NSA security expert worries about mobility, cloud

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	NSA security expert worries about mobility, cloud Approaching its 60th birthday, the National Security Agency (NSA) has a staff some 35,000 strong worldwide, and an impressive building complex in Fort Meade, Md., where the walls are lined with copper mesh to prevent electronic eavesdropping. True to its origins dating back to breaking enemy code during World War II, the agency has two primary missions: signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA). Read More ARTICLE: Research In Motion Introducing BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion Easily manage and secure mobile device deployments with BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion. From a single interface, manage BlackBerry® smartphones, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and devices that use the iOS® and Android™ operating systems. Put an end to mobile chaos. Learn more at blackberry.com/mobilefusion In this Issue So you think you know networking? Consumer Reports: Free anti-malware software for Windows, Mac is effective Did Cisco Make the Right Call With Cius? Usage-based Internet service: Sometimes competition in name only Now Pay Attention, 007: Flame Malware Blurs the Line Between Fiction and Reality Big Data and NoSQL Still Hot With 10gen Raising $42m Dell reaches for the cloud with new prototype ARM server AT&T demands we change our networks Mind Your Mobile Manners: Top 10 On-the-Go Blunders Academia joins in battling Android malware WHITE PAPER: SAP Creating Community Within Your Business Partner Network Learn how you can connect with customers and suppliers for business-to-business e-commerce more affordably with SAP Information Interchange OnDemand. Using prebuilt profiles, you can make changes within your supply chain quickly using a minimum of your valuable resources. Learn More So you think you know networking? Here's a brief quiz to test knowledge of some well known, some obscure networking terms and events. Read More Consumer Reports: Free anti-malware software for Windows, Mac is effective In what could be regarded as a controversial test of anti-malware effectiveness, the influential Consumer Reports publication in its June issue gives its main recommendation to anti-malware freeware for protecting Windows and Mac computers. With some caveats, Consumer Reports says in its "Security Software" article it regards it as unnecessary to buy commercial anti-malware software. Read More Did Cisco Make the Right Call With Cius? At the end of last week, Cisco's OJ Winge published a blog announcing that the company would cease investments in its Cius tablet. Does this mean it's end-of-lifing it or killing it as I've read in many of the press articles? No, it does not. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Proven Strategies for Uncovering Cost Savings Learn how your organization can take advantage of recent breakthroughs to lower the cost of data management. Learn More Usage-based Internet service: Sometimes competition in name only The National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) held its annual Cable Show in Boston at the end of May. The opening remarks by Michael Powell, ex-chairman of the FCC and current head of the NCTA, were quite good, but he glossed over a basic conflict of interest present in today's cable business. Julius Genachowski, the current FCC chairman, did an even better job of ignoring this issue. Read More Now Pay Attention, 007: Flame Malware Blurs the Line Between Fiction and Reality In Ian Fleming's universe of James Bond, the character Q – standing for "Quartermaster" and for so many years played in the film adaptations by Desmond Llewellyn – provides Agent 007 with all of the gadgets and just-out-of-reach-from-the-real-world technological tools he needs to achieve the goals of Her Majesty's Secret Service. One of the most amazing things about Q's technological... Read More Big Data and NoSQL Still Hot With 10gen Raising $42m If you had any doubt that the Big Data and NoSQL database market continue to remain red hot, look no further than today's announcement that 10gen, makers of the open source mongodb, raised a staggering $42 million. That is a big raise by anyone's yardstick and further validates the NoSQL-Big Data market. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell High-availability virtualization with Dell PowerEdge servers Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations help companies simplify the design, ordering and deployment of a highly available virtualized infrastructure. This proven architecture is comprised of three servers, two switches and one storage array, plus the software you'll need to manage the environment to support over 500 users. Learn More Dell reaches for the cloud with new prototype ARM server Dell on Tuesday announced a prototype low-power server with ARM processors, following a growing demand by Web companies for custom-built servers that can scale performance while reducing financial overhead on data centers. Read More AT&T demands we change our networks If you recall, some time ago I had problems with my AT&T U-verse DSL service until a small village's worth of AT&T folk got involved and resolved the issues. Since then, an executive director from the "Office of the President at AT&T," who I'll call "Bob," has followed up with me once a week to make sure things are still OK. Read More Mind Your Mobile Manners: Top 10 On-the-Go Blunders Remember when displaying bad manners meant just putting your elbows on the dining table? Today, with all of our mobile devices, we can be rude anywhere at any time. Read More Academia joins in battling Android malware Android Malware Genome Project kicks off by contributing collection of more than 1,200 malware in 49 different families Read More
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