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ITworld Today Jun 07, 2016 11 Father's Day gifts that techie dads will love If you're getting your dad a tech gadget as a Father's Day gift, it's easy to overreach and get him something that may be too ostentatious or complicated to use. Here are a bunch of practical presents instead. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Do network architects think about security? • 13% off ThermaCELL Mosquito Repellent Pest Control Outdoor and Camping Lantern - Deal Alert • Massive DDoS attacks reach record levels as botnets make them cheaper to launch • Android gets patches for serious flaws in hardware drivers and media server • Widespread exploits evade protections enforced by Microsoft EMET • Hackers breach social media accounts of Mark Zuckerberg and other celebrities • New products of the week 6.6.16 • U.S. Cyber Command struggles to retain top cybersecurity talent • Shaming is a step forward, but more work is needed for faster smartphone patching • 11 theatrical security measures that don't make your systems safer • Why legal departments begrudge the cloud • 9-vendor authentication roundup: The good, the bad and the ugly • Buyer's Guide to 9 multi-factor authentication products White Paper: Silver Peak Systems Inc Is Your WAN Built for the Pre-Cloud Era?: ITworld White Paper This Market Watch demonstrates how a Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) can flexibly connect your users to applications - no matter where they reside, boosting performance, increasing visibility and control while delivering savings of up to 90%. Read More ▶ Do network architects think about security? How much do network architects take security into account when building websites, and does testing extend out to third-party code? Read More ▶ 13% off ThermaCELL Mosquito Repellent Pest Control Outdoor and Camping Lantern - Deal Alert The Thermacell Mosquito Repellent Lanterns effectively repel mosquitoes, black flies, and other biting insects by creating a 15 x 15-foot zone of protection. Read More ▶ Massive DDoS attacks reach record levels as botnets make them cheaper to launch There were 19 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that exceeded 100 Gbps during the first three months of the year, four times more than in the previous quarter. Read More ▶ Android gets patches for serious flaws in hardware drivers and media server The June batch of Android security patches address nearly two dozen vulnerabilities in system drivers for various hardware components from several chipset makers. Read More ▶ Widespread exploits evade protections enforced by Microsoft EMET Hackers have launched large-scale attacks that are capable of bypassing the security protections added by Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a tool whose goal is to stop software exploits. Read More ▶ Hackers breach social media accounts of Mark Zuckerberg and other celebrities Over the weekend hackers have managed to gain access to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts, as well as the social media accounts of other celebrities. Read More ▶ New products of the week 6.6.16 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Arbor Networks and Data Dynamics. Read More ▶ U.S. Cyber Command struggles to retain top cybersecurity talent Top official in Defense Department's cybersecurity unit says organization is doing an 'effective job' at recruiting, but keeping up with the evolving threat landscape remains a challenge. Read More ▶ Shaming is a step forward, but more work is needed for faster smartphone patching Last month, Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, is considering releasing a list of vendors ranked by how up-to-date their headsets are. This has long been a problem for Android. Unlike Apple, which can unilaterally push out updates to its customers as they come out, the situation with Android is a lot more complicated. Read More ▶ 11 theatrical security measures that don't make your systems safer We talked to an array of tech experts to discover what security technologies are often just for show. Read More ▶ Why legal departments begrudge the cloud Legal professionals are by their nature a skeptical and cautious lot, but the sharp rise in cloud-based applications being used by enterprises and law firms, as well as recent high-profile law firm security breaches, has many legal professionals reticent about entering cloud engagements. Read More ▶ 9-vendor authentication roundup: The good, the bad and the ugly New 'smart' tokens and risk-based factors deliver tighter security, but setups remain complex and user interfaces need a facelift. Read More ▶ Buyer's Guide to 9 multi-factor authentication products The two-factor authentication market has moved toward what is now being called multi-factor authentication. One of the key features being new types of hardware-based tokens. Here are individual reviews of nine MFA products. Read More ▶ eGuide: Silver Peak Systems Inc What it Takes to Build the Best Possible WAN: ITworld eGuide Today's hyper-connected, cloud-based envrionments demand greater agility and efficiency. Enter the software-defined WAN, which can address this shortcoming in traditional WAN architectures by putting an overlay on top of them. Read More ▶

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