8 cool “habitable” planets

Goldilocks?Image by NASAWith the discovery of a possibly habitable Earth-sized orbiting around our own nearest star some four light-years in the distance, we thought we’d take a look at some of the other potential Goldilocks planets discovered over the past years. Have a look…To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Best Deals of the Week, August 22-26 – Deal Alert

Best Deals of the Week, August 22-26 - Deal AlertCheck out this roundup of the best deals on gadgets, gear and other cool stuff we have found this week, the week of August 15th. All items are highly rated, and dramatically discounted!72% off Cambridge SoundWorks OontZ Angle 3 Wireless Bluetooth SpeakerThe Cambridge SoundWorks OontZ Angle 3 Next Generation Ultra Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker currently averages 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 8,300 people on Amazon (read reviews).  It's regular list price is $99.99, but with the current 72% discount you can get it for just $27.99. The OontZ Angle 3 connects effortlessly to your device via bluetooth. It is designed to be loud and clear, with rich bass delivered through their proprietary passive subwoofer design. Its high capacity rechargeable 2200 mAh battery lasts for up to 7 hours of playtime.  Check out the dramatically discounted OontZ Angle 3 from Cambridge Soundworks now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Best Deals of the Week, August 22-26 – Deal Alert

Best Deals of the Week, August 22-26 - Deal AlertCheck out this roundup of the best deals on gadgets, gear and other cool stuff we have found this week, the week of August 15th. All items are highly rated, and dramatically discounted!72% off Cambridge SoundWorks OontZ Angle 3 Wireless Bluetooth SpeakerThe Cambridge SoundWorks OontZ Angle 3 Next Generation Ultra Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker currently averages 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 8,300 people on Amazon (read reviews).  It's regular list price is $99.99, but with the current 72% discount you can get it for just $27.99. The OontZ Angle 3 connects effortlessly to your device via bluetooth. It is designed to be loud and clear, with rich bass delivered through their proprietary passive subwoofer design. Its high capacity rechargeable 2200 mAh battery lasts for up to 7 hours of playtime.  Check out the dramatically discounted OontZ Angle 3 from Cambridge Soundworks now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Micro-segmentation Benchmark – NSX Securing “Anywhere” Part VI

Welcome to part 6 of the Micro-segmentation Defined– NSX Securing “Anywhere”  blog series. Previous topics covered in this series include

• Part I –    Micro-segmentation Defined
• Part II –  Securing Physical Environments
• Part III – Operationalizing Micro-segmentation
• Part IV – Service Insertion
• Part V – Context, Visibility, and Containment

Previous posts set the stage by introducing and defining the characteristics of micro-segmentation; showing how it has utility in the modern data center; how we might apply it to our existing software-defined and physical networks; how policy-driven NSX management may be used to deliver comprehensive security; and, that we can use physical and virtual third-party security appliances in conjunction with NSX to create a service chain and apply special processing to our vital network flows.

In this sixth part of the NSX Securing “Anywhere” blog, Chris Krueger of Coalfire Systems will preview some of our work in comprehensively benchmarking VMware NSX micro-segmentation. The Micro-segmentation Benchmark is a project being delivered by Coalfire Systems, Inc. an internationally recognized third party audit organization (3PAO) and leading provider of IT advisory services for security in retail, payments, healthcare, financial services, higher education, hospitality, government,and utilities. Coalfire has Continue reading

Apple may be too late to make a big social impact

Amid reports that Apple is working on a social app, if not an outright foray into a social network, analysts wonder whether the company is already too far out of the social loop to make a difference."Apple would have to come up with a very solid social app in order to compete with what's available today," said Dan Olds, an analyst with OrionX. "Even with Apple's very large installed base of users, I think it would be very difficult for Apple to compete head-on with Facebook, Twitter or Google. I'm not sure people want to add yet another social network to manage and maintain. The market seems fairly well satisfied right now."At this point in the progression of social media - with users ensconced in Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest - what would it take for Apple to make a real difference, or even a dent, in the market?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

At HP, baby boomers allege age discrimination

Four former Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) employees, all of them over 50 years of age, allege in a lawsuit that the firm pushed older workers out so it could increase the number of younger employees -- millennials in particular.The federal age-discrimination lawsuit, which marshalled statistical evidence, job ads and internal memorandum to support its claims, will also cite public statements by HPE CEO Meg Whitman in its case.For instance, in a CNBC interview last November, Whitman was asked by an interviewer: “You did announce significant job cuts about a month or so ago.… Is that going to be it for HP?” (HP announced cuts of up to 30,000 jobs in September last year)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Real-life examples test whether you are prepared for a cyberattack

Are you ready?While 83 percent of respondents say cyberattacks are among the top three threats facing organizations, only 38 percent say they are prepared to experience one, according to ISACA’s 2015 Global Cybersecurity Status Report.Incident response is still largely a human response. Multiply an outdated response plan by the many human errors that can innocently occur during response and you have a recipe for potentially cataclysmic results in the threat event aftermath.Use the following tabletop exercises based on today’s most disconcerting threats to update your response plan for live action.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Privacy Shield data transfer agreement now shelters 200 companies

There are now 200 companies standing behind Privacy Shield, the framework agreement allowing businesses to process the personal information of European Union citizens on servers in the U.S.Companies must register with the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce to be covered. It's a self-certification process, so the ITA is only checking that the forms are filled in correctly, not that companies are necessarily complying with all 13,894 words of the rules. The Privacy Shield rules are needed to ensure that EU citizens' personal information is afforded the same legal protection in the U.S. as required under EU law.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Privacy Shield data transfer agreement now shelters 200 companies

There are now 200 companies standing behind Privacy Shield, the framework agreement allowing businesses to process the personal information of European Union citizens on servers in the U.S.Companies must register with the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce to be covered. It's a self-certification process, so the ITA is only checking that the forms are filled in correctly, not that companies are necessarily complying with all 13,894 words of the rules. The Privacy Shield rules are needed to ensure that EU citizens' personal information is afforded the same legal protection in the U.S. as required under EU law.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How checkout woes sabotage mobile commerce

Mobile commerce shows no signs of slowing its furious pace of growth, as consumers get comfortable using their smartphones and tablets to shop anytime and anywhere they want: In a report titled “U.S. Mobile Phone and Tablet Commerce Forecast, 2015 to 2020,” Forrester Research estimates that mobile commerce sales will reach $142 billion this year, up from $115 billion last year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Automating the provisioning and configuration of Red Hat Mobile Application Platform

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The Red Hat Services blog shared a demo on how to automate the provisioning and configuration of Red Hat Mobile Application Platform using Ansible and OpenShift Enterprise Container Platform.

The video contains great information on the creation of MBaaS on OSE3, Set up of RHMAP, and using a Jenkins Pipeline and a demonstration of deployed components.

To view the original Red Hat Services post and read related resources, click here.

Red Hat CEO: Open-source innovation is always user-led

According to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, the prevailing narrative about the growth and spread of Linux is only half-true.The idea that a doughty community of coding geniuses, led by an irascible commissar in Linus Torvalds, quietly created a technological asset that eventually spread to the biggest users in the land is actually a little misleading, he told Network World at LinuxCon North America 2016 in Toronto.+ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Linux at 25: A retrospective + Linux at 25: Linus Torvalds on the evolution and future of LinuxTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The discerning nerd’s guide to Raspberry Pi hardware (2016 mid-year edition)

HardwareImage by Mark GibbsIn my "Ultimate Guide to Raspberry Pi Operating Systems" (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) I listed pretty much every noteworthy operating system and OS variant available for the Raspberry Pi family of single board computers. But what of the hardware all this OS goodness runs on? It's not like there's just one Raspberry Pi board. So, if you don't know your Model A from your Zero from your generation 3 Model B, this is the guide for you.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Dropbox prompts certain users to change their passwords

Dropbox is asking users who signed up before mid-2012 to change their passwords if they haven’t done so since then.The cloud storage service said it was asking users to change their passwords as a preventive measure, and not because there is any indication that their accounts were improperly accessed.Dropbox said it was taking the measure because its security teams learned about an old set of Dropbox user credentials, consisting of email addresses and hashed and salted passwords, which it believes were obtained in 2012 and could be linked to an incident the company reported around the time.In July 2012, Dropbox said its investigation found that usernames and passwords recently stolen from other websites were used to sign in to a small number of of Dropbox accounts. It said it had contacted the users affected to help them protect their accounts.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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