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Cisco patches 3 year old security hole Advocacy groups accused of obscuring corporate ties in net neutrality debate Network World Daily News AM October 26, 2014 15 of the scariest things hacked From televisions to passenger planes, even the most unassuming device can, if accessed by the wrong people, be turned into something more sinister. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Cisco patches 3 year old security hole 2. Advocacy groups accused of obscuring corporate ties in net neutrality debate 3. Secretive funding fuels ongoing net neutrality astroturfing controversy 4. How much bigger is Amazon's cloud vs. Microsoft and Google? 5. 2014 technology industry graveyard 6. 11 ways to re-energize your IT career 7. OS X Yosemite tips and tricks you need to know 8. Google's fully driverless car looking less realistic by the day 9. IT certifications: Discover where the value lies 10. Apple: A pox on your house! WEBCAST: Flexera Software Application Readiness it Today's Heterogeneous Environments Hear how IT professionals can leverage Application Readiness, Software License Optimization and Integrated IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions to streamline and optimize processes for delivering and accounting for a wide-range of applications. Learn More>> Cisco patches 3 year old security hole Cisco has patched a three-year-old vulnerability in its IronPort security appliances, according to this post from Threatpost. The hole, discovered by the FreeBSD Project in December 2011, is in Telnet in the AsyncOS operating system of those appliances.If the Telnet service is enabled on a vulnerable appliance, a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code, Threatpost states.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Advocacy groups accused of obscuring corporate ties in net neutrality debate Recent news stories point to connections between broadband carriers or trade groups and advocacy groups READ MORE Secretive funding fuels ongoing net neutrality astroturfing controversy With a low level of transparency about donors, some advocacy groups open themselves up to accusations READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Absolute Software Corporation Forrester: Endpoint Security Trends This report outlines Forrester's take on the endpoint security trends seen from Q2 2013 to Q4 2014, looking at IT spend, and the adoption of Endpoint Security Software-As-A-Service. Learn More How much bigger is Amazon's cloud vs. Microsoft and Google? Just how much bigger is Amazon Web Service's cloud computing division compared to Microsoft and Google?It's hard to make a complete apples-to-apples comparison because none of these companies are extraordinarily transparent when releasing information about the financial health of their operations.But, a new report from New Hampshire-based firm Technology Business Research estimates Amazon's cloud revenue at more than $4.7 billion this year. TBR pegs Microsoft's public cloud IaaS revenue at $156 million and Google's at $66 million. If those estimates are correct than Amazon's cloud revenue is 30 times bigger than Microsoft's.30!+ MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Is there a point where a private cloud is cheaper than a public cloud? +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 2014 technology industry graveyard Microsoft, Google, Intel, BlackBerry and others bid farewell to brands, projects and more. READ MORE 11 ways to re-energize your IT career Mid-career blues, begone. Here are 11 actionable items tech pros can tackle to keep moving on up in IT. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: ForgeRock How to Forge a Future with Identity Relationship Management Identity and Access Management (IAM) services were traditionally built for a company's internal use, to assist with manual on and off boarding, and establishing access privileges to company data and systems behind the firewall. View Now>> OS X Yosemite tips and tricks you need to know Some tips to get the most out of Apple's new operating system. READ MORE Google's fully driverless car looking less realistic by the day Certain features of the driverless car have been slowly making their way into the real world in the past few years. Car companies have begun touting their new models' ability to parallel park themselves, or to identify people or objects in the road and auto-brake before hitting them, among other things.Ford is the latest company to embrace autonomous driving technology, announcing recently that its 2015 Mondeo sedans released in Europe will feature pedestrian detection technology, which "will scan the road for pedestrians and issue a warning," Ford's manager of driver assist technologies Scott Lindstrom told MIT Technology Review this week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE IT certifications: Discover where the value lies Knowing which certification will help elevate your career or land a job is not only difficult, it's different among different facets of IT.Also, the best-known certifications aren't necessarily the ones that will help you succeed. In fact, analysts warn that some certification vendors can throw enough money into promotion of their certifications to move the engagement needle, making the choice of which certification to choose even more difficult."The good ones are almost always performance-oriented and have a laboratory component involved that proves candidates can use their knowledge in the real world, "says Subhash Tantry, president of certification, testing and assessment platform provider Mettl.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Apple: A pox on your house! O. M. G. Apple just screwed up my day. Completely.The truth is I both love and hate Apple. I love the slickness and polish of their products but I often feel like I'm in some kind of abusive relationship where the company often winds up coercing me into do things that I either don't want to do or would prefer to do at some other time. The upgrade to Yosemite underlines the problem I have with Apple. Apple I got into the habit of using Pages, which, as a word processor, is just OK despite its flaws (for example, you can't paste text with URLs that's been copied from, say, a Web page without losing the links). Then OS X Mavericks upgraded Pages for me. After that Pages informed me that it couldn't retrieve documents from iCloud because of "compatibility" issues which meant I had to upgrade to OS X Yosemite! To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: Interactive Intelligence Improve Patient Engagement and Profitability Live! November 11, 2014 at 11:30 AM EST. Legislation isn't the only thing triggering change in the U.S. healthcare industry. What's really causing healthcare providers to rethink how they do businesses is consumerism. Learn more. 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