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12 hardware and software vulnerabilities you should address now

Network World

It's not a stretch to say that most organizations have at least some old hardware and software still in use. An old computer that's still chugging along, running an old operating system and perhaps an application that is hard to replace, doesn't necessarily raise a red flag with IT staff.

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Naturally Better Security: Leveraging the power of nature to enhance Internet security

CTOvision

Nature is now providing engineers with the missing link that can help with the most vexing challenge of our age: enabling both security and functionality in our interconnected IT systems. The escalation of these attacks in 2016 is raising fears that cyberattacks against electoral systems will threaten democracy itself.

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MicroSoft: Still dominating in enterprise office automation

CTOvision

The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. The Company operates in five segments: Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing, D&C Hardware, D&C Other, Commercial Licensing, and Commercial Other. Microsoft Security Bulletins August 2016 (ghacks.net).

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BlackBerry will die on January 4th — for real this time

The Verge

And, yes, I realize that this is not the first time we’ve announced the death of the company or its devices (and, for reasons I’ll explain below, it likely won’t be the last) but this is a very definite ending for legacy BlackBerry hardware. Then, in 2016, it started licensing its brand to third-party manufacturers like TCL.

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Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan on what cloud success really looks like

CIO Business Intelligence

Martha Heller: Since joining Broadcom 2016, you have been CIO, then CTO and head of software business operations, and now CTO, chief security officer, and head of software engineering and operations. I saw this shift happening at Broadcom, so I decided to shift out of IT and into software operations.

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(Lack of) Patch Management Highlighted in US Congress

Cloud Musings

Patch management is the process of identifying, acquiring, installing, and verifying patches for products and systems. Patches not only correct security and functionality problems in software and firmware, but they also introduce new, and sometimes mandatory, capabilities into the organization’s IT environment.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.