The Worst Data Breach Incidents of 2012 – So Far

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	The Worst Data Breach Incidents of 2012 – So Far Out of 189 breaches recorded through mid-June, here are the top 15 according to Identity Theft Resource Center. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Ditch Your Spreadsheets with FREE IP Address Tracker Tool! Tired of using home-grown IP address tools to track down conflicting addresses and to see which ones are free? Ditch your spreadsheet for good! Our FREE tool gives you a unified view of your IP address space and the tools to manage it. Download the free IP Address Tracker tool today! In this Issue Young employees say BYOD a 'right' not 'privilege' 7 reasons businesses should and shouldn't go for Microsoft Surface Surface for Windows RT vs. the iPad Sonus snaps up longtime network vendor NET for $1.35 a share Eucalyptus makes moves to stand apart from open source cloud rivals Mobile security startup Bluebox gets $9.5 million in funding What's up with the midyear Wales sightings on Wikipedia? Cisco upgrades Quad enterprise social product, renames it WebEx Social Is Juniper's QFabric a Big Deal or a Big Bust? Microsoft's Surface tablet will not kill the iPad, but might sour OEM relations Tablet flops, flubs and fluffs Third-party iPad browsers that could give Firefox Junior competition Cloud failures cost more than $70 million since 2007, researchers estimate WEBCAST: Cisco Systems Listen and Learn: "Countdown to Cloud" Webcast Cisco TechWiseTV's Jimmy Ray Purser walks through steps required to prepare your WAN for public, private, & hybrid clouds, as well as how to best scale those services across your organization. Listen See how you can deliver a better cloud experience with a Cisco Cloud Intelligent Network. Watch Now Learn more. Young employees say BYOD a 'right' not 'privilege' A survey that asked thousands of young "20-something" workers their attitudes about bring-your-own-device"policies found slightly more than half view it as their "right" to use their own mobile devices at work, rather than BYOD being just a "privilege." Read More 7 reasons businesses should and shouldn't go for Microsoft Surface IT pros: Assume that the new Microsoft Surface laptop and tablet represent hardware that shows off Windows 8 to its best advantage and make decisions accordingly. Read More Surface for Windows RT vs. the iPad A Windows 8 tablet that's thin, light and easy on power consumption naturally invites comparisons with the iPad, so here goes. Read More Sonus snaps up longtime network vendor NET for $1.35 a share Sonus Networks Tuesday announced it is buying Network Equipment Technologies, a nearly 30-year-old firm whose product focus over the years has spanned from T-1 multiplexers to SIP trunking and unified communications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sourcefire, Inc. Sourcefire FireSIGHT: Context-Aware and Adaptive Security Learn why Context-Aware and Adaptive Security is the key to effective protection today. View Now Eucalyptus makes moves to stand apart from open source cloud rivals Eucalyptus has released the latest software update, but some experts say the open source cloud project still has an uphill climb compared to OpenStack and CloudStack. Read More Mobile security startup Bluebox gets $9.5 million in funding Mobile security startup Bluebox eases out of stealth mode today with an announcement of $9.5 million in Series A funding, but doesn't plan a product announcement until later this year. Read More What's up with the midyear Wales sightings on Wikipedia? So I'm on Wikipedia a short time ago and noticed that the Jimmy Wales banners were back atop every article, which can mean only one thing: It's time for Wikipedia's annual fundraising drive. Here's a picture: Read More Cisco upgrades Quad enterprise social product, renames it WebEx Social Cisco Systems is extending the functionality of its Quad enterprise social networking (ESN) software through integration with Microsoft Office applications and with email clients, including Microsoft Outlook, the company is announcing on Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software AD Disasters and Solutions for Preventing them Are you prepared for an Active Directory disaster? If you don't have a solid recovery plan and the right tools, your business will suffer. In this Quest Software white paper, learn about five dreaded Active Directory disasters, and how you can quickly recover from them – or avoid them altogether. Read Now! Is Juniper's QFabric a Big Deal or a Big Bust? Many vendors will claim to have invented the term "network fabric." I'm not 100% sure who actually used it first but in my mind, Juniper was the first to go mainstream with it. It's a little like MPLS was back in the day. Ipsilon actually invented it but Cisco evangelized it and made it a real market. So I'll give Juniper the nod here and acknowledge that launching the project "Stratus"... Read More Microsoft's Surface tablet will not kill the iPad, but might sour OEM relations This past weekend was rife with speculation about what would go down at a hush-hush, invite-only event Microsoft held in Los Angeles yesterday. The prevailing idea was that Microsoft would unveil its very own tablet PC, perhaps with the help of Barnes & Noble, but only part of that rumor turned out to be true. Microsoft actually unveiled a new family of tablets, dubbed Surface, and it did so without... Read More Tablet flops, flubs and fluffs iPad notwithstanding, selling tablets is tough Read More Third-party iPad browsers that could give Firefox Junior competition Mozilla made a splash yesterday in announcing Firefox Junior, its attempt at providing a web browsing option for Apple's iPad that is better than the native mobile Safari app. Firefox Junior, as described in the video immediately below, seems to have some potential. But Firefox Junior is joining the iPad browser party relatively late. Here's some information on and video reviews of existing browsing... Read More Cloud failures cost more than $70 million since 2007, researchers estimate A total of 568 hours of downtime at 13 well-known cloud services since 2007 had an economic impact of more than US$71.7 million dollars, said the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR) on Monday. Read More
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