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	15 rogue cell phone towers l drove around Washington, D.C. and discovered 15 new rogue cell towers (also known as IMSI catchers or interceptors). Read More WHITE PAPER: Ixia Overcoming Visibility Deficits in Virtualized Environments With up to 80% of data center traffic traveling between virtualized servers, end-to-end visibility is a major concern. This paper provides an overview of virtualized data center blind spots and offers a solution to overcome them. View now In this Issue What is Metacloud and why did Cisco buy it? 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In one of the biggest acquisitions in the OpenStack community, Cisco has announced its intentions to acquire Metacloud, a three year old company that helps organizations build OpenStack clouds.Analysts say the move is about Cisco providing choice to customers. Cisco has a hardware platform for building private clouds, most notably its Unified Computing System (UCS) line of servers. Through a long-standing partnership with VMware, customers can use that company's software to build private clouds. Now, with the addition of Metacloud, customers will be able to more easily than ever build an open source-based OpenStack private cloud on top of UCS gear. "This gives Cisco another cog in its InterCloud wheel," says Al Sadowksi, who tracks the IaaS market for the 451 Research Group. Intercloud is the name of Cisco's broad cloud platform that combines customers' on-premises clouds with a variety of public clouds.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Quick look: NASA's human space flight return NASA teams with Boeing, Space X to bring human spaceflight back to reality Read More The government's galling gambling hypocrisy The government of the United States will not allow me to play poker online.Sports betting is illegal everywhere except Nevada, though New Jersey looks poised to toss its foundering casino industry that potential lifeline.And yet somehow Delaware residents – who cannot play poker online or legally bet on individual sporting events – are not only allowed but encouraged to gamble on a game of chance that carries almost impossible odds: picking the winner of 15 National Football League games against the point spread, which if you're not familiar with that term translates to calling a coin flip correctly 15 times in a row.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More PGP creator, other top cryptographers head 2014 National Cyber Security Hall of Fame class Accomplished cryptographers, including Pretty Good Privacy creator Philip Zimmerman, are among the five inductees into this year's National Cyber Security Hall of Fame. They'll officially be enshrined on Oct. 30 in Baltimore. Zimmmerman Zimmerman, in addition to developing the widely used PGP email encryption software is founder of mobile privacy company Silent Circle and is known for his work in securing VoIP via protocols such as  ZRTP and Zfone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Inside Levi's Stadium, high-tech home of the San Francisco 49ers Inside Levi's Stadium, high-tech home of the San Francisco 49ers The new $1.2 billion Levi's Stadium offers fans the type of high-tech game experience you'd expect from a sports venue in Silicon Valley. From: Network World Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:19 More in Science & Technology Read More iOS 8 is here – and it's all over your network iOS 8 comes out today, creating the usual raft of IT headaches that accompanies the roll-out of new software. Read More Senators hear calls on the FCC to step back from net neutrality rules Republican lawmakers and witnesses repeat criticisms that net neutrality rules would slow broadband investment Read More Steve Jobs' office at Apple remains exactly as he left it Steve Jobs' office at Apple remains intact, and looks exactly the way it did when he passed away in October of 2012. This tidbit first came to the surface when a video clip of Tim Cook's interview with Charlie Rose was released earlier this week. "I literally think about him every day," Cook explained. "His office is still left as it was. His name is still on the door." Adding more detail to this quirky piece of info, Cook explained the reasoning for keeping Jobs' office as-is as part of a wide ranging interview with Bloomberg.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Startup backs services with elasticity of AWS, Azure clouds to outlast DDoS attacks Security services startup Sentrix mirrors customer Web sites in Amazon Web Services and Azure clouds in order to dynamically expand site resources during distributed denial of service attacks and keep the sites running until attackers exhaust their resources, give up or move on to easier targets.The company, which was founded in 2010, just opened its U.S. headquarters and has already done a proof-of-concept trial with a U.S. bank that it hopes to land as a customer, says co-founder Israel Barak.+ Also on Network World: Cisco gains strength in next-gen firewalls via Sourcefire code; Why retailers like Home Depot get hacked +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More A dozen real desks of a dozen real techies How does your desk compare? 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