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The Problem I Want IBM’s Watson to Tackle
Image via Wikipedia Channel Insider’s Jennifer Lawinski has put together a great list of applications of a more personal nature for IBM’s Watson supercomputer to tackle. You’ll remember Watson beat out human champs at Jeopardy! recently and IBM has said its baby is well suited to solve problems for legal, medical and a host of…
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RSA Report: Cloud Security, Protection, Remains Hot
For the second year in a row, the security minds at the RSA Conference were fixated on cloud security. Crowds on the expo floor flocked around vendors such as Zscaler presenting their take on what it means to secure the crowd and long lines snaked through Moscone corridors in anticipation of talks such as "Cloud …
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SonicWall Virtual Appliance Provides Secure Remote Access
Intelligent network security and data protection solutions specialist SonicWall announced availability of the Secure Remote Access (SRA) Virtual Appliance and Aventail E-Class SRA Virtual Appliance. The appliances add to the existing SSL VPN small to medium-size business (SMB) and enterprise-class hardware line-up and further expand the company’s virtualized appliance offerings that include management, reporting and…
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Hospital Data Theft Hits 1.7M Patients, Employees
Thieves robbed a van containing health records for more than 1.7 million patients, staff, vendors and contractors of the North Bronx Healthcare Network in New York City. The computer backup tapes were stolen Dec. 23, but the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation began notifying victims Feb. 9, according to a statement issued Feb.…
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Intel vPro Tools Get Better Management, Security
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—When Intel starts shipping its newest "Sandy Bridge" PC processors later this quarter, the chips will come with the latest generation of the company’s vPro on-board management and security capabilities that now will include the ability to lock down lost or stolen PCs via a 3G text message. Intel officials have put on demonstrations…
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Turning USB Sticks into Weapons of Mass Destruction
This story starts at the Washington, D.C., Auto Show, which is held at the end of January each year. While I was at the show, one of the people at the Land Rover display handed me a USB memory stick. I assumed that it contained a brochure or something similar, so I put it into…
