60-minute security makeover: Prevent your own 'epic hack'

	HP plots its recovery | Siemens works to fix vulnerability in critical control networks
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	60-minute security makeover: Prevent your own 'epic hack' How's this for a digital nightmare? Your Twitter account hijacked; racist and homophobic tweets posted in your name. Your Apple account breached; data wiped from your iPhone, iPad and Mac laptop. Your Gmail password reset by hackers and your Google account deleted. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Vendor Management in the New Era of IT How can IT organizations encourage greater vendor participation in deploying new and emerging technologies while managing less established industry providers? Hear insights and gain concepts from a panel of Chicago IT leaders at CIO Perspectives on September 11. Register Today In this Issue HP plots its recovery Siemens works to fix vulnerability in critical control networks Robotics 'critical' to NASA's mission on Mars Apple v Samsung: Five experts, five questions Rambus to lay off around 15% in restructuring Oakland says AT&T cell towers interfering with police radios NASA's Curiosity makes first drive at Bradbury Landing HP reports $8.9B Q3 loss on write-downs, weak sales ICS-CERT warns of SSL security flaw in RuggedCom industrial networking devices What developers can learn from Anonymous Darlene Storm: ToorCamp: Adventures in an American hacker camp Richi Jennings: AT&T blocks FaceTime: Follow the money WHITE PAPER: M*Modal Meaningful Use, ICD-10, RAC & ACOs This white paper describes the risks associated with the lack of a core HIT strategy; identifies HIT strategies that can help manage the complex clinical documentation challenges associated with ICD-10, RAC and ACOs; and provides an overview of existing and emerging technologies that have significant impact on addressing these challenges. Learn More HP plots its recovery In its 73 years, Hewlett-Packard has had bad quarters, but perhaps none like the one it posted Wednesday. Its $8.9 billion loss was huge, but there was little drama about it. Read More Siemens works to fix vulnerability in critical control networks Siemens is working to fix a remotely exploitable vulnerability in network routers and switches from subsidiary RuggedCom that are widely deployed in refineries, power substations and other critical infrastructure networks in the U.S. Read More Robotics 'critical' to NASA's mission on Mars The Mars rover Curiosity is on a mission to deliver what scientists hope will be groundbreaking scientific research that wouldn't be possible without robotics, according to a NASA chief engineer. Read More Apple v Samsung: Five experts, five questions As a nine-person jury begins deliberations in the closely watched patent trial between Apple and Samsung, the companies and their lawyers are left waiting and wondering what the jury made of the three weeks of arguments. Read More Rambus to lay off around 15% in restructuring Rambus on Wednesday said it would lay off around 15 percent of staff as part of a restructuring effort in which the company is trying to curb expenses to improve profitability. Read More Oakland says AT&T cell towers interfering with police radios AT&T Wireless has partially disabled service at 16 cellphone towers in Oakland after the California city said they were interfering with its emergency communications system. Read More WEBCAST: VCE Boosting Asset Utilization of Vblock Customers This webcast will highlight detailed results from a recent IDC study, sponsored by VCE, of five organizations that have implemented Vblock Systems, and seen dramatic cost savings, vast improvement in deployment times, and reduction in downtime. Learn more. NASA's Curiosity makes first drive at Bradbury Landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took its first drive on the Martian surface today, as scientists prepare for more extensive research to come. Read More HP reports $8.9B Q3 loss on write-downs, weak sales Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a US$8.9 billion loss for its third quarter ended July 31 due to writedowns and weak hardware sales and also said full-year results would be at the low end of its previous guidance. Read More ICS-CERT warns of SSL security flaw in RuggedCom industrial networking devices Industrial Ethernet switches and other devices produced by industrial networking equipment manufacturer RuggedCom contain a vulnerability that could be exploited to compromise SSL-based communications between them and their users, according to a security researcher from security startup Cylance. Read More What developers can learn from Anonymous The reason Anonymous has a permanent place in our collective imagination: For a time, its organizational model worked very well Read More Darlene Storm: ToorCamp: Adventures in an American hacker camp While a tech camping event might sound like an oxymoron, hackers, makers, breakers and shakers assembled at the northwestern tip of the USA for ToorCamp and dispelled the notion that all hackers avoid sunshine and the great outdoors. As you would expect from a hacker conference, there were workshops like the one for lock picking and a plethora of presentations from "hacking computers to brain hacking, from brewing soda to fighting robots, from civil rights to lightning guns." Then unique aspects of this cool hacker camp get more bizarre . . like the laser that was so bright it required FAA clearance to deploy it, the ShadyTel community 'payphone,' the Temple of Robotron, an RFID implantation station, bike jousting, dancing robots and of course campfires. Need an even stranger adventure that's also in the ToorCon family of hacking conferences? There's the upcoming WorldToor, the first ever hacker conference in Antarctica. Read More Richi Jennings: AT&T blocks FaceTime: Follow the money In restricting use of Apple FaceTime, AT&T (NYSE:T) is being accused of violating network neutrality regulations. Not so, says AT&T, outlining a tortuous legal argument why it's in the clear. It just wants more money, to ensure it can offer enough bandwidth. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers gasp in angered awe at AT&T's audacity. [That's enough awful alliteration -Ed.] Read More
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