Fri.May 19, 2017

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10 Tips to Keep Hackers Out of Your Smart Home

CTOvision

Jeremy Sutter. As technology continues to make life more convenient for users, it is making the lives of thieves easier as well. Owners of smart homes are under constant threat of electronic theft and violation. The even scarier part is that sometimes you can't even tell when you have been hacked. A smart door can be remotely unlocked and show no sign of forced entry into your home.

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Neustar launches international security council

Computer Weekly

Sharing information in the face of threats such as WannaCry is crucial for organisations to improve their cyber security capability, according to Neustar, which is making it easier to do

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Report: AI Tells AWS How Many Servers to Buy and When

Data Center Knowledge

Amazon’s cloud CEO Jassy says company uses Machine Learning for data center capacity planning Read More.

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Microsoft to open African cloud datacentre region in 2018

Computer Weekly

Software giant plans to capitalise on business demand for its cloud services in Africa by offering users access to locally hosted Azure and Office 365

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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5 Must Have PC Peripherals That Will Improve the Quality of Your Life

IT Toolbox

If you were wondering which upgrade or add-on to get for your PC, you are at the right place. Here are 5 must have PC peripherals that will completely change how you perceive and use your computer.

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McAfee researchers test WannaCry recovery method

Computer Weekly

Although there is evidence that some victims of the WannaCry ransomware attack on 12 May have paid the attackers, there is no evidence that they are getting their data back

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How to simplify IT integration

Computer Weekly

Pressure on IT is mounting and point-to-point integration does not scale.

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As WannaCrypt Recovery Continues, Analysts Back Microsoft’s Leader

Data Center Knowledge

Brad Smith says the attacks were partly the fault of companies that don't patch their systems. Analysts agree. Read More.

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Interview: Claude Moraes, MEP and EU Civil Liberties Committee chair

Computer Weekly

Claude Moraes, chair of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee shares his views, concerns, reservations about EU-US data transfers, encryption and Brexit

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Top 5 Best Google Chrome Extensions Every User Should Know

IT Toolbox

Which is the web browser are you using? There are several popular browsers that we recommend using, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Opera.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Manx Telecom streamlines its business with VMware NFV

Computer Weekly

After deploying an NFV platform to replace its IMS service, Isle of Man-based telco has seen substantial improvements to its business agility and processes

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CrowdStrike Raises $100 Million as Cyber Makes Headlines

Data Center Knowledge

Company helped link Russia to DNC email hack last year; Ransomware attack latest breach that helps boost profile Read More.

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Command and control communications key to detecting threats

Computer Weekly

Malware command and control (C&C) communications are key to detecting advanced threats, according to a security researcher

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Local Administrators Automated Reporting Tool

Mick's IT Blog

Back in November 2016, I posted the blog entry on reporting local administrators on machines. That script is deployed to machines via an SCCM package that reports the local administrators back to SCCM to be able to be queried into a report. I got tired of having to go into SCCM and look at the query report to see if any new machines might have appeared.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases. Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive lic

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Marketing Cloud Integration

IT Toolbox

Marketing Cloud Integration brings together all aspects of the marketing stack in support of a company?s market goals and objectives. Privacy and security are fundamental to the contract of brand trust between a company and its prospects, customers, partners, investors and employees. Finance and monetization are fundamental to the successful relationship between all stakeholders.

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Video: How a cyberweapon developed by the NSA infected machines around the world

Tech Republic Security

Protonmail CEO Andy Yen explains how government backdoors and zero day exploits made the British hospital system, SMBs, and enterprise organizations vulnerable to the WannaCry exploit.

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MAC Level Bridges

IT Toolbox

Because a MAC bridge operates below the MAC service boundary, it is transparent to protocols operating above that boundary.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Predictive analytics: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Big Data

IBM Watson is the most well-known example of predictive analytics in use. If your company wants to benefit from predictive analytics, here's what you need to know.

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IDG Contributor Network: Are VMs more secure than containers?

Network World

We often say, “HTTPS is secure,” or “HTTP is not secure.” But what we mean is that “HTTPS is hard to snoop and makes man-in-the-middle attacks difficult” or “my grandmother has no trouble snooping HTTP.” Nevertheless, HTTPS has been hacked, and under some circumstances, HTTP is secure enough. Furthermore, if I discover an exploitable defect in a common implementation supporting HTTPS (think OpenSSL and Heartbleed ), HTTPS can become a hacking gateway until the implementation is corrected.

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Gallery: 10 major organizations affected by the WannaCry ransomware attack

Tech Republic Security

The WannaCry ransomware attack of the past week has been brutal, and while it has been temporarily stopped experts say it will probably come back. Here's a list of some of the biggest victims so far.

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The modern guide to staying safe online

Network World

The internet can be a scary place. Threats come in many forms, lurking in practically any corner. Worse, yesterday’s prevailing advice for staying safe online -- avoid dodgy websites, don’t traffic in stolen or illegal goods, interact only with people you know -- no longer holds. Phishing emails from supposed family members, spyware piggybacking on legitimate apps, well-known sites hijacked with malicious code -- digital safety clearly needs new rules to meet today's evolving threatscape.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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A survival guide for the coming AI revolution

Dataconomy

If the popular media are to be believed, artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to steal your job and threaten life as we know it. If we do not prepare now, we may face a future where AI runs free and dominates humans in society. The AI revolution is indeed underway. To. The post A survival guide for the coming AI revolution appeared first on Dataconomy.

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The Cloud Architect role

IT Toolbox

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CIOs as Linchpin to Strengthen Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

Running IT as a business begins with understanding the true business needs, strengthens the weak links in the organization, and improves the business’s top-line business growth. At the industrial age, IT is often one of the weakest links in the companies, running in a controller’s mode, slow to change. At the dawn of the digital era, leading businesses across industrial sectors claim they are in the information management business.

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Showing some.heart at.NEXT!

Nutanix

As you may have heard, this year’s.NEXT features forward-thinking business luminaries, tech gurus, and hoards of IT pros all under one roof. These people will inspire your minds, but we want to make sure we also inspire your hearts!

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Five Principles to Manage Change

Future of CIO

Change is a digital continuum. Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. Change Management is a complex management discipline due to the "VUCA" nature of digital organizations. How to set digital principles to improve Change Management effectiveness?

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Security

President Trump's cybersecurity order made the National Institute of Standards and Technology's framework federal policy. Here's what you need to know about the NIST's Cybersecurity Framework.

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