How identity management helps protect what ails patients

Empowering the patientImage by ThinkstockThere is serious personal risk associated with a healthcare data breach, especially with multiple connected devices and health record systems generating and storing a patient’s sensitive health data. Every person interacting with an online system needs a digital identity, and it should be authenticated in real time, so that unusual behavior can be detected at any time, whether at login or midway through a session.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Hack the vote: Experts say the risk is real

You should be worried about the November election. Not so much that the candidates you support won’t win, but about the risk that the “winners” may not really be the winners, due to hackers tampering with the results.Or, that even if the winners really are the winners, there will be enough doubt about it to create political chaos.This is not tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory. The warnings are coming from some of the most credible security experts in the industry.Richard Clarke, former senior cybersecurity policy adviser to presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, wrote recently in a post for ABC News that not only are US election systems vulnerable to hacking, but that it would not be difficult to do so.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Hack the vote: Experts say the risk is real

You should be worried about the November election. Not so much that the candidates you support won’t win, but about the risk that the “winners” may not really be the winners, due to hackers tampering with the results.Or, that even if the winners really are the winners, there will be enough doubt about it to create political chaos.This is not tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory. The warnings are coming from some of the most credible security experts in the industry.Richard Clarke, former senior cybersecurity policy adviser to presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, wrote recently in a post for ABC News that not only are US election systems vulnerable to hacking, but that it would not be difficult to do so.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Top EU court hedges on question of hyperlinking legality in Playboy case

To the old legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the European Union's highest court has added another: innocence until proven profitable.It's OK for websites to hyperlink to an image published elsewhere without the rights holder's permission -- as long as they don't know that, and don't make a profit from it, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled on Thursday.The ruling concerned Dutch website GeenStijl, accused by Playboy of linking to an Australian website that published, without the magazine's permission, a photoshoot it had commissioned with Dutch TV personality Britt Dekker.Playboy's lawyers wrote to GeenStijl asking it to remove the link, but it refused -- and published a new link to another website hosting the photos without permission when they were removed from the Australian site. When the pictures disappeared from that site too, GeenStijl allowed its forum users to link to the photos on other sites.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Top EU court hedges on question of hyperlinking legality in Playboy case

To the old legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the European Union's highest court has added another: innocence until proven profitable.It's OK for websites to hyperlink to an image published elsewhere without the rights holder's permission -- as long as they don't know that, and don't make a profit from it, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled on Thursday.The ruling concerned Dutch website GeenStijl, accused by Playboy of linking to an Australian website that published, without the magazine's permission, a photoshoot it had commissioned with Dutch TV personality Britt Dekker.Playboy's lawyers wrote to GeenStijl asking it to remove the link, but it refused -- and published a new link to another website hosting the photos without permission when they were removed from the Australian site. When the pictures disappeared from that site too, GeenStijl allowed its forum users to link to the photos on other sites.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IBM’s new Power8 server packs in Nvidia’s speedy NVLink interconnect

IBM is making headlines with its quantum computing research and brain-like chip called TrueNorth, but it also is bringing interesting technologies to its current Power server lineup.Inside IBM's new S822LC server for high-performance computing is a new interconnect that gives a five-fold speed boost to communication between a CPU and graphics processor.The interconnect is based on Nvidia's homegrown NVLink technology, which has been in the works for years. IBM's two-socket server, which is based on Power8 CPUs, is among the first available with the interconnect.NVLink is essentially an upgrade to PCI-Express 3.0, which has been used for communication between a GPU and other components in a system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Newly public Twilio moves up the food chain

There is a typical model for growing technology companies once they pass their IPO milestones—a move towards quickly broadening the product base to derive additional revenue in order to keep the Wall Street analysts happy. Given there has been a dearth of tech IPOs lately—and that one of the ones that did get away, Twilio, is widely regarded as a tech success story—it is interesting to watch what the company rolls out in the short term.We didn’t have to wait long. Twilio today announced a new enterprise plan that not only ticks the analyst boxes for potential increased revenue, but also ticks enterprise boxes for security and administration control.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Getting Started With Open Networking

OpenStack on VMware NSX on Software Gone Wild

Does it make sense to run OpenStack on top of VMware infrastructure? How well does NSX work as a Neutron plug-in? Marcos Hernandez answered these questions (and a lot of others) in the Episode 61 of Software Gone Wild (admittedly after a short marketing pitch in the first 10 minutes).

John McAfee’s company could spoil the party for Intel’s new venture

Intel’s plans to spin out its security business under the McAfee name could be clouded by the plans of security expert and businessman John McAfee, who claims he had not assigned the rights to his personal name.The chip maker said Wednesday that it had signed an agreement with TPG for a deal that would see its Intel Security business as a separate cybersecurity company in which Intel shareholders would hold 49 percent of the equity with the balance held by the investment firm. Intel would also receive US$3.1 billion in cash. The new company would be named McAfee.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

John McAfee’s company could spoil the party for Intel’s new venture

Intel’s plans to spin out its security business under the McAfee name could be clouded by the plans of security expert and businessman John McAfee, who claims he had not assigned the rights to his personal name.The chip maker said Wednesday that it had signed an agreement with TPG for a deal that would see its Intel Security business as a separate cybersecurity company in which Intel shareholders would hold 49 percent of the equity with the balance held by the investment firm. Intel would also receive US$3.1 billion in cash. The new company would be named McAfee.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

HPE offloads software arm to Micro Focus in $8.8 billion ‘spin-merge’

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will spin off and merge what it considers its non-core software assets with U.K.-based enterprise software firm Micro Focus in a deal worth $8.8 billion, the company said Wednesday.Included in the bundle being offloaded are HPE’s businesses focusing on application delivery management, big data, enterprise security, information management and governance, and IT operations management. Combined with Micro Focus, which acquired Attachmate in 2014 and owns Linux company SUSE, it will create one of the world’s largest pure-play software companies, HPE said, with a combined sales force of about 4,000 people.Among the terms of the deal are a $2.5 billion cash payment to HPE and 50.1 percent ownership of the new combined company by HPE shareholders. HPE declined to specify what the staffing impact would be. The combined company will be led by Kevin Loosemore, executive chairman of Micro Focus, and the deal is expected to close by the second half of HPE's fiscal year 2017.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

HPE offloads software arm to Micro Focus in $8.8 billion ‘spin-merge’

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will spin off and merge what it considers its non-core software assets with U.K.-based enterprise software firm Micro Focus in a deal worth $8.8 billion, the company said Wednesday.Included in the bundle being offloaded are HPE’s businesses focusing on application delivery management, big data, enterprise security, information management and governance, and IT operations management. Combined with Micro Focus, which acquired Attachmate in 2014 and owns Linux company SUSE, it will create one of the world’s largest pure-play software companies, HPE said, with a combined sales force of about 4,000 people.Among the terms of the deal are a $2.5 billion cash payment to HPE and 50.1 percent ownership of the new combined company by HPE shareholders. HPE declined to specify what the staffing impact would be. The combined company will be led by Kevin Loosemore, executive chairman of Micro Focus, and the deal is expected to close by the second half of HPE's fiscal year 2017.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

So Your Username and Password Where in a Data Dump. Now What?

Whether it's Dropbox, LinkedIn, MySpace, PlayStation, or whatever the latest breach happens to be, it's almost inevitable that you will be caught up in one of these breaches and have your username, password and possibly other information exposed in a data dump. Here's how to respond when that happens.

Intel Spins Out McAfee as a Separate Security Company

Spoiler: Intel didn't get its $7.7B back.

Intel spinout: McAfee is back

Intel is going to spin out its subsidiary Intel Security as a joint venture with investment firm TPG, redubbing the new entity with its old name – McAfee.The deal calls for TPG to make a $1.1 billion equity investment and own 51 percent of the company, with Intel retaining 49%.In a joint statement the companies say the investment will be used to help the spinout gain its feet as a stand-alone business and to drive growth.Intel bought McAfee in 2010 for $7.68 billion with the intent of tying McAfee’s security technology with Intel’s chips.Since then Intel has incorporated technology in some chips that power features of its security software, and Intel Security’ endpoint protection technology is well thought of, consistently ranking among the leaders in Gartner’s analysis of that category. It is ranked number two in market share behind Symantec and in front of Trend Micro.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Intel spinout: McAfee is back

Intel is going to spin out its subsidiary Intel Security as a joint venture with investment firm TPG, redubbing the new entity with its old name – McAfee.The deal calls for TPG to make a $1.1 billion equity investment and own 51 percent of the company, with Intel retaining 49%.In a joint statement the companies say the investment will be used to help the spinout gain its feet as a stand-alone business and to drive growth.Intel bought McAfee in 2010 for $7.68 billion with the intent of tying McAfee’s security technology with Intel’s chips.Since then Intel has incorporated technology in some chips that power features of its security software, and Intel Security’ endpoint protection technology is well thought of, consistently ranking among the leaders in Gartner’s analysis of that category. It is ranked number two in market share behind Symantec and in front of Trend Micro.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

38% off Maxboost 4.8A/24W Dual USB Port Smart Car Charger – Deal Alert

Don't roll the dice with those cheap chargers you find in the impulse section near the cash register. This one from Maxboost is an Amazon #1 best seller with 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 7,300 people (read reviews). Amazon indicates that its typical list price of $15.99 has been reduced 38% to $9.99. Keep this 24W / 4.8A USB car charger in the glove box, and know that you'll have juice for your tablet, phone, or other USB mobile device any time you need it while on the road. It features dual USB ports, a compact rugged design, and intelligent circuitry to prevent against short circuiting, over-heating, over-currents, and over-charging. See this highly rated and discounted dual port USB charger now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Election exploits: What you need to know [infographic]

In late August, an FBI alert warning state election officials about an attack on voter registration databases from Illinois and Arizona was leaked and posted in a report on Yahoo News.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

University of California to send some IT jobs to India

The University of California is laying off a group of IT workers at its San Francisco campus as part of a plan to move work offshore.The layoffs will happen at the end of February, but before the final day arrives the IT employees expect to train foreign replacements from India-based IT services firm HCL. The firm is working under a university contract valued at $50 million over five years.This layoff may have huge implications. That's because the university's IT services agreement with HCL can be leveraged by any institution in the 10-campus University of California system, which serves some 240,000 students and employs some 190,000 faculty and staff.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here