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Computerworld Security Jan 04, 2016 How to evaluate password managers All password managers have up to as many as four separate products for storing passwords, but not all tools support all four mechanisms. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Mingis on Tech: Hackable health records, bold predictions for 2016 • When it comes to bugs, the Adobe Flash Players cup runneth over • New Chinese law takes aim at encryption • Work in finance or accounting? Watch out for 'whaling' attacks • Yahoo mimics Facebook, Google with 'state-sponsored' attack warnings • Microsoft mirrors rivals, pledges to warn customers of state-backed hacks after leaving users in the dark • Hyatt Hotels says payment-processing systems hit by malware • Who is New World Hacking? BBC hit by DDoS as anti-IS test card White Paper: XO Communications Putting the Kibosh on Shadow IT: Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud Management Read this paper to learn best practices for setting up an internal, IT-based cloud brokerage function that service the entire organization. Read More ▶ Mingis on Tech: Hackable health records, bold predictions for 2016 Executive News Editor Ken Mingis and Computerworld staffers discuss the sorry state of health record security and bold predictions for the coming year in IT. Read More ▶ When it comes to bugs, the Adobe Flash Players cup runneth over A look at some stats on just how many bugs there have been in the Adobe Flash Player. Hint: lots. Read More ▶ New Chinese law takes aim at encryption A new law passed by China's Parliament on Sunday requires technology companies to assist the government in decrypting content, a provision that the country maintains is modeled after Western law. Read More ▶ Work in finance or accounting? Watch out for 'whaling' attacks If you receive an email from your boss asking you to transfer some funds to an external account, you might want to think twice. Read More ▶ Yahoo mimics Facebook, Google with 'state-sponsored' attack warnings Yahoo has followed rivals Facebook and Google in telling users it will warn them when it believes they face state-backed cyber attackers. Read More ▶ Microsoft mirrors rivals, pledges to warn customers of state-backed hacks after leaving users in the dark Microsoft says it, too, will alert users when they are beset by state-sponsored cyber attacks, following the lead of Google, Facebook and Yahoo. Read More ▶ Hyatt Hotels says payment-processing systems hit by malware Hyatt Hotels has asked customers to review their payment card account statements closely after it detected malware on the computers that run payment-processing systems at locations it manages. Read More ▶ Who is New World Hacking? BBC hit by DDoS as anti-IS test card The BBC -- that mainstay of British broadcasting, education, journalism, and whatever Top Gear was -- is ruing the day someone dropped a cup of tea into the server. Or perhaps it was a distributed-denial-of-service attack... Read More ▶ White Paper: Cisco Systems Advanced Malware Protection: Control Advanced Malware with More Visibility Find out the multiple ways to implement Cisco AMP, from the endpoint to the network, mobile devices, and virtual environments. Read More ▶ Forecast 2016: Your essential to-do list for the year ahead Check out our November Digital Magazine, which features our annual Forecast special report and survey results, your essential to-do list for the year ahead. The magazine also includes News Analysis, Opinions and Shark Tank -- all free for download with registration. View the magazine here ▶ Subscribe to Computerworld Daily News Sign up for our popular, twice-daily tech news newsletter. You'll get Computerworld's up-to-the-minute top stories of the day, both first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon (ET). We deliver breaking news on topics like the latest security threats and the newest mobile devices, in-depth features about enterprise technologies and IT careers, and authoritative analyses of moves made by tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM and HP. Sign up now ▶ Computerworld Job Board Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted. Check them out now ▶

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