Hacktivism up, insider threats down

	Clojure inventor Hickey now aims for Android | Everyone needs to cool down about the new iPad's heat
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	Verizon security report: Hacktivism up, insider threats down Over 855 data breaches resulting in the compromise of more than 174 million records around the world provided rich source material for the 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, a highly respected analysis that includes data from the U.S. Secret Service, four other investigative agencies, and the telecom giant's own vast trove of information. The biggest change, unsurprisingly, was the 58 percent rise in stolen records attributed to hacktivism. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try it free today. In this Issue Clojure inventor Hickey now aims for Android Everyone needs to cool down about the new iPad's heat Survey: 'Ice Cream Sandwich' can't stop Android fragmentation 7 simple steps for thwarting hactivists Google's BigQuery brings big data to the cloud WHITE PAPER: AppAssure Software Backup for Virtual and Physical Servers Best Practices Read this popular whitepaper by Don Jones, a world renown author, speaker and Microsoft MVP about the Top 10 Best Practices of backing up Microsoft Windows Server on Virtual and Physical Servers. Learn more Clojure inventor Hickey now aims for Android Clojure, pronounced "closure," is a functional programming language that's geared toward the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) but also accommodates Microsoft's Common Language Runtime and JavaScript environments. Rich Hickey, founder of data management technology vendor Datomic, is the author of Clojure. After speaking at the Clojure/West conference in San Jose, Calif., last Friday, Hickey talked with InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill about Clojure, including mobile application development ambitions, and about Datomic. Read More Everyone needs to cool down about the new iPad's heat For several days, reports have been running rampant in the blogosphere about allegedly overheating third-gen iPads, released this past Friday. In typical fashion for all things Apple, passions run high, with people claiming several sorts of fears over the hotter iPads. Let's be very clear: The new iPads are not overheating, though they seem to run hotter when used for processor-intensive tasks for an extended period -- just like a laptop or desktop computer does. Read More Survey: 'Ice Cream Sandwich' can't stop Android fragmentation Despite Google's release of the Android 4.0 OS last year, which was supposed to provide a unified platform for both tablets and smartphones, developers are still throwing their hands up dealing with fragmentation in the Android realm, survey results released this week reveal. Read More 7 simple steps for thwarting hactivists More data was stolen from corporate networks last year by hactivists than by cyber criminals, according to a new report from Verizon. Here are seven tips that Verizon says will help CIOs avoid hactivist-style attacks as well as thwart cyber criminals. Read More Google's BigQuery brings big data to the cloud While most of the talk around big data assumes such systems will be deployed in-house, Google is building a service that will allow for analyzing large amounts of data in the cloud. Read More
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