The White House has ordered federal agencies to take immediate steps to make some basic cybersecurity fixes. The move follows a massive breach of government employee records. Agencies were told to scan systems and check logs for indicators of threats, patch critical vulnerabilities “without delay,” as well as tighten policies …
Facebook has taken a step away from its main site to develop what it thinks is a better way to share photos privately. Moments, released Monday for iOS and Android, is a standalone app that will organize the photos on people’s smartphones, and let users share them privately with a …
Twitter представила возможность импортировать и экспортировать списки заблокированных пользователей. Это позволит клиентам социальной сети делится информацией о людях, занимаются онлайн-преследованием, рекламой или другой неблагонадёжной деятельностью. …
Apple not only needs the Mac, but to propose otherwise is simply foolish, analysts contended today when reacting to a Wall Street Journal story that said the Cupertino, Calif. company couldn’t afford to spend time and money on personal computers. “That piece couldn’t be more off base,” said Patrick Moorhead, …
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 new …
Dell has added Pluribus Networks to its lineup of disaggregation partners. Dell will now offer Pluribus’ Open Netvisor Linux operating system on its S6000-ON and S-4048-ON 10G/40G switches. This is an addition to the Cumulus Networks, Big Switch Networks, Midokura and VMware packages Dell already supports on those switches. Dell’s …
Не так давно компания Oppo представила прошивку ColorOS 2.1.0i, основанную на Android 5.0 Lollipop. …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …