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10 disturbing attacks at Black Hat USA 2014 Business leaders know: Let in the smartphones, tablets, laptops Network World Daily News PM July 24, 2014 Share this email FIRST LOOK: Apple OS X Yosemite public beta On Thursday, fall came early for hundreds of thousands of Mac users as Apple released its first public beta of OS X Yosemite. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 10 disturbing attacks at Black Hat USA 2014 2. INSIDER Business leaders know: Let in the smartphones, tablets, laptops 3. US Social Security Administration spent nearly $300M on IT project 'boondoggle,' lawmakers say 4. FTC takes out "tech support" scammers; $5.1 million in fines, retribution 5. Are IT groups really ready for BYOD security challenges? 6. Roadkill app could save human, animal lives 7. Thousands of sites compromised through WordPress plug-in vulnerability 8. Malwarebytes questions poor showing in anti-malware protection-evaluation lab testing 9. Never stop learning, CIOs advise new IT grads 10. 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Not anymore.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE US Social Security Administration spent nearly $300M on IT project 'boondoggle,' lawmakers say The SSA may have also tried to temporarily keep a damaging report on the project secret, a House committee alleges READ MORE WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Meeting the Exploding Demand for New IT Services In this eBook, explore the top trends driving the New IT for IT Service Management, and how leading organizations are evolving to focus on end-user experience. Learn More FTC takes out "tech support" scammers; $5.1 million in fines, retribution While a number of these scams still persist, the Federal Trade Commission today said it got a US District court to slap the operators of several international tech support rip-offs to pay more than $5.1 million in fines and retribution on charges they masqueraded as major computer companies, including Dell, Microsoft, McAfee, and Norton, to trick consumers into believing their computers were riddled with malware and then charge them to "fix" the "problems." The FTC said that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued default judgments against fourteen corporate defendants and fourteen individual defendants that allegedly operated the tech support scams. The operations were mostly based in India and targeted English-speaking consumers in the United States and several other countries, the FTC stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Are IT groups really ready for BYOD security challenges? A new survey of IT security professionals shows that many businesses are barely starting to exploit mobile technology, and some of them may be a mobile security nightmare waiting to happen.In a self-evaluation question, 40% of the 2014 sample (compared to 34% in 2013) ranked their readiness for BYOD at 60% or higher. Yet responses to other questions suggest that is wildly optimistic. + Also on NetworkWorld:7 Enterprise Mobile Security Best Practices|Slideshow: 7 security mistakes people make with their mobile device +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Roadkill app could save human, animal lives Utah State University researchers are reporting on a new app designed to get a much better read on wildlife-vehicle collisions -- a serious situation that leaves a couple hundred people and about a million animals (vertebrates) in the United States each year. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Containerized Power and Cooling Modules for Data Centers This white paper compares the cost benefits of both Standardized and Containerized data center cooling infrastructures, presents the advantages and disadvantages of each, and identifies which environments can best leverage the facility module approach. Learn More Thousands of sites compromised through WordPress plug-in vulnerability Hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability found recently in the MailPoet Newsletters plug-in for WordPress READ MORE Malwarebytes questions poor showing in anti-malware protection-evaluation lab testing Dennis Technology Labs (DTL), which tests anti-malware products for effectiveness in protection, for the first time included the free version of the Malwarebytes software in the labs' competitive evaluation along with nine other vendor products, both paid and free. The results published by DTL today reveal Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free had a poor showing, with only Microsoft Security Essentials doing worse in terms of effectiveness of protection.In terms of DTL's "protection" ratings that score for accuracy in protecting against malware, the free version of Malwarebytes was scored at 63 based on how many times it prevented a threat from compromising the system. Only Microsoft Security Essentials did worse at a score of 56. By contrast, the products that scored the best in the DTL tests, Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 and Norton Internet Security, each scored 100. Other high scorers on "protection" included BitDefender Internet Security which earned a score of 94 as well as Avast! Free Antivirus and ESET Smart Security 7 which each scored 93.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Never stop learning, CIOs advise new IT grads While the job market is healthy for IT pros, certain talents are more valuable than others, and it's wise to keep adding to your skills arsenal.That's the advice of IT veterans to newcomers in the field.Among 2,400 U.S. CIOs surveyed by Robert Half Technology, 50% said their best career advice for new grads entering the tech industry is to keep learning new skills and stay current in their field. Another 17% of respondents said they'd tell first-time job seekers to take any opportunity that will help them get a foot in the door with an employer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Hero hacks: 14 Raspberry Pi projects primed for IT VoIP PBXes, NTP servers, Web-controlled power strips -- hack together one of these handy, cheap solutions for the server closet and beyond READ MORE WHITE PAPER: OutSystems HTML5 Rocks With the release of the 5th major version of HTML (aka HTML5), new features that mainly target Web Applications have been introduced, ranging from CSS3 (related technology) to GeoLocation and WebStorage. This article explores the top 5 features that developers should be using now. Read Now Join the IDG Contributor Network The IDG Contributor Network is a collection of blogs written by YOU -- leading IT practitioners -- about the technology, business opportunities and challenges you face everyday. 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