Stupid security mistakes: Things you missed while doing the hard stuff

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	Stupid security mistakes: Things you missed while doing the hard stuff If you're worried about high-tech hackers using advanced and sinister techniques to break through your fancy firewalls -- well, that's not outside the realm of possibility. By all means, spend money on firewalls! But you might also want to keep in mind some distinctly low-tech security problems that are not particularly sophisticated -- in fact, some might call them distinctly dumb -- that nevertheless mean bad things for the companies or people who suffer them. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Bringing the CEO Perspective to the CIO Role Mike Skinner balances a unique dual role - CEO of Eurpac Brokerage Operations, and CIO of Eurpac Service, Inc. Hear his compelling presentation of how he adds value for suppliers and customers alike, and how the CIO role has prepared him for the challenges ahead at CIO Perspectives Washington, DC. Click to continue In this Issue Oracle to Spring developers: Convert to Java EE How Charles Dickens helped crack your LinkedIn password Mobile devices bring cloud storage -- and security risks -- to work California's budget crisis sparks controversial BYOD plan to save money Microsoft developing Hyper-V support for OpenStack RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: BYOD & Mobile Device Management Tech Seminar New Seminar - BYOD & Mobile Device Management Tech Seminar Attend and learn how to spot the differences between managed devices and managed environments, and how you can implement a framework to identify the right policies for your organization. BYOD & Mobile Device Management Tech Seminar - 6/28 - Chicago Click to continue Oracle to Spring developers: Convert to Java EE Oracle is promoting conversions from the popular Spring Framework for Java development to Java EE (Enterprise Edition). But the founder of Spring counters that these technologies can work together and cites a financial incentive for Oracle's campaign. Read More How Charles Dickens helped crack your LinkedIn password Kevin Young, a computer security expert who studies passwords, is nearly at a loss for words. Literally. Young and his colleagues are working to decode some 2.6 million scrambled LinkedIn passwords, part of a total of 6.1 million released earlier this week on a Russian password cracking forum. Young studies how people pick passwords and how resistant they are to cracking. Read More Mobile devices bring cloud storage -- and security risks -- to work Dropbox made headlines this week when Gawker.com was the first to report that an unnamed hacker broke into Mitt Romney's hotmail account with the same password used for a Dropbox account also associated with the GOP presidential candidate. That followed on the heels of a decision last month by IBM to rollout a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy that bans the use of Dropbox. Whether its Romney's email and Dropbox account or IBM's 400,000 employees, the risks associated with BYOD and cloud storage services highlight a problem IT shops now face: The potential loss of corporate data to an insecure public cloud Read More California's budget crisis sparks controversial BYOD plan to save money The state of California's staggering budget problems -- now an estimated $16 billion shortfall -- have put Chris Cruz, deputy director and chief information officer at the state's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), in a tough situation. Because of the state's ongoing fiscal crisis, he, like other agency managers, last year was told to cut use of state-issued cellphones by 50 percent as a cost-saving measure. Cruz decided one way to hold down costs at DHCS, which was using BlackBerries, was to have agency employees use their own smartphones instead -- without any subsidy. Read More Microsoft developing Hyper-V support for OpenStack Microsoft is attempting to reintegrate support for Hyper-V back into OpenStack, months after the open source cloud-building project dropped support for the hypervisor in its latest release. Read More
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