Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in operating systems

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Obama signs cellphone unlocking bill 5 Big Data projects that could change your life (Free Reg) Network World Daily News AM August 04, 2014 Share this email Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in operating systems Cisco Systems said attackers could disrupt or intercept traffic in many of its networking products unless a new security update is applied to the software they run. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Obama signs cellphone unlocking bill 2. INSIDER 5 Big Data projects that could change your life (Free Reg) 3. Is your Dropcam live feed being watched by someone else? 4. Mozilla warns of leaky developer network database 5. Most 'hackable' vehicles are Jeep, Escalade, Infiniti and Prius 6. Microsoft sues Samsung, says it stopped paying for patents 7. Judge approves Apple e-books price-fixing settlement 8. Xiaomi overtakes Samsung in China as largest smartphone vendor 9. How to see Space Station from your backyard (video) 10. MIT system will make oxygen on next NASA Mars mission 11. 'Right to be forgotten' goes predictably wrong WHITE PAPER: Smartling Selecting the Best Translation Options for Your Business Smartling's guide reviews the advantages and disadvantages of common translation options and provides guidance on optimal use cases. There are many translation options to consider including professional human translation, computer-generated translation with human editing, and more. Learn More Obama signs cellphone unlocking bill The right to unlock your cellphone became law on Friday as President Barack Obama signed a bill that rapidly passed both houses of the U.S. Congress.The Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act passed in the Senate on July 16 and was unanimously approved by the House of Representatives last Friday. Obama had been expected to sign it.The law restores U.S. consumers' rights to update the software on their phones so they can change mobile operators. That practice had been outlawed by a January 2013 decision by the Library of Congress, which ruled that consumer unlocking violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER 5 Big Data projects that could change your life (Free Reg) Real-world Big Data projects that are already paying rewards. READ MORE Is your Dropcam live feed being watched by someone else? Dropcam, the popular video monitoring camera, bills itself as "super simple security." But a pair of researchers plan to show at the Defcon hacking conference later this week how a Dropcam could be a weak point.Patrick Wardle and Colby Moore, both of whom work for security firm Synack, tore apart a US$200 Dropcam and figured out how its software works.They found several vulnerabilities, none of which granted the holy grail of remote online access, but say their examination portends security problems because of the increasing pervasiveness of Internet-connected embedded devices, often referred to as the "Internet of things."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Gartner Magic Quadrant for ADCs Citrix is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers for the seventh consecutive year: the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report focuses on vendor's ability to solve complex application deployment challenges. Don't miss this chance to learn from Gartner's independent research. Learn More Mozilla warns of leaky developer network database Email addresses of 76,000 were exposed along with 4,000 encrypted and salted passwords READ MORE Most 'hackable' vehicles are Jeep, Escalade, Infiniti and Prius Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek will present Remote Automotive Attack Surfaces at Black Hat, but you don't have to wait for their talk to learn which vehicle models are the most secure and the least secure from attacks. Abdullah AlBargan 2015 Cadillac Escalade interiorTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Microsoft sues Samsung, says it stopped paying for patents Samsung stopped paying to license Microsoft technology late last year, Microsoft says 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 Judge approves Apple e-books price-fixing settlement A U.S. district court judge has given preliminary approval for Apple to pay a US$450 million settlement for its role in an ebooks price-fixing conspiracy.Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday approved the deal that would have Apple paying $400 million to affected ebook buyers and $50 million in attorneys fees in a class-action lawsuit, but only if Apple's appeal of a 2013 price-fixing ruling by the New York court is rejected.If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit reverses and remands the case back to district court, the settlement agreement approved by Cote would have Apple pay consumers $50 million and attorneys $20 million. If the appeals court reverses the 2013 decision by the New York court, Apple would pay no damages.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Xiaomi overtakes Samsung in China as largest smartphone vendor In another sign of worry for Samsung Electronics, the Korean tech giant has lost its ranking as China's top smartphone vendor, after holding onto the position for two straight years, according to research firm Canalys.In this year's second quarter, Chinese company Xiaomi overtook Samsung to become the country's largest smartphone maker with a 14 percent market share. Samsung held on to the second spot, with a 12 percent share, slightly ahead of third place Lenovo, outshipping it by 200,000 units.The Korean electronics giant had been China's leading smartphone maker since 2012's first quarter, said Wang Jingwen, an analyst with Canalys. At the time, the company's market share was 22 percent.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE How to see Space Station from your backyard (video) TechTip: How to see the International Space Station from your backyard The ISS is one of the easiest objects to spot in the sky, but you have to know when and where to look. More in Science & Technology READ MORE MIT system will make oxygen on next NASA Mars mission MIT researchers this week found out that a system they have developed to produce oxygen on Mars will be making the next NASA trip to the Red Planet. MIT's Mars OXygen In situ resource utilization Experiment or MOXIE will be just one of the seven instruments that will travel on the Mars 2020, mission which will feature a large rover similar to the Mars Curiosity rover currently looking around on Mars. According to MIT, MOXIE is a specialized reverse fuel cell whose primary function is to consume electricity in order to produce oxygen on Mars, where the atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide. In a normal fuel cell, fuel is heated together with an oxidizer — often oxygen — producing electricity. In this case, however, electricity produced by a separate machine would be combined with carbon dioxide from the Martian air to produce oxygen and carbon monoxide in a process called solid oxide electrolysis, MIT stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 'Right to be forgotten' goes predictably wrong Google says lots of Europeans are not telling the truth, the whole and or anything resembling the truth when they ask to have search results about themselves "forgotten."Who could have predicted such an outcome? I mean who besides anyone with a modicum of common sense.From a story by our IDG New Service: In a letter to European data regulators, Google listed some of the challenges it faces in complying with the ruling, which allows people to compel search engines like Google and Bing to remove links to pages that mention their name, if the references are "inadequate," "irrelevant" or "excessive."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Polycom Video is the New Document: Four Things You Can't Miss Download this research summary to find out the 4 reasons why video is quickly replacing print media and see how this can fit in with your organizations content strategy plan for 2014. Learn more >> SLIDESHOWS Black Hat 2014: How to crack just about everything From cell phones and cars to IPv6 security researchers have turned their skills against a world of technology. 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