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Guess who aced socially-engineered malware prevention test?
Socially-engineered malware tries to trick users into downloading and executing malicious code through tactics that include everything from fake antivirus to fake utilities to fake upgrades to the operating system and trojanized applications. NSS Labs tested several endpoint security products to see how well each would block these attacks. Read More

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How Data Deduplication Impacts Recovery
Data deduplication has clear benefits when it comes to efficiently retaining backup data on disk and replicating data offsite for disaster recovery – you save both disk space and bandwidth by employing deduplication. Learn More

9 Things You Need to Know Before You Store Data in the Cloud
The amount of electronic information (e.g., documents, images, emails, videos) organizations produce is staggering. Storing all your digital data in your data center can be expensive. That's why cloud storage -- which often comes at a fraction of the cost of storing the information on-premises -- has become increasingly popular. Read More

12 LinkedIn mistakes IT pros make
Don't wait until you decide to leave your current job to update your LinkedIn profile. Start today, and avoid these mistakes. Read More

Scam by Victoria's Secret clerk highlights common risk
Headlines and the attention of IT professionals have been dominated by Heartbleed recently, yet it's a news story out of Florida that reminds us of an all-too-common identity-theft threat that most of us face on a routine basis: credit-card skimmers. Read More

Still deploying 11n Wi-Fi? You might want to think again
In this Network World Digital Spotlight, "Harnessing Gigabit Wi-Fi," we do a deep dive on the latest Wi-Fi developments. Read More

INSIDER

Resume Makeover: How to Highlight Your Personal Brand
Career consultant Donald Burns takes an IT auditor's resume from bland to brand in this month's IT resume makeover. Read More

How users are fixing Windows 8.1 Update install problems
Within days of Microsoft unleashing Windows 8.1 Update, users began flooding Microsoft support boards with problems during the install. Microsoft has been rather mum on the issue, but skilled users have found fixes to the problem. The problems began piling up on Microsoft's Answers forum and continue to this day. The first problem was reported on the day of the launch of Windows 8.1 Update, referred... Read More

Mobile apps making Do-Not-Call Act obsolete
The top-four call-blocking smartphone apps - Mr. Number, True Caller, WhitePages Current, and Call Blocker - have been downloaded over 20 million times. Tied for the No. 4 call-blocking app, WhitePages Current claims to have identified 7 billion incoming calls and texts. Read More

Aerohive's new access points remove deployment barriers
To say Wi-Fi is hot is as big an understatement as saying that A-Rod is a cheater. Everyone knows it's true, but it's bigger than most people think. In a joint ZK Research/Tech Target Network Purchase Intention Survey that was run near the end of 2013, Wi-Fi ranked as the No. 2 in priority for network managers, behind only the red-hot security market. Read More

Mac Pro shortage sets record as worst Mac production boondoggle
Apple's inability to meet demand for its Mac Pro desktop computer has surpassed that of its most egregious Mac production problem in memory, the debacle over the all-in-one iMac of late 2012 and early 2013. Read More

Inside evolving satellite technology
Take a look inside Russian NASA, ESA spacecraft construction Read More

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