Home Depot has shed more light on a recent data breach that compromised 56 million payment cards, saying hackers used login credentials belonging to another company to access its network. It also revealed that 53 million email addresses were also stolen. The stolen login credentials didn’t provide direct access to …
Xamarin has launched a new program designed to get its popular mobile app building platform into the hands of America’s students, because children are our future or something like that. Xamarin’s platform theoretically makes it fly-simple to write an app once in C# and quickly and easily adapt it for …
Apple’s erstwhile sapphire supplier, GT Advanced Technologies, acknowledged Thursday that it is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a filing with the SEC, GT said that the federal agency had contacted the company three weeks ago. “On October 15, 2014, [the SEC] sent a letter …
Полиция штата Вашингтон арестовала Дэвида Калака по подозрению в убийстве своей подруги Линн Коплин, после того как он выложил фотографию трупа женщины на анонимном веб-форуме 4chan, сообщает «Би-би-си». …
Норвегия поможет Нацкомфинуслуг модернизировать IT-систему в 2015 г. Об этом «Капиталу» сообщил и. о. председателя комиссии Максим Поляков. …
Гид по компьютерным играм, которые понравятся тем, кто давно завязал …
There’s a scary new piece of malware that collects call logs, phonebook contacts and other sensitive information from Apple iPhones and iPads. Should you be worried? The malware was first discovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks who dubbed it WireLurker and said it exhibited behavior that had never been …
A proposed Internet sales tax that could see new life in Congress in coming weeks would cost U.S. online shoppers $24 billion in its first year, according to a study from an anti-tax group. Supporters of the Marketplace Fairness Act, passed by the Senate in May 2013, could push the …
Для затруднения анализа вирус хеширует названия использующихся функций, а также игнорирует некоторые системные процессы. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an attorney in Orange County, Calif., and two men in Massachusetts behind a pump-and-dump scheme that defrauded investors in a Boston-based ticket brokering business. The SEC alleges that Richard Weed, a partner in a Newport Beach law practice, facilitated a scheme to pump …
Watch out, Docker! You’re no longer the only container-based virtualization technology on the block — spurred by the sudden success of Docker, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies. Joyent’s collection of container technologies could be used as the basis for running large-scale, …
A security researcher has developed a tool to demonstrate how the unauthenticated data packets in the 802.11 wireless LAN protocol can be used as a covert channel to control malware on an infected computer. The protocol relies on clients and access points exchanging informational data packets before they authenticate or …
Microsoft is giving corporate BYOD programs a boost by upgrading its Office offerings for iPhone, iPad and Android to deliver more features free, increasing the likelihood that mobile workers will have better tools available to be more productive. The company announced new free versions of Office apps for non-Windows devices …
A bug, now fixed, that caused unexpected battery drain in some Android smartphones, reportedly delayed some over-the-air rollouts of a developer build of Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Google wouldn’t comment officially on reports of the bug or its fix, or on a release timeline. However, a source told Computerworld today that …
Amazon revealed a new voice-controlled speaker called Echo that works like Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana in that it responds to user requests for information or to play music uploaded from Amazon Music and other services. The tube-like speaker/voice command system is connected via Wi-Fi and can be connected to …
Among a blizzard of announcements about Office today, Microsoft also snuck in a loose release date for the touch-centric Office it has long planned to ship for Windows. “We will deliver touch-optimized Office apps for Windows with Windows 10,” Microsoft said in one of several blog posts trumpeting changes to …
Microsoft today began taking registration requests from Android tablet users for a beta of Office for Google’s mobile operating system. The final version, which Microsoft dubs “general availability,” will be available in early 2015, Microsoft said, without naming a specific date or month. Meanwhile, the preview will be offered to …
The alleged operator of Silk Road 2.0, a website used to sell illegal drugs, computer-hacking tools and fraudulent identification documents, has been arrested and will face charges in a U.S. court. Blake Benthall, 26, was arrested Wednesday in San Francisco and will appear in court there Thursday, the U.S. Department …
On Thursday, Microsoft released a new version of Office for iOS that unifies the user experience across all devices—great and small—and opens the door to free editing and content creation, whether you have an Office 365 account or not. This new Microsoft Office for iOS suite includes Word, Excel, and …
Многие владельцы смартфонов и планшетов не готовы использовать свои мобильные устройства для осуществления платежей. Так, 48% респондентов, которые пользуются мобильным телефоном, ни разу не использовали его для оплаты товаров и услуг. Информация представлена в исследовании голландского провайдера цифровых технологий Avangate. …
Four months after Apple and IBM announced a partnership to amalgamate IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities with Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Apple launched a new support offering that taps both companies’ expertise to assist enterprises. AppleCare for Enterprise, as the new support tier is called, was painted with broad …
Pooja Sankar, founder of Piazza, an online social learning platform, remembers vividly the feelings of isolation and exclusion she faced as a female computer science student. While growing up in India, Sankar attended an all-girls high school, but when she got to college, was one of only three girls, among …
Cisco Systems released patches for its small business RV Series routers and firewalls to address vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and overwrite files on the vulnerable devices. The affected products are Cisco RV120W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, Cisco RV180 VPN Router, Cisco RV180W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router, …
Juniper Networks this week introduced a virtualized version of its MX Series 3D edge router to fulfill carrier requirements for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The Juniper vMX 3D Universal Edge Router operates as software on x86 servers. It is designed to let service providers and enterprises rapidly deliver services ahead …
There’s a strange, misanthropic common thread running through stories in the news about Ebola quarantines, the rush of enterprises to the public cloud and the increasingly common but shockingly still non-fatal fad of taking selfies with wild bears. There’s almost no overlap in the substance of the stories, but all …
China may be the biggest smartphone market in the world, but according to Lenovo, the boom days are over. “But now the China market is not hyper-growing any longer,” said Lenovo’s CEO Yang Yuanqing on Thursday. “It has been saturated. If you want to win you have to find new …