New Java 0-day Exploit Could be "Nightmare for IT"

Seculert, a threat-detection vendor, has published its analysis of a new Java 0-day exploit discovered in the wild.  The company says the very effective vulnerability is expected to cause "a nightmare for IT managers." You can read their report here: blog.seculert.com/2012/08/java-0-day-blackhole-king.html.

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Survey Asks: Whose Head Would Roll?

On Monday on the exhibit show floor at the VMworld conference in San Francisco, Symantec conducted a mini-survey asking over 130 respondents several interesting what-if questions -- who should take the blame if a virtual server failed, an enterprise didn’t comply with PCI, or a virtual backup’s failure resulted in missing merger and acquisition documents?

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SSD Adoption in the Real World

Are SSDs just luxury items for your data center as many claim? Maybe not. Of the 136 VMworld attendees surveyed on Monday, 62 percent said they are using SSDs in their data center now, a third plan to add more in the next six months, and 29 percent expect to add more within a year.

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New Survey Shows Areas with Greatest IT Jobs Per Capita

Beyond.com, a career network that claims to have over 26 million users who collectively apply for jobs 1.5 million times each month, has released a new report on “the pulse of employment in the U.S.”

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Survey Sheds Light on Big Data Challenges, Practices

With data growing every day, how are IT managers coping? A survey conducted by RainStor from mid-July through mid-August acknowledged the importance of big data -- three-quarters (75.7 percent) of the mid- to senior-level managers responsible for big data infrastructure and analytics environments agree that “managing their big data and making it available across the enterprise was important to improve overall business value.”

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Security Executives Admit They’re Poorly Prepared for Targeted Attacks

In its new Cyber-readiness Reality Check report, security specialist CounterTack points out what many organizations fear: they’re ill-prepared to detect and stop advanced, targeted attacks.

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Zscaler Researchers’ Report Reveals Who’s Doing What on the Web

We know the Web can be a dangerous place. A new report from Zscaler’s research group, ThreatLabZ, quantifies that danger.

For example, you’d best surf at your own risk, because one out of five URLs is likely to be malicious. The company analyzed results from Zulu, its free, real-time service introduced this year that evaluates security risk and site-reputation information, rating a URL as benign, suspicious, or malicious depending on an analysis of a page’s content and hosting and DNS information. The researchers found that one fifth of 30,156 URLs evaluated were rated as “highest risk.”

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Mobile Developers Strongly Favor iOS

Apple has taken the lead over Google’s Android in the mobile OS wars, as far as Appcelerator Titanium developers are concerned. In the third quarter of last year, the two operating systems were virtually tied when developers were asked which OS was “best positioned to win in the enterprise long term.” This year, it’s 53.2 percent for iOS and 37.3 percent for Android.

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