| ITworld Today | | | | The Internet of Things could help some companies save money or even boost sales, and the big names of enterprise tech are lining up to help their customers make the leap.Hewlett Packard Enterprise is in the thick of that pack. On Wednesday in London, it unveiled two gateway devices for gathering and processing data at the edges of IoT networks. The HPE IoT System EL10 and EL20 are available now.For enterprises, IoT holds out the promise of collecting information about what all the machines in a company are doing in real time. That data can help an organization predict when something needs maintenance and learn over time where the biggest demands on the system really are. If the company sells complex systems, like jet engines or turbines, IoT can also help it keep customers happy.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | | Issue highlights 1. IRS says it will get a warrant before using cell-site simulators 2. Yahoo mulls sale of core Internet business 3. Ransomware and scammy tech support sites team up for a vicious one-two punch 4. Toy maker VTech says breach hit 6.4 million kids' accounts 5. DARPA eyes faster design of military chips | | : 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. | | The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is drafting a policy to restrict the use without a warrant of cell-site simulator technology to snoop on the location and other information from mobile phones.The head of the IRS, John Koskinen, wrote in a letter that the agency was drafting a policy that would mirror an earlier Department of Justice rule, which requires a search warrant supported by probable cause before using the technology, except in exigent or exceptional circumstances.Cell-site simulators, also referred to as stingrays or 'IMSI catchers,' track the location and other information from mobile phones by mimicking cellphone towers. The use of the technology without a warrant by law enforcement has been criticized by civil rights groups.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Yahoo's board may be considering this week the sale of its core Internet business, after an activist investor demanded last month that the company explore the sale of its core search and display advertising businesses.The board will be meeting to discuss the sale in a series of meetings from Wednesday through Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.Yahoo had previously planned to spin off its shares in Alibaba Holding Group, through a company called Aabaco Holdings, but has held back on the move because of uncertainties about potential tax implications.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems As businesses quickly move to make the data center more agile, application centric automation and virtualization of both hardware and software infrastructure become increasingly important. Learn More | | Symantec has seen a curious fusing of two pernicious online threats, which would cause a big headache if encountered by users.Some websites offering questionable tech support services are also dishing up ransomware, which locks up a users files until they pay a fee to decrypt them.The support scams involve trying to convince users they have a computer problem and then selling them overpriced software or support services to fix it. It's often done via a pop-up message that urges people to call a number or download software.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Educational toy maker VTech has said 11.6 million accounts were compromised in a cyberattack last month, including those of 6.4 million children.The total number of accounts affected is nearly double that reported last week by the security news site Motherboard, which interviewed a hacker who claimed credit for the breach.Most of the account holders were in the U.S., including 2.2 million parents and 2.8 million children, VTech said Wednesday in Hong King, where the company is based. France, the U.K., Germany and Canada round out the top five countries hit, VTech said in an updated FAQ.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The U.S. military's research division has kicked off a project to accelerate its design of custom chips, so the latest semiconductor technologies can be used more quickly in defense applications.For specific tasks like processing and transmitting images from a surveillance system, a custom chip can often do the job faster and more efficiently than a general purpose microprocessor.The custom chips are smaller and consume less power, but it can take more than two years and $100 million to design them for military applications, according to an estimate from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).As a result, the military often relies on commercial chips and uses software to boost performance, but that means compromises are made.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | : Silver Peak Systems Inc Manufacturing leader, Interroll, augments MPLS with Broadband to dramatically reduce WAN costs and improve SaaS application performance. 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