There’s a warning in the news this week about how much to trust the electronic systems you and people at your company communicate: Not at all. The warning becomes clear by combining two examples. The first is the story of how an NSA snooping tool code-named AURORAGOLD helped to get …
Чаще всего в Украину нелегально ввозятся телефоны luxury-сегмента: iPhone, Lenovo и BlackBerry. …
Smartphones from Apple, Xiaomi and others have been violating Taiwan’s privacy laws by collecting user data and sending it back to company servers, according to a government regulator. Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) revealed the preliminary findings of its investigation during a legislative session on Thursday. The regulator has been …
Буквально сегодня европейская версия Samsung Galaxy S5 (номер модели SM-G900F) получила OTA-обновление до Android 5.0 Lollipop. …
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday introduced a bill that would prevent the government from forcing companies to design backdoors or security vulnerabilities into their products to aid surveillance. The Secure Data Act aims to preempt moves by the government to better eavesdrop over newer communications technologies, and is part …
Sen. Ron Wyden on Thursday introduced a bill that would prevent the government from forcing companies to design backdoors or security vulnerabilities into their products to aid surveillance. The Secure Data Act aims to preempt moves by the government to better eavesdrop over newer communications technologies, and is part of …
Корейский дипломат опроверг информацию, что Северная Корея причастна к хакерской атаке на компьютерные системы Sony Pictures Entertainmen, сообщает The Guardian. …
В начале этой недели ресурс Gamer Headlines сообщил об ошибках в памяти Nintendo Wii U, которые приводили консоль в негодность. Предполагалось, что проблемы могут быть связаны с недавно вышедшей игрой Super Smash Bros. …
Компания Blizzard Entertainment объявила об установке на серверы технической альфа-версии MOBA-игры Heroes of the Storm очередного обновления. Одной из его основных особенностей является улучшение качества моделей героев и их обликов. …
IBM’s X Force security researchers found an easy way to gain access to Web accounts by taking an advantage of an oversight in how some social login services are configured. Those services allow someone to login to a Web service using, for example, their LinkedIn credentials. It’s a convenient way …
Orion, NASA’s next-generation deep space vehicle, is going to eventually fly to Mars – run by a computer that’s no smarter than your smartphone. Orion, whose launch this morning was delayed until at least Friday, doesn’t carry state-of-the-art computers and its processors are 12 years old — making them ancient …
The second of two lengthy outages that hit Visual Studio Online in November was caused by the same kind of issues as the first, Microsoft has just disclosed. Visual Studio Online, which allows developers to plan and track software development projects and share code, was unavailable for just over seven …
North Korea, for the first time, has denied involvement in the recent cyber attack that hit Sony Pictures. The country is a suspect in the attack, partly because of Sony’s upcoming release of “The Interview,” a comedy in which two TV reporters travel to North Korea on a secret mission …
Microsoft took a big loss on its 2012 investment in Barnes & Noble, getting less than half of its original upfront $300 million back when the two firms parted ways today. Its loss, in fact, may have been even larger than at first glance, since Microsoft was obligated to pay …
A major problem with the H-1B debate is the absence of displaced IT workers in news media accounts. Much of the reporting is one-sided — and there’s a reason for this. An IT worker who is fired because he or she has been replaced by a foreign, visa-holding employee of …
Cisco is getting a lift from apparent momentum behind its Nexus 9000 switches and Application Centric Infrastructure fabric. Investment firm UBS boosted its Cisco stock price targets after discussions with EMEA chief Chris Dedicoat yielded numbers UBS found encouraging. Cisco has 900 – 1,000 Nexus 9000 customers and 120 customers …
IBM Watson, apparently not content with its Jeopardy winnings, is looking for work. After a lot of buildup, Watson Analytics, the natural language business intelligence tool based on Big Blue’s famed AI, is now available in beta under a freemium model where it’s free to get started — but the …
In an attempt to get ahead of cybercriminals, 16 banks have donated between $50,000 and $500,000 each to a build a new platform for sharing threat information. That platform is going live today — and it’s not just for banks. The Soltra Edge software is free for anyone to download, …
Apple Apple on Dec. 11 will welcome to its stores around the world those wanting to take part in the Code.org Hour of Code programming initiative. If you’re interested in taking part in an Apple Store workshop, act fast since slots are filling up already. Apple will be hosting engineers …
The U.S. National Security Agency should have an unlimited ability to collect digital information in the name of protecting the country against terrorism and other threats, an influential federal judge said during a debate on privacy. “I think privacy is actually overvalued,” Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court of …
Recent privacy concerns surrounding Uber haven’t soured investors on the ride-sharing startup, which just raised US$1.2 billion from investors in its latest funding round. In 2014, Uber launched operations in 190 cities and 29 countries, and is six times larger than it was a year ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick …
Recent privacy concerns surrounding Uber haven’t soured investors on the ride-sharing startup, which just raised $1.2 billion from investors in its latest funding round. In 2014, Uber launched operations in 190 cities and 29 countries, and is six times larger than it was a year ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick …
The switch/software disaggregation derby has begun. Juniper Networks this week rolled out a switch based on hardware from the Open Compute Project designed to run its Junos network operating system software, and others. Juniper claims the OCX1100 is the first to combine OCP hardware design with an established vendor’s operating …
Microsoft today announced it will release seven security updates on Tuesday, three of them critical, to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, various pieces of the Office suite, and the SharePoint and Exchange server software. The Exchange update was originally intended to ship last month, but Microsoft pulled it at the …
Microsoft’s shareholders on Wednesday approved CEO Satya Nadella’s multimillion-dollar pay package but by a margin much smaller than similar votes in the past. Last month, Institutional Shareholder Services, the institutional investment adviser, urged its clients to vote against Nadella’s compensation, calling a February stock grant given to him a “mega …
CNN used it for polling during the recent gubernatorial debates in Florida and on the “Magic Wall” on election night; Fox News uses it to follow the mood of the U.S. during the president’s State of the Union addresses. Now Microsoft is launching its Bing Pulse real-time polling service as …