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• BrandPost: The Top 6 Security Tips Employees Need To Know

  11-11-2016 21:48
  
  When it comes to cyber security, especially phishing/spear phishing, what you don't know (and/or ignore) can hurt you and your organization. The total annual cost of phishing for the average-sized organization is estimated to be $3.77 million, most of which is due to the loss of employee productivity. The costs associated with intellectual property theft are considerably higher, $538 billion a year.Nobody Is Immune:Five out of every six large companies (2,500+ employees) were targeted with spear
  
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• Facebook hires new CIO from media giant NBCUniversal

  11-11-2016 17:18
  
  Facebook, which has said that it is not a media company, has hired a CIO from a large media conglomerate. Atish Banerjea, formerly CIO of NBCUniversal has replaced Tim Campos, who earlier this year announced he was moving on from the social media giant to start a new company.Atish Banerjea joined Facebook as its CIOin October.Banerjea updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect that he is now responsible for overseeing Facebook's global IT function. Banerjea wrote that his team is responsible for "b
  
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• 75% off Phaiser BHS-730 Bluetooth Sweatproof Sport Earbuds, Magnetic - Deal Alert

  11-11-2016 15:54
  
  Phaiser's BHS-730 Bluetooth Sport earbuds are both highly rated and dramatically discounted on Amazon. Averaging 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 4,600 people (read reviews), the list price of $160 has been reduced a significant 75% to just $39.99.  The BHS-730 uses the highest quality hardware, as well as Bluetooth 4.1 and A2DP stereo transfer protocols to produce bigger bass, lighter-than-air treble, and perfect phone call clarity every time. Bullet-shaped Comply T-400 M memory foam
  
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• 6 ways to add cybersecurity protections to outsourcing deals

  11-11-2016 15:23
  
  As cybersecurity has become one of the most important strategic imperatives for the enterprise, concerns about how third-party IT services providers are protecting corporate data have grown. As a result, negotiation of cybersecurity and data privacy issues has become one of the most challenging areas in IT outsourcing contract negotiations, says Rebecca Eisner, partner in the Chicago office of law firm Mayer Brown.“Suppliers are understandably concerned about not paying damages that are di
  
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• Breaking down New York’s new cyber regulations

  11-11-2016 13:52
  
  New regsImage by ThinkstockIn late September, the New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a series of new rules strengthening cybersecurity requirements for financial firms in the state of New York. Financial firms are treasure troves of private client data and one of the most sought after targets for attackers. In the face of these new regulations, banks, hedge funds, insurers, and financial institutions must ensure client information, PII, investment
  
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• How Trump defeated Clinton using analytics

  11-11-2016 13:00
  
  What was both fascinating and sad for me watching the election results on Tuesday was how badly the news services predicted the outcome. Virtually every one had predicted a Clinton victory, which likely contributed to her loss, most wanted her to win, and virtually every one was wrong. The analytics run by the Clinton camp largely seemed to drive her to an anti-Trump message and misspend what was a vastly larger budget than Trump had. Meanwhile, Trump used analytics at the end to both better pos
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Platform ecosystems: a new strategy for generating profit

  11-11-2016 12:30
  
  Platforms shift value from products and services to interactions. Ecosystems promote scale through interactions, not volume. Historical growth drivers focused on consumer goods will transition to business models where platform-enabled connected interactions are at the center of the ecosystem. The orchestration of interactions enhances an ecosystem’s value as organizationally siloed processes transform into a shared ecosystem — a community of trust.A new definition for scaleEmerging
  
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• Gartner: CIO’s in EMEA zeer gecommitteerd aan digitalisering

  11-11-2016 12:11
  Ofschoon de IT-budgetten in de EMEA-regio gemiddeld maar met 1,4% stijgen – minder dan in de rest van de wereld – zijn organisaties in Europa en het Midden-Oosten bijzonder gecommitteerd aan digitaliseringsprojecten. Dit zegt Gartner naar aanleiding van publicatie van zijn jaarlijkse CIO Agenda Survey,... lees meer
  
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• The next Visual Studio is all about extensions

  11-11-2016 12:00
  
  Microsoft is making extensibility a key goal for the planned Visual Studio 15 upgrade along with other changes, including performance monitoring for extensions, a company official said on Thursday.
  Extensions are code packages that provide new or improved Visual Studio features. In that vein, Microsoft seeks easier installation of tools and better performance and productivity, said Tim Sneath, principal lead program manager for Visual Studio. Among the improvements is a performance monitoring s
  
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• After a decade, open source Java is still controversial

  11-11-2016 12:00
  
  Ten years later, the open-sourcing of Java remains a point of contention, with many in the community extolling the importance of an open Java, while others remain critical of its handling, including the belief that Sun Microsystems didn’t go far enough.
  Sun Microsystems officially open-sourced Java on Nov. 13, 2006—a move long pined for by the industry at large. Java’s code had already been accessible prior to that date—a strategy that helped boost the platform from its
  
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• Zuckerberg says fake news on Facebook didn’t tilt the elections

  11-11-2016 07:07
  
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as “crazy” the criticism that fake news on its news feed to users had tilted the vote in the U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.“Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way — I think is a pretty crazy idea. Voters make decisions based on their lived experience,” Zuckerberg said in an interview at the Techonomy 2016
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: SUSE: Slow and steady wins the race

  11-11-2016 02:15
  
  SUSE is one of the trinities of the Linux world, the other two being Red Hat and Canonical. SUSE is critical to the Linux world as they are among the top contributors to many open source projects including Linux. As someone who monitors the Linux world very closely, I keep a close eye on SUSE.
  Most of you may not know, but SUSE is the oldest Linux company that’s still going strong. SUSE was founded in 1992; Linux was announced in 1991.
  Being a German company, from the very early days, SUS
  
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• That private network on the Wi-Fi band? Won't happen

  11-11-2016 01:42
  
  Satellite service provider Globalstar has dropped its controversial plan to launch a wireless network in the U.S. in part of an unlicensed band that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth use.The plan had alarmed supporters of those technologies who feared the network would interfere with them and effectively privatize unlicensed spectrum. Globalstar’s TLPS (Terrestrial Low-Power Service) proposal was one of several ideas introduced in recent years to mix licensed and unlicensed uses of spectrum. While some
  
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• Facebook vows again to fight fake news post election

  11-11-2016 01:06
  
  At the end of an ugly presidential campaign the likes of which the U.S. has never seen, Facebook has acknowledged it has a lot more work to do in combating fake news on its platform.
  The social network is a daily stop for tens of millions of voters and played an important role in shaping and reinforcing people's opinions. But sometimes, the information being shared was based on biased or outright fake news reports.
  BuzzFeed unmasked a group of Macedonians who made up fake news st
  
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