Despite a big push over the past few years to use encryption to combat security breaches, lack of expertise among developers and overly complex libraries have led to widespread implementation failures in business applications. The scale of the problem is significant. Cryptographic issues are the second most common type of …
IBM’s Power Systems division – which sells servers and systems based on the Power system architecture, as opposed to the Intel-based x86 architecture used in most personal computers – had been in free-fall for some time, posting year-on-year revenue declines of up to 37% per quarter over the past couple …
There’s an invasion of mini PCs going on right now, and they don’t get much mini-er than Chromecast-style dongles that slap into any HDMI port. The latest entrant to the computer stick game is the Archos PC Stick, a $99 Windows 10 PC that measures 4.45-inches long—a little shorter than …
Up to a year ago, most phishing emails were all about tricking users into clicking on malicious links that led to malware downloads. Starting last fall, however, the use of attachments increased eight-fold, and that increase has persisted to this day, according to a new report from Proofpoint. Attachments were …
Windows 10 kicked my butt this week. If you’re looking for an exhaustive hands on of Windows 10 Mobile build 10149, this isn’t it. I spent most of Thursday afternoon trying to install it on two phones—managing to put one into an unresponsive state, and breaking Wi-Fi on the other. Instead, …
Google is building a $600 million data center on the grounds of a soon-to-close coal plant in northeastern Alabama. The project may create an iconic image of the shifts in the economy. Near the banks of the Tennessee River will be sprawling a data center facility on property adjacent to …
Back in March, the issue was raised whether disaggregation — decoupling network software from hardware for lower cost, choice and flexibility — could play in the enterprise as well as the service provider realm. The answer, judging by recent events, is that it can. But currently to a lesser extent …
Apple Apple passed HP as the largest tech company (on a trailing 12-month basis) in 2012 and there has been no looking back since. The company now dwarfs all other tech companies and tops the F500 list in two categories: Apple is the most profitable F500 company and it has …
Malware that secretly clicks on ads in order to defraud advertisers might seem generally harmless to infected machines, but can serve as a gateway to more serious infections, according to a report released today by Damballa. Clickfraud malware has been showing up a lot this year, said Stephen Newman, CTO …
Apple Music is an ecosystem of complementary products and services, spanning a la carte music downloads, music streaming, social and artist to fan contact, radio stations including Beats 1 and both algorithmic and human-curated music recommendations. Some tips: The interface The Apple Music interface is pretty simple – as the …
The college graduation season has once again come and gone, meaning right about now many fresh-faced grads are finding their way around their cubes and trying to figure out how to work the office coffee maker. For the benefit of those entering the tech the industry, a number of technology …
Self-driving cars face off when Google’s cuts off Delphi’s With developers of autonomous vehicle technology releasing their projects into the wild, it was perhaps inevitable that two self-driving cars would eventually meet on the road. Google’s certainly seems to be programmed for assertive behavior: According to the director of Delphi …
Picking the right app can have a dramatic effect on your bottom line. When you find an accounting tool like Freshbooks that can track whether a customer has paid an invoice for you, or a social media tool that lets you schedule Facebook posts, you can see the sales start …
Yahoo is updating its search service on mobile devices, taking a leaf out of Google’s book and highlighting content such as images, videos and reviews ahead of regular search results. The changes, announced Thursday, apply to Yahoo search on the mobile web in the U.S., in browsers such as Safari …
Facebook and other tech companies aren’t making much progress in their efforts to increase the percentages of women and minorities they employ, and that’s a matter of concern for civil rights activists. For example, black employees accounted for just 2% of Facebook’s U.S. workforce as of May 31, according to …
Пользователи и администраторы сообществ в социальной сети Facebook получат возможность ставить срок для просмотра загруженных видеороликов. Помимо этого, у людей будет возможность задать условие, по которому видео будет удаляться с аккаунта вместе с публикацией после истечения установленного срока. Информация с этой записи удаляется, в том числе, из журнала действий, статистики и прочих источников. В компании …
Как Вы помните, Microsoft хочет выпустить новый флагман до конца текущего года. Ожидается, что после презентации мобильной платформы Windows 10 Mobile, будет анонсирован смартфон Microsoft Lumia 940 и ее увеличенную версию Lumia 940 XL. Есть шанс, что именно этот аппарат изображен на попавших в Сеть рендерах. Засветившийся смартфон упоминается как Nokia 888, хотя он не имеет никакого …
Ever since the move away from skeuomorphics in version 7, iOS has been in a state of flux — one that many iPhone and iPad users and reviewers noted came at the expense of stability. With iOS 9 due out in public beta next month and to the general public …
Рано или поздно Apple обязана выпустить устройство с использованием сплава, именуемого «жидким металлом». Компания в очередной раз продлила эксклюзивную лицензию на его использование. …
IT pilot fish is asked to take over a small project that hasn’t made any progress in two years in the hands of a guy who just can’t seem to find time for it. “Fred is sort of the office blowhard, and while I do believe he is competent within …
We’ve all done it. Sworn to stay completely uncoupled from the office during a vacation, only to check email and get drawn into a work issue — going from relaxed to tensed up in minutes. While most IT professionals appreciate the need for a healthier work/life balance, many still struggle …
Прошлогодняя кибератака и атака на германский бундестаг в мае нынешнего года могли быть совершены пророссийскими хакерами, сообщает Die Welt. …
Злоумышленники совершили кибератаку на облачный майнинг ScryptCC и похитили крупную сумму биткоинов, сообщил администратор ScryptCC Марсело Сантос (Marcelo Santos). По словам Сантоса, база данных Scrypt.CC была взломана в момент завершения установки обновлений сервера. …
Microsoft не будет устранять уязвимость в Internet Explorer 11, позволяющую хакерам получить доступ к оперативной памяти ПК. В корпорации объяснили это тем, что у 32-разрядной версии браузера, в которой обнаружена брешь, не так много пользователей. Ранее корпорация выплатила награду за обнаружение уязвимости $125 тыс. …
Пусть Microsoft пока и не собирается выпускать фирменные умные часы, ничего не мешает энтузиастам представлять собственные концепты подобных устройств. Одним из них стала работа Арменда Ллеши (Armend Lleshi), которая определенно заслуживает внимания. …
Компания Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), создатель стандарта беспроводной зарядки Qi, сообщила о выпуске его новой версии, которая должна уменьшить время зарядки будущих совместимых устройств. Основным нововведением является способность передавать через индуктивные катушки зарядного устройства до 15 Вт; как утверждают разработчики, это повысит время зарядки. Точное время не уточняется, но сравнение идет с проводной зарядкой, которая способна зарядить аккумулятор …