FOR THE CTO, CIO & CISO
PLAN OF ACTION: Angles of Exposure and Countermeasures. The increasing sophistication of outside cyber attacks has been met with advancements in outside cyber threat detection, response tools, and training methods. Still, managers must not underestimate the critical threat posed by individuals within the organization, as opposed to a third party attacker. Read more
[GOVERNMENTCIOMAGAZINE.COM]
SLIDESHOW: How to Use Big Data for a Good Cause. News of fraud and data breaches can shake confidence and cause legitimate concerns, but not all data stories have a foreboding end. Experian DataLabs wants to call attention to the good that data can do. Read more
[CIOINSIGHT.COM]
SECURITY LEADERSHIP: Five Tips To Comply With The New PCI Requirements. Merchants that accept payment cards have five new security requirements to comply with — and significant fines and other costs if they don’t. The new rules are part of the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Here is some advice from Trustwave Holdings, a PCI compliance consulting firm.Read more
[CSOONLINE.COM]
JAVASCRIPT
INSIDER REVIEW: 10 JavaScript Editors Compared. JavaScript programmers have many good tools to choose from — almost too many to keep track of. In this roundup, I discuss 10 text editors with good support for developing with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS, and for documenting with Markdown. Why use an editor for JavaScript programming instead of an IDE? In a word: speed. Read more
[INFOWORLD.COM]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: JavaScript Is 20 Years Old. Who could have predicted that a strange little scripting language designed to let beginners add some action to web pages would become the language that threatens to dominate the world. Read more
[I-PROGRAMMER.COM]
SURPRISING RESULTS: Think Google Can’t Handle JavaScript? Think Again. As early as 2008, Google was successfully crawling JavaScript, but probably in a limited fashion. Today, it’s clear that Google has not only evolved what types of JavaScript they crawl and index, but they’ve made significant strides in rendering complete web pages (especially in the last 12-18 months). Read more
[SEARCHENGINELAND.COM]
PERSONAL TECH
MEET LILY: The $499 ‘Selfie Drone’ That’s Your Personal Videographer. Yes, in 2015 we have drones to take selfies for us, because maintaining the perfect duckface while tapping a touchscreen button are sorely testing humanity’s multi-tasking capabilities. Read more
[THEGUARDIAN.COM]
TECH REVIEW: BitTorrent’s Bleep Is a Messaging App Built for Secrecy. Yes, you read that right, BitTorrent-the same company behind everybody’s favorite music, movie and TV show, uh, sharing technology. It’s in the middle of refashioning itself into an upstanding consumer tech company. Read more
[BLOGS.WSJ.COM]
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