'Treasure Trove' of Personal Information Has High AppealThe massive cyber-attacks targeting health insurers Premera Blue Cross and Anthem Inc. make it clear that hackers increasingly view large healthcare organizations, especially payers, as attractive targets.

Congratulations: You’ve decided your data is sensitive enough (or you’re paranoid enough) to store it on a secure USB drive. Basically encrypted storage on a stick, these portable flash drives come with FIPS 140-2 level three validation, meaning the cryptographic module will be rendered inoperable if tampering is detected. It costs quite a bit to acquire validation, which is part of the reason for premium pricing of these drives.

With every iPhone, iPad and iPod comes a set of densely worded documents informing you that by using these gadgets you're giving up a ton of highly sensitive information. It's perfectly legal for Apple to gobble up all this personal data because you've basically said it's allowed to do so. Worse, you might not even realize that you have. That's because most of us read the terms and conditions like this:

Intellasia East Asia News FireMon, the industry leader in proactive security intelligence solutions, today announced that its award-winning Ignite Partner Program has fueled another record-setting year, delivering a 55 percent increase in total sales and triple-digit expansion across international markets. This performance was highlighted by key milestones that helped drive overall growth and expand the company’s support of its [...]

Microservice architectures and container-based virtualization have taken the software development community by storm in recent months. This article will describe the advantages of container-based microservices and why failing to containerize stateful services like databases greatly reduces the benefits of microservices architectures. By Luke Marsden