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	One in 10 second-hand hard drives in U.K. contain personal data Britain's Information Commissioner's Office has discovered that more than one in every ten second-hand hard drives contains recoverable personal information of the original owner. Read More WEBCAST: Redwood Systems Improve Data Center Efficiency Live Date/Time: May 02, 2012 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time IT managers are under pressure to improve efficiency in their data centers. Please join Redwood Systems, CommScope and MegaWatt Consulting to learn how building-performance lighting and intelligent infrastructure can be key contributors to your data center efficiency. Register Now In this Issue DropBox adds photo auto-upload feature for cameras, smartphones Huawei aims to offer touch-free smartphones, infinite cloud storage Most of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS websites are insecure, group says Researcher misinterprets Oracle advisory, discloses unpatched database vulnerability IT Blogwatch: Did Google tell Wi-Fi-spy lie? Bloggers say yes. Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud Down but not out: Conficker camouflages new Windows infections WHITE PAPER: F5 Driving Storage Efficiencies with Automated Tiering Storage management has become a huge issue for IT managers, and it's not going to subside, according to market researchers. New research conducted by IDG Research Services reveals that IT managers are considering tiered storage as an essential tool. Download this white paper to learn more about the survey results. Learn More! DropBox adds photo auto-upload feature for cameras, smartphones After launching a mobile app in February that can automatically upload photos and videos from Android phones, Dropbox unleashed an upgrade that expands the service to just about any device, including tablets, smartphones and Internet-enabled cameras. Read More Huawei aims to offer touch-free smartphones, infinite cloud storage Huawei Technologies is aiming to bring touch-free smartphones and more inexpensive cloud storage to users, as the company boosts its research and development spending in order to bring "disruptive" technologies that will alter the market landscape. Read More Most of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS websites are insecure, group says Ninety percent of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are vulnerable to known types of SSL attack, according to a report by the Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), a nonprofit organization that tries to solve Internet security, privacy and reliability problems. Read More WEBCAST: Autonomy Understand Your Data: The Future of Backup and Archiving Join us to hear the impact of private and public cloud solutions, "big data" and your choices while market evolves. Learn More Researcher misinterprets Oracle advisory, discloses unpatched database vulnerability Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and databases were published by a security researcher who erroneously thought that the company had patched the flaw. Read More IT Blogwatch: Did Google tell Wi-Fi-spy lie? Bloggers say yes. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) could be again in trouble over the collection of unencrypted Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars. Far from it being the unauthorized act of a rogue employee, FCC documents seem to say that several engineers and at least one manager were fully aware of the data spying problem. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers break out the popcorn.   Read More Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud Amazon Web Services offer new challenges and flexibility for database admins -- here's how to avoid the pitfalls and tune for performance Read More Down but not out: Conficker camouflages new Windows infections Windows PCs infected with Conficker are more likely to be compromised by other malware because the worm masks those secondary infections and makes those machines easier to exploit, a security expert said. Read More
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