Monthly Archives: December 2016
Yahoo Confirms Another Hack Affecting 1 Billion Users
Today's topics include Yahoo's disclosure that it had been hit by cyber-attack in 2014 that affected as many as 1 billion users, Uber’s self-driving...
DigitalOcean Growing Rapidly as Cloud Service Without Data Centers
NEW YORK—As traditional enterprise technology leaders Cisco and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise give up trying to compete with Amazon Web Services in the public cloud, at...
IT Professionals Hold Little Back in Reaction to Yahoo Breach
For a company that really could use some good news for a change, Yahoo has had another pretty rough week. The pioneering search and...
What Bluetooth 5 Will Bring to Internet of Things Devices in 2017
What Bluetooth 5 Will Bring to Internet of Things Devices in 2017
Wireless devices that support the Bluetooth 5 standard, which promises to bring faster...
Most Businesses Pay Off Ransomware Attackers, IBM Study Finds
Most Businesses Pay Off Ransomware Attackers, IBM Study Finds
An IBM Security study finds that only a minority of consumers have heard of ransomware and...
Percipient Networks Strongarm Blocks Malware with DNS Blackhole
There are a lot of different approaches to try and block malware and protect users from being exploited. Percipient Networks is taking a new...
10 Takeaways From My Tryout of the Google Home Smart Appliance
10 Takeaways From My Tryout of the Google Home Smart Appliance
Although Google Home’s performance justifies its price tag, it had a few shortcomings that...
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 Extends Cloud Support
Red Hat announced the official release of its OpenStack Platform 10 on December 15, providing users with the option for up to five years...
Malwarebytes Aims to Replace Antivirus with Its New Version
There is a growing set of security industry people who are becoming more and more vocal about conventional antivirus software, saying that most of...
Microsoft Edge Browser to Block Flash Web Page Content by Default
The writing is on the wall, or rather, all over the web. Adobe Flash is becoming a relic of the early commercial web.
This summer's...