Monthly Archives: January 2018
Questions Arise About Effectiveness of Meltdown, Spectre Fixes, Advice
Enterprise IT administrators are dealing with a confusing array of patches and advice as they look for effective ways to fix the Meltdown and...
Microsoft Upgrades Notification-Blocking Feature in Windows 10
It may be tough to find a library-quiet corner of a bustling office or home to get some work done, but the expanded Quiet...
Google Says Its Spectre, Meltdown Fixes Don’t Harm System Performance
Google this week claimed that the mitigations the company has developed to address the widespread threat posed by the Spectre and Meltdown microprocessor vulnerabilities...
Microsoft, Open Whisper Partner on Encrypted Skype Conversations
Private, end-to-end encrypted conversations are coming to Skype courtesy of Signal, the secure messaging technology and app from Open Whisper Systems.Powered by the open...
Startup Komprise Getting Traction in Tough-to-Crack Storage Market
Privately held analytics-driven data management startup Komprise has updated its platform and revealed some end-of-year business numbers. The 3-year-old Campbell, Calif.-based company said it recorded...
Dropbox, Spotify Expected to Lead IT IPOs in 2018
San Francisco-based cloud storage and file-sharing provider Dropbox has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to a Jan. 11 Bloomberg News report.This...
Toy Vendor VTech Hit With FTC Fine for Child Privacy Breach
Today’s topics include the FTC fine internet of things toy vendor VTech received for a 2015 privacy breach; Microsoft blocking downloads of its Meltdown...
Facebook Now Prioritizing Friends’ Posts Over News Items
Facebook has tinkered with the way your personal News Feed serves up items in your account. As of Jan. 11, it now prioritizes and...
7 Open-Source Serverless Frameworks Providing Functions as a Service
7 Open-Source Serverless Frameworks Providing Functions as a Service
With virtualization, organizations began to realize greater utilization from physical hardware. That trend continued with the...
IT Vendors Continue Patching to Fix Meltdown, Spectre Vulnerability
More than week after security researchers first publicly revealed the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, vendors are continuing to deal with the impact and...