5 active mobile threats spoofing enterprise apps

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Network World Security Alert May 26, 2016 5 active mobile threats spoofing enterprise apps Enterprise employees use mobile apps every day to get their jobs done, but when malicious actors start impersonating those apps, it spells trouble for IT departments everywhere. Here are 5 apps that masquerade as real apps. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Not dead yet: 7 of the oldest federal IT systems still wheezing away • Apple hires mobile encryption pioneer amid encryption debate • Five arrested for impersonating the IRS, listen to a recorded scam in progress • How to use Anycast to provide high availability to a RADIUS server • Top-level domain expansion is a security risk for business computers • Regulators: cybersecurity poses biggest risk to global financial system • Software-Defined WANs: Viptela gets $75M in funding • DARPA moves "aircraft-like" spacecraft technology to next phase White Paper: Okta Businesses @ Work, March 2016 Have you ever wondered which enterprise cloud apps are most popular? Or which industries tend to use Office 365 versus Google Apps? Did you know that 43% of Okta customers have enabled deprovisioning? From where we sit, Okta has a unique view into the adoption and utilization of cloud apps in the enterprise. Read More ▶ Not dead yet: 7 of the oldest federal IT systems still wheezing away From an IBM Series/1 and floppy drives to COBOL and Assembly languages, old federal systems never die. Read More ▶ Apple hires mobile encryption pioneer amid encryption debate Apple revealed Tuesday that it rehired a security expert who has a background as a mobile encryption pioneer, as the company continues to face scrutiny from governments wanting more access to its products. Read More ▶ Five arrested for impersonating the IRS, listen to a recorded scam in progress Five people have been arrested in Miami who are said to be responsible for scamming 1,500 people out of more than $2 million by impersonating IRS agents. Their scams centered on contacting individual taxpayers out of the blue and demanding payments under the threat of jail time. Read More ▶ How to use Anycast to provide high availability to a RADIUS server A brilliant solution for providing high availability in a small RADIUS server/ISE deployment Read More ▶ Top-level domain expansion is a security risk for business computers The explosion of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in recent years can put enterprise computers at risk due to name conflicts between internal domain names used inside corporate networks and domains that can now be registered on the public Internet. Read More ▶ Regulators: cybersecurity poses biggest risk to global financial system Last week, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission called cybersecurity the biggest risk facing the global financial industry. The SEC promises to step up regulation and Swift itself is expected to launch a new cyber security initiative this week that includes independent security audits of its customers. 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The research agency in 2014 awarded Boeing (working with Blue Origin) Masten Space Systems (working with XCOR Aerospace) and Northrop Grumman Corporation (working with Virgin Galactic) contracts to begin phase 1 XS-1 work. Read More ▶ White Paper: C Spire Wireless Finding Your Cloud: A down-to-earth guide to cloud planning Given how entrenched "the cloud" has become in the business/IT lexicon, it's not surprising to see growing enthusiasm for the potential and power of cloud computing. A study from IDG found that half of executive-level managers see cloud computing as transformational to their business. Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. 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