Ebola crisis brings out another sickness: Vile scammers

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New products of the week 10.27.2014 Windows 10: A guided tour Network World Daily News AM November 02, 2014 Ebola crisis brings out another sickness: Vile scammers 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. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. New products of the week 10.27.2014 2. Windows 10: A guided tour 3. How to use iCloud Drive 4. OS X Yosemite tips and tricks you need to know 5. Disaster as CryptoWall encrypts US firm's entire server installation 6. Where to find security certifications 7. INSIDER Free and cheap ways to learn about network administration 8. Cisco, others pushing 2.5G, 5G Ethernet 9. Getting chipped: Why I will live with an NFC chip implant for a year 10. 11 ways to re-energize your IT career WHITE PAPER: SevenTablets Mitigating Your Biggest Mobile Strategy Risk: User Rejection Did you know eight out of ten apps are downloaded, used once, and deleted? User rejection is the greatest risk to your mobile strategy. This white paper outlines how to mitigate this risk by planning a user-friendly experience that balances responsiveness, intuitiveness, and functionality. Learn More New products of the week 10.27.2014 Products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.NetVanta 5660Key features: The industry's first converged Layer 2/3 Gigabit access router with eSBC and Carrier Ethernet gateway functionality, enabling providers to support bandwidth-hungry cloud, VoIP and streaming business applications from one device. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Windows 10: A guided tour A guided tourMicrosoft released a technical preview of the next version of Windows for the public to download and try for free. Although a final release with additional features isn't expected until the middle of 2015, there are already a number of changes compared to Windows 8.1. Here are some of the most prominent.Return of the Start MenuClicking the Windows logo Start button, or pressing the Windows logo key on the keyboard, summons the Start Menu, which was last seen in Windows 7, but absent from Windows 8 and 8.1. The left half of this Start Menu lists pinned applications, apps and folders, and recently opened programs and other items. The right half displays the tiles of Windows Apps -- it's like a mini version of the Start Screen from Windows 8/8.1 attached to the Start Menu. Just as on the Start Screen, you can rearrange the placement of these tiles by clicking-holding-and-dragging on each one.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE How to use iCloud Drive Much as you may have been satisfied with the way iCloud synced your data in the past, if you'd hoped for comprehensive file syncing between your Mac, iOS devices, and the cloud, you were likely frustrated. Prior to OS X 10.10 Yosemite, iCloud's file storage was sandboxed, meaning that you could only access files created with a specific application by that application. You could, for example, launch Pages and access the Pages files you stored in the cloud, but you couldn't use that same app to open TextEdit files stored in iCloud. Enter iCloud Drive. Taking its cue from Dropbox, which is a simple file repository accessible from any app, Apple has changed the way iCloud manages files.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: NetApp Enterprise Tech: Pick Your Cloud, Control Your Data Find out how new hybrid cloud architectures enable you to take advantage of public cloud resources from Amazon, Microsoft, and others while keeping your enterprise firmly in the driver's seat. You'll learn how you can benefit from the elastic compute power of public clouds and still maintain control over your company's data. View now>> OS X Yosemite tips and tricks you need to know A seamless designImage by ShutterstockOS X Yosemite is Apple's latest take on a desktop operating system, and seeing as how we're living in an increasingly mobile world, it should come as no surprise that OS X Yosemite is designed to work seamlessly with iOS 8. As with any new major OS X update, Apple has added a plethora of new functionality. Here are some tips on tricks for making use of the cooler OS X Yosemite features.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Disaster as CryptoWall encrypts US firm's entire server installation "Here is a tale of ransomware that will make your blood run cold," announced Stu Sjouwerman of security training firm KnowBe4 in a company newsletter this week and he wasn't exaggerating.One of his firm's customers contacted him on 14 October for advice on how to buy Bitcoins after all seven of its servers containing 75GB of data had been encrypted by a recent variant of the hated CryptoWall ransom Trojan.An admin had clicked on a phishing link which was bad enough. Unfortunately, the infected workstation had mapped drives and permissions to all seven servers and so CryptoWall had quickly jumped on to them to hand the anonymous professional a work day to forget.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Where to find security certifications Security certificationsThe debate rages on whether gaining security certifications means much. Regardless of whether you think they aren't even worth the paper they are printed on, there are others who believe certifications prove the individual knows what they are doing. With that, here are a group of vendors who offer security certifications.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: NetApp Hybrid Clouds: Deriving the Biggest Business Impact According to a global base of respondents to a 2014 Gigaom research study,1 35 percent cited innovation or competitive advantage as a driver for adopting cloud computing, and 45 percent either want to or already run some applications for their companies in the cloud. View now>> INSIDER Free and cheap ways to learn about network administration Although degrees and IT certifications can be great eye candy for a resume, experience is king. As you may have encountered, a lack of experience can be a major roadblock to getting interest from employers in your early years.Project 6: Play with network emulators or simulatorsTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Cisco, others pushing 2.5G, 5G Ethernet Cisco and three other vendors have formed an alliance to promote the development of 2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet technology for enterprise networks. The other three participants in the NBASE-T Alliance are silicon, semiconductor and IC companies Aquantia, Freescale and Xilinx.The objective of the nonprofit alliance is to enable multi-gigabit Ethernet speeds on existing Gigabit Ethernet cabling. Alliance members say there's demand for a unified approach to the deployment of faster data rates on Cat5e and Cat6 twisted-pair copper cables matching the bandwidth increase driven by 802.11ac Wave 2 Access Points and other technologies, such as 802.11ad, 802.11ax and LiFi.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Getting chipped: Why I will live with an NFC chip implant for a year There are days when even your wife thinks you're crazy. In my case one those days was when I told her I decided to implant a near-field communication chip in my hand."You of all people? And that thing will stay in your arm for a year?" she asked incredulously. She had a point, of course, because I'm the one who always says that any possible breach of my own -- and my reader's -- privacy should be contested with all possible measures.While that may be the case, I've been living with an NFC chip in my left hand since Sept. 25. It was implanted between my thumb and index finger, and I can tell you that it hurt quite a bit. But that was mainly because of all the TV camera people trying to film it, which dragged the process out from the normal five seconds to about 30 seconds.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here 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: BMC Software The New IT Explore enhanced productivity for IT staff, and seamless integration across IT operation management systems. Download now. Learn More SLIDESHOWS Ubuntu turns 10: A look back at the desktop Linux standard bearer A brief history of Ubuntu, as alliterative as all-get-out. 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