Networking World: Cisco fixes serious security flaws in network, comms products

Microsoft couldn't be Microsoft without Word/Office

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October 24, 2013

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Cisco fixes serious security flaws in network, comms products

Cisco Systems released software security updates Wednesday to address denial-of-service and arbitrary command execution vulnerabilities in several products, including a known flaw in the Apache Struts development framework used by some of them.

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2. Microsoft couldn't be Microsoft without Word/Office

3. iPad Mini with Retina Display to be in short supply in 2013

4. Cisco's UC announcements at Collaboration Summit are good for everybody

5. Really, IRS? A two-week delay of the 2014 tax season?

6. Malcovery Security offers unique services to put a stop on phishing attacks

7. SCADA and Me: Images from the picture book primer

8. PLUMgrid adds advanced networking to OpenStack Havana

9. Does Mavericks Burst Open the Door to BYOD for OS X?

10. Toshiba launches 1TB laptop drive less than 1/3-in. thick

11. LG steps into the Firefox OS market with Fireweb phone

12. 12 best places to land a tech job

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Rise of humanoid robots

From the new Bionic Man to robotic bartenders, machines are looking and acting more human that ever. READ MORE

Microsoft couldn't be Microsoft without Word/Office

As Microsoft Word turns 30 on Oct. 25 it is not only the world's most pervasive word-processing applications, it is a cash cow for the company. READ MORE

iPad Mini with Retina Display to be in short supply in 2013

When Apple announced the new iPad Mini with Retina Display this week, it vaguely noted that it would begin shipping sometime in late November. Now comes word that the iPad Mini with Retina Display may be in short supply when it does actually launch. According to IHS iSuppli director Rhoda Alexander, "The supply for that product is severely constrained. We don't expect to see meaningful volume" until... READ MORE

Cisco's UC announcements at Collaboration Summit are good for everybody

Cisco held its annual Collaboration Summit this week in Boca Raton, Florida. This year's event was, in many ways, the coming-out party for the newly appointed GM and SVP for the Collaboration Business Unit, Rowan Trollope. In his opening remarks, Trollope was refreshingly frank about the challenges in the UC industry today and how complexity and a lack of user-friendly solutions have held the industry... READ MORE

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Really, IRS? A two-week delay of the 2014 tax season?

Being a last-minute filer of the first order, this news from the IRS will matter little to me, yet I'm having trouble buying that a 16-day government shutdown in October can create an unavoidable need to delay the scheduled Jan. 21 start of the 2014 tax season ... by as much as two weeks. The IRS announced the delay yesterday and here's how they explained it in a press release: READ MORE

Malcovery Security offers unique services to put a stop on phishing attacks

Startup Malcovery Security has a unique way of looking at phishing attacks. Through deep analysis of phishing spam, Malcovery can often identify the precise person behind waves of attacks. The idea is to take that person out of commission – preferably to put them behind bars – in order to eliminate the source rather than just the symptoms of phishing. READ MORE

SCADA and Me: Images from the picture book primer

Taking the complexity out of a pervasive security threat to power grids, water supplies, industrial plants READ MORE

PLUMgrid adds advanced networking to OpenStack Havana

Virtual network infrastructure vendor PLUMgrid is bringing its platform to OpenStack Havana, adding better resiliency and scalability in large environments. READ MORE

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Does Mavericks Burst Open the Door to BYOD for OS X?

By offering a free Mac OS X upgrade that's (quietly) enterprise-friendly, Apple may have found a way to appeal to both the consumer and business sides of Mac users' persona. And once they have a chance to test it, it may even make CIOs happy. READ MORE

Toshiba launches 1TB laptop drive less than 1/3-in. thick

Toshiba has unveiled its first 7mm (9/32-in) hard drive with two disk platters that offers up to 1TB of storage capacity. READ MORE

LG steps into the Firefox OS market with Fireweb phone

LG Electronics' new smartphone based on Firefox OS, the Fireweb, offers slightly better hardware specs than competing products. READ MORE

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