Hacked medical devices can pose direct dangers to patients but also serve as lairs from which malware finds its way into medical facilities’ networks and persists even after initial attacks have been cleaned up, according to a new report. Because these devices haven’t been designed with security as a priority, …
Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy. In response, rather than divulge additional details about the source of power for its massive cloud infrastructure, the …
It would have been easy enough for Dunkin’ Donuts to dismiss the Internet phenomenon “Dressgate” as irrelevant to its brand. What, after all, could an online debate over optical illusions and the color of a dress possibly have to do with pastry and coffee? Turns out, plenty. In a shining …
In the future, smart home appliances could work in harmony to make money, or to provide more computing capacity, for their owners. A computer science researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has devised an architecture, called Aura, that would let people harness all the unused computer cycles generated …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against an Ohio-based self-directed IRA provider accused of ignoring red flags for accounts with investments that turned out to be fraudulent. The SEC Enforcement Division alleges that Equity Trust Company took an active role in marketing investments offered by Ephren Taylor, who …
The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee is taking a strong stance against geo-blocking online content in a report on copyright reform that is largely in sync with the Commission, which is drafting new legislation intended to tackle issues that have arisen in the digital world. Current copyright rules date to …
VMware is hoping to convince CIOs to centralize single sign-on access to all kinds of apps with Identity Manager, which can run in the cloud or on-site and also offers application provisioning and a self-service catalog. For better or worse, the switch to cloud-based services on a larger scale and …
Linux Mint 17.2 release candidate available Development on Linux Mint 17.2 is humming right along, and now you can download the official release candidate. Expect to see a final release of Linux Mint 17.2 sometime in July. Until then you can run the release candidate to get an idea of …
Крупнейший китайская торговая площадка Aliexpress предоставляет возможность приобрести планшет Chuwi Vi7 за $59, но только 18 июня, пишет техноблог IT Новости. На продажу будет выставлено 8000 экземпляров, за которым также буду охотиться и я. Стандартная стоимость планшета Chuwi Vi7 примерно $79, и за эту цену пользователь получит устройство на базе четырехъядерного 64-битного процессора Intel …
Компания Samsung официально представила свой последний планшет, под управлением мобильной операционной системы Android 4.4 KitKat, получивший название Galaxy Tab E. Устройство построено на базе 1.3-Гигагерцового процессора с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами и обладает 9.6-дюймовым дисплеем TFT с разрешением 1280 на 800 точек. Объем оперативной памяти – 1.5 Гб, на встроенном накопителе …
Aiming to better equip enterprises for big data and the Internet of Things, SAP on Tuesday rolled out a host of new features in its Hana platform and predictive-analytics portfolio. The new Hana release, for instance, is designed to help customers connect with IoT at enterprise scale as well as …
During the Black Hat London presentation “Abusing Android Apps and Gaining Remote Code Execution,” NowSecure mobile security researcher Ryan Welton revealed that over 600 million Samsung mobile devices are vulnerable to an attack that is “highly reliable, completely silent, and affects all devices.” If you have a Samsung Galaxy phone, …
Many commercial software companies and enterprise in-house developers are churning out applications that are insecure by design due to the rapid and often uncontrolled use of open-source components. Even worse, these software makers wouldn’t be able to tell which of their applications are affected by a known component flaw even …
Fairphone, the Dutch company that aims to sell socially responsible smartphones, is working on a second model that be repaired with little hassle and won’t easily break. The company is also sticking with its goal of using conflict-free or fair trade minerals. One of the company’s key aims with the …
Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics is joining the rush to offer a hardware development platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). Its Synergy Platform consists of microcontroller units and software that can link them to devices such as smartphones. Enormous growth has been predicted for the IoT industry. Market research company …
In a new security and privacy audit of top consumer-oriented websites, news and Internet of Things websites scored the worst, according to a report released today by the Online Trust Alliance. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
Deploying applications on IaaS clouds such as Amazon can be accomplished much more quickly than buying and configuring physical servers and networking equipment, but it’s still a lot of work. Many products help ease cloud deployment and operations, including platforms as a service such as Bluemix, container systems such as …
A deeper look into the latest version of malware known as Duqu shows it used digital certificates from prominent contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group to help mask its activity. Kaspersky Lab, which published a report on Duqu 2.0 last week, wrote in a blog post Monday that a 64-bit driver …
The FBI is looking into a series of deliberate cuts of fiber optic cables in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the past year, there were 10 instances on four separate nights when telecom cables were intentionally cut in Fremont, Walnut Creek, Alamo, Berkeley and San Jose, the agency said …
Google launched an updated version of its Sheets Web app for spreadsheet editing on Monday, adding new capabilities that the company hopes will lure people away from Microsoft Excel. The updates include a feature that lets users preview the results of formulas as they type, so they can troubleshoot problems …
Not long ago, the prospect of outsourcing mission-critical applications to a cloud service provider made IT managers cringe. Despite promises of agility, scalability, and the elimination of infrastructure management headaches, there were serious concerns about security and regulatory compliance. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, …
Of all of the digitization projects in the industry, the most significant might be the one being tackled by the U.S. Postal Service. As an entity, the USPS is getting hit from all sides, with new technologies and competitors impinging on all the things we used to rely on the …
Google last week retreated after Chrome users revolted against a change in the browser, saying that it’s given up on a radical redesign of the bookmarks manager. Retreated, yes, but Google has not surrendered. “Our team is committed to improving Chrome’s bookmarks experience, but for the time being, we’ve decided …
Second-level IT support tech on this pilot fish’s team needs to have a failed video card replaced, so he does the logical thing: He calls the IT service desk. “He asks them to open a problem ticket and call the vendor,” says fish. “Service desk guy tells him he can …
Крупнейший сервис видеохостиг YoutTube запустит игровое направление – YouTube Gaming, пишет техноблог IT Новости. С помощью этого нового сервиса Youtube планирует заработать на популярности игровых видео. Основной функцией станет трансляция онлайн-потоков игрового процесса. «Лайв-стримы объединяют игровое сообщество, так что мы поставим их в центр платформы YouTube Gaming», — сообщил менеджер платформы по играм Алан …
Прошло всего 10 дней с момента, как интернет-версия сервис видеоконференций Skype стала доступна для пользователей из Англии и США, как разработчики решили открыть доступ для всех стран мира. Среди языков поддерживающих интерфейсом, присутствует украинский и русский. Стоит напомнить, что это пока лишь общедоступная бета-версия веб-приложения сервиса для видео-общения, но здесь уже можно совершать звонки …