Samsung devices vulnerable to serious attack; Are Mac users better people?; Dell warned against Windows RT; Google hires Ray Kurzweil

The Editor's Daily Picks TechRepublic Member | December 17, 2012

Samsung: Exynos 5 processors are vulnerable to serious attack Gina Smith reports on the recent vulnerability of Exynos 5 processors, found in Samsung smartphones. Read more Resource of the day Arbor Networks and Gartner Group Joint White Paper on DDoS Protection Learn about about the problem of distributed denial of service - how it works, the underground economy that fuels it, the risks and costs of being attacked and finally, how best to combat the problem. Learn more now. More from TechRepublic   Email: Middle aged and still going strong Inventor of the web rounds out LCA schedule 10 skills for developers to focus on in 2013 Wireshark makes locating bandwidth issues easy News from ZDNet   Google hires Kurzweil: A look at the returns Mac OS is better and Mac users are better people Sprint buys Clearwire for $2.2 billion Apple's China launch may allay worries for now The 'Great Firewall of China' reinforced, prevents encryption Desktone's Peter McKay on Desktop as a Service The hidden danger to companies with BYOD Foxconn delays Indonesia investment SaaS integration costly and challenging Mozilla: Almost one in 10 Firefox users opt for Do Not Track Australian govt appoints new CIO, creates CTO role in AGIMO shake-up Cisco plans to sell router division: report Apple job posting hints that future iMac versions could use AMD Radeon graphics HTC ditches large-screen Windows Phone plans: report Windows Phone 7.8 update spotted on Lumias in the wild News from CNET   Microsoft was urged by Dell not to call its tablet OS Windows RT U.N. summit's meltdown ignites new Internet Cold War Apple in 2013: Five predictions The future of Apple NASA takes on 'Gangnam Style' and wins Facebook cozies up with Walmart for mobile-ad blitz ESPN to embed sports instant-replay videos in tweets Today's recommended downloads Strategy Guide to Business Protection (Hewlett-Packard (HP)® & Intel® Xeon® Processors) Virtualization and business continuity (Hewlett-Packard (HP)® & Intel® Xeon® Processors) Privileged User Activity Auditing: The Missing Link for Enterprise Compliance and Security (Centrify) The Five Key Attributes Backup Software Needs to Possess to Automate and Simplify VM Data Protection (Quest Software, now a part of Dell) IBM's Migration Factory (IBM)   About this newsletter The Editor's Daily Picks newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the products, people, and ideas that are revolutionizing the planet. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief For real-time updates on the latest tech stories, follow my Twitter feed (@jasonhiner) or my Google+ feed (+Jason Hiner). Connect with TechRepublic The Web of Things: A web-connected world of smart devices Ryan Boudreaux illustrates what is meant by the Web of Things with real-world implementations and an example of where the future of WoT is taking us. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Big Data Analytics Tablets in the Enterprise Five Apps Software Engineer Smartphones

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