10 creepy mobile apps that make spying easier

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	10 creepy mobile apps that make spying easier This week, the U.S. Justice Department indicted the CEO of StealthGenie on charges that the company's apps violate federal laws against invading others' privacy, an arrest the government has called the first of its kind. However, StealthGenie is hardly the only company that has developed tools that turn communications devices into tools for spying, stalking, and digging up information on other people. Here are 10 of the creepiest mobile apps, some of which are still available for download, but might not be for long if the prosecution against StealthGenie is successful.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Coresite 4 Advantages of Multi-Tenant Data Centers Increasing demands on IT are forcing organizations to rethink their data center options. For many organizations, that means turning to the flexibility afforded them by outsourced cloud solutions, which can provide exponential cost savings. Learn More >> In this Issue DARPA technology uncovers counterfeit microchips McAfee's most dangerous cyber celebrities of 2014 Why did Ellison apologize? He's not sorry IT pros should pay attention to 'shadow IT,' Interop NY keynoters urge 4 Cool Free Tech Tools & Services Announced This Week Will Windows 10 address the operating system's biggest weakness? Xen Project discloses serious vulnerability that impacts virtualized servers How to get Windows 10's best new features today FCC takes steps to make room for 'white spaces,' wireless microphones ARM builds an OS for the Internet of Things WHITE PAPER: IBM Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology IBM is a leader in Gartner Inc's Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology. Gartner reports that data masking should be mandatory for enterprises using copies of sensitive production data for application development, analytics or training. Read the full report to learn about IBM. Learn more! DARPA technology uncovers counterfeit microchips Any counterfeit high-tech goods are a serious safety threat to people and cybersecurity as well as a problem for system reliability and performance. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said this week one of its contractors, working on one of the agency's anti-counterfeit projects has developed and deployed what it calls an Advanced Scanning Optical Microscope that can scan integrated circuits by using an extremely narrow infrared laser beam, to probe microelectronic circuits at nanometer levels, revealing information about chip construction as well as the function of circuits at the transistor level.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   McAfee's most dangerous cyber celebrities of 2014 McAfee has revealed its 2014 list of the Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrities – those whose names are most likely to lead you into online trouble if you search on them. You're safe cruising through this slideshow though…To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Why did Ellison apologize? He's not sorry Oracle boss Larry Ellison issued a classic non-apology apology yesterday at his company's OpenWorld conference. Here's what he said."A year ago, I was a no-show at this conference on Tuesday. So I'd like to take an opportunity to apologize to everybody, but we were desperately trying to come back from an 8-to-1 deficit in the America's Cup and every day was sudden death but somehow we made it. So, again, apologies."Apologies for what?It would seem that he is apologizing merely for his inability to be in two places at the same time.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   IT pros should pay attention to 'shadow IT,' Interop NY keynoters urge Interop New York speakers opened the conference with a provocative message: Instead of ignoring "shadow IT" in their organizations, IT pros should try to understand what they are failing to deliver that workers wind up taking care of themselves."Shadow IT is an opportunity to become closer to our business and to build a culture of collaboration," said Steve Comstock, who was recently appointed CIO for CBS Interactive, the online content division for the CBS television network. Shadow IT, also often called bring-your-own-IT or BYOD, is the practice of employees procuring their own IT resources, without going through the appropriate organizational channels.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   4 Cool Free Tech Tools & Services Announced This Week I'm a sucker for "free" in headlines, and of course that's what the vendors that this week have rolled out freebies are counting on (as am I, in getting you to read this of course).Not that I'm going to jump on all these offers myself, but I figured I'd at least pass them along to all of you for consideration.As always, getting something for nothing is rare, and in the tech world, it usually means you're going to get nudged to upgrade at some point if you want the really good stuff...1. Google's new Drive for Education is an extension to its free Apps for Education offering, which includes collaborative email, calendaring and document services. What Drive brings is unlimited storage, including for files up to 5TB in size, to the 30 million students and educators that Google claims to have on Apps for Education.  To boot, compliance and auditing tools are included. Of course, what Google gives it can also take away, as the ever-growing Google Graveyard shows.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Will Windows 10 address the operating system's biggest weakness? The real question on my mind is whether Windows 10 will finally address a problem that has plagued pretty much every Windows OS since at least 95: the decay of the system over time. As you add and remove apps, as Windows writes more and more temporary and junk files, over time, a system just slows down. Read More   Xen Project discloses serious vulnerability that impacts virtualized servers The Xen Project has revealed the details of a serious vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor that could put the security of many virtualized servers at risk.Xen is a free, open-source hypervisor used to create and run virtual machines. It is widely used by cloud computing providers and virtual private server hosting companies.The security vulnerability, which is being tracked as CVE-2014-7188 and was privately disclosed to major cloud providers in advance, forced at least Amazon Web Services and Rackspace to reboot some of their customers' virtualized servers over the past week.The issue allows a virtual machine created using Xen's hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM) to read data stored by other HVM guests that share the same physical hardware. This breaks an important security barrier in multi-tenant virtual environments.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   How to get Windows 10's best new features today Windows 9? Fuhgeddaboutit. Microsoft skipped that digit and jumped straight to Windows 10 for the next-gen version of its operating system. Revealed at a preview event on September 30, Windows 10 aims to atone for the sins of Windows 8 by wooing PC power users with a mix of compromise and outright bribery.  Further reading: Hands-on with Microsoft's new Windows 10: UI changes that look great at first blushTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   FCC takes steps to make room for 'white spaces,' wireless microphones The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is taking steps to ensure that both current and emerging wireless devices don't get left out when it reorganizes the frequency bands now used for television.On Tuesday, the agency proposed actions on wireless microphones and on new devices and services that use the so-called "white spaces" between TV channels. Both types of devices use TV bands and will be left with less spectrum following the FCC's upcoming incentive auction intended to shift some TV spectrum to mobile services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   ARM builds an OS for the Internet of Things Chip design company ARM is stepping outside its area of expertise to release a new operating system that could play a big role in building out the Internet of Things.Called mbed OS, the operating system aims to provide a common software layer for securing and connecting the mass of devices expected to be hooked up to networks in the coming years, ranging from streetlights and gas meters to home appliances and pacemakers.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 12 most powerful Internet of Things companies Along with the OS, ARM plans to sell a piece of back-end software, called the mbed Device Server, that companies will use to collect data from IoT devices and make the data available for use by other services, such as analytics programs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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• Interoute Consolidates Its Way Into the Rest of the UK
• UPN Unveils Major Iowa Fiber Expansion
• GTT Makes Another Move, Acquires UNSi
• Wednesday Roundup: Ciena, Windstream, Alcatel-Lucent, GENBAND

Interoute Consolidates Its Way Into the Rest of the UK Posted: 01 Oct 2014 11:38 AM PDT The process of European fiber consolidation took another step forward today with the announcement that Interoute has acquire Vtesse Group. The moves will give Interoute a substantially expanded presence in the UK both for connectivity and cloud services, whereas until now its pan-European network has been largely limited to London. … [visit site to read more]

UPN Unveils Major Iowa Fiber Expansion Posted: 01 Oct 2014 07:32 AM PDT Unite Private Networks has big fiber plans for Iowa, according to an announcement today. The expansion will add some 700 route miles to the company's footprint, complementing their deep presence in neighboring Nebraska.  … [visit site to read more]

GTT Makes Another Move, Acquires UNSi Posted: 01 Oct 2014 06:31 AM PDT GTT has made another inorganic move with the acquisition of UNSi. It's a $40M deal that will add $55M in annualized revenues, boosting GTT's turnover to somewhere near $250M and taking them into some new lines of business. … [visit site to read more]

Wednesday Roundup: Ciena, Windstream, Alcatel-Lucent, GENBAND Posted: 01 Oct 2014 05:38 AM PDT Here's a quick roundup of other news at the midpoint of the week: … [visit site to read more]

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	America's richest techies Forbes' annual list of the 400 Wealthiest Americans is out and techies make a strong showing yet again. 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 Windows 10 revealed: Microsoft's next OS fuses Windows 7 and 8 Microsoft skips a number, says 'Windows 10' will be a big break from the past 3 … 2 … 1 … That's all for Lotus 1-2-3 iOS 8 bug deletes iWork docs Q&A: Meet Microsoft's new Azure CTO, Mark Russinovich Icahn says PayPal spin-off is almost a 'no brainer' 'Free' Wi-Fi for first born? … Well, about that IDG Contributor Network: How a TV network is being used to move financial transactions Likes of Apple Pay may make smaller banks more vulnerable WHITE PAPER: Symantec Archiving benefits more than just email Many organizations assume archiving is mostly related to email and compliance; however, archiving is associated with a wide range of business improvements. This ESG paper covers the real reasons companies archive, as well as the business value that can be achieved through archiving. Learn moire Windows 10 revealed: Microsoft's next OS fuses Windows 7 and 8 At a press event on Tuesday, Microsoft launched the next version of Windows: Not Windows One, not Windows 9, but Windows 10, which combines the reborn Start menu with Windows 8's colorful live tiles and adjusts its behavior depending on how you're using your device.Windows 10 will officially launch in the middle of next year, but you'll have a chance to try it out before that via a new Windows Insider program, launching Wednesday. The platform's most vocal fans will have a chance to download the technical preview before it launches next year.  Mark Hachman Microsoft's Joe Belfiore showing off Windows 10's reborn, revamped Start Menu.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Microsoft skips a number, says 'Windows 10' will be a big break from the past The company showed an early build of its new OS in San Francisco Tuesday Read More   3 … 2 … 1 … That's all for Lotus 1-2-3 Dan Bricklin's VisiCalc was first and Microsoft Excel would come to dominate, but in between it was Lotus 1-2-3 that ruled the spreadsheet world and helped push the IBM PC deep into the modern workplace. Today Lotus 1-2-3 breathed its last, at least symbolically, as we have reached IBM's previously announced date for discontinuing support for this iconic software that Big Blue stopped selling last year after a three-decade run (that included acquiring Lotus in 1995).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   iOS 8 bug deletes iWork docs Owners of iPhones and iPads running iOS 8 have reported a new bug in the software that deletes iWork documents from iCloud Drive when they've reset their devices.In a support discussion thread that started last Thursday, customers have said that a reset expunged documents from iCloud Drive, the new-to-iOS 8 online storage and sync folder."After performing a 'Reset All Settings' on my iPad in iOS 8 I found that all documents have been deleted," said srbuk on Sept. 25 before warning, in all caps, in red letters no less, "DO NOT 'RESET ALL SETTINGS' IF YOU HAVE DOCUMENTS ON ICLOUD DRIVE."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Q&A: Meet Microsoft's new Azure CTO, Mark Russinovich Russinovich is helping shift Microsoft to a services orientation Read More   Icahn says PayPal spin-off is almost a 'no brainer' Activist investor says PayPal needs to acquire competitors or be acquired Read More   'Free' Wi-Fi for first born? … Well, about that The press is having a field day with a report that a half-dozen Londoners unwittingly agreed to give up their first-born child in exchange for otherwise free Wi-Fi access.The Washington Post reports: In an experiment sponsored by security firm F-Secure, an open Wi-Fi network was set up in a busy public area. When people connected, they were presented with lengthy terms and conditions.But to see just how little attention we pay when checking that agreement box, F-Secure included a "Herod clause" -- one that offered up free Wi-Fi in exchange for the company's permanent ownership of the user's firstborn child.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   IDG Contributor Network: How a TV network is being used to move financial transactions Bitcoin eliminates banks from the transactional loop and passes the savings on to the end-user. What if you could cut out the Internet too? One organization is trying with an OTA, or Over-The-Air, digital TV network. Read More   Likes of Apple Pay may make smaller banks more vulnerable Atlanta -- Many banks with less than $50 billion in assets have a problem that payment systems like Apple Pay will make even more attractive to exploit, a team of security researchers says. By altering electronic-transfer files before they are uploaded to the national transaction clearinghouse, criminals can redirect funds to accounts they control and make off with millions of dollars at a clip, according to researchers at TrustCC, a consultancy specializing in financial institution IT security. They presented their findings at (ISC)² Security Congress 2014. + Also on Network World: Home Depot, Target breaches exploited Windows XP flaw |Bot-herders can launch DDoS attacks from dryers, refrigerators, other Internet of Things devices +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
	SLIDESHOWS First Look: BlackBerry Passport The Passport is uniquely focused on being a device for work first and personal stuff second - take a look at how it's turned out. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn Join the IDG Contributor Network The IDG Contributor Network is a collection of blogs written by leading IT practitioners about the technology, business opportunities and challenges you face everyday. We invite you to participate by applying to be a contributor today. MOST-READ STORIES of 2014 1. IT skills that are in demand, and those that will be 2. Sorriest technology companies of 2014 3. Cisco pumping $1 billion more into Intercloud 4. 9 things to look for in Windows 9 5. 12 tips to tune your Wi-Fi network 6. iOS 8 tips and tricks you need to know 7. Marines put Microsoft Kinect to work, but not for gaming 8. Exclusive: Inside the NSA's private cloud 9. Rackspace rebooting its cloud servers too 10. iPhone 6: The phone for people who can't do math
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• Colo Bytes: VIRTUS, QTS, CenturyLink, Digital Realty
• Windstream Takes Its 100G On the Road
• Zayo Wins at Six Degrees, Finishes Off Fiscal 2014

Colo Bytes: VIRTUS, QTS, CenturyLink, Digital Realty Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:08 AM PDT Here's the rundown on some data center news spanning three continents this Tuesday morning. … [visit site to read more]

Windstream Takes Its 100G On the Road Posted: 30 Sep 2014 05:46 AM PDT Continuing with the 100G rollout it started earlier this year, Windstream has moved onto phase 2. The capacity expansion will cover another 4,100 route miles by the end of the year, leveraging Infinera's DTN-X. … [visit site to read more]

Zayo Wins at Six Degrees, Finishes Off Fiscal 2014 Posted: 30 Sep 2014 05:12 AM PDT The UK's Six Degrees Group is expanding its fiber footprint in London, tapping Zayo's footprint to add diversity. By the end of 2014, 6DG will have a new ring in the city built of Zayo's dark fiber assets. Zayo's London depth comes in part from the former AboveNet assets and in part from its more recent acqusition of Geo Networks this year.  … [visit site to read more]

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