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Yahoo Breach: 7 Lessons | Kindle Fire 2, Google Nexus Smackdown

Yahoo Breach: 7 Lessons | Kindle Fire 2, Google Nexus Smackdown
July 13, 2012
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10 Ways Kindle Fire 2 Must Top Google Nexus
By Jeff Bertolucci
Amazon's upcoming 7-inch Kindle Fire 2 tablet needs these 10 things to take on the Google Nexus and other competitors.

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What should businesses, users, and regulators take away from the Yahoo password breach? Start with encryption for all stored passwords.

Yahoo Password Breach: New Risks
Yahoo confirms 450,000 passwords breached. While leaked data appears partially outdated, hackers likely had access to more user-provided personal details.

More Data Breaches, Fewer Details For Victims
The number of hack attacks that result in breaches has increased, but businesses are releasing less information about what was stolen--or who's at fault.

Why IT Outsourcing Often Fails
IT doesn't compare to a security guard force or a legal staff. It's part of your core intellectual property.

Why These SMBs Say No To SEO
Is search engine optimization a holy grail or fool's gold? These small businesses say it's the latter, and explain why they no longer bother with it.

How 6 Tech Execs Set Social Example
For better or worse, execs prove the power of social leadership. From Benioff to Ballmer, how do tech's bigwigs stack up?

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Research: Innovation Mandate: Take II
Is the U.S. rising or falling as a global IT innovation leader? An update of the exclusive research we conducted two years ago shows that business technology pros think the country is making modest progress in some areas.
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Five Ways to Optimize Offsite Storage and Business Continuity
Storage people are from Mars. Network people are from Venus. Despite interdependencies, each group has its own acronyms, vendors, and metrics - making it difficult to communicate between these two silos. Download this white paper to find out why WAN Optimization is critical to the success of strategic storage initiatives, including replication, remote file access, and more.
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Yahoo Password Breach: New Risks
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General Motors Will Slash Outsourcing In IT Overhaul
GM's new CIO Randy Mott plans to bring nearly all IT work in-house as one piece of a sweeping IT overhaul. It's a high-risk strategy that's similar to what Mott drove at Hewlett-Packard.

Secret Spy Satellite Takes Off: Stunning Images
The National Reconnaissance Office provides satellite imagery for intelligence operations and national defense. Here's a look at the agency's most recent rocket launches.

Yahoo Hack Leaks 453,000 Voice Passwords
Yahoo passwords were stored unencrypted and stolen via a SQL injection attack, attackers claim. Meanwhile, Formspring resets passwords for 28 million users after a password breach.

Google Nexus 7 Tablet: 10 Coolest Features
Google's Android 4.1 slate takes aim at Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire.

 


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11 Super Mobile Medical Apps
 Healthcare is in the middle of a mobile revolution. Doctors are adopting mobile apps that make them more effective, and patients are taking to ones that give them more control over their healthcare. Here are 11 apps that stand out from the crowd.   View Now

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Malware from B to Z: Inside the threat from Blackhole to ZeroAccess
Drive-by downloads on the web are nothing new--these attacks exploit a user's browser to distribute malware and steal data. Join Richard Wang, Director of Threat Research at SophosLabs to learn how hackers are using Blackhole and ZeroAccess together to compromise your security. It happens Thursday, July 26, 2012. More Information & Registration

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