10 IT security risks small biz can't afford to ignore

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	10 IT security risks small biz can't afford to ignore While small- to midsized businesses (SMB) don't have the luxury of information security teams and resources that large enterprises can afford, they still face many of the same threats. Read More   WEBCAST: Dell SecureWorks   Counterstrategies for Combatting Social Engineering Social Engineering is proving costlier than ever, especially phishing and spear phishing. With recent breaches, the imperative to counter social engineering effectively takes on a whole new level of urgency. In this webcast, the CISO for Dell SecureWorks discusses the realities of social engineering and what your organization must do to counter it. 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Whether a cybercriminal, disgruntled activist, competitor or nation-state actor, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) must address the risk these adversaries pose to their organization. Learn more Silicon Valley Tech Execs Behaving Badly Move over Donald Sterling. The exploits of these misbehaving technology executives give the now-infamous billionaire L.A. Clippers owner a run for his money when it comes to moronic acts. Read More   A major mystery behind Microsoft's 'brain-like' speech-to-speech translator   Speech-to-speech translation technology Microsoft is prepping for Skype has an unexplained capability: the more languages it learns, the better it becomes at the languages it learned first. Read More   20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2014 Heroes, bugs, puzzlers, baseball and more fill this list of popular Apple iPhone, iPad games Read More   Microsoft debuts personalized patch dashboard for IT pros Microsoft launched a Web-based security dashboard for IT professionals that displays a customized view of the company's past patches. Read More   How to Build a More Diverse IT Workforce If you're looking for a way to more easily identify talent from underrepresented groups, Entelo Diversity offers a service that it claims leads to a more diverse tech team. Read More   Outage caused by single admin mortifies cloud provider Joyent   Cloud provider Joyent suffered an outage on Tuesday after an administrator was able to simultaneously reboot all virtual servers hosted in the company's US-East-1 data center. Read More   Bill Gates, superstar: His excellent adventures with the famous, rich and powerful Just because Gates has given up his role as Microsoft's Chairman doesn't mean he's slowing down… Read More   Chambers is giddy about IoT, and other takeaways from Cisco Live 2014 Cisco Live 2014 gave a glimpse into what has the networking giant excited for the future. Read More   Hacking Windows XP to get security patches is a really bad idea By now, you probably know about the registry hack trick to get updates for Windows XP. I shouldn't have to tell you this, but that's a really bad idea, one you should not do, and both Microsoft and at least one security firm are saying not to do it. Read More   Apple's rumored iWatch to feature a round face A new analyst report released this week sheds a tad more light on the design of Apple's long-rumored iWatch. 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