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Featured Articles » AT&T, House of Cards and Net Neutrality The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is green lighting AT&T's $49 billion takeover of DirecTV, in exchange for promises to abide by stricter Net neutrality roles and expand broadband fiber to more customers. Is it just me, or does anyone else think that AT&T should hire Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood to be the company's next spokesperson? » Businesses Have to Get Serious About Security It should be a simple prioritization. In light of the increasing number of security breaches across industries, security should find itself at the top of the list of IT priorities today. From Target to Anthem, from AshleyMadison.com to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and countless others, the number of breaches, and consequently, those impacted, continues to rise at an alarming rate. » SpaceX Supply Flight Lost Due to Strut Failure The June 28, 2015 loss of a SpaceX Falcon 9 and its Dragon supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was most likely due to the failure of a strut in the rocket's second stage liquid oxygen tank. Estimates of SpaceX financial losses due to the accident are in the hundreds of millions. » Arbor Networks: Average DDoS Attack Size Increasing Data breaches probably rightfully get the headlines. However, it is hard to argue that in terms of damage to business in-the-moment and potentially longer term, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks remain a major bane of IT departments. And, while DDoS attacks come in many flavors and the motives of those with malicious intent for perpetrating such attacks is varied as well, the basics are the same. » Constant Connectivity: Are You Addicted to Mobile? When's the last time you turned off your cellphone? I mean literally powered down on purpose, not because it died from a low battery. If you're like me, the answer is never. » Hackers Gain Access to 37 Million Records from AshleyMadison.com AshleyMadison.com, the infamous online dating site targeting married adults who are looking to have an affair, found itself this morning the subject of a troubling development, and a threat. Hackers operating under the alias of The Impact Team posted some sensitive personal information that was stolen from Avid Life Media, AshleyMadison's parent company. » Symantec, Frost Data to Fund Cybersecurity Tech Incubator Symantec and Frost Data Capital have teamed up to start a tech incubator that is meant to fuel innovation in cybersecurity, especially when it comes to analytics, big data and the Internet of Things (IoT). » Darkode, the Dark Web Haven, Shut Down by the Feds, Europol A coordinated effort by law enforcement globally has taken down one of the baddest, most notorious hacker forums on the so-called Dark Web: the Darkode forum. Featured Resources » Colocation: The Essential Buyer's Guide » Risk to Consumers, Public Safety and National Security » The New Help Desk: TeamSupport Enables Businesses to Better Understand Their Customers » The Power of One - Vodafone Pulls It All Together to Make M2M Work Advertise With Us General advertising Info: Click here    Become a TechZone360 columnist! Become a TechZone360 columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of communications technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TechZone360 Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask at elinask@tmcnet.com for details. FOLLOW TECHZONE360   FEATURED MAGAZINES FEATURED EVENTS

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