Microsoft will sharpen Bing’s security when it starts encrypting all of its search traffic by default this summer. Bing has offered HTTPS encryption for the past year and a half as an opt in feature, but now Microsoft will default to locking down everybody’s search queries. Providing encryption gives a …
Egle Sigler started at Rackspace as a junior programmer and later moved to a DevOps architect position before advancing to her current role: principal architect of private cloud solutions at Rackspace. Along the way, Sigler was asked about leading a team of developers, but it didn’t seem like the right …
The EU Council has issued a long-awaited, hotly debated plan for online privacy, moving the EU’s reform of data-protection laws closer to reality. The Council says that the plan will give people more control over their personal data, but privacy groups say the proposal actually weakens privacy safeguards. Data protection …
Недавно мы писали о том, что спустя год после анонса платформы Apple HomeKit для неё наконец-то представили первые устройства. Компании, сделавшие это, для многих совершено не знакомы. …
After 15 months of heavy development work, the MATE community recently announced the release of MATE 1.10. I run MATE on my Arch Linux box along with Plasma 5 and Gnome (why use one DE when you can use all, especially when you are running Arch?). Arch and Mate make …
After seven months of silence, a robot riding a comet hurtling through space has woken up and phoned home. The European Space Agency announced Sunday that Rosetta’s lander Philae, which landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last November, is operating and sending data back to Earth. ESA The European Space Agency’s Philae …
Smiling sun, flames, guitar, penguin… that is just one combination of emojis that a person might use to log into their bank account instead of using a PIN number. UK technology firm Intelligent Environments announced the launch of “the world’s first emoji-only passcode,” because emojis are “mathematically more secure” than …
Несмотря на то, что iOS 9 была анонсирована неделю назад, новые подробности о ней продолжают появляться в сети. …
The EU Council has issued a long-awaited, hotly debated plan for online privacy, moving the EU’s reform of data-protection laws closer to reality. The Council says that the plan will give people more control over their personal data, but privacy groups say the proposal actually weakens privacy safeguards. Data protection …
Everyone talks about the importance of big data. But many organizations, although they collect and store customer data, do not put that data to good use – or they don’t know how to. “For example, by correlating data between digital and non-digital advertisements (e.g., purchasing history, profile information, behavior of …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a Washington D.C.-based investment advisory firm’s former president accused of stealing client funds. The firm and its chief compliance officer separately agreed to settle charges that they were responsible for compliance failures and other violations. SFX Financial Advisory Management Enterprises …
When retail research house IHL published its report in June on retail inventory losses — which is simply a combination of overstocks and out-of-stocks — it estimated an industrywide loss of $1.1 trillion. The problem is that IHL is not limiting itself to traditional metrics. For example, IHL President Greg …
Windows Phone users waiting for the next preview build of Windows 10 don’t have to wait much longer. Starting Tuesday, members of the Windows Insider Program can upgrade their phones to Windows 10 Mobile build 10036, though doing so will take some work. That’s because the new build includes a …
Since we last looked at single sign-on products in 2012, the field has gotten more crowded and more capable. A number of new vendors have come to ply their wares, and a number of old vendors have been acquired or altered their products. To read this article in full or …
Полиция безопасности Латвии заявила, что ее сотрудникам удалось пресечь попытку распространения в стране программного обеспечения, которое могло быть использовано для несанкционированного получения информации о пользователях этих программ, пишет Delfi со ссылкой на агентство LETA. …
RSA recently published their inaugural and aptly named Cybersecurity Poverty Index. This study is based on self-assessments by organizations who compared their current security implementations against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. According to the report, almost 66 percent rated themselves as inadequate in every category. With all of the recent breaches …
Single mindedness Since we last looked at single sign-on products in 2012, the field has gotten more crowded and more capable. For this round of evaluations, we looked at seven SSO services: Centrify’s Identity Service, Microsoft’s Azure AD Premium, Okta’s Identity and Mobility Management, OneLogin, Ping Identity’s Ping One, Secure …
Официальный репозиторий проекта CyanogenMod пополнился сборками на основе CM 12.1 для устройств линейки Android One. Это позволит поклонникам самой популярной в мире сторонней прошивки без опаски покупать такие смартфоны, а уже состоявшимся владельцам гаджетов попробовать что-то серьезное кроме базовой Android 5.1. …
IBM is putting considerable resources behind Apache Software Foundation’s Spark to ready the platform for machine learning duties such as pattern recognition and object classification. The company plans to offer Spark as a service, and has devoted 3,500 researchers and developers to help in its upkeep and further development. It …
Операционная система Windows 10 получит новый механизм, который позволит разработчикам приложений интегрировать в них установленный на компьютере антивирус. Цель Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) – дать приложениям возможность передавать контент локально на установленный антивирус для его проверки. Интерфейс уже включен в предварительные сборки системы, однако в полной мере будет представлен в …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a Swiss trader has agreed to pay more than $2.8 million to settle charges that he traded on nonpublic information ahead of a Florida-based biometrics company’s acquisition by Apple Inc. A SEC investigation found that Helmut Anscheringer purchased stock and call options …
Facebook has rolled out a new API (application programming interface) that has crippled most of the connections Microsoft built into its mobile and desktop apps to link with Facebook calendars, contacts and photos. The change to the Graph API — triggered by Facebook’s desire to give users more control over …
Companies that have deployed Big Data solutions are most likely to be using them for log management, according to a study released last week by the SANS Institute. This security use case was followed closely by data archiving, operational data storage, advanced analytics, data discovery, and search. According to the …
Сайт стартапа по вызову такси онлайн Uber, который оценивается в $41 млрд, был взломан через веб-форму обратной связи, взятую из урока по html, сообщает сайт businessinsider.com. …
A consumer rights group wants the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to address growing online privacy concerns by requiring websites to honor do-no-track requests. Consumer Watchdog filed a formal petition on Monday calling for new FCC rules forcing companies like Google, Facebook, Pandora and Netflix to respect do-not-track requests from a …
Одним из самых обсуждаемых элементов игры Fallout 4 является качество графики. Многие геймеры, включая представителей BioWare, выражают неодобрение дизайнерскими решениями студии Bethesda Games Studios. …