Monthly Archives: October 2015
Facebook Begins Warning Users About Nation-State Intrusions
If government agents, say in Syria or North Korea, happen to target your Facebook account and are curious about the cat video, food image...
Sprint to Throttle Customers Using More Than 23GB of Data Monthly
Sprint is now imposing a 23GB monthly high-speed data threshold on new mobile customers who have unlimited data accounts that will drop them to...
Cat S40 Rugged Smartphone Is Built for Harsh Workplaces
Cat S40 Rugged Smartphone Is Built for Harsh Workplaces
Bullitt Mobile's latest Cat smartphone, now for sale in the U.S. for $399, resists water, dirt,...
10 Factors That Make the Lumia 950 XL a Good Smartphone Buy
10 Factors That Make the Lumia 950 XL a Good Smartphone Buy
Microsoft is determined to make Windows smartphones a desirable option to iOS and...
Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent Deal Gets Blessing From China
Nokia cleared the last regulatory hurdle to its $16.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent when Chinese antitrust regulators gave their approval to the deal.Nokia officials...
Adobe Is Quick to Patch Latest Flash Zero-Day Threat
Adobe just can't seem to catch a break when it comes to the security of its Flash Player technology. On Oct. 14, Adobe issued...
Cyber-Attacks on Health Care Organizations Costing Billions
Cyber-attacks over the next five years will cost U.S. health systems $305 billion in cumulative lifetime revenue, according to a report from Accenture.The consulting...
Fortinet Unveils Secure Access Architecture
Fortinet announced details of its Secure Access Architecture, a framework that expands the security vendor’s Internal Segmentation cyber-security strategy and helps organizations segment devices...
IBM, Carnegie Mellon Team on Cognitive App for the Blind
Scientists from IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) recently announced a new open platform to support the creation of smartphone apps that can...
Manufacturers Fail to Eliminate Vulnerabilities on Mobile Devices
The infrequent release of security updates for Android devices has left 88 percent of smartphones and tablets vulnerable to at least one of 11...