| Network World Daily News PM | | | | Some tips to get the most out of Apple's new operating system. | | | Issue highlights 1. Ebola crisis brings out another sickness: Vile scammers 2. Amazon launches German cloud region in nod to privacy concerns 3. 2014's most significant cloud deals have OpenStack at heart 4. Collection of new cord cutting techs make it easier to snip that CATV tether 5. Christian Bale: From serial killer to Batman to Steve Jobs 6. Researchers use silicon to push quantum computing toward reality 7. Quick Look: Ubuntu 14.10 8. Akamai sees record-setting spikes in size and volume of DDoS attacks 9. Amazon takes aim at Microsoft's Active Directory with new service 10. 15 GOTO schools for the best programming jobs | | WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More | | Sadly we all knew it would happen, once the Ebola situation became international news, the contemptible fraud and scam artists would crawl out from under their rocks to exploit it.They have not disappointed.New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and others this week noted a number of scams in the works: Consumer Reports published an article referencing a bogus e-mail solicitation offering a $29 "surplus protection kit" supposedly designed for emergency response teams and law enforcement agencies. The Federal Trade Commission has warned that there are no FDA-approved medical treatments for Ebola and that consumers should file complaints with the FTC and the FDA if they encounter a fraud. According to USA Today, at least three companies have been issued warnings by the Food and Drug Administration in the past month for selling bogus treatments, solutions, or therapies for Ebola. The FTC and FDA recently sent a warning letter to Natural Solutions Foundation, which sells supplements, putting it on notice that some of its claims around Ebola violate a number of federal laws. According to a report in Daily Finance, the Better Business Bureau's New York office has received complaints about fraudulent telephone solicitations involving a charity claiming to raise funds to help Ebola victims. There have also been reports of door-to-door frauds claiming to raise money for a Texas nurse who became infected with the disease. Better Business Bureau is warning consumers about a variety of Ebola-related scams and problematic fundraisers that have emerged recently. The AARP warned about online offers for an Ebola cure or special "natural" or "dietary" methods to alleviate or prevent symptoms; email scams with alarming messages like "Ebola update" or "Ebola Pandemic" which may include links that release computer viruses; sales of "personal protection kits" at low prices to provide supposed "infection defense"; charity scams claiming to help victims or fight the disease; and potential stock investment frauds involving companies that say they are involved in the development of products that will prevent the spread of viral diseases like Ebola. US-CERT reminded users to protect against email scams and cyber campaigns using the Ebola virus disease as a theme. Phishing emails may contain links that direct users to websites which collect personal information such as login credentials, or contain malicious attachments that can infect a system. The FTC wrote that there are currently no FDA-approved vaccines or drugs to prevent or treat Ebola. "Although there are experimental Ebola vaccines and treatments under development, these are in the early stages of product development, have not yet been fully tested for safety or effectiveness, and the supply is very limited. There are no approved vaccines, drugs, or products specifically for Ebola available for purchase online or in stores. No dietary supplements can claim to prevent or cure Ebola, according to the supplements industry. If you've seen companies or products touting these claims, report them to the FTC and FDA."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Amazon Web Services launched a new region of its cloud in Germany Thursday, in part to serve customers who want to keep data within their country's borders.Germany has some of the strictest laws in the world related to data sovereignty and Amazon Senior Vice President Andy Jassy, who heads up the company's cloud computing division, acknowledged that as a driving factor for opening the company's newest region in Germany. AWS Amazon's cloud service now includes a Frankfurt region in GermanyTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | 2014's slate of cloud deals reflect a few important trends in the market for the open source cloud software. One is that traditional enterprise vendors continue to see potential in OpenStack and they're willing to shell out the cash to buy the expertise and technology they need to pursue the market. Tweet this: 2014's top 5 cloud deals have OpenStack in common (via @ITworld) http://bit.ly/1FJ7wUU The second is that despite interest from those big vendors, actual adoption of OpenStack hasn't happened as quickly as some people might have hoped. The result is that some of the startups, even trendsetters like Cloudscaling, are open to acquisition as they realize they may not be able to make it on their own.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Today, both IT and the business are requiring more of their networks. But networks designed to simply forward packets don't have the capability or the intelligence to understand today's high-level, application-related demands. Networks need to change, as does the way IT thinks about and manages them. Learn more >> | | HD antennas, channel aggregation and directory tools, and low cost DVR options make cord cutting more alluring than ever READ MORE | | [View the story "Christian Bale: From Batman to Steve Jobs" on Storify] To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Researchers in Australia have developed silicon-wrapped quantum technology that could solve problems that have held back the development of powerful quantum computers.The scientists, working on similar but separate projects at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), used silicon as a protectant shell around the bits, also known as qubits, in a quantum machine.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: The most magnificent high-tech flying machines By doing that, they've made the qubits, the building blocks for quantum computers, more accurate, increased the length of time they'll hold information and possible made quantum computers easier to build.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: ForgeRock 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>> | | Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic UnicornImage by flickr/Pierre CanteUbuntu 14.10 is the latest version of Canonical's iconic desktop operating system. This time around the focus is on application updates, as well as maintenance and stability improvements. The Linux kernel has been updated to 3.16, and most applications have been updated as well.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The size and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks has exploded in the past year, with a 389 percent increase in average attack bandwidth between the third quarter of 2013 and the third quarter of 2014, according to an Internet security report from Akamai Technologies.This should make companies consider using cloud-based security services, such as the DDoS filtering technology Akamai provides, said John Summers, vice president of the company's security business unit.During the past quarter, Akamai defended against 17 DDoS attacks flooding targets with traffic greater than 100 Gbps, with the largest at 321 Gbps, the cloud services vendor said in its Q3 2014 State of the Internet report, released Thursday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Amazon Web Services wants to become a more central part of enterprise IT with the AWS Directory Service, which both competes and integrates with Microsoft's Active Directory. With the lure of easier management, Amazon hopes CIOs are willing to trust it with one of their most important applications, the directory. Amazon has been adding all the pieces organizations need to run a complete IT infrastructure in its datacenters, including servers, databases, desktops and now a directory. The directory is an important addition because of the central position it has. Virtually every organization uses a directory service such as Active Directory to allow computers to join domains; list and authenticate users; and to locate and connect to printers, as well as other network services including SQL Server databases, Amazon said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | LinkedIn data reveals which schools have the most graduates working as software developers for the most desirable employers READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Valuable enterprise data lives on endpoint devices, changes constantly and flows freely throughout organizations. But what happens when that data is inappropriately shared or breached because a business user adopts an unsafe consumer-based sync and share tool? Learn More | | | | | | | | | |
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