How hackers commandeered The Onion’s Twitter account

New boot firmware a step toward 64-bit Windows RT Facebook to design an open source switch Network World Daily News PM May 09, 2013 Share this email How hackers commandeered The Onion's Twitter account The technical team that runs The Onion's online operation has issued a detailed explanation of how the Syrian Electronic Army managed to gain control of the satirical website's Twitter account earlier this week by first coaxing Google Apps credentials out of a few employees. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. New boot firmware a step toward 64-bit Windows RT 2. Facebook to design an open source switch 3. Security practices wanting in virtual machine world, survey finds 4. Netgear to target mid-market with future SDN capability 5. Dell buys Enstratius to beef up multi-cloud management chops 6. Lesson from the Google office hack: Do not trust third-parties 7. VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper 8. Google revamps admin console for Apps and other enterprise products 9. 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Categories include: Cloud, Mobility, Software-Defined Data Center, Transforming the Workforce with New Tech. Learn more. Dell buys Enstratius to beef up multi-cloud management chops Dell has purchased Enstratius, a company that allows customers to manage cloud resources across multiple providers from a single management console for an undisclosed sum this week. READ MORE Lesson from the Google office hack: Do not trust third-parties The recent hack of the building management system in a Google's Australian HQ demonstrates how organizations should not trust third-party installers to adequately secure the technology. READ MORE VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin Casado, chief architect of networking at VMware. 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READ MORE Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised. READ MORE There's an app for that: Avoiding the ugliest business problems Kindergarten rules for living well can get you in trouble in the corporate world. Now, there is an app for business complications of the worst type. READ MORE San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in settlement with CTIA San Francisco killed its cellphone radiation warning law on Tuesday by agreeing to settle a lawsuit by the mobile industry group CTIA. READ MORE Adobe warns customers of unpatched critical flaw in ColdFusion Adobe has warned users of its ColdFusion application server platform of a critical vulnerability that could give unauthorized users access to sensitive files stored on their servers. 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