Microsoft trots out tired euphemisms for ‘18,000 people are losing their jobs’

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NetSuite buys Venda to boost e-commerce, European presence Microsoft to lay off 18,000 in next year Network World Daily News PM July 17, 2014 Share this email Microsoft trots out tired euphemisms for '18,000 people are losing their jobs' When weighed against the fact that 18,000 human beings are going to lose their Microsoft paychecks – two-thirds of them from Nokia -- the gobbledygook of euphemisms used by CEO Satya Nadella to describe the carnage is of little significance.And it might have bobbled on by unnoticed were it not for Nadella's use of use of a single word, "synergy," which immediately made me recall this 2008 post about a different layoff of 3,000 people headlined: 'Synergy-related headcount restructuring' and other euphemisms for 'you're fired'To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. NetSuite buys Venda to boost e-commerce, European presence 2. Microsoft to lay off 18,000 in next year 3. Microsoft to axe Nokia feature phones amid massive layoffs 4. Emergency vBulletin patch fixes dangerous SQL injection vulnerability 5. Wave of 100Gbps 'mega' DDoS attacks hits record level in 2014 6. What's missing from Apple's big enterprise deal with IBM? 7. Vulnerability exposes some Cisco home wireless devices to hacking 8. Chaos Computer Club bolsters NSA spying complaint with Tor snooping evidence 9. Juniper boosts DDoS Secure appliance to mitigate UDP-based amplification attacks 10. Survey: Corporate security thwarted by dialog failure between IT dept. and management 11. Beyond Firefox: 10 Mozilla projects fueling the open Web WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Real-Time Application-Centric Operations Visibility This EMA whitepaper examines the move towards application/service performance visibility within IT operations, and in particular the network-based delivery of those applications and services and the role that network-based visibility can and should play. Learn More NetSuite buys Venda to boost e-commerce, European presence NetSuite is rounding out its e-commerce portfolio with the acquisition of Venda in a move that also pushes the cloud vendor deeper into European markets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."Venda pioneered the concept of bringing commerce to the cloud and their expertise in supporting the needs of companies throughout Europe is a perfect match for NetSuite as our customers begin to adopt our SuiteCommerce omnichannel platform around the globe," NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson said in a statement.Venda is based in London. Many of its customers are retailers and include Tesco's F&F Clothing brand and Laura Ashley. The company's Convergent platform gives large retailers the means to provide a "a unified experience for their customers across online, mobile, social and in-store," NetSuite said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Microsoft to lay off 18,000 in next year The initial round will affect 12,500 jobs related to Nokia Devices and Services READ MORE Microsoft to axe Nokia feature phones amid massive layoffs The times they are a changin'. Nokia not too long ago became synonymous with cell phones thanks to an endless assortment of cleverly designed feature phones. And sure, the Finnish based company also had their own lineup of smartphones, but once Apple released the iPhone, Nokia was put on the defensive and never managed to regain its footing.Flash forward a few years and Microsoft in September of 2013 purchased Nokia's devices and services business for $7.2 billion. Now comes word, in the wake of Microsoft axing 18,000 employees (12,000 of them coming from the Nokia acquisition), that Redmond will also be discontinuing Nokia's feature phone lineup.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Case Study - MTC Australia In moving to a "cloud first" approach for their business-critical apps, they were able to remedy the increased network traffic with Riverbed solutions to ensure a positive user experience. View now>> Emergency vBulletin patch fixes dangerous SQL injection vulnerability Developers of the popular vBulletin Internet forum software have issued emergency patches Wednesday in order to fix a SQL injection vulnerability that could allow attackers to read and manipulate information stored in the databases of vBulletin-based sites.Code patches that need to be applied manually were released for versions 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.1.0, 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 of vBulletin and can be downloaded by registered customers. The vulnerability only affects vBulletin 5—officially known as vBulletin 5 Connect—and not vBulletin 4."The issue may allow attackers to perform SQL injection attacks on your database," said Wayne Luke, the vBulletin technical support lead, in an announcement on the official support forum. "It is recommended that all users update as soon as possible."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Wave of 100Gbps 'mega' DDoS attacks hits record level in 2014 Huge DDoS attacks are becoming a regular occurrence with over 100 incidents breaching the psychological 100Gbps barrier that used to be seen as signifying trouble, new figures from Arbor Networks have confirmed.Arbor's numbers drawn from its Atlas monitoring of traffic through 290 global ISPs show a consistent upward trend on such volumetric attacks at every point on the scale in the last year, with a doubling in the number of attacks over 20Gbps compared to 2013.But super-massive 100Gbps attacks soared to 111 for the first half of 2014, mostly concentrated in Q1 which accounted for 72 on its own. As it happens, the largest attack in Q2 specifically was a 154Gbps NTP amplification assault on a Spanish data centre, which looks small compared to the 325Gbps monster that struck CloudFlare in February.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE What's missing from Apple's big enterprise deal with IBM? Apple and IBM have gotten together to announce a historic partnership that will combine Apple iOS devices and apps with IBM cloud services, big data and analytic capabilities. IBM's massive enterprise salesforce will also put more than 100 of Big Blue's vertical market apps, services and software on iPhones and iPads and sell them to enterprises.  It's a big deal between two former antagonists that will help cement Apple's place in the enterprise and give IBM a much-needed mobile boost. It's also a big challenge to Microsoft's vision of Windows everywhere.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Radware Cloud Security Solutions As more and more service providers rush to become cloud service providers, there is a growing need for them to create service differentiation in order to attract new customers. Learn More Vulnerability exposes some Cisco home wireless devices to hacking Specially crafted HTTP requests could trigger remote code execution on the affected devices, Cisco said READ MORE Chaos Computer Club bolsters NSA spying complaint with Tor snooping evidence The German Chaos Computer Club said Wednesday that it has added to its legal complaint about U.S. spying on German citizens evidence that the NSA allegedly snooped on at least one of its Tor servers.The CCC filed a complaint with Germany's federal prosecutor, Harald Range, in February, demanding an investigation into the German government's alleged involvement in the U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance of German citizens.However, while Range started an investigation into the alleged tapping of Merkel's phone by the NSA in June, he said there wasn't enough evidence to start a similar investigation into the widely reported mass surveillance of German citizens.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Juniper boosts DDoS Secure appliance to mitigate UDP-based amplification attacks Juniper Networks has added a new way for its anti-DDoS appliance to mitigate what's known as massive UDP-based amplification attacks that typically work by exploiting compromised servers of different kinds to both spoof and vastly increase the denial-of-service barrage.One type of such attack that has been on the rise this year is the Network Time Protocol (NTP) amplification attack that works when the attacker exploits vulnerable and unpatched NTP servers to overwhelm the victim's system with UDP traffic. The size and scale of these UDP-based DDoS attacks is now reaching 300G/bit sec and more, making it hard to simply backhaul traffic, says Paul Scanlon, director of product management at Juniper Networks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Survey: Corporate security thwarted by dialog failure between IT dept. and management So talk to me!That 's what security professionals should be doing with business management executives, but the problem is, it isn't really happening, according to a Ponemon Institute survey of over 4,800 IT and security practitioners in companies around the world who were asked how often discussions about security risks actually occurred. According to this study, about a third of those surveyed said they never speak to business management executives unless contacted, and about a quarter said formal discussions about security risk happen only once annually.One consequence of this disconnect in formal communication is that executive management often remains uninformed about the nature of security threats confronting the organization and IT security teams struggle to get what they deem to be adequate budgets.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Beyond Firefox: 10 Mozilla projects fueling the open Web Mozilla has its hands in many projects aimed at advancing the Web. Here's our take on the 10 most promising READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Radware State of the Union: Ecommerce Page Speed & Web Performance This examination of the top ecommerce sites finds a 21% drop in page load times and offers strategies and best practices to serve pages faster. 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