Issue highlights 1. Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver 2. New York Times site hack shifts attention to registry locks 3. Hacker points Syrian telecom website to AT&T, T-Mobile 4. How technology is transforming the NFL 5. Will Microsoft Office Finally Play Nice on the iPad? 6. Tesla Model S vulnerable to hackers, kind of 7. Three types of DNS attacks and how to deal with them 8. Srsly? Bitcoin, selfie added to Oxford dictionary 9. VMware's virtualization quest could help shake up storage, too 10. Social engineering: Study finds Americans willingly open malicious emails 11. INSIDER Seven things you need to know about hardware disposal |
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| It can be a long climb to the top of the corporate ladder. With Labor Day in mind, we asked tech CEOs who've reached the highest rung to share their first job experiences. Some were entrepreneurs at an early age, offering lawn-mowing and scuba diving services. Others toiled in the fields and factories. Many got their hands dirty, scrubbing oil stains off asphalt, cleaning bathrooms, and shoveling monkey cages. READ MORE |
| One way that owners of major websites can mitigate the risk of their domains being hijacked like The New York Times' site was on Tuesday is to apply what is known as a registry lock on the domain, security researchers say. READ MORE |
| The website of a Syrian telecommunications provider redirected to AT&T's website and then T-Mobile's on Wednesday, an apparent prank by a hacker who has been probing the country's Internet infrastructure for several days. READ MORE |
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| For all the success the iPad has enjoyed, it's only big drawback has been that Microsoft Windows software - and Microsoft Office, in particular - doesn't perform well. However, now Parallels has unveiled an app that brings full versions of Windows desktop software to the touch-based iPad. READ MORE |
| It's the curse of the connected car – once it's linked to the Internet, it's, well, on the Internet. In the case of the Tesla Model S, this means that malicious hackers could, in theory, control some functions of the vehicle and even track it without the owner's knowledge. READ MORE |
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| The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacking group, altered the DNS records used by the New York Times, Twitter, and the Huffington Post. The changes forced one site offline and caused problems for the others. Here are three ways such attacks happen, and how they can be mitigated READ MORE |
| What do bitcoin, emoji and selfies have in common? They're all now official words, at least according to the Oxford dictionary. READ MORE |
| The jam-packed VMworld show this week in San Francisco has been VMware's launchpad for flights deeper into storage, an area that the company thinks is due for more virtualization. READ MORE |
| In a study conducted by TNS Global for Halon, an email security service, 30 percent of those surveyed admitted they would open an email, even if they were aware that it contained a virus or was otherwise suspicious. To be fair, the study only included 1,000 adults within the U.S., so this isn't a national index by any means. READ MORE |
| From the first day that you plug in a new piece of IT hardware, the clock starts ticking toward the day when it will be pulled out of service. READ MORE |
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