Hackers hold medical center’s patient data hostage
The Miami Family Medical Centre in Australia found its entire patient database encrypted by Russian hackers looking for a ransom of several thousand dollars, reported Sara Hicks at ABC News. The hackers hijacked the server holding patient health records.
Avoid boring your audience to death
Nobody likes having to endure a bad presentation, but making a good one is much easier said than done. There are five typical mistakes people make in presentations, writes Nancy Duarte at Harvard Business Review, and there are strategies for avoiding them.
The backup challenges of the mid-sized data center
Safeguarding data is a challenge in any data center, but in medium-sized data centers there are often a host of special considerations. They generally have dedicated, largely virtualized servers running mission-critical applications, and at the same time, they get slim resources, making data protection a major struggle, writes George Crump, lead analyst at Storage Switzerland.
Google converts another free service
For some small businesses, it probably seems like a bait and switch: Google said last week that it will stop offering Google Apps for free to groups with fewer than 11 users.
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Has IT done enough to cut costs?
For some time now, the buzz around IT has been that it needs to do more than keep the lights on and help reduce costs; it must also help companies innovate and drive new opportunities for growth. If your organization is doing more of the first set of tasks than the second, it turns out you're in good company.
NoSQL is lurking in the shadows
Integration remains a key reason for IT's being, and the greatest integration challenges these days might be found in NoSQL, writes Bob Lewis at InfoWorld. If IT departments don't get ahead of the business units when it comes to NoSQL, they may find themselves forced to integrate it while simultaneously being blamed for deployment delays.
Hackers hold medical center’s patient data hostage
The Miami Family Medical Centre in Australia found its entire patient database encrypted by Russian hackers looking for a ransom of several thousand dollars, reported Sara Hicks at ABC News. The hackers hijacked the server holding patient health records.
What’s the point of trying to safeguard consumer data?
Companies generally aren't spending enough money to protect customers' personal data, but many are spending a considerable sum nonetheless. Government fines for data privacy violations are laughable, and people largely don't seem to really care about their privacy anymore, so why do companies bother trying to protect personal data at all, asks Constantine von Hoffman at CIO magazine.
Avoid boring your audience to death
Nobody likes having to endure a bad presentation, but making a good one is much easier said than done. There are five typical mistakes people make in presentations, writes Nancy Duarte at Harvard Business Review, and there are strategies for avoiding them.
Gartner analyst: HP SLA slightly better than AWS SLA
In Monday's newsletter, we ran an item that cited Gartner analyst Lydia Leong's recent posting on cloud provider service level agreements. Leong later updated her post after speaking with HP.
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Microsoft and Apple have locked horns over submission and payment guidelines for the App Store pertaining to Microsoft's SkyDrive app for the iOS platform.
International authorities have arrested 10 people accused of operating a network of infected computers in order to steal personal information from millions of victims. As reported by the New York Times , those arrested came from Bosnia, Herzegovina, Britain, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru and the United States.
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