a:12:{s:2:"id";s:1:"1";s:12:"cms_headline";s:74:"WordPress releases critical security fixes: News tech leaders need to know";s:12:"release_date";s:19:"2014-09-10 13:00:00";s:11:"description";s:5114:"<p>The <em>Financial Post </em>rounds up recent news that technology leaders need to know:</p>

<p><strong>IBM Verse fuses social, cloud, analytics, to revolutionize e-mail</strong></p>

<p>IBM has announced a social-oriented mail product that acts like a personal assistant. <a href="http://www.ibm.com/verse">IBM Verse</a> uses built-in analytics to provide an &lsquo;at-a-glance&rsquo; view that intelligently surfaces an individual&rsquo;s most critical actions for the day. By learning unique employee preferences and priorities over time, it provides instant context about a given project as well as the people and teams collaborating on it.</p>

<p>Delivered on the SoftLayer Cloud with enterprise-grade security, IBM Verse gives enterprise customers, small businesses and individuals a scalable, cloud-based social collaboration environment optimized for mobile and Web environments. A beta release of the new offering will be available to select clients and partners in November 2014. A freemium version delivered via the IBM Cloud Marketplace will be available in the first quarter of 2015. IBM Verse will also be offered as an app for both iOS and Android to ensure mobile users have the same experiences on the go as they do on their PCs.</p>

<p><strong>Critical WordPress security fixes released</strong></p>

<p>Companies whose blogs rely on WordPress should upgrade immediately if they&rsquo;re running version 3.9.2 or earlier. A critical cross-site scripting vulnerability could allow anonymous users to compromise the site.</p>

<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/">Version 4.0.1</a> addresses eight security issues that could result in tricking users to change passwords, denial of service attacks, compromised user accounts, and more. It also fixes 23 bugs in version 4.0, and adds other security improvements.</p>

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<p><strong>Privacy advocates release tool to detect spyware</strong></p>

<p>Amnesty International, German digital rights group Digitale Gesellschaft, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy International have partnered to release a tool called <a href="https://resistsurveillance.org/">Detekt</a> that scans computers for traces of known surveillance spyware used by governments to target and monitor human rights defenders and journalists around the world.</p>

<p>It was developed by security researchers and has been used to assist in Citizen Lab&rsquo;s investigations into government use of spyware against human rights defenders, journalists and activists as well as by security trainers to educate on the nature of targeted surveillance. The tool is free and open source software and is provided as is, without warranties or guarantees of any kind, according to the disclaimer on the site.</p>

<p><strong>Symantec and HP sign Disaster Recovery as-a-Service agreement for HP Helion OpenStack</strong></p>

<p>HP Enterprise Services and Symantec have agreed to co-develop a Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offering based on HP&rsquo;s Helion OpenStack. Symantec will provide the DRaaS software solution, and HP the end-to-end service based on the underlying disaster recovery facilities, infrastructure, and operations team. The service will run in an HP Helion OpenStack-based cloud environment and will support replication, recovery and automated failover/failback of client IT in any environment: traditional IT on-premises, managed cloud, private cloud or public cloud.</p>

<p>The service is expected to launch in late 2015, and will be sold as a monthly subscription.</p>

<p><strong>Microsoft announces unified Windows store, corporate portals</strong></p>

<p>As an <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/business/2014/11/20/windows-10-a-store-thats-ready-for-business/">incentive to enterprises</a> that want to filter the apps employees are able to install on their Windows devices, Microsoft has announced that in Windows 10, IT administrators will be able to access a new web-based Store portal specifically for organizations by signing in with an Azure Active Directory identity, and acquire apps in bulk. Apps acquired through that portal can then be assigned to people in the organization, who need only to click on a link to install the apps, providing organizations with a controlled and customizable experience specifically for their members.</p>

<p>It also announced that, with Windows 10, it is releasing a single Windows Store for all devices, creating a unified experience for Windows tablets, phones, and PCs, and allowing developers to offer universal apps.</p>";s:10:"link_title";s:74:"WordPress releases critical security fixes: News tech leaders need to know";s:4:"link";s:135:"http://business.financialpost.com/2014/11/24/wordpress-releases-critical-security-fixes-news-tech-leaders-need-to-know/?__lsa=3b45-b705";s:10:"cms_active";s:1:"1";s:11:"cms_deleted";s:1:"0";s:9:"cms_draft";s:1:"0";s:11:"cms_created";s:19:"2014-09-10 10:45:49";s:12:"cms_modified";s:19:"2014-11-24 15:16:13";s:20:"cms_modified_by_user";s:1:"5";}