Those using Magento’s e-commerce platform should ensure they’re using its latest software, as attackers are increasingly exploiting a flaw patched two months ago, security companies warned. The vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain complete control over a store with administrator access, potentially allowing credit card theft, wrote Netanel Rubin …
While retailers battle breaches that have resulted in tens of millions of credit card numbers stolen, word comes from the RSA Conference in San Francisco that a major vendor of payment terminals has been shipping devices for over two decades with the same default password. The vendor wasn’t named by …
Acer’s new Aspire Switch 10 seems like just another low-cost Windows tablet, but its detachable keyboard dock turns the device into a shape-shifter that can stand in multiple angles. The Switch 10 is first a tablet, and it can become a laptop when attached to a keyboard dock. Acer announced …
Microsoft has reported better-than-expected financial results for the quarter just ended, helped by strong sales of cloud services like Office 365 and Azure. Commercial cloud revenue more than doubled from a year earlier, the company announced Thursday, and online services like Bing and Xbox Live performed well. The results were …
Google’s sales rose 12 percent during the first quarter, the slowest rate of revenue growth since 2013, while the amount it charges for ad clicks continued to drop. Total sales for the period ending March 31 came in at US$17.3 billion, missing consensus expectations of $17.5 billion from analysts polled …
Amazon has finally shared some numbers about its cloud business, and not surprisingly they show that it’s thriving and profitable. Amazon Web Services brought in US$1.566 billion in net sales for Amazon’s first quarter, it said Thursday, up 49 percent from $1.05 billion AWS generated the same time a year …
While retailers battle breaches that have resulted in tens of millions of credit card numbers stolen, word comes from the RSA Conference in San Francisco that a major vendor of payment terminals has been shipping devices for over two decades with the same default password. The vendor wasn’t named by …
Most appealing about Acer’s new Chromebook 15 CB3-531 are its US$199 price and large 15.6-inch screen. But the laptop is bulky and it puts into question whether Chromebooks can be full-blown desktop replacements. Most Chromebooks today come with smaller screens, so the laptop’s large screen was a welcome sight. During …
While retailers battle breaches that have resulted in tens of millions of credit card numbers stolen, word comes from the RSA Conference in San Francisco that a major vendor of payment terminals has been shipping devices for over two decades with the same default password. The vendor wasn’t named by …
The U.S. Department of Defense must rebuild trust with Silicon Valley because it needs new technology partners to fight against cyberattacks, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Thursday. The DOD is looking to build its defensive cybersecurity capabilities with help from technology vendors, but the military also will deploy offensive …
The typical employee at Google is relatively young, according to a lawsuit brought by an older programmer who is alleging age discrimination. Robert Heath, a software engineer, was 60 when he applied in 2011 for a job at a rapidly growing Google. He wasn’t hired despite having “highly-pertinent qualifications and …
The U.S. Department of Defense must rebuild trust with Silicon Valley because it needs new technology partners to fight against cyberattacks, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Thursday. The DOD is looking to build its defensive cybersecurity capabilities with help from technology vendors, but the military also will deploy offensive …
Enterprise software vendors are betting the Apple Watch will find a use in the business world and this week announced apps for the smartwatch, which will become available to consumers on Friday. While many of the initial Apple Watch business apps carry out the same functions of their iPhone counterparts, …
Comcast has abandoned plans to merge with Time Warner Cable, according to a Bloomberg News report on Thursday. The report quoted “people with knowledge of the matter” and said a formal announcement could be made as soon as Friday. The decision, which was not immediately confirmed by the companies, came …
Comcast has abandoned plans to merge with Time Warner Cable, according to a Bloomberg News report on Thursday. The report quoted “people with knowledge of the matter” and said a formal announcement could be made as soon as Friday. The decision, which was not immediately confirmed by the companies, came …
Hackers probably gained access to Sony’s network last year after a series of phishing emails aimed at system engineers, network administrators and others who were asked to verify their Apple IDs, a security expert said today. Last fall, Sony Pictures Entertainment, a U.S. subsidiary of Sony, was infiltrated by attackers, …
A company that tracked retail store customers through their smartphones without notifying them and without giving them a chance to turn off the tracking has settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that it didn’t live up to its privacy promises. Retail tracking firm Nomi Technologies stated in its privacy …
A company that tracked retail store customers through their smartphones without notifying them and without giving them a chance to turn off the tracking has settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that it didn’t live up to its privacy promises. Retail tracking firm Nomi Technologies stated in its privacy …
Potentially making work easier for system administrators, Red Hat has updated its development packages to support running multiple versions of the same programming language on its flagship enterprise operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red Hat has released updates to two of its packages of third-party open source software …
For the second time in two days, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill that would give legal protections to companies that share cyberattack information. The House on Thursday voted 355 to 63 to pass the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act (NCPA), which would protect companies …
Ikea’s recently announced wireless charging line of furniture is expected to jumpstart a trend that will amount to 10 million sticks of high-tech furniture sold in just two years, according to a new report. The report, from IHS Technology, didn’t include the additional potential for “styled” stand-alone transmitters such as …
If there are any overriding trends at work in the enterprise-software market today, consumerization and mobile would have to be among the biggest. Vendors large and small have been racing to add such features to their products, and Thursday brought a fresh example: Salesforce for HR, a new tool that …
Ubuntu 15.04 released Canonical has released the final version of Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet). This release offers systemD, Unity 7.3, Compiz 0.9.12, new default wallpaper, Ubuntu Make, and a few other odds and ends. You can download Ubuntu 15.04 right now. Joey-Elijah Sneddon reports on Ubuntu 15.04’s new features for …
Do you want to measure your stress levels? Acer has announced two wearable bands that will measure that, in addition to heart rates. The Liquid Leap Fit and Liquid Leap Curve have a stress sensor, which can tell users when they should take a break from long hours of continuous …
Winston Churchill once said of Russia, “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Now, I don’t deal with international politics. I just write about technology. But when I’ve looked at HP lately I’ve been left thinking of its strategy as, well, “a riddle, wrapped in a …
In retail — and especially in e-commerce — there’s a nuanced distinction between having a very popular sale and arranging for far too little merchandise. It’s like those hold recordings that say the lengthy hold time is because of high customer call volume, prompting most people to mumble, “That and …