Symantec names Michael Brown as new CEO
Computer security company Symantec is making its interim CEO its permanent CEO. read more
Computer security company Symantec is making its interim CEO its permanent CEO. read more
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is concerned about moves by Apple and Google to include encryption on smartphones, the agency's director said Thursday. read more
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is concerned about moves by Apple and Google to include encryption on smartphones, the agency’s director said Thursday. Quick law enforcement access to the contents of smartphones could save lives in some kidnapping and terrorism cases, FBI Director James Comey said in a briefing …
The amount of personal information held by firms like Google and Facebook has made them ripe targets for data-hungry governments and intelligence agencies. But the bull's-eye on Yahoo's back may be losing its appeal. read more
It's just days until the start of Oracle's OpenWorld conference, an already massive affair that will be even bigger this year given the company's recent acquisitions and forays into new product areas. read more
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is taking its first major step toward opening up the skies for commercial drone use, allowing six TV and movie production companies to use drones to shoot video. read more
Google might release Android L on November 1. Plus: How to switch from iOS to Android, and the iPhone 6 Plus repair kit for bending problems. read more
Inevitably, CompTIA A+ Certification, the vendor-neutral certification for entry-level computer technicians, has always provided a rear-view-mirror image of computer and network technology. It takes time to determine which operating systems, products, and procedures are necessary for technicians to learn and master, and which ones are doomed to become Jeopardy questions …
While administrators scramble to fix the newly discovered Shellshock vulnerability, Harvard University researchers are putting the finishing touches on a scripting language built to mitigate the damage caused by such holes. read more
Apple, responding to Bendgate, Bendghazi, or whatever you wish to call the issue of seemingly-bendable iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models, claims the problem isn’t nearly as widespread as the Internet hullabaloo would suggest. Apple told the Wall Street Journal a mere nine people have come in with bending complaints since …
iPhone owners are angry. Really really angry. “In my 25 years of using Apple products I have never experienced such a complete lack of attention to detail from them,” said someone identified only as Dillinger in one of several hundred messages on an Apple support discussion thread. Dillinger and the …
Working for a startup may have lost its appeal to IT professionals who, after weathering the recent recession, are more interested in positions at mid-sized companies that offer a startup’s innovative environment and a large company’s stability. According to a survey from IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology, 16% of …
Working for a startup may have lost its appeal to IT professionals who, after weathering the recent recession, are more interested in positions at medium-sized companies that offer a startup's innovative environment and a large company's stability. read more
Apple’s consumption of mobile DRAM will grow from 16.5% of the industry’s total production volume today to 25% in 2015 as the company outfits more smartphones, tablets and even laptops with DRAM, according to a new report. Since 2011, Apple has been the biggest consumer of NAND flash, according to …
Shellshock is a Bash bug that threatens Linux users. Plus: GNOME 3.14 has been released, and Autumn is a relaxing game for Linux. read more
Samsung keeps raising the bar on storage capacity in its solid-state drives with a 3.2TB SSD, which is now in production. The SM1715 drive is Samsung’s highest-capacity SSD to date, and is built for reliability and durability, Samsung said in a statement. Samsung didn’t provide either a price or shipment …
Samsung keeps raising the bar on storage capacity in its solid-state drives with a 3.2TB SSD, which is now in production. read more
As “dark fiber” is to the telecommunications industry so, also, is “dark data” to many businesses and organizations. These vast pools of untapped, largely unprotected data simply sit there, doing not much of anything for the bottom line. Isaac Sacolik’s Dark Data: A Business Definition describes it as “data that …
Image by Thinkstock Whether we talk about football, car racing or sailing, advances in the capture, storage and analysis of data are affecting just about every aspect of sports. Data allows athletes to train better and more effectively and it allows teams to alter their in-game decision-making based on what …
A little more than a year ago, Conservation International (CI) was wrestling with a mammoth big data problem. The nonprofit environmental organization’s mission is to protect nature and its biodiversity, but monitoring and analyzing the health of species — particularly in the tropical forests that half of all plants and animals …
Within the federal government, the shift toward virtualization and cloud computing is already well underway, but agency and industry officials warn that those migrations invite new security considerations, particularly in the form of insider threats. Eric Chiu, president of the cloud and virtualization security firm HyTrust, notes the familiar list …
Amazon Web Services will be updating a substantial number of its cloud servers, and customers are recommended to re-launch their instances in the coming days, according to AWS consultants. Amazon has not said why the reboot is happening, but AWS watchers believe it is to patch a security issue. The …
“Image by Shutterstock This month the FBI pronounced its powerful new crime fighting weapon — the Next Generation Identification — is at full operational capability. NGI replaced the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), the Bureau’s longstanding repository for fingerprints. But that’s not all it does. NGI uses a variety …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based software company for having inadequate internal accounting controls over its financial reporting, which resulted in misstated revenues in public filings. An SEC investigation found that JDA Software Group Inc. failed to properly recognize and report revenue from certain software license …
Tim Cook must be furious. You can imagine the tension among those who’ve been called into his office in the last 24-hours. Apple’s leader is no less demanding and passionate than his predecessor — he’s just more likely to reward those who work as hard as he does. And when …
Facebook knows that many of its users are concerned with how their content is shared and has taken steps to simplify the process by which users can manage and control who they’re sharing with. Earlier this month, Facebook released a new privacy checkup tool that popped up when users visited …