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	Obamacare data hub is secure and ready to roll The central system built to support Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges has successfully completed security testing and is set begin operating on October 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Webroot Software Managing Web Security in a Challenging Threat Landscape This whitepaper deals with the rise of mobility, BYOD and social networking, and how these trends have led cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities in browsers and mobile apps. From drive-by downloads to spearfishing to XML injection, web-borne threats represent a significant new risk for businesses. Learn More In this Issue Apple's iPhone 5S reopens debate on sensor data collection Hack victims urged to share the gory details Fearless IT guy trying to fly across the Atlantic on helium balloons Poor design fosters hacker attacks of websites running PHP Programmer exploits Windows vulnerability in cloud-based services NASA: Voyager spacecraft has crossed over into interstellar space NetCitadel's Threat Management Platform turns event detection into network 14 geeky ways to celebrate Friday the 13th What the NSA chief didn't tell Black Hat 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 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 Hack victims urged to share the gory details It may be difficult to remember now, but not too long ago, cyberattacks rarely made headlines in mainstream news. That's not to say that these advanced persistent threats, sometimes state-sponsored or the product of organized crime, were uncommon. On the contrary, they were booming. It was just that few people liked to talk about them. Read More Fearless IT guy trying to fly across the Atlantic on helium balloons If you've ever wondered if you could fly just by holding a bunch of helium balloons over your head, well then you might understand where Accenture IT Technical Projects Manager Jonathan Trappe is coming from. Trappe today set out today from Caribou, Maine to cross 2,500 miles of Atlantic Ocean using 370 helium balloons slung under a small gondola. Read More WEBCAST: HP HP Mobile App Development Survey 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 Poor design fosters hacker attacks of websites running PHP App language contains open door for Black Hat mischief Read More Programmer exploits Windows vulnerability in cloud-based services Windows data volumes (meaning virtual machine hard-drives) in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services can be copied and have their access credentials modified, allowing a hacker to glean insights into the data, a programmer has reported. Read More NASA: Voyager spacecraft has crossed over into interstellar space Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More NetCitadel's Threat Management Platform turns event detection into network IT security analysts have a tough job and it's getting tougher every day. Not only is the number of pieces of hay in the haystack getting bigger, the number of needles in the hay is also growing. NetCitadel aims to address this challenge with a new Threat Management Platform that consolidates event information from numerous sensors, supplements that data with contextual information about incidents, and automates responses across security devices. Read More 14 geeky ways to celebrate Friday the 13th Don't be scared, there's plenty to do on Friday, Sept. 13 Read More What the NSA chief didn't tell Black Hat When NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander addressed Black Hat earlier this year, he painted a rosy picture of how well the agency controls access to its phone record database, but he never brought up cases when those controls broke down, unauthorized access was made and data was shared among analysts who shouldn't have seen it. Read More
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