Adobe Systems released critical security updates Tuesday for Flash Player to address 18 vulnerabilities, many of which can be remotely exploited to compromise underlying systems. Fifteen of the patched vulnerabilities can result in arbitrary code execution, one can be exploited to disclose session tokens and two allow attackers to escalate …
Snapchat will ask users to stop using unauthorized apps after the compromise of an app that offered to save snaps led to questions about the security of the photo and video messaging application itself. The company, whose claim to fame is that it deletes content from its own servers and …
Bring your own device (BYOD) has become an accepted practice in business. Gartner predicts that by 2017, half of all employers will require workers to supply their own devices for work. Yet there are mixed reports about whether BYOD actually saves businesses money. In 2012, the Aberdeen Group found that …
Microsoft has fixed a record number of bugs this month. Redmond recommends you patch without delay. Among the critical flaws is MS14-066, which affects every single supported version of Windows (and several older ones). In IT Blogwatch, bloggers melt their WSUS boxen. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your …
Help desk pilot fish gets a call from a remote office: Users are having problems getting access to the local server. “I tried to remote into the server, but could not establish a connection,” says fish. “I pinged the server and it responded. I went to a secondary remote connection …
Корпорация Microsoft приняла решение переименовать свою платформу для сетевого общения Lync в Skype for Business. Помимо этого упоминается дата планируемого появления будущих версий. В первой половине будущего года компания выпустит клиентское приложение Skype for Business и онлайн-сервис Skype for Business, который войдет в состав Office 365. Затем во втором полугодии запланирован …
Black Friday 2014 ads from big retailers Best Buy and Target have leaked (well, the retailers have pretty much revealed them), and it looks like you can save on Apple products including iPads and the iPhone 6. Best Buy will offer its deals online on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, …
Retired Air Force Major Brian Shul isn’t an IT expert, but his story of survival and recovery captivated the IT audience at a national management conference. A fighter pilot during Vietnam, Shul flew 212 combat missions. His AT-28 aircraft was shot down near the Cambodian border as the war was …
By 2030, when the U.S. government or a company wants a new satellite in orbit, a robotic spider might build it in space. Six- or eight-legged robotic spiders, capable of working with a 3D printer, gripping large objects and welding them together, are expected to build satellites or small spacecraft …
Small businesses in selected neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri now have the opportunity to get in on Google’s fiber Internet service, the company announced today. The Google Fiber program had previously been limited to residential customers, and its expansion into the business market signifies the partial …
The Gnome Foundation is claiming Groupon has infringed on its trademark and is seeking financial and community support to finance its fight. The open source organization’s Gnome project, which is behind the Gnome desktop for GNU/Linux and BSD, has been active for 17 years and owns a registered trademark on …
Legislation in the U.S. Congress that would allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sales will not pass before the end of the year because of opposition from Speaker of the House John Boehner. Boehner’s opposition to the Main Street Fairness Act means the bill, which would allow states …
Today, GitHub Enterprise gets what the company is unofficially calling a “Version 2.0” release, with major new features that make the on-premises code repository more enterprise-friendly. That includes support for deploying GitHub Enterprise in the Amazon Web Services public cloud, high availability and disaster recovery options, better support for LDAP …
Intel today announced upgrades to its Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Series of products that now offer up to 1.6TB of capacity, double what the previous generation had. Intel also announced it has boosted the capacity of its M.2 form factor flash expansion card so that it can be used as …
Microsoft released patches for 14 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system, Office and Internet Explorer software on Tuesday, including four it deemed critical, it’s highest severity rating. All four of the critical bugs could allow attackers to remotely execute programs on a targeted system, something that in the past has …
More than three years after acquiring Skype, Microsoft today said it would rebrand its semi-rival Lync corporate communications platform as “Skype for Business.” The name change will become official in the first half of 2015, when Microsoft releases the next versions of Lync’s clients and on-premises server software as Skype …
Seagate Technology is boosting investments in laser-assisted hard disk drive technology that it projects will allow it to increase capacity five-fold. The laser technology, known as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), is able to write smaller, more-stable bits onto the magnetic surface of a spinning disk. Today, Seagate’s largest capacity drive …
A multi-year study of cyberattacks against 10 activist and human rights groups shows they’re hit with the same types of intrusions as large organizations but have far fewer resources to defend themselves. That disadvantage could mean a gradual erosion of the “core institutions” that mark a “vibrant democratic society,” wrote …
Yahoo is acquiring the video advertising platform BrightRoll for $640 million, in a move that could help to offset declines in its traditional display ad business. The deal was announced Tuesday and is one of Yahoo’s largest acquisitions since it bought Tumblr last year for just over $1 billion. Yahoo …
Almost everyone’s pouring time and money into smartphones these days. Social networking giants mine them for ad revenue, retail stores use them to reach customers, and credit-card companies want to turn them into wallets. And then there’s the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The 15 million-member church has …
Yahoo is acquiring the video advertising platform BrightRoll for $640 million, in a move that could help to offset declines in its traditional display ad business. The deal was announced Tuesday and is one of Yahoo’s largest acquisitions since it bought Tumblr last year for just over $1 billion. Yahoo …
With the Lumia 535, Microsoft has delivered a worthy successor to the successful 520 that stacks up well against tough Android competitors like the Motorola Moto E, which the smartphone beats on several fronts. The two devices cost about the same — the Lumia goes for $135, while the Moto …
It’s not a fun time to be a Qualcomm lawyer as the company is in trouble in China, Europe and the U.S. In China, the company is under an 11-month antitrust investigation, while the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has a preliminary investigation into a potential breach of licensing terms and …
An Android user reviews Apple’s iPad Air 2 An Android user on Reddit recently took the bold step of reviewing the iPad Air 2 on the Apple subreddit. It’s always interesting to see what dedicated users of one mobile platform think of the other once they dig in and get …
Groupon forces the GNOME Foundation to defend its trademark The GNOME Foundation has launched a fundraising effort to defend its GNOME trademark in light of Groupon’s launch of a tablet product with a similar name. This has caused shockwaves throughout the Linux community as angry users rally to GNOME’s cause. …
Корпорация Microsoft выпустила первый смартфон под собственным брендом, им стала модель Lumia 535, относящийся к бюджетному сегменту. В плане характеристик устройство отличается от ранее выпущенных смартфонов этой же ценовой категории в позитивную сторону, хотя главное изменение здесь заключается именно в смене бренда. Lumia 535 оснащен IPS-дисплеем с диагональю 5 дюймов и разрешением 960 х 540 точек …