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What's holding back the cloud industry? Apple iOS apps subject to man-in-the-middle attacks Network World Daily News PM October 29, 2013 Share this email 5 Best and 5 Worst Cities for IT Salaries Want to know where IT professionals make the highest -- and the lowest -- salaries? We dig into Kforce's 2014 Salary and Employment Guide to see where today's tech workers make the most and the least, the top paying IT roles in each city, and the cost of living for each community. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. What's holding back the cloud industry? 2. Apple iOS apps subject to man-in-the-middle attacks 3. Cisco adds color to Internet of Things effort 4. Hadoop is not enough for 'big data', says Facebook analytics chief 5. Record bitcoin payment of $1 million spent on new mining hardware 6. Seven essentials for VM management and security 7. Sophos takes first step in rolling out cloud security strategy 8. Defending Ubuntu, the latest recipient of a 'Big Brother' award 9. Motorola's Project Ara aims to create a customizable mobile platform 10. Start-up unveils alert system for malware RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Enterprise Mobility Management Tech Seminar Free Registration - Enterprise Mobility Management Seminar Join us November 6 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Discover mobile app distribution strategies, including using enterprise app stores; and get advice on how to tackle a handful of key deployment decisions up front that will save pain and aggravation down the road. Register now. What's holding back the cloud industry? While cloud enthusiasts roaming the halls of McCormick Place convention hall in Chicago last week at Cloud Connect may be high on the market, the reality is that many enterprises IT shops are still reticent to fully embrace public cloud computing. READ MORE Apple iOS apps subject to man-in-the-middle attacks Many Apple iOS applications are vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack that can result in permanent manipulation by the attacker, according to start-up Skycure, which released its research findings on this today during the RSA Europe conference. READ MORE Cisco adds color to Internet of Things effort Cisco this week provided a bit more detail into the Internet of Things group it announced in June, and in the initiative overall. Cisco's IoT effort will have an initial focus on security, sensors, real-time analytics and applications, with Cisco specifically developing the connectivity infrastructure between sensors and applications. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Trusteer Stepping Up the Battle Against Advanced Threats The primary approaches used to fight advanced threats over the past several years simply aren't effective. Attackers continuously develop sophisticated tactics and evasion techniques to bypass the latest protection methods, requiring the security industry to find a different approach to malware protection. Learn More Hadoop is not enough for 'big data', says Facebook analytics chief The Hadoop programming framework may be synonymous with the "big data" movement but it's not the only tool companies need to derive insights from massive stores of unstructured information, according to Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin. READ MORE Record bitcoin payment of $1 million spent on new mining hardware Bitpay, a company that lets businesses accept payments in the Bitcoin virtual currency, has just processed its first US$1 million transaction. READ MORE Seven essentials for VM management and security Virtualization isn't a new trend, these days it's an essential element of infrastructure design and management. However, while common for the most part, organizations are still learning as they go when it comes to cloud-based initiatives. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Meeting all your data deduplication challenges This brief document discusses several key areas of deduplication and uncovers six NetApp "challenges" customers should understand when evaluating HP StoreOnce Backup Systems and NetApp as their deduplication solution of choice. Learn More Sophos takes first step in rolling out cloud security strategy Sophos today leapt forward with a cloud strategy under which it will deliver integrated management and policy enforcement for its endpoint security software and unified threat management (UTM) firewall through a cloud-based console for both its enterprise customers and industry partners. READ MORE Defending Ubuntu, the latest recipient of a 'Big Brother' award Joining Richard Stallman, the "Big Brother" awards are calling Ubuntu a violation of privacy. Here's why they're wrong. READ MORE Motorola's Project Ara aims to create a customizable mobile platform Motorola is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. READ MORE Start-up unveils alert system for malware Start-up Cylance unveils its first product today, software called CylanceV that determines what is a malware threat against Windows-based machines by using an analysis technique it refers to as "machine learning algorithms." READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Five Myths of Cloud Computing This white paper sponsored by HP and Intel® separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, in doing so, will aide senior IT executives as they make decisions around cloud computing. HP and Intel are committing extensive resources to helping customers with all of their questions and concerns around cloud computing. Learn more. 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