Tuesday, July 9, 2013

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 7/10/2013





How secure is SSL?
Organizations have been relying on secure socket layer to protect passwords, credit card details and personal information. But if the U.S. is collecting encrypted information, does it need strengthening?

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Many SSL connections lack added protection?
Perfect forward secrecy is able to protect Web site data even if the secure socket layer encryption is compromised. However,only a small percentage of browsers support PFS, according to security research firm Netcraft

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BlackBerry remedy for BYOD malady
Here’s how the Canadian Diabetes Association managed to replace a wayward bring-your-own-device program with a single-vendor mobile communication system

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PaaS poised for growth: Analysts
Platform-as-a-service has been considered a laggard within the cloud services family, but analyst believe world-wide PaaS revenues will reach $3.5 billion in the next four years

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Canadian researchers closer to next-gen Internet
The test bed for the SAVI application-aware network has been finished a year ahead of schedule, a conference has been told, paving the way for tests of the concept

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Intel still on shaky ground despite mobile headway
Intel needs to corner as much as 10 to 20 per cent of mobile market to sustain growth, according to analysts

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The big data governance challenge
Analytics and search must cross the silos of structured and unstructured data, writes Forbes contributor April Reeve

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Canadian schools miss medals at contest
Teams at international programming challenge finished down in the standings, which were topped by students from universities in Russia, China and Japan

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Android flaw allows hackers to alter apps
The vulnerability affects 99 per cent of Android mobile devices and puts private and enterprise data at risk, according to security firm BlueBox

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Security, Web presence hiring priorities in Canada
Ninety per cent of Canadian firms said they had some form of IT skills gap, according to recent survey by technology association, CompTIA

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Dissecting a championship programming problem
During this week's International Collegiate Programming Contest students are thrown 10 tough questions. To get an idea of what they face a UBC team shows how it solved one from last year

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Apple hires Yves Saint Laurent CEO
CEO of French luxury fashion house to head special projects for Apple

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Alberta students 4th in AI programming contest
Team from the University of Lethbridge places well in international artificial intelligence competition in Russia

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Firefox smart phones: One platform too many?
Mozilla announced on Monday the first two smart phones based on its Firefox operating system. Can it compete against mobile juggernauts Google and Apple?

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Alcatel-Lucent completes G. fast trial
G.fast vectoring technology, delivering speeds faster than 1 Gbps demonstrates potential for copper in next-generation broadband access

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Facebook posts that hurt, boost job prospects
A list of which type Facebook posts, tweets or YouTube video are likely to sink your career aspirations and which ones might just give you that extra advantage over the competition

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2013 IT spending downgraded
Weak device sales and fluctuations in the U.S. dollar are blamed for the decline in global IT expenditure for this year

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Canadian organizations lag in security: Fortinet
Unpatched servers, poor login security procedures and failure to put SCADA devices behind firewalls are some of the major mistakes made here. With a video interview

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8 key SDN considerations
Organizations that experience dramatic workload demand spikes will benefit from software defined networking, but for other firms SDN might not be worth the trouble

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