Report: CIOs neglect BPM in favor of trendier software

Business process management (BPM) systems are essential to creating an efficient organization, but many CIOs today are more focused on trendier topics such as data analytics and CRM, according a report by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

New Azure tool helps IT tame SaaS apps

More organizations are moving their data out of their data centers and into the cloud, which complicates IT’s efforts to keep track of applications in use. With the new Microsoft Cloud App Security within Microsoft Azure, IT and security teams can step up application discovery and apply controls in line with existing security, privacy, and compliance policies.Most enterprises rely on cloud applications, whether or not they are officially sanctioned. Shadow IT is pervasive, with employees signing up for SaaS applications on their own without first going through IT. According to Microsoft’s statistics, an employee uses 17 cloud applications on average, and an organization shares 13 percent of its files externally, of which a quarter are shared publicly. Business units do what they must to get the job done, but IT is left in the dark about what applications employees use and where corporate data is stored.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New Azure tool helps IT tame SaaS apps

More organizations are moving their data out of their data centers and into the cloud, which complicates IT’s efforts to keep track of applications in use. With the new Microsoft Cloud App Security within Microsoft Azure, IT and security teams can step up application discovery and apply controls in line with existing security, privacy, and compliance policies.Most enterprises rely on cloud applications, whether or not they are officially sanctioned. Shadow IT is pervasive, with employees signing up for SaaS applications on their own without first going through IT. According to Microsoft’s statistics, an employee uses 17 cloud applications on average, and an organization shares 13 percent of its files externally, of which a quarter are shared publicly. Business units do what they must to get the job done, but IT is left in the dark about what applications employees use and where corporate data is stored.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Nutanix IPO Is Still a Go

CEO Dheeraj Pandey will forfeit $17.5 million in stock.

Microsoft to release a Surface Phone in 2017

There have been rumors floating among Microsoft enthusiast sites that the company plans to replace its Lumia brand with a Surface branded phone, bringing it at least into name parity with the more successful tablet line.Now Windows Central, which has a decent track record on mobile news, saysthat there will be a Surface Phone line, but not until next year. In the meantime, there would be a marginal effort with the Lumia, a $7.7 billion mistake that can be blamed on the prior CEO. WC theorizes this is to continue Windows 10 Mobile development, give OEM partners time to make new hardware and give Microsoft time to come back with a bang.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Hacking Team lost its license to sell surveillance malware outside Europe

Oh man, what a shame, Italy’s Hacking Team had its global export license revoked and now it can’t sell its spyware outside of Europe without getting special approval.It’s not even been a year since the Hacking Team became the Hacked Team, but after being pwned the company apparently didn’t crawl off and die. The Hacking Team’s newest woes, which were first reported by the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, means the company can’t easily conduct business as usual by selling its Remote Control Software to just anyone who wants it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Hacking Team lost its license to sell surveillance malware outside Europe

Oh man, what a shame, Italy’s Hacking Team had its global export license revoked and now it can’t sell its spyware outside of Europe without getting special approval.It’s not even been a year since the Hacking Team became the Hacked Team, but after being pwned the company apparently didn’t crawl off and die. The Hacking Team’s newest woes, which were first reported by the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, means the company can’t easily conduct business as usual by selling its Remote Control Software to just anyone who wants it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

69% off Photive Wireless Secure Fit Earbuds – Deal Alert

Photive's PH-BTE70 Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds are designed to be sweatproof, and to stay in your ears while you're busy being active. It currently averages 4 out of 5 stars from over 1,180 people on Amazon (see reviews). The PH-BTE70 has a 33ft extended wireless range and delivers up to 6 hours of music on a single charge. Reviewers indicate that they are comfortable, stylish, and deliver very good sound quality for the price -- which right now is discounted 69%.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft brings Bash to Windows with new beta build

One of the major announcements from Microsoft's Build developer conference last week was that the company was bringing the popular Bash command line interface to Windows 10 with a new Linux subsystem. Now, developers can give it a shot with a new beta build of the operating system, which Microsoft released Wednesday morning.People on the Windows Insider Program's fast ring will get access to the build, which includes a wide variety of other new features, too. Foremost among them are a set of new Cortana features that link their Windows or Android phones with users' PCs in a variety of ways.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FIRST LOOK: Vivaldi 1.0, the new web browser for the old school

Vivaldi springs forthWhile the trend in modern browsers is to provide as streamlined an experience as possible, with simplicity and ease of use as the guiding principles, there are plenty of users who want powerful, rich feature sets, instead. The team behind Vivaldi, including Opera browser co-creator Jon von Tetzchner, is hoping that their new browser’s blend of throwback functionality and modern tech will catch on. You can download Vivaldi here on Macs, Windows or Linux, but first check out the highlights in our slideshow.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Lawful Hacking and Continuing Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities are found, fixed, then published. The entire security community is able to learn from the research, and­ — more important­ — everyone is more secure as a result of the work. The FBI is doing the exact opposite. It has been given whatever vulnerability it used to get into the San Bernardino phone in secret, and it is keeping it secret. All of our iPhones remain vulnerable to this exploit. This includes the iPhones used by elected officials and federal workers and the phones used by people who protect our nation’s critical infrastructure and carry out other law enforcement duties, including lots of FBI agents. -Schneier on Security

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Massive application-layer attacks could defeat hybrid DDoS protection

Security researchers have recently observed a large application-layer distributed denial-of-service attack using a new technique that could foil DDoS defenses and be a sign of things to come for Web application operators.The attack, which targeted a Chinese lottery website that used DDoS protection services from Imperva, peaked at 8.7Gbps. In a time when DDoS attacks frequently pass the 100Gbps mark, 8.7Gbps might not seem much, but it's actually unprecedented for application-layer attacks.DDoS attacks target either the network layer or the application layer. With network-layer attacks, the goal is to send malicious packets over different network protocols in order to consume all of the target's available bandwidth, essentially clogging its Internet pipes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Massive application-layer attacks could defeat hybrid DDoS protection

Security researchers have recently observed a large application-layer distributed denial-of-service attack using a new technique that could foil DDoS defenses and be a sign of things to come for Web application operators.The attack, which targeted a Chinese lottery website that used DDoS protection services from Imperva, peaked at 8.7Gbps. In a time when DDoS attacks frequently pass the 100Gbps mark, 8.7Gbps might not seem much, but it's actually unprecedented for application-layer attacks.DDoS attacks target either the network layer or the application layer. With network-layer attacks, the goal is to send malicious packets over different network protocols in order to consume all of the target's available bandwidth, essentially clogging its Internet pipes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Massive application-layer attacks could defeat hybrid DDoS protection

Security researchers have recently observed a large application-layer distributed denial-of-service attack using a new technique that could foil DDoS defenses and be a sign of things to come for Web application operators.The attack, which targeted a Chinese lottery website that used DDoS protection services from Imperva, peaked at 8.7Gbps. In a time when DDoS attacks frequently pass the 100Gbps mark, 8.7Gbps might not seem much, but it's actually unprecedented for application-layer attacks.DDoS attacks target either the network layer or the application layer. With network-layer attacks, the goal is to send malicious packets over different network protocols in order to consume all of the target's available bandwidth, essentially clogging its Internet pipes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

As Promised, Nokia Begins the Layoff Process

1,300 jobs in Finland are on the block.

Microsoft’s new Raspberry Pi 3 kit makes it easy to create new devices

Microsoft wants to make the Raspberry Pi 3 computer easier to use for people who want to be device makers but haven't worked with hardware before.Microsoft is developing the Seeed Windows 10 IoT Core Grove Kit with China-based Seeed Studio. The kit has all the hardware and software needed to start creating cool new devices.Contents of the kit include the Raspberry Pi 3, a breakout board, connectors, cables and a smartphone-like screen. The kit will be available in the summer, though the companies didn't immediately provide a price."If you're interested in getting started with software, you know your hardware ... but you're scared of plugging in your hardware and electrocuting yourself, this kit is for you," said Daniel Rosenstein, lead principal program manager at Microsoft.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Writing books still matters—reading them does, too

Ivan, over at ipspace.net, has an interesting post up on writing books —

Why would you want to write a book? If you think you’ll earn a lot of money, think twice… unless you plan to write a science fiction bestseller, Swift-for-Dummies, or 50 Shades of Something.

Several points in reply…

No, you won’t make a lot of money. Writing books for a living (in fact, writing for a living at all) has been pretty much destroyed by several factors, including the absolute dismal rate at which our culture reads (I’m considered something of a freak with my goal of reading 100 books/year; C.S. Lewis read that many in a few weeks in the hospital, across four or five languages), and the rate at which people try to “climb the author pile” by writing for free on blogs/etc.

There is one comment here that I think is really worth pointing out: To make matters worse, core networking is not exactly a popular topic (compared to Swift Programming or Introduction to IPv6)… I’ve heard this a lot in my time as an author—for instance, my books simply don’t sell as well as just about anything at the CCIE level, Continue reading

Mobile Edge Computing Company Raises $14.6M

Vasona plans for 5G mobile architectures.

Tech-support scammers claim your email has been hacked

The Federal Trade Commission is warning of “a new twist” on the old tech-support scam.From an FTC blog post: Lately, we’ve heard reports that people are getting calls from someone claiming to be from the Global Privacy Enforcement Network. Their claim? That your email account has been hacked and is sending fraudulent messages. They say they’ll have to take legal action against you, unless you let them fix the problem right away.If you raise questions, the scammers turn up the pressure – but they’ve also given out phone numbers of actual Federal Trade Commission staff (who have been surprised to get calls). The scammers also have sent people to the actual website for the Global Privacy Enforcement Network. (It’s a real thing: it’s an organization that helps governments work together on cross-border privacy cooperation.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Tech-support scammers claim your email has been hacked

The Federal Trade Commission is warning of “a new twist” on the old tech-support scam.From an FTC blog post: Lately, we’ve heard reports that people are getting calls from someone claiming to be from the Global Privacy Enforcement Network. Their claim? That your email account has been hacked and is sending fraudulent messages. They say they’ll have to take legal action against you, unless you let them fix the problem right away.If you raise questions, the scammers turn up the pressure – but they’ve also given out phone numbers of actual Federal Trade Commission staff (who have been surprised to get calls). The scammers also have sent people to the actual website for the Global Privacy Enforcement Network. (It’s a real thing: it’s an organization that helps governments work together on cross-border privacy cooperation.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here