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	While Heartbleed distracts, hackers hit US universities The panic over the Heartbleed bug is proving to be a convenient distraction for hackers using standard techniques in a fresh wave of attacks targeting at least 18 U.S. universities, according to a computer security researcher. Read More WHITE PAPER: Spirent Hardware Test is the Key to Accurate Network Testing Surprisingly, many organizations are not adequately testing their networks. Network testing is crucial for any IT organization that wants to ensure availability, security and performance of applications and services running on their networks. Learn More In this Issue The iPad's expected ebb, and the search for why BMC automates the mainframe change ticket Data breach report: 9 attack patterns describe 92% of 100,000 security incidents As AT&T and Google push broadband adoption, the feds are non-players Reddit demotes technology subthread after posts were deleted How to keep your smartphone (and its data) secure Dell launches virtual storage accelerator, aims to boost SAN performance Mysterious malware steals Apple credentials from jailbroken iOS devices Salesforce at 15: Industry disruptor wards off midlife crisis Bing for schools out of pilot stage, promises ad-free search WHITE PAPER: VCE Power Plant Achieves Required High-Availability with VCE Faced with an external compliance audit and the need to improve availability, one of Europe's largest power plants turned to VCE Vblock™ Systems to: - Transform twin data centers to active-active mode - Enable business continuity and reliable delivery of electricity - Virtualize 95% of applications Learn More The iPad's expected ebb, and the search for why Apple is expected to confirm Wall Street's fears, that iPad sales growth not only slackened in the March quarter, but reversed course with fewer of the iconic tablets sold than the year before. Read More BMC automates the mainframe change ticket Mainframe operators using BMC software may now be able to enjoy the speedy, devops-style development pace that is quickly becoming the norm for customer-facing mobile applications and Internet services. Read More Data breach report: 9 attack patterns describe 92% of 100,000 security incidents There are some big changes to Verizon's 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), including a deep dive into two different datasets that came from 50 different sources and 95 countries. One set of data looks back at 1,367 confirmed data breaches and 63,437 security incidents from 2013. Another looks back over a decade of data covering about 3,800 data breaches and 100,000 security incidents. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Practices for Success This white paper discusses best practices that can dramatically increase your success rate of a SAM deployment. Make sure and follow these steps and verify that your SAM toolkit has the necessary functionality to keep your organization steps ahead of the competition -it's a long term investment. Read Now As AT&T and Google push broadband adoption, the feds are non-players AT&T and Google have talked up plans to extend supercharged broadband speeds to several U.S. cities and offer lesser service for free to underserved areas. But whether they, and other providers, can bridge the nation's digital divide without federal help remains to be seen. Read More Reddit demotes technology subthread after posts were deleted Reddit has removed from its front page the popular r/technology subreddit after what it called bad editorial choices by the page's moderators. Read More How to keep your smartphone (and its data) secure In our daily activities, our smartphones increasingly store or access sensitive business and personal data -- not just email, but also financial and medical information, company systems, travel itineraries, etc. Many of us also use smartphones to access cloud data repositories like Dropbox, Evernote, Google Docs, Microsoft OneDrive and Apple iCloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Service Enablement & Beyond Learn the four practical steps to rapid service enablement. This two-page solution brief focuses on the mainframe challenge and the importance of using standards-based technologies in any integration project. Learn More. Dell launches virtual storage accelerator, aims to boost SAN performance Dell released a new virtualized storage accelerator appliance called Fluid Cache for SAN, designed to help customers keep data-intensive applications working quickly under load. Read More Mysterious malware steals Apple credentials from jailbroken iOS devices A malware campaign of yet-to-be-determined origin is infecting jailbroken iPhones and iPads to steal Apple account credentials from SSL encrypted traffic. Read More Salesforce at 15: Industry disruptor wards off midlife crisis Salesforce.com recently celebrated its 15th year in existence, and as the SaaS (software-as-a-service) vendor races toward US$5 billion in revenue its influence on the industry is being felt more than ever. At the same time, some signs indicate that Salesforce.com is having a few growing pains, as well as showing some trappings of the mega-vendors it once mocked with its "End of Software" marketing campaign. Read More Bing for schools out of pilot stage, promises ad-free search Microsoft is throwing open an advertisement-free version of its Bing search engine to all eligible kindergarten to 12th grade schools in the U.S., after completing the pilot stage of this program that was first run in five large public school districts. Read More
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