UPDATE (10/22/14): EMC confirmed on Wednesday that its VCE converged infrastructure joint venture with Cisco and VMware is heading into a new phase, with EMC taking control of the business and Cisco drastically cutting its stake in it. “Expected to be finalized this quarter, VCE will become an EMC business. …
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Microsoft has published a temporary fix for a new zero-day flaw that affects nearly all versions of Windows and is currently being exploited via PowerPoint. The flaw affects all Windows releases except Windows Server 2003, the company wrote in an advisory Tuesday. It can be exploited if a user is …
A malicious Android app that takes over the screen of devices and extorts money from users with fake notifications from law enforcement agencies was recently updated with a component that allows it to spread via text message spam. Known as Koler, the ransomware Trojan has been on malware researchers’ radar …
A type of distributed denial-of-service attack, DNS amplification, has risen sharply, according to new research from Symantec. The security vendor said it saw a 183 percent increase in DNS (Domain Name System) amplification attacks, which abuse recursive DNS resolvers, from January through August. Recursive DNS resolvers look up a domain …
The Internet of Things is raising a host of concerns over the control of data that could lead to government regulation, but tech companies can rein in those worries on their own if they act fast, according to a former White House technology official. The kinds of information that connected …
Известно, что корпорация Google использует двухступенчатый процесс аутентификации личности пользователя: для входа в аккаунт, помимо ввода пароля, необходимо ввести еще один код подтверждения, который приходит в сообщении на ваш мобильный. Если вы до сих пор не уверены в безопасности собственных данных, то для авторизации вы сможете воспользоваться USB-ключом, который требуется вставить в USB-разъем ПК …
In the second post of this series, we looked at basic definitions of insider threat incidents and their impact on organizations. Now, let’s have a closer look at how malicious insider threat actions affect companies in the United States, and how companies can respond to these threats. From the most …
Although degrees and IT certifications can be great eye candy for a resume, experience is king. As you may have encountered, a lack of experience can be a major roadblock to getting interest from employers in your early years. Project 6: Play with network emulators or simulators To read this …
Certain folks in China may be used to hearing someone breathing when they pick up their phones (party line?), but new reports suggest Apple’s iCloud service is susceptible to the same level of protection by Chinese authorities. It’s all true, according to China’s censorship watchdog group GreatFire. Apple meanwhile, has …
At this financial institution, it’s OK for IT to spend money — as long as it’s somebody else’s money, says a pilot fish on the inside. Case in point: “Several years ago, the IT bigwigs contracted with a company to dispose of old computers and electronic office equipment,” fish says. …
Have you ever felt as if you were being punished for someone else’s mistake? Maybe your project sponsors “remembered” some requirements at the last minute and insisted that the schedule couldn’t change. So you had to stay late or work all weekend. You suffered. The consequences to them? Nil. Maybe …
Любителям Angry Birds, владельцы iPhone уже во всю играют в новый “раннер” от Rovio – Angry Birds Transformers, а владельцы Android-устройств смогут установить ее только начиная с 30 октября. Завязка простая: на Землю попала искра-яйцо – мощнейший артефакт, за которым на других планетах охотились птицы и свиньи; во время сражения артефакт выбросил …
Can we put a stop to the ridiculous narrative that Apple has an iPad problem? At best it is just foolishness, at worst it’s mendacious FUD. PC replacement goes in waves Oh I’m not saying demand hasn’t slowed down a little — the iPad was a huge deal across the …
A court filing in May 2013 has attracted more class-action lawsuits, alleging secret no-poaching deals among tech companies to keep salaries low. Oracle, Microsoft and Ask.com are facing suits alleging that they conspired to restrict hiring of staff. The suits appear to refer to a memo which names a large …
Apple has warned users about attacks on its iCloud website, after monitoring groups alleged that China had tried to intercept customer information from the service. Although China was not named, Apple said Tuesday it was “aware of intermittent organized network attacks” on its iCloud service that were designed to obtain …
Yahoo reported a 1 percent sales increase on Tuesday, a marked shift after multiple quarters of decline, though results in its critical ad business were mixed. The company also said its mobile revenue had become significant enough to report for the first time, passing $200 million. That was a minor …
Microsoft today issued the first update for Windows 10 Technical Preview, inaugurating its fast-cadence release practice. The update, designated as Build 9860, followed the Oct. 1 release of the preview, which Microsoft has offered businesses and technology enthusiasts to give potential customers a look at the work in progress and …
Samsung Electronics is now mass producing its most advanced 8Gbit, DDR4 memory and 32GB registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMM). The DDR4 memory is built on a new 20-nanometer (nm) process technology and marketed for use in enterprise servers. “By expanding the production of our 20nm DRAM line-ups, we …
At its most recent Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event in June, Apple took the lid off something it had been silently cooking for years: Swift, a new programming language in the C family designed to combine the robustness of the Objective-C that iOS and OS X developers were used to …
Google is letting users protect their accounts against password compromises by adding support for two-factor authentication based on physical USB keys. The new feature expands the company’s 2-Step Verification mechanism that is already available for Google accounts, and requires users to input one-time-use codes received via text message or generated …
You might think that next-generation broadband speeds and DSL go together like Amsterdam and New Hampshire, and you’d be right, but perhaps not in the way you think. News out of the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam this week is that the University of New Hampshire InterOperablity Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has …
Companies looking on open source Hadoop development before they deploy the data processing system are like characters from Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, says analyst Gartner. The indecision of the tragic characters in the play is now being played out by those companies not moving to try out Hadoop …
Many workers use their personally owned smartphones and other computers for job tasks, but a new survey shows a big percentage are doing so without their employer’s knowledge. Market research firm Gartner surveyed 4,300 U.S. consumers in June who work at large companies (with more than 1,000 employees) and found …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s new chief technologist is high-profile digital privacy consultant Ashkan Soltani, a move that signals the agency’s growing interest in policing online tracking and other Internet privacy issues. FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez announced Tuesday she has appointed Soltani, a security researcher who shared the 2014 Pulitzer …
Complaints that Mac OS X Yosemite disrupts or entirely disables Wi-Fi have been flowing into social media sites and discussion forums since the release of the OS last Thursday, but Apple has yet to acknowledge there’s a problem. There are multiple active threads on the topic in the official Apple …