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You're not the only one feeling merry and bright this holiday season - so are the criminals! This time of year provides them with plenty of opportunities for Scrooge-worthy scams. Here's how to ensure all they'll get is coal in their stocking Happy hacker days Yes, ‘tis the season to be jolly, but it is also the season to be careful. In today’s world of e-commerce, social media and ubiquitous mobile devices, the holidays have also come to be known as “hacker season,” in large measure because so much business is being done, and the busier people get, the more careless they get. You don’t have to be a victim, however. Brian Shipman, CIO of Heritage Auctions; Scott M. Angelo, CIO at K&L Gates, LLP; and Dave Frymier, CISO at Unisys, offer some friendly reminders to help organizations protect their networks and help their employees protect both themselves and the organization. Don’t let your gift give away the company jewels Resist the temptation to use th...

An in-depth conversation with Bill Hilf, Senior Vice President of Product and Service Management for HP Cloud, about where Helion fits in, cloud consumption models and coming change. Bill Hilf, Senior Vice President of Product and Service Management for HP Cloud, brings an interesting perspective to his job given his former role as General Manager of Product Management for Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix and Senior Editor Brandon Butler got Hilf on the line for his big picture view of the importance of OpenStack, why HP recently acquired Eucalyptus, the impetus to compete on price, and the various cloud delivery options customers are pursuing. How do you position Helion and where does it fit into the market? Helion is our brand name for our cloud product portfolio which allows customers to deploy in any cloud context, be it a private cloud or a public or a hosted cloud environment. The applications and data and virtual ...

Google Glass, the tech giant's connected eye-worn computing device, has generated plenty of buzz and controversy in consumer markets, where people seem just as excited about its apps as they are concerned about its potential threat to privacy. Although many questions remain to be answered for consumer wearable technology in general, Google Glass is already making inroads to several enterprise markets, while inviting competitors looking to capitalize on the businesses that could put it to use. Here are 10 signs that Google Glass is already making an impact on the enterprise. It's already being used in healthcare Hands-free access to information while multi-tasking makes Glass a perfect fit for healthcare, where the risk of contamination or clerical errors could spell disaster. That's why the healthcare industry has already started to integrate Glass into its operations. Physicians in one Boston hospital are using the devices during routine checkups and examina...

Market leader AWS is attempting to widen its lead. Amazon Web Services has launched a new general purpose Elastic Block Store that runs fully on solid state drives (SSD), which the leading IaaS cloud vendor says will provide dramatically better performance for users compared to previous-generation spinning disk persistent storage. Practical advice for you to take full advantage of the benefits of APM and keep your IT environment In addition to announcing all SSD General Purpose EBS Volumes today, AWS reduced prices for its EBS services by 35%, which represent the 43rd price drop the company has announced since 2006. Read about the news from AWS here. The new General Purpose SSD-backed EBS volumes come with a 99.999% availability guarantee and are meant to be used for any range of block storage use cases in AWS. Block storage is persistent storage that can be attached to compute instances, in this case AWS’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and they’re used commonly to ho...

The company plans to release firmware updates to remove the undocumented feature by the end of the month Cisco Systems promised to issue firmware updates removing a backdoor from a wireless access point and two of its routers later this month. The undocumented feature could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to gain administrative access to the devices. The vulnerability was discovered over the Christmas holiday on a Linksys WAG200G router by a security researcher named Eloi Vanderbeken. He found that the device had a service listening on port 32764 TCP, and that connecting to it allowed a remote user to send unauthenticated commands to the device and reset the administrative password. It was later reported by other users that the same backdoor was present in multiple devices from Cisco, Netgear, Belkin and other manufacturers. On many devices this undocumented interface can only be accessed from the local or wireless network, but on some devices it is also access...