Take these security books with you on vacation

Real-life cyber mysteriesImage by ThinkstockWhy spend your beach time this summer reading fictional mystery novels when real world mysteries are swirling through the cyber sphere? BAE Systems has put together a summer reading list for cyber security professionals. It includes titles that cover the international underworld of money laundering, the greatest criminal minds in hacking, insights into understanding how cyber criminals think, the impact of potential cyber attacks and cyber wars on mission critical targets as well as practical advice and business lessons on cyber security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Take these security books with you on vacation

Real-life cyber mysteriesImage by ThinkstockWhy spend your beach time this summer reading fictional mystery novels when real world mysteries are swirling through the cyber sphere? BAE Systems has put together a summer reading list for cyber security professionals. It includes titles that cover the international underworld of money laundering, the greatest criminal minds in hacking, insights into understanding how cyber criminals think, the impact of potential cyber attacks and cyber wars on mission critical targets as well as practical advice and business lessons on cyber security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Docker Market Share Soars 30%, says Datadog Research

Study tracked 10,000 companies and their use of Docker.

30 days in a terminal: Days 2-5 — Social media in shell

My adventures, for the first day or so, in using nothing but a Linux terminal proved to be mostly successful. I ended up needing to jump through a few hoops to get my work done, but everything was doable.After having spent the full weekend within the confines of the shell, my results are much more of a mixed bag.In this article, I focus on social media: Twitter, Reddit, that sort of thing. For some of them, I have totally awesome solutions. Some I’m still struggling to find a solution for—with very little hope in sight.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Basics: What is the difference between routing, switching, bridging and forwarding

The terms routing, switching, forwarding and bridging have different meanings that have changed over time.

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DARPA wants to design an army of ultimate automated data scientists

Because of a plethora of data from sensor networks, Internet of Things devices and big data resources combined with a dearth of data scientists to effectively mold that data, we are leaving many important applications – from intelligence to science and workforce management – on the table.It is a situation the researchers at DARPA want to remedy with a new program called Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M). The goal of D3M is to develop algorithms and software to help overcome the data-science expertise gap by facilitating non-experts to construct complex empirical models through automation of large parts of the model-creation process. If successful, researchers using D3M tools will effectively have access to an army of “virtual data scientists,” DARPA stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

DARPA wants to design an army of ultimate automated data scientists

Because of a plethora of data from sensor networks, Internet of Things devices and big data resources combined with a dearth of data scientists to effectively mold that data, we are leaving many important applications – from intelligence to science and workforce management – on the table.It is a situation the researchers at DARPA want to remedy with a new program called Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M). The goal of D3M is to develop algorithms and software to help overcome the data-science expertise gap by facilitating non-experts to construct complex empirical models through automation of large parts of the model-creation process. If successful, researchers using D3M tools will effectively have access to an army of “virtual data scientists,” DARPA stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

DARPA wants to design an army of ultimate automated data scientists

Because of a plethora of data from sensor networks, Internet of Things devices and big data resources combined with a dearth of data scientists to effectively mold that data, we are leaving many important applications – from intelligence to science and workforce management – on the table.It is a situation the researchers at DARPA want to remedy with a new program called Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M). The goal of D3M is to develop algorithms and software to help overcome the data-science expertise gap by facilitating non-experts to construct complex empirical models through automation of large parts of the model-creation process. If successful, researchers using D3M tools will effectively have access to an army of “virtual data scientists,” DARPA stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

E-book buyers will soon get settlement payments from Apple price-fixing case

Some buyers of e-books will begin to receive payments Tuesday as part of a settlement in a price-fixing case against Apple. People who purchased e-books between April 1, 2010, and May 21, 2012, will receive credits from e-book sellers, or will get a check if they opted out of receiving credits, according to Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a consumer-rights class-action law firm involved in the lawsuit against Apple. As part of the Apple settlement of the case, e-book buyers will receive US$6.93 for every purchase that was a New York Times bestseller and $1.57 for every other e-book. The settlement covers e-books purchased from Apple as well as from other retailers, including Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Network Break 92: LinkedIn Gets Rich; Cisco Goes Big With Tetration

The latest episode of the Network Break ponders the Microsoft/LinkedIn deal, looks at Ciscos new big data appliance, reviews acquisition news across the tech industry, and more! The post Network Break 92: LinkedIn Gets Rich; Cisco Goes Big With Tetration appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Getting to the point of dual homing

I wonder how many times I’ve seen this sort of diagram across the many years I’ve been doing network design?

It’s usually held up as an example of how clever the engineer running the network is about resilience. “You see,” the diagram asserts, “I’m smart enough to purchase connectivity from two providers, rather than one.”

Can I point something out? Admittedly it might not be all that obvious from the diagram, but… Reality is just about as likely to squish your network connectivity like a bug no a windshield as it is any other network. Particularly if both of these connections are in the same regional area. The tricky part is knowing, of course, what a “regional area” might happen to mean for any particular provider.

The problem with this design is very basic, and tied to the concept of shared link risk groups. But let me start someplace a little simpler than that—with the basic, and important, point that putting fiber in the ground, and maintaining fiber that’s in the ground, is expensive. Unless you live in Greenland, fiber can be physically buried pretty easily (fiber in Greenland is generally buried with dynamite by a blasting crew, or Continue reading

Does your smartphone embarrass you?

Modern computer and internet technology is amazing, allowing us to do an incredible number of things that simple weren’t possible before, both individually and as part of larger organizations.But anyone who works with computer and mobile devices knows that everything isn’t perfect. Too often, computer systems are frustratingly hard to use. And now, the Nielsen Norman Group has identified a new problem stemming from sub-optimal user interfaces: computer-assisted embarrassment.Earlier this month, Susan Farrell described the phenomenon this way: “Smart devices have invaded our world and inserted themselves in almost every context of our existence. Their flaws and faulty interactions are no longer only theirs—they reflect badly on their users and embarrass them in front of others.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Dell Sells Software Group to Francisco Partners, Elliott

Deal will help finance $67B EMC acquisition.

How big data is changing the game for backup and recovery

It's a well-known fact in the IT world: Change one part of the software stack, and there's a good chance you'll have to change another. For a shining example, look no further than big data.First, big data shook up the database arena, ushering in a new class of "scale out" technologies. That's the model exemplified by products like Hadoop, MongoDB, and Cassandra, where data is distributed across multiple commodity servers rather than packed into one massive one. The beauty there, of course, is the flexibility: To accommodate more petabytes, you just add another inexpensive machine or two rather than "scaling up" and paying big bucks for a bigger mammoth.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How big data is changing the game for backup and recovery

It's a well-known fact in the IT world: Change one part of the software stack, and there's a good chance you'll have to change another. For a shining example, look no further than big data.First, big data shook up the database arena, ushering in a new class of "scale out" technologies. That's the model exemplified by products like Hadoop, MongoDB, and Cassandra, where data is distributed across multiple commodity servers rather than packed into one massive one. The beauty there, of course, is the flexibility: To accommodate more petabytes, you just add another inexpensive machine or two rather than "scaling up" and paying big bucks for a bigger mammoth.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Montreal wins Intelligent Community of the Year

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Montreal, Quebec, was named “Intelligent Community of the Year” this week at the annual Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) Summit. In the face of economic decline and political scandals, Canada’s largest French-speaking city began its turnaround with a Smart City plan starting in 2011.The city, home to a 10th of Canada’s population, had endured trade losses, an eclipse of manufacturing, and years of separatist nostalgia. The new Montreal staked its future on a broader economic base of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), aerospace, health sciences, and clean technologies. These sectors now field 6,250 companies with 10% of the region’s workforce.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Montreal wins Intelligent Community of the Year

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Montreal, Quebec, was named “Intelligent Community of the Year” this week at the annual Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) Summit. In the face of economic decline and political scandals, Canada’s largest French-speaking city began its turnaround with a Smart City plan starting in 2011.The city, home to a 10th of Canada’s population, had endured trade losses, an eclipse of manufacturing, and years of separatist nostalgia. The new Montreal staked its future on a broader economic base of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), aerospace, health sciences, and clean technologies. These sectors now field 6,250 companies with 10% of the region’s workforce.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Who is responsible for your application security?

The dividing line between developers and IT operations used to be distinct. Developers were responsible for adding new features securely, but it was IT operations who had responsibility for infrastructure and network security. For the most part, developers didn’t have to think too much about the wider security context. With the advent of the cloud, and of devops, things changed radically. Now developers are quite capable of deploying cloud infrastructure at will, and the tools exist to make infrastructure deployment programmatic. These changes mean that developers do have to think about security, both within the scope of the code they are responsible for and within the wider organizational scope. – CircleID

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IDG Contributor Network: Dude, where’s my phone? BYOD means enterprise security exposure

Sally called the security desk. She can’t find her personal smartphone. Maybe she lost it. Perhaps it fell behind her sofa. Maybe she left it at a restaurant last night. Perhaps someone stole it. Or maybe she put it down somewhere this morning.Whatever the case may be, it's not good—especially since Sally is a well-regarded and trusted mid-level manager with mobile access to many corporate applications and intranet sites that have a lot of sensitive and proprietary information.Now what?There are several types of dangers presented by a lost Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) smartphone or tablet, and many IT professionals and security specialists think only about some of them. They are all problematic. We’ll run through some of the scenarios in a moment, but first: Does your company have policies about lost personal devices?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Dude, where’s my phone? BYOD means enterprise security exposure

Sally called the security desk. She can’t find her personal smartphone. Maybe she lost it. Perhaps it fell behind her sofa. Maybe she left it at a restaurant last night. Perhaps someone stole it. Or maybe she put it down somewhere this morning.Whatever the case may be, it's not good—especially since Sally is a well-regarded and trusted mid-level manager with mobile access to many corporate applications and intranet sites that have a lot of sensitive and proprietary information.Now what?There are several types of dangers presented by a lost Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) smartphone or tablet, and many IT professionals and security specialists think only about some of them. They are all problematic. We’ll run through some of the scenarios in a moment, but first: Does your company have policies about lost personal devices?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here