Data center outage downs French state financial system for 4 days

iFixit giving away 1,776 'iPhone Liberation Kits' 7 of 10 leading WordPress plugins are vulnerable Network World Daily News PM June 24, 2013 Share this email Data center outage downs French state financial system for 4 days The French government's accounts payable system, Chorus, is back online after a four-day outage, the French State Financial Computing Agency (AIFE) announced Monday. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. iFixit giving away 1,776 'iPhone Liberation Kits' 2. 7 of 10 leading WordPress plugins are vulnerable 3. Tech Tip: Google Earth tips and tricks you need to know 4. HP shows off 21-inch all-in-one desktop installed with Android 5. Microsoft's Windows 8 team could learn from Xbox One turnaround 6. Mobile Devices and BYOD are Driving IPv6 Adoption 7. A case for smartphone tracking 8. You can get a new smartphone for half off at AT&T this week 9. Apple and DOJ offer closing arguments in e-book price-fixing case 10. 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Download a free 60 day trial of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 today. iFixit giving away 1,776 'iPhone Liberation Kits' In a clever bit of self-promotion, the do-it-yourself repair evangelists at iFixit announced this morning that they will be giving away 1,776 free "iPhone liberation kits" that will allow Apple customers access to the innards of their devices by replacing the difficult-to-remove pentalobe screws with standard Phillips screws. From the iFixit press release: READ MORE 7 of 10 leading WordPress plugins are vulnerable Recent analysis found that 20% of the top 50 WordPress plugins were vulnerable to the most common web attacks. Even more frightening, 7 out of 10 of the leading ecommerce plugins were vulnerable. READ MORE Tech Tip: Google Earth tips and tricks you need to know Join IDG News Service's Nick Barber in this week's Tech Tip where you'll find out the sun's position, tour 3D city models and check weather radar using tools in Google Earth. Follow Nick on Twitter @nickjb. READ MORE HP shows off 21-inch all-in-one desktop installed with Android Hewlett-Packard is also bringing Android to the PC, and has unveiled a 21.5-inch all-in-one desktop installed with Google's operating system. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More. Microsoft's Windows 8 team could learn from Xbox One turnaround In one week after hearing widespread Xbox One criticism, Microsoft reversed course. Why didn't it do the same when we all rallied against Windows 8? READ MORE Mobile Devices and BYOD are Driving IPv6 Adoption READ MORE A case for smartphone tracking A handful of apps that make use of location data are making waves in the mobile community, and will need the help of their users to achieve their full potential. READ MORE You can get a new smartphone for half off at AT&T this week AT&T kicked off a smartphone trade-in deal today that knocks 50% off the price of several of the newest smartphones -- including the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S4 -- subject to a new two-year agreement. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP 6 Steps to Application Performance Optimization Poor application performance can cost more than you think. In fact, Enterprise Management Associates reports that it can exceed $1 million per hour in large enterprises. Read Now! Apple and DOJ offer closing arguments in e-book price-fixing case After a two-week trial that saw Apple executives and a number of publishing big wigs take the stand, both Apple and the DOJ on Thursday made their closing arguments before U.S. District Judge Denise Cote. READ MORE You might be a terrorist if...you complain about your tap water Now you can add complaining about drinking water to the continuing saga of innocent behaviors and actions listed under ridiculous "you might be a terrorist if" lists stored in FBI databases. READ MORE Neatly naming network nodes Gibbs ponders how to name machines on a network READ MORE 'Containerization' is no BYOD panacea: Gartner Companies adopting BYOD policies are struggling with the thorny problem of how they might separate corporate and personal data on an employee's device. 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