Hackers find first post-retirement Windows XP-related vulnerability

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Switching highlights Juniper's Q1 Apple to replace faulty iPhone 5 power buttons for free Network World Daily News AM April 28, 2014 Share this email Hackers find first post-retirement Windows XP-related vulnerability Microsoft on Saturday told customers that cyber-criminals are exploiting an unpatched and critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) using "drive-by" attacks. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Switching highlights Juniper's Q1 2. Apple to replace faulty iPhone 5 power buttons for free 3. IBM puts all its cloud services in one place 4. Automatic review: taking the smartphone driving assistant for a test run 5. Product Lust o' the Week: The Asustor 602T NAS 6. The Transition from PSTN to VoIP: Call Routing and User Profiles 7. 15 Social Media Apps You May Not Know About 8. 10 great Android apps for IT pros 9. Microsoft confirms Internet Explorer zero-day 10. Microsoft warns Internet Explorer 6 – 11 vulnerable to zero-day spotted in the wild 11. Band releases album as Linux kernel module   Switching highlights Juniper's Q1 Juniper's Q1 earnings, in which it beat Wall Street revenue estimates and grew switching revenue 46%, included an announcement that AT&T named it as the latest supplier to its Domain 2.0 initiative to build a user-defined cloud. Domain 2.0 is AT&T's network virtualization project that looks to embrace software-defined networking and network functions virtualization, and align its supply chain with... READ MORE Apple to replace faulty iPhone 5 power buttons for free Apple has confirmed that some iPhone 5 smartphones have defective sleep/wake/power buttons and on Friday kicked off a free component replacement program in the U.S. and Canada. READ MORE IBM puts all its cloud services in one place IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and now it has somewhere to show them off. 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