10 signs it may be time to quit your IT job

	Huge customer effort keeps flooded NYC data center running | Security research labels more than 290,000 Google Play Android apps as 'high-risk'
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	10 signs it may be time to quit your IT job Most experienced IT professionals can relate to having worked too long in at least one job over the course of his career. It's amazing how sometimes a great job can seemingly change overnight into a caustic situation. Other times, the epiphany is more of a slow burn that builds up over time. Moving on can be necessary at times for professional development, financial or even health reasons. So how can you tell whether that feeling is all in your head or whether it really is time to look for greener pastures? Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Corporation Provide Auditable Proof of Software Compliance Choosing the software asset management (SAM) solution that's right for your organization can reduce unnecessary software spending, prepare you for an audit and rightsize existing licenses. This guide highlights the benefits of SAM and provides a review of solution features from leading vendors. Learn More. In this Issue Huge customer effort keeps flooded NYC data center running Security research labels more than 290,000 Google Play Android apps as 'high-risk' Many Apache Web servers put popular websites at risk Apple offers up to $1 per device for Motorola Mobility patents RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial Huge customer effort keeps flooded NYC data center running When seawater flooded streets in lower Manhattan Monday night, it filled the bottom floors of the basement of an office building at 75 Broad St. and its lobby up to four feet. This was not a good development for the data center operated by Peer1 Hosting. Peer1's data center had smoothly switched over to generator power, but when Con Edison cut electric power to lower Manhattan, the rooftop generator couldn't access the 20,000 gallon fuel tank in the flooded basement. So how do you get hundreds of gallons of fuel up 17 stories to power a rooftop generator? Your customers carry it. Read More Security research labels more than 290,000 Google Play Android apps as 'high-risk' One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users, according to new research. Security vendor Bit9 categorized these Android apps as "questionable" or "suspicious" because they could gain access to personal information to collect GPS data, phone calls, or phone numbers and much more after the user granted "permission" to the app Read More Many Apache Web servers put popular websites at risk Many Apache Web servers, including those hosting some popular websites, expose information about the internal structure of the sites they host, the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of their visitors, the resources users access, and other potentially sensitive details because their status pages are left unprotected. The Apache mod_status module generates a "server status" page that contains information about the server's CPU and memory load, as well as details about active user requests, including paths to various internal files and IP addresses. Read More Apple offers up to $1 per device for Motorola Mobility patents Apple has offered to pay Google's Motorola Mobility unit up to one dollar per device for a license to its patents covering cellular and Wi-Fi technologies.Apple's offer, disclosed in a filing to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin in Madison, comes five days before a trial is due to begin that centers on the issue of patent licensing. Read More
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