Monthly Archives: June 2016
Symantec Set to Acquire Blue Coat for $4.65 Billion
Symantec is taking a major step forward with its agreement to acquire privately held security vendor Blue Coat for $4.65 billion in cash. The...
Lax Password Security Practices Endanger Consumers
One in 10 Americans admit to never changing their passwords and just over one-third (38 percent) alter their passwords on an average of every...
Zbot Botnet Uses Fast Flux Technique to Avoid Detection
Since 2014, security firm RiskAnalytics has been tracking the activities of a particularly virulent botnet that attackers are using on the Internet. In a...
Apple Reportedly Tapping Intel for Some iPhone Modems
Intel reportedly may find itself in Apple's upcoming iPhone, which would be a significant win for a company that has found itself mostly on...
Larry Page Quietly Backs Pair of Flying Car Companies
Google co-founder and CEO of Google parent company Alphabet Larry Page personally, and quietly, funded two startups—Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk—focused on creating the long-imagined...
Twitter’s Breach That Wasn’t Prompts New Security Rules
The last few weeks have been one of those times when you almost say, "another day, another breach." In this case, something like 32...
Android’s ‘Nearby’ Feature Debuts, Helps Users Find What’s Nearby
Helping mobile users find just the right apps at the very moment they need them is the aim of Nearby, a new Google Android...
To Avaya, the Customer Experience Is the Thing
Avaya is putting a focus on the issue of customer experience with the introduction of Oceana, which is designed to help enterprises more easily...
Worldpay: SMBs Must Adopt New Payment Methods or Face Extinction
By Michael MooreBritain's small business are being put at risk by failing to introduce digital, consumer friendly-payment methods, new research from WorldPay has claimed.As...
Microsoft’s AI Toolkit Gains Multi-GPU Performance Jump
Microsoft's Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) 1.5, announced June 10, features a new method of wrangling the parallel-processing power of multiple graphical processing units (GPUs),...