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ITworld Today Jun 24, 2016 How GE software is making its mark on the Industrial Internet GE is using digital models of individual industrial assets, fed with data from the Internet of Things and tuned with machine learning, to drive efficiency. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • The number of corporate users hit by crypto ransomware is skyrocketing • How to prepare for (and prevent) ransomware attacks • Lenovo patches two high severity flaws in PC support tool • GozNym Trojan turns its sight on business accounts at major US banks • Severe flaws in widely used archive library put many projects at risk • Hackers sold access to 170,000 compromised servers, many in the US • United Kingdom has the strongest security globally, report says • Arista infringes on Cisco networking patents, trade agency says • Cloud or on-prem? This big-data service now swings both ways • Is Apstra SDN? Same idea, different angle • 20 highest paid tech CEOs • Tech's biggest CEO raises and pay cuts • U.S. to have 200-petaflop supercomputer by early 2018 Research/Infographic: CenturyLink Unified Communications and Collaboration Take Center Stage: ITworld Research/Infographic New research shows that IT and business leaders are achieving enhanced productivity and cost savings with unified communications and collaboration solutions. Yet there is still room for improvement. This paper examines the results of the IDG research-including the challenges IT leaders are still facing when it comes to UC&C-and lays out a path toward unified success. Read More ▶ The number of corporate users hit by crypto ransomware is skyrocketing The prevalence of ransomware programs, both those that encrypt data and those that don't, has exploded over the past two years, with companies being increasingly targeted. Read More ▶ How to prepare for (and prevent) ransomware attacks The only sure way to protect yourself or your company from 'ransomware' is with foolproof file backups. These three backup options can all help recover from ransomware attacks. Read More ▶ Lenovo patches two high severity flaws in PC support tool Lenovo has fixed two high severity vulnerabilities in its Lenovo Solution Center support tool that is preinstalled on many laptop and desktop PCs. Read More ▶ GozNym Trojan turns its sight on business accounts at major US banks A hybrid Trojan program created for financial fraud has started redirecting users of four large U.S. banks to rogue websites in order to hijack their accounts. Read More ▶ Severe flaws in widely used archive library put many projects at risk Researchers from Cisco Systems' Talos group found three severe flaws in libarchive that could impact a large number of software products and their users. Read More ▶ Hackers sold access to 170,000 compromised servers, many in the US The market for hacked servers might be much larger than previously thought with new evidence suggesting that hackers sold access to over 170,000 compromised servers since 2014, a third of them located in the U.S. Read More ▶ United Kingdom has the strongest security globally, report says Recent research by BitSight Technologies analyzed the security performance of a random sample of 250 companies (with at least 1,000 employees) per country from the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, China and Brazil. Read More ▶ Arista infringes on Cisco networking patents, trade agency says In a move that could lead to a ban on selling its products in the United States, the US International Trade Commission has ruled that Arista does in fact infringe on a number of Cisco's technology patents. Arista now must decide if it wants to ask the US government to overturn the so-called "import ban" or ask that an appeals court toss the decision, observers say. It could also decide to build products in the US – a move that Cisco says would "not only would violate the ITC orders, but the federal court has the authority to enjoin local manufacturing of infringing products." Read More ▶ Cloud or on-prem? This big-data service now swings both ways There are countless "as-a-Service" offerings on the market today, and typically they live in the cloud. Back in 2014, startup BlueData blazed a different trail by launching its EPIC Enterprise big-data-as-a-service offering on-premises instead. Read More ▶ Is Apstra SDN? Same idea, different angle One of the main goals of SDN (software-defined networking) is to make networks more agile to meet the changing demands of applications. A new Silicon Valley startup, Apstra, says it has an easier way to do the same thing. Read More ▶ 20 highest paid tech CEOs Oracle's two CEOs share the top spot in our ranking of tech CEO pay. See who else made the top 20. Read More ▶ Tech's biggest CEO raises and pay cuts Half of the CEO pay packages we analyzed grew in value from 2014 to 2015. Read More ▶ U.S. to have 200-petaflop supercomputer by early 2018 The Department of Energy is gearing up for an IBM system, named Summit, in its Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read More ▶ White Paper: Aruba, an HP Enterprise Company A Blueprint to Unlock the Potential for Your Digital Workplace: ITworld White Paper Get the Network Blueprint for GenMobile for the tools to solve top IT challenges so you can get your network ready for the digital workplace. Read More ▶

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