of the 1980s that had all but disappeared by 1996. READ MORE

Security org raises Internet threat level after seeing expanded IE attacks

The Internet Storm Center on Saturday boosted its threat level to 'Yellow,' indicating a 'significant new threat' to Internet users from attacks exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in all versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser. READ MORE

Oracle's Ellison promises 'ungodly' database speed with new in-memory option

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has thrown his gauntlet down in the burgeoning market for in-memory computing, announcing a new option for Oracle's flagship database at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. READ MORE

Torvalds on a backdoor into Linux

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Prime time for Cisco vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities have cropped up in two versions of Cisco's Prime network management software. READ MORE

A requiem for BlackBerry

Honoring BlackBerry's contributions to mobile and IT. READ MORE

Homeless people hired to wait in line for iPhone 5s left unpaid

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that an area man man who picked up vanloads of homeless people from area shelters and hired them to wait in line to help him buy the new iPhone 5s in bulk was taken away by police after fights broke out when he refused to pay them. READ MORE

GitHub's top 10 rock-star projects

Creators and contributors shed light on GitHub's most-popular projects -- and sing praise to the code-sharing site's impact on their community and code READ MORE

'A man wearing an iMac on his head'

Reuters offers us this photo today among a selection of others showing people waiting to buy the new iPhone in Japan. The headgear is intentionally absurd, of course - and, yes, I noticed the promotion of a Web site, which I can report is not porn - but what struck me even more was the matter-of-fact nature of the Reuters caption, which reads: READ MORE

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