How (and why) to surf the Web in secret

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	How (and why) to surf the Web in secret They say no one can hear you scream in space, but if you so much as whisper on the Web, you can be tracked by a dozen different organizations and recorded for posterity. Simply visiting a website can allow its operators to figure out your general physical location, identify details about your device information, and install advertising cookies that can track your movements around the web. (Don't believe me? Check this out.) Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Tie Together Multi-Vendor Devices in the Enterprise Network The complexity of multi-vendor network management is bogging down IT. Discover a platform that provides comprehensive insights into the network across the entire enterprise – from wired and wireless networks to physical and virtual environments. Manage all network resources, services and users with one tool, regardless of device manufacturer. Learn More In this Issue Revisiting Top IT Turkeys of 2011 AT&T to invest $14B for wireless and wired networks over three years Wi-Fi security do's and don'ts Apple iPad mini a parody magnet CloudStack releases first code under Apache license Black Friday could be big for Android device buyers Security tech debate: On-premise or in the cloud? Online Voting: A Challenge to the Tech Industry 10 Ways Telemedicine is Changing Healthcare IT You + Big Data = Not Anonymous; Microsoft develops Differential Privacy for everyone Security experts push back at 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' warning Big Data Leading to New Breed of Service Provider WHITE PAPER: Oracle Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds Consolidation can be achieved through server, operating system, and database consolidation, and the higher the consolidation density achieved, the greater the return on investment (ROI). This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models. Read More Now! Revisiting Top IT Turkeys of 2011 We're busy compiling our 2012 list, but thought it might be fun to revisit our 2011 list of the people, companies and products that earned the label of 'turkey'. Read More AT&T to invest $14B for wireless and wired networks over three years AT&T will invest $14 billion over the next three years for wireless and wired capital improvements, including an expansion of 4G LTE service to 300 million people by the end of 2014. Read More Wi-Fi security do's and don'ts 11 tips for protecting your wireless networks Read More Apple iPad mini a parody magnet Apple is showing no signs of slowing down, and either are parody video makers taken with the company's latest tablets, phones and computers. Two new parody videos from Cinesaurus making the rounds -- one pitting the iPad vs. Microsoft Surface -- poke fun at the iPad mini ad that Apple execs debuted at the company's recent dog-and-pony show. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Simplify Time-Consuming DBA Tasks See how Oracle was able to save 835 DBA hours its first year due to its pre-configured nature, ability to automatically bring a system up to its proper patch level, validate an environment and quickly gather all necessary log files and more. Learn More CloudStack releases first code under Apache license OpenStack has grabbed a lot of headlines recently, but competing cloud management platform CloudStack made some news of its own this week with the project releasing its first open source code as part of the Apache Software Foundation. Read More Black Friday could be big for Android device buyers While you're unlikely to find a lot of cut-rate Apple iOS devices during the holiday shopping season, Black Friday sales of Android tablets and phones will abound according to leaked circulars from big-name retailers. Read More Security tech debate: On-premise or in the cloud? There are many things that are easier to do in the cloud, but is security one of them? Proponents argue that basing security tools in the cloud provide all the benefits of any cloud-based resource, including low cost of entry, simplicity of maintenance/upgrades, etc. But critics say not so fast. Getting security is hard enough when you control all the resources. Moving them to the cloud just further complicates the job. Read More Online Voting: A Challenge to the Tech Industry Whether who you voted for won or lost (and I do hope you voted), whether you live in a blue state or a red state, no matter your political beliefs, as Americans I think there is one thing we can all agree on. It is ridiculous that in this day and age people should have to stand on line for 4, 5 or more hours to cast a vote. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell SonicWall Smart Security for Escalating Challenges This eBook examines how CSOs and IT managers are solving these issues using next-generation firewalls. Read now. 10 Ways Telemedicine is Changing Healthcare IT Telemedicine mixes teleconferencing, document-sharing and mobile technology in order to improve healthcare quality, largely for those who lack access to care. Here are 10 ways that telemedicine implementations are changing the delivery of healthcare services. Read More You + Big Data = Not Anonymous; Microsoft develops Differential Privacy for everyone Too often, we hear how researchers can take supposedly anonymized or obfuscated PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data and exploit "linkability threats" to re-identify individuals such as in I know where you are and what you are sharing and deanonymizing you after one mouse click on a website. Read More Security experts push back at 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' warning The nation's top national security leaders have not convinced every expert in the cybersecurity community their warnings over cyberattacks are valid, and there is now some increasingly vocal push-back from some of them. Read More Big Data Leading to New Breed of Service Provider Big data is giving rise to a new breed of services aimed at helping over-burdened IT departments take on the challenges of data analytics without investing in additional infrastructure. And vendors of all sizes are getting in on the action. Read More
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