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	12 Most Powerful Internet of Things Companies   Billions of connected devices means billions in revenue for these companies. Read More   WEBCAST: Network Instruments   5 Best Practices for Optimizing UC Monitoring This webcast discusses five best practices on how to successfully optimize and manage UC, as well as how to gain clear picture of overall performance and quickly troubleshoot when the inevitable issues arise. Learn More In this Issue IT pro gets prison for sabotaging ex-employer's system Cisco unveils security-product barrage at Cisco Live Conference How GE uses social tools to support its digital strategies FBI not changing the rules when hiring 2,000 hackers: Stoners need not apply Blackshades: The script kiddies lament Hackers hit eBay database containing personal info, users asked to change passwords How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard Apple to reveal iOS 8, OS X 10.10 June 2 at 10 a.m. keynote Windows XP on the police fingerprint scanner: What could possibly go wrong? Tech's top-paid CEOs WEBCAST: Brocade Communications IT Agility: How Do You Stack Up? Are you faced with increasing pressure to deploy technology faster? You're not alone. This year, over half of enterprises will be prioritizing building a private cloud, a concept introduced less than five years ago. View Now>> IT pro gets prison for sabotaging ex-employer's system A former network engineer for oil and gas company EnerVest has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty in January to sabotaging the company's systems badly enough to disrupt its business operations for a month. Read More   Cisco unveils security-product barrage at Cisco Live Conference Cisco's Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) technology, known as FireAMP, is already supported in its firewalls and e-mail gateways, but now the company is making AMP available as a standalone product. Read More   How GE uses social tools to support its digital strategies Rich Narasaki is global manager, digital marketing in the GE corporate global brand marketing group and, as such, works with and supports the digital strategy efforts of the company's eight primary business divisions. While not a member of the IT team, Narasaki works with IT and marketing constantly, so Network World Editor in Chief John Dix tracked him down to get his perspective on how digital strategy plays out in such a huge operation. Read More   FBI not changing the rules when hiring 2,000 hackers: Stoners need not apply FBI Director James Comey needs to hire 2,000 agents to fight cybercrime, but the agency is having problems finding applicants who are not also potheads. The FBI employment drug policy says applicants can't have smoked pot in the last three years. Read More   Blackshades: The script kiddies lament News broke this week that a massive global raid had taken place over two days which comprised of 359 coordinated searches in 16 countries and there were apparently 80+ arrests as a result. Why? Well apparently all of the aforementioned targets had a copy of the Blackshades remote access trojan or RAT. Read More   Hackers hit eBay database containing personal info, users asked to change passwords EBay is asking users to change their passwords after attackers gained unauthorized access to eBay's corporate network, compromising a database containing encrypted passwords and other personal data. Read More   How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard VMware is not necessarily known as a company that thoroughly embraces open source, but one of its top CTOs says OpenStack could play an important role as a standard in the cloud computing market. Read More   Apple to reveal iOS 8, OS X 10.10 June 2 at 10 a.m. keynote Apple will again kick off its developer conference with a keynote, where top-tier executives, including CEO Tim Cook, will tout the newest versions of iOS and OS X, and likely introduce new hardware. Read More   Windows XP on the police fingerprint scanner: What could possibly go wrong? I couldn't resist taking a photo of this fingerprint scanner station while touring our suburban Boston police station during an open house. No really, I was there for an open house. And yes really, that's Windows XP running on the machine, which sits just outside the jail cells. (Note the artistic capturing of the handcuffs reflection in the monitor screen.) Read More   Tech's top-paid CEOs Fifteen tech leaders made more than $14 million in 2013. Read More
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