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Nov 01, 2016
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Unencrypted pagers a security risk for hospitals, power plants
The OPM breach report: A long time coming
No need to shoot down drones! Many of them can now be hijacked
Amateurs were behind the Dyn Inc. DDoS attack, report says
Half of US adults are profiled in police facial recognition databases

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5 Steps to Good Azure Governance

Cloud computing has come a long way in recent years, from a nebulous buzz term, to an instrumental driver of almost every serious IT department on the planet. Windows Azure, Microsoft's umbrella brand for its cloud services and tools, has been a key contributor to the cloud's meteoric rise in enterprises and businesses everywhere. Read More

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Unencrypted pagers a security risk for hospitals, power plants

For most of us, pagers went out when cell phones came in, but some companies are still using them and when the messages sent without encryption, attackers can listen in and even interfere with the communications Read More

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The OPM breach report: A long time coming

Congress has finally issued a report on the breach of the federal Office of Personnel Management that exposed the personal information of more than 22 million current and former employees. It comes 15 months after the breach was made public. Read More

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No need to shoot down drones! Many of them can now be hijacked

A security researcher has devised a method of hijacking a wide variety of radio controlled airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats and other devices that use a popular wireless transmission technology. Read More

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Amateurs were behind the Dyn Inc. DDoS attack, report says

Flashpoint Intel released a brief after action report on Tuesday, outlining some of their observations following Friday’s DDoS attack against Dyn Inc., which affected traffic to a number of high-level domains. Among the report’s findings is that Friday’s attack was the work script kiddies (amateurs), not a nation state actor. Read More

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Half of US adults are profiled in police facial recognition databases

Photographs of nearly half of all U.S. adults -- 117 million people -- are collected in police facial recognition databases across the country with little regulation over how the networks are searched and used, according to a new study. Read More

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The State of Cloud Readiness: Transformation and Strategic Adoption Measured

IT departments no longer dispute that the cloud is crucial to their success. Cloud services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services have evolved into robust solutions that can meet the increasing business demands on IT. However, planning and implementation pose an unexpected challenge. Read More

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