| ITworld Today | | | | A court in California has declined Oracle's bid to disqualify an expert in its copyright dispute with Google over the use of Java code in the Android mobile operating system.James Kearl of Brigham Young University was asked by District Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to serve on the case and guide the court on damages, in the event of a liability being found.But Oracle questioned Kearl's neutrality, charging that he had previously appeared for Samsung in a lawsuit against Apple, when he sided with Google in the case "where the patents at issue involved technology that is part of Android." Samsung makes smartphones that use the Android operating system, and Google agreed to defend and indemnify Samsung in the lawsuit with Apple as to certain aspects of its defense against Apple’s affirmative claims.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | | Issue highlights 1. As China moves to payment cards, cybercriminals follow 2. Tech shuttle drivers in Silicon Valley negotiate wage hike 3. Dell security error widens as researchers dig deeper 4. Microsoft blames layoffs for drop in gender diversity 5. Dell installs self-signed root certificate on laptops, endangering users' privacy | | WHITE PAPER: AVI-SPL As organizations adopt increasingly complex technologies in their workplace, users want to know that when they connect their laptop, tablet or smartphone with a destination's input, they're ready to collaborate. This tech paper offers an overview of AV control and automation programming. Learn More | | As China increasingly embraces payment cards over cash, Trend Micro is seeing an uptick in cybercriminal activity aimed at card fraud. The security company published a new study of the Chinese underground cybercriminal market, which shows a strong interest in ways to capture payment card details. "Cybercriminals quickly jumped on the noncash payment bandwagon," wrote report author Lion Gu of Trend Micro's Forward-Looking Threat Research Team. The market for such tools has been strong in countries that heavily use payment cards, so it's probably not surprising that the trade would rise in China.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Shuttle drivers for some key Silicon Valley companies will have their first paid holiday on Thanksgiving this week, under new terms negotiated by a workers' union.Tech companies in Silicon Valley are facing increasing pressure from contract workers to improve working conditions, amid concerns about growing inequality and rising costs in the area.The use of underpaid contract staff by Silicon Valley companies for functions such as janitors, cooks, drivers and security guards has been criticized previously. “These ‘invisible’ workers do not share in the success of the industry which they daily labor to keep running,” according to a report in August last year by community labor organization Working Partnerships USA.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WEBCAST: VMware Business Mobility has widespread implications for how applications are built, how laptops are managed, and how industries transform core business processes. Discover how AirWatch solutions will shape the future of business mobility. Learn more. | | The fallout from a serious security mistake made by Dell is widening, as security experts find more issues of concern.Researchers with Duo Security have found a second weak digital certificate in a new Dell laptop and evidence of another problematic one circulating.The issue started after it was discovered Dell shipped devices with a self-signed root digital certificate, eDellRoot, which is used to encrypt data traffic. But it installed the root certificate with the private encryption key included, a critical error that left many security experts aghast.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Microsoft has blamed a drop in its workforce's gender diversity on the thousands of layoffs it made to restructure its phone hardware business.This year, women made up 26.8 percent of Microsoft's total workforce, down from 29 percent in 2014, the company reported Monday. Microsoft employed 5,701 fewer women this year compared to last, versus 5,316 fewer men.In a blog post discussing the numbers, Gwen Houston, Microsoft's general manager of diversity and inclusion, said that while the firm made progress on other metrics, the decrease in women resulted from a business decision in the longer-term interest of the company.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Dell laptops are coming preloaded with a self-signed root digital certificate that lets attackers spy on traffic to any secure website.The reports first surfaced on Reddit and were soon confirmed by other users and security experts on Twitter and blogs. The root certificate, which has the power of a certificate authority on the laptops it's installed on, comes bundled with its corresponding private key, making the situation worse.With the private key, which is now available online, anyone can generate a certificate for any website that will be trusted by browsers such as Internet Explorer and Google Chrome that use the Windows certificate store on affected laptops. Security experts have already generated proof-of-concept certificates for *.google.com and bankofamerica.com.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | : Lookout Mobile Security In this eGuide, Computerworld UK, CSO, and IDG News Service examine some of the recent trends in mobile threats as well as ways to protect against them. Read on to learn how mobile security measures can help protect your organization. Learn more. | | | | | | | |
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