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ITworld Today Feb 25, 2016 Comcast, U.S. telcos gave $88M to lawmakers in 2015 Do you ever wonder why U.S. cable companies aren't more heavily regulated? One possible reason: Comcast and other telcos spent $88 million on lobbying last year, or more than the aerospace and real estate industries, according to Open Secrets. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • CIOs share best practices for social media and collaboration • Firms detect breaches sooner, but attackers have gotten nastier • CIOs look to LinkedIn to recruit (and be recruited) • Verizon charts a different cloud services path • Outdated payment terminals exempted by Mozilla from SHA-1 certificate ban • Career boost: Break into data science • Foxconn to pay over $6B for a majority stake in Sharp • With few options, companies pay hush money to data thieves • Arizona county attorney to ditch iPhones over Apple dispute with FBI • Tim Cook: The FBI is asking us to write the software equivalent of cancer • Say 'Ahh': The toothbrush will see you now • Lightning fast SD cards for 4K and 8K video are coming soon • Google gives a boost to mobile search speed White Paper: CloudFlare CloudFlare Advanced DDoS Protection Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are on the rise and have evolved into complex and overwhelming security challenges. Read More ▶ CIOs share best practices for social media and collaboration Social media certainly isn't a fail-proof solution to all of today's corporate communication and collaboration problems, but strategic CIOs and their teams can use social platforms to improve business processes, boost productivity and engage employees. Here's how. Read More ▶ Firms detect breaches sooner, but attackers have gotten nastier Firms are detecting breaches nearly 30 percent sooner than before, according to a new report from Mandiant, but attackers are also getting more aggressive in their methods by demanding millions for not releasing data, or erasing all systems around them as they go. Read More ▶ CIOs look to LinkedIn to recruit (and be recruited) CIOs are finding a reprieve from the global IT talent vacuum in LinkedIn. IT executives are using the professional social networking platform to land new gigs. Read More ▶ Verizon charts a different cloud services path The telecom giant is unloading its data centers to focus on its services business. Read More ▶ Outdated payment terminals exempted by Mozilla from SHA-1 certificate ban Mozilla will allow Symantec to issue nine new SHA-1-signed certificates to Worldpay in order to accommodate over 10,000 payment terminals that haven't been upgraded before the issuing of such certificates was banned. Read More ▶ Career boost: Break into data science The high demand for data scientists has many IT pros contemplating a lucrative career shift Read More ▶ Foxconn to pay over $6B for a majority stake in Sharp Sharp has approved an offer from Hon Hai Precision Industry and related companies to acquire over 66 percent of the company's voting stock, making the Taiwanese contract manufacturer the new parent of the venerable Japanese firm. Read More ▶ With few options, companies pay hush money to data thieves There's a disturbing new angle to cyberattacks that has become more common over the last year, and it is proving costly for organizations: extortion. Read More ▶ Arizona county attorney to ditch iPhones over Apple dispute with FBI Apple's refusal to help the FBI unlock an iPhone 5c used by one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino, California, attack on Dec. 2 has prompted the Maricopa County attorney's office in Arizona to ban providing new iPhones to its staff. Read More ▶ Tim Cook: The FBI is asking us to write the software equivalent of cancer Tim Cook has said the U.S. government is requiring Apple to write "the software equivalent of cancer" by demanding that it help unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. Read More ▶ Say 'Ahh': The toothbrush will see you now Oral B's next toothbrushing system will have accelerometers, gyroscopes, a Bluetooth link to a smartphone app, and cloud storage. Have they left anything out? Read More ▶ Lightning fast SD cards for 4K and 8K video are coming soon A new class of SD cards will be available later this year for devices like cameras, smartphones and VR headsets to quickly record and access 4K and 8K video. Read More ▶ Google gives a boost to mobile search speed Google said it will alert users in their search results page to corresponding webpages that have been optimized to run fast on smartphones and tablets. Read More ▶ White Paper: Ultrium LTO Consortium ESG Lab Review- LTO for the Next-Generation Data Center This ESG Lab Review is designed to address any misconceptions that LTO tape is a slow or unreliable storage platform, while also exploring its new features and use cases. Read More ▶

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