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	Why '123456' is a great password New research shows that "123456" is a good password after all.In fact, such useless credentials from a security standpoint have an important role in an overall password management strategy, researchers at Microsoft and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, have found.[The 25 worst passwords of 2013: "password" gets dethroned]Rather than hurt security, proper use of easy-to-remember, weak credentials encourages people to use much stronger passwords on the few critical sites and online services they visit regularly.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: VCE Migrate Oracle Apps from RISC/UNIX to Virtualized x86 This brief explains how true converged infrastructure can help you migrate from a RISC/UNIX environment and achieve the availability and scale your applications require. Learn how VCE VblockTM System helps ensure SLAs are maintained during migration, quality of service is improved and that licensing costs are reduced. Learn More In this Issue INSIDER Virtual machine (VM) security still a work in progress The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2014 (so far!) There's almost a million fake apps targeting your phone Aloha point-of-sale terminal, sold on eBay, yields security surprises Wave of 100Gbps 'mega' DDoS attacks hits record level in 2014 Vulnerability exposes some Cisco home wireless devices to hacking Overreliance on the NSA led to weak crypto standard, NIST advisers find Google sets up cybercrime-busting task force The Black Hat Quiz 2014 INSIDER Encrypting sensitive data is a must; new key management tools make it easy WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel®   12 Questions For Evaluating Your Convergence Vendor Use the checklist in this research to derive a weighted analysis and to score whether fabric-based integration solutions should be a priority for your enterprise, or relegated for later pursuit. Learn More   INSIDER Virtual machine (VM) security still a work in progress Trying to protect your expanding virtual machine (VM) empire will require a security product that can enforce policies, prevent VMs from being terminated or infected, and deliver the virtual equivalents of firewalls, IPS and anti-virus solutions. Read More   The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2014 (so far!)   2014 has featured crop circles, advanced toilet tech, flying saucers, wild software development Read More   There's almost a million fake apps targeting your phone Trend MIcro finds hundreds of thousands of fake Android apps in trawl of online stores, forums Read More   WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   MyIT- Consumer Cool for Business Apps Rich Ptak discusses how BMC's MyIT combines the ease and familiarity of accessing today's consumer apps with the stability, security and strengths of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Learn More Aloha point-of-sale terminal, sold on eBay, yields security surprises An HP researcher's findings highlight ongoing problems with POS software and hardware Read More   Wave of 100Gbps 'mega' DDoS attacks hits record level in 2014 Mega is going giga Read More   Vulnerability exposes some Cisco home wireless devices to hacking Specially crafted HTTP requests could trigger remote code execution on the affected devices, Cisco said Read More   WHITE PAPER: VCE Vblock™ Systems and SAP: Transform Your Business You rely on your ERP System to drive your business and give you a strategic advantage. Now you can speed time-to-value throughout your operations while also lowering costs by running your SAP applications on VCE™ Vblock™ Systems. Learn More Overreliance on the NSA led to weak crypto standard, NIST advisers find NIST needs to improve its cryptographic expertise in order to challenge advice received from the NSA when developing standards, report says Read More   Google sets up cybercrime-busting task force After unearthing the Heartbleed flaw, Google sets up a research group dedicated to finding vulnerabilities in Web software Read More   The Black Hat Quiz 2014 How well do you know the security conference's revelations about NSA, pwned cars, spying cell phones and more? Read More     INSIDER Encrypting sensitive data is a must; new key management tools make it easy   Encryption is one of the best ways to prevent the type of terrible headaches that many high-profile companies have experienced with stolen data. Even if experienced hackers are able to penetrate a system, having the data encrypted can mean that nothing useful is taken. Read More
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