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Mar 03, 2017
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Infosec mourns over Howard Schmidt, who helped make the country a safer place

Howard Schmidt advised both President Brack Obama and George W. Bush on cybersecurity. He was a CSO at Microsoft and a CISO at eBay. He led several industry groups, and wrote books on cybersecurity. But when security professionals remember him, it is not so much for his technical accomplishments as for the impact he had on the people around him. He is remembered as a mentor, a communicator, and an educator Read More

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Java 9 gets a release date: July 27
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White Paper: Veracode

The State of Software Security: 2016 Executive Summary: CIO White Paper

For the seventh year running, Veracode presents the security industry with an in-depth view of valuable application security statistics through the State of Software Security (SOSS). This is no mere survey report. The metrics presented here are based on real application risk postures, drawn from code-level analysis of billions of lines of code across 300,000 assessments performed over the last 18 months. Read More

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Java 9 gets a release date: July 27

JDK 9, which features modularization and ahead-of-time compilation, will be released this summer Read More

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Pence used private mail for state work as governor, account was hacked

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reportedly used a private email account to transact state business when he was governor of Indiana, and his AOL account was hacked once, according to a news report. Read More

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AWS blames a typo for Tuesday’s outage

An authorized S3 team member entered a command incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed from service than was intended, Amazon said. Read More

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Slack bug paved the way for a hack that can steal user access

One bug in Slack, the popular work chat application, was enough for a security researcher to design a hack that could trick its users into handing over access. Read More

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AWS says a typo caused the massive S3 failure this week

Everyone makes mistakes. But working at Amazon Web Services means an incorrectly entered input can lead to a massive outage that cripples popular websites and services. Read More

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Walgreens names new CIO

Steve Turner's position as a Walgreens veteran focused on data analytics could advance the pharmacy retailer's digital transformation. Read More

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Free decryption tools now available for Dharma ransomware

Researchers have created decryption tools for the Dharma ransomware after someone recently leaked the encryption keys for it. Read More

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Microsoft starts selling 6 more years of Windows Server support

Microsoft is now selling extended support for its Windows Server software, letting corporate customers add up to six years to the lifespan of Windows Server 2008 and later, and SQL Server 2008 and later. Read More

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Classic smartphone brands get a spring in their step at MWC (+video)

Venerable smartphone brands Motorola, Nokia and BlackBerry got new life at Mobile World Congress 2017, but that was primarily due to the influence of Chinese and Finnish manufacturers that have licensed the names. Read More

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These IoT devices shown at MWC mean business

Along with all the hype about phones and 5G networks, Mobile World Congress 2017 was also a showcase for the internet of things, including IoT gear for enterprise and government use. Read More

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HPE refocuses tech services group on cloud, big data

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has revamped its existing technology services unit to focus on helping customers adopt emerging technologies, including cloud computing, the internet of things, and big data. Read More

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Gmail users can now receive attachments up to 50MB, but please don't send them

Google doubles the limit of the size of emails it will accept from 25MB to 50MB, but keeps the sending cap fixed at 25MB. Read More

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Chrome for MacOS to block rogue ad injections and settings changes

Google has expanded its Safe Browsing service, allowing Google Chrome on macOS to better protect users from programs that locally inject ads into web pages or that change the browser's home page and search settings. Read More

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Cisco expands Docker partnership, rolls Contiv open source container networking software

Cisco is embracing application containers in a big way with a new expanded partnership with Docker and the 1.0 release of its open source container networking platform named Contiv. Read More

Webcast: Amazon Web Services

How to Migrate and Protect Your Workloads With Disruption and No Data Loss: CIO Webcast

Organizations choosing to migrate to AWS are looking for a solution that will allow them to migrate their workloads with minimal disruption to their business and no data loss. In order to achieve this, they need to be able to test their applications on the Cloud prior to redirecting network traffic. Join the upcoming webinar on March 21, 2017 | 4-5pm PST, to learn how iN DEMAND seamlessly migrated nearly 40 VMware servers to AWS Read More

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