Monthly Archives: September 2014
Apple Gets China’s Approval to Begin Selling iPhone 6
Apple will start selling iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones in China on Oct. 17 now that the company has received device security...
AMD to Demo Hadoop Running on ARM-Based Server
Advanced Micro Devices is at the JavaOne 2014 conference demonstrating Hadoop running on a server powered by an ARM-based chip.At the conference Sept. 30,...
Apple Patches Shellshock as Attacks Continue
Five days after the Shellshock vulnerability in the Bash (Bourne Again SHell) shell scripting application was first publicly reported, Apple is finally providing a...
BYOD Programs Expose Businesses to Security Risks
Seventy-one percent of employed Americans who own personal mobile devices are able to connect them to the secure network provided by an employer, but...
Apple Watch Display to Cost Much More than Traditional Displays
The cost of the Apple Watch flexible AMOLED display is estimated to be several times higher than equivalently sized LCD displays, and higher than...
EMC Launches New Storage-Related Products at OpenWorld
Here's a roundup of new EMC storage-related products announced Sept. 29 at Oracle OpenWorld.--New VNXe-based VSPEX Architecture for Oracle 12c: EMC introduced a new...
Intel Hires Ex-Cisco Security Chief
Christopher Young, who spent the last three years heading up Cisco Systems' security business, will now lead Intel's security efforts.The giant chip maker announced...
Cisco to Invest Another $1 Billion in Intercloud Initiative
Cisco Systems officials are seeing growing momentum behind the company's Intercloud initiative—including with more than 30 new companies joining in on the effort—and the...
Microsoft Teams Up With Security Group to Fight Cyber ‘Bank Robbers’
In a bid to stem the rise of malware-aided fraud, particularly online, Microsoft is lending the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC)...
Shellshock Vulnerability Finally Patched as Exploits Emerge
The Shellshock Bash (Bourne Again SHell) vulnerability that was first disclosed on Sept. 24 now has not one, but multiple publicly available patches.Initially, the...