BitDefender traces MiniDuke espionage malware back to 2011

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	BitDefender traces MiniDuke espionage malware back to June 2011 Romanian security company BitDefender has traced the cyber-espionage malware "MiniDuke" back to June 2011, more than a year and a half before the campaign was uncovered Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Announcing exciting new server flash products You don't want to miss this live broadcast featuring extreme flash product testing! Join EMC on Tuesday, March 5 when we announce exciting new server flash products. Find out how your environment can benefit from extreme flash performance. Get real-time answers to all your product questions from our flash technology experts. In this Issue H-1B visas used by firm to create low-cost workforce, U.S. alleges Google squashes 10 Chrome bugs as $100K Pwn2Own hacking prize looms White House: Unlocking mobile phones should be legal IDC says tech spending will grow by 6% this year, the same rate as 2012 Overcoming volatility with agility Video -- Premier 100: How process changes can drive IT innovation Health providers can't find, keep IT staff SharePoint 2013 Challenges and Questions for CIOs After robotic arm grabs SpaceX Dragon, unloading begins Researchers link latest Java zero-day exploit to Bit9 hack AWS offers a free month of automated system analysis HP's ARM servers to get Texas Instruments chips Copper still has a lot to offer broadband users, Deutsche Telekom exec says FCC begins trial of Google white spaces database Microsoft promises Surface Pro in European stores next quarter MWC: Dropbox CEO criticises Apple cloud lock-in Sharon Machlis: Cool data tools and resources from NICAR13 Jonny Evans: Opinion: Google Glass won't match the hype Preston Gralla: Want to be a billionaire? Work for Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Wal-Mart but not Apple WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now H-1B visas used by firm to create low-cost workforce, U.S. alleges A Texas IT services firm has been indicted by federal authorities for using H-1B visa workers to create an inexpensive 'as needed' labor force. Read More Google squashes 10 Chrome bugs as $100K Pwn2Own hacking prize looms Google today patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, just two days before the start of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that has $100,000 in prize money waiting for the first researcher to crack the browser Read More White House: Unlocking mobile phones should be legal U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of smartphones. Read More IDC says tech spending will grow by 6% this year, the same rate as 2012 IDC is predicting a growth rate of 6% in IT spending in the U.S. this year, an amount that's virtually unchanged from last year. Read More Overcoming volatility with agility Computerworld's Premier 100 conference opened Monday with a keynote topic that was close to the hearts of many of the 500 IT professionals in attendance: an acronym called VUCA. Read More Video -- Premier 100: How process changes can drive IT innovation Daphne Jones, senior vice president and CIO at Hospira, chats with Computerworld at its Premier 100 conference in Tucson, Ariz. Jones discusses the benefits of continuous process innovation and how to deal with local issues at a global business. Read More Health providers can't find, keep IT staff A survey of IT executives in U.S. hospitals revealed that many are concerned they will not be able to find the IT employees they need to implement technology required under the Affordable Care Act. Read More SharePoint 2013 Challenges and Questions for CIOs SharePoint 2013 arrives with a new user interface and new collaboration, search, storage and task management features. But gaps remain in areas like social and mobile, and upgrading and governing SharePoint is still rife with challenges. Read More After robotic arm grabs SpaceX Dragon, unloading begins Astronauts on the International Space Station began unloading cargo from the SpaceX Dragon capsule on Monday, a day after the commercially delivered capsule was attached to the station. Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Addressing the Broken State of Backup Check out the new report featuring Gartner Research, "Addressing the Broken State of Backup". Find out how to get faster, more reliable backup and disaster recovery by modernizing your backup systems. Learn more. Researchers link latest Java zero-day exploit to Bit9 hack The attacks discovered last week that exploited a previously unknown Java vulnerability were likely launched by the same attackers that previously targeted security firm Bit9 and its customers, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. Read More AWS offers a free month of automated system analysis Amazon Web Services is offering users a monthlong free trial of a set of system analysis tools that the company is developing. The free offer is one of a number of price cuts and expanded services the company introduced in the past few weeks. Read More HP's ARM servers to get Texas Instruments chips Hewlett-Packard's effort to build ARM servers will get a boost from Texas Instruments, which will provide chips based on the latest ARM processor design. Read More Copper still has a lot to offer broadband users, Deutsche Telekom exec says Thanks to the higher speeds possible using a technology called vectoring, copper networks are still a viable option to cable and fiber, Deutsche Telekom says. Read More FCC begins trial of Google white spaces database The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun a test run of a Google database of unused spectrum in the television bands that's available for wireless broadband. Read More Microsoft promises Surface Pro in European stores next quarter Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet will go on sale in Europe in the second quarter priced somewhere around $1,170, while a local telco is now reselling the latest editions of its Office 365 hosted productivity suite, the company announced ahead of the Cebit trade show on Monday. Read More MWC: Dropbox CEO criticises Apple cloud lock-in Dropbox CEO Drew Houston has warned against buying into cloud services offered by mobile device manufacturers and network operators, claiming that consumers and businesses can easily become locked in. Read More Sharon Machlis: Cool data tools and resources from NICAR13 Data analysis with R, SQL-like map queries with Fusion Tables, tracking Congress with JavaScript and more. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: Google Glass won't match the hype Read the gushing Google Glass praise and you might believe there's enough people who care. Look at the slight excitement surrounding the speculated Apple iWatch and it seems pundits prefer Google's goggles, but will the public agree? I don't think so. There's just too much that's wrong with Google's idea. Read More Preston Gralla: Want to be a billionaire? Work for Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Wal-Mart but not Apple If your goal in life is to be a billionaire, start making out your job application to Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Wal-Mart. In the most recent list of billionaires compiled by Forbes, six are are associated with Google, five with Wal-Mart, four with Facebook, and three Microsoft.As for Apple, there's only a single billionaire, Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs' widow. Read More
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