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The time to act against China's IP theft is now
China is the biggest offender in stealing U.S. intellectual property, which costs U.S. firms hundreds of billions of dollars each year, according to a recent report by the Commission on Theft of American Intellectual Property. Many of the commission's recommendations are well thought out and should be implemented as soon as possible.
Orange enters North American, Asian IaaS markets
France Telecom's Orange Business Services is expanding its Flexible Computing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product for enterprises to North America and Asia, the firm announced this week.
NIST analyzes industry comments on Obama's cybersecurity order
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an initial analysis of private sector comments on President Obama's cybersecurity executive order issued in February.
Adobe forces customers of future versions of Photoshop, Illustrator to adopt subscription model
Adobe's decision to only offer future Creative Suite products, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, through an ongoing subscription to its Creative Cloud software-as-a-service product has customers rebelling.
Cisco posts strong financials, beating Wall Street estimates
Cisco, the networking and IT giant, posted a healthy 14.5 percent increase in net income for the first quarter of 2013. Cisco CEO John Chambers said Cisco is "starting to see some good signs in the U.S. and other parts of the world which are encouraging."
Attackers could gain control of infected systems through Microsoft Office, Lync holes
There is a risk that attackers could execute commands remotely on infected systems through vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and the Microsoft Lync unified communications platform, Microsoft warned last week in its Patch Tuesday advanced notification bulletin.
End of the password is nigh, predicts PayPal CISO
LAS VEGAS–The end of the password is nigh, predicted Michael Barrett, chief information security officer (CISO) at PayPal and president of the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, during his Thursday keynote speech at the Interop conference.
Twitter lawyer considered as White House privacy adviser
Twitter's legal director, Nicole Wong, is being considered by the White House as a senior privacy adviser to chief technology officer Todd Park, the New York Times reported.
Intel's McAfee ponies up $389M in cash for next-generation firewall firm
Intel's McAfee has agreed to acquire Stonesoft, a Finnish network firewall firm, for $389 million in cash, the security firm announced Monday.
Increasing cloud acceptance in Europe spurs Amazon to build German cloud center
In response to growing acceptance of cloud computing among European firms, Amazon is building a new development center for cloud technologies in Germany and hiring 70 engineers to work at the center, according to a report by the New York Times .
