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Heartbleed has a new wireless-based attack vector, according to security expert’s findings Android phones and wireless routers accessible via Wi-Fi might be at risk from attackers utilising a new form of the Heartbleed bug, it has been revealed. The security world is still feeling the effects of Heartbleed seven weeks after its discovery lead to websites scrambling to protect their data. Security expert Luis Grangeia, a partner and security services manager at SysValue, has apparently found a vector through which the bug can attack wireless devices and Android phones. Dubbed “Cupid”, the new attack…

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ARMONK, NY, May 28, 2014 – IBM  today announced that the cities of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Montpellier, France, are working with IBM to make data-driven decisions to rapidly transform the way they provide water, transportation and emergency management.  These and other cities around the world are increasingly using data to make better decisions and allocate resources to sense and respond to challenges in city infrastructure.  From improving traffic management, responding rapidly to incidents, using effective communication channels with citizens and ensuring sustainable natural resources, data and analytics are providing new…

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SAP has made OpenText Archiving available in the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, which provides online access to most SAP software. Since May 2013, OpenText, an enterprise content management (ECM) software maker, has provided integration with the SAP Business Suite running on the HANA in-memory database. The latest upgrade lets customers accessing Business Suite through the SAP cloud retrieve historical data within the ECM system. In addition, SAP and OpenText announced May 29 that users of the latter company’s software in Enterprise Cloud would have access starting in July to Tempo Box. The…

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The Orchestrated Datacenter enables rapid delivery of IT services across traditional data centers and cloud environments PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced new offerings that accelerate the design and deployment of a customer’s applications, infrastructure and cloud-based services, improving time to value and quality of service delivery, while decreasing costs. The adoption of mobility and cloud computing is accelerating the application life cycle and increasing pressure to take a user-centric approach to design and delivery. The challenge is to increase the speed of application delivery across both traditional data…

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15 Free Podcast Tools For Teachers   Ardour  – Ardour is a free, fully-featured digital audio workstation, similar to other software like ProTools, Nuendo, Sonar and Logic, and capable of replacing analog or digital tape systems. Available for Mac OS X, Linux. Audacity – Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Audacity is available for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. BlogAmp – Blogamp is a web-based audiocasting solution that combines a rich media on-demand experience with podcasting. Blogamp’s robust administration utility and content manager…

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Is Intel ready to be a software company? San Francisco – The chip giant on Tuesday announced it has put together a collaboration software suite that it will offer to small and medium-size businesses via its resellers. Intel held a press conference at the Web 2.0 Summit here to give details of the move, alongside open-source support provider SpikeSource and other companies. Called SuiteTwo, the package will include software from Six Apart, Socialtext, NewsGator and SimpleFeed. These are small software companies that provide applications for blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and social networking. All…

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Moscow, 21 May 2014. – Kaspersky Lab has made a host of unique statistical data available that shows the real-time picture of the cyberworld and its inhabitants. The company’s new portal gathers together statistical information from all over the world on what people are doing on the web, what devices they use and what threats they face. The kaspersky-cyberstat.com site pays particular attention to cyber threats: what malware is currently most active and what harm it can cause to users and their devices. The portal presents ratings of the most widespread…

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Internet Explorer 8 remains the most used browser version in the world, so it should come as a surprise that a vulnerability discovered back in October 2013 has remained unpatched.  The vulnerability was made public earlier this week by Hewlett-Packard’s bug bounty program when Microsoft failed to address the problem. Hewlett-Packard’s Tipping Point Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) is a bounty program that rewards researchers who discover and report vulnerabilities so that they can be fixed by Microsoft.  The ZDI gives Microsoft 180 days to address a vulnerability before they make the…

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Germany, Weiterstadt, 21.05.2014) LSE LinOTP – a vendor-independent product for two-factor authentication and one-time password methods (OTP) – will be made available by LSE, Leading Security Experts GmbH, as an open source solution with all current features included. At the annual AusCERT Information Security Conference in Australia, and in conjunction with a Red Hat tutorial about the internal deployment of LSE LinOTP Enterprise Edition, LSE Leading Security Experts GmbH (LSE), a member of the MAX21 Group (MAX21 Management und Beteiligungen AG), will announce the expansion of its open source strategy.…

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Dimension Data Named Cisco’s First Global Intercloud Partner, Expanding on Successful 23-Year Relationship San Francisco – May 20, 2014 – Today at Cisco Live, Cisco and Dimension Data announced an expansion of their 23-year relationship with plans to accelerate and streamline hybrid cloud adoption globally. Cisco will use Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Platform and SaaS solutions to deliver a suite of mid-market centric cloud services to its customers and resellers. Dimension Data and Cisco will partner to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution that will be packaged with Cisco technology and software-as-a-services (SaaS)…

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