How long before it goes off the rails? Comment Violin Memory’s stock is slowmo crashing, and is now down to $0.35; it was $0.65 on October 11.…
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Lees meerPatch? Nah, we'll just remove 'secure' from the tin: vendor Ruxcon Wireless keyboard and mouse manufacturers including Microsoft, Fujitsu, and Logitech have been forced to fix borked encryption in peripherals that allow physical attackers to hijack…
Lees meerNetworks also need to grab a mirror and look at themselves Last Friday's Mirai botnet attack against Dyn must force everybody's hands – vendors, regulators, and Internet infrastructure operators.…
Lees meerGet your Rs into gear, data scientists Microsoft is expanding the analytic and visualisation capabilities of its R analysis package, with the launch late last week of IDEAR and AMAR.…
Lees meerdpauli, darren.pauli, darrenp, pauli.darren, paulid Ruxcon Melbourne security bod Andrew Horton has created a tool to automate the generation of usernames in a bid to round-out brute force account attacks.…
Lees meerBehold! A global titan of data retrieval is upon us Data recovery and discovery outfit Kroll Ontrack has been acquired, for US$410m.…
Lees meerQuicker handshake starts encrypting data sooner Mozilla has decided it needs to lift its HTTPS game, and will default to TLS 1.3 in next year's Firefox 52.…
Lees meerSpace Surveillance Telescope can spot specks of shiny 36,000km away The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is on track for its transfer to a site in Australia later this year.…
Lees meerBatman, HBO, Harry Potter, CNN to become 'addressable advertised personal social mobile experience' AT&T has agreed to acquire Time Warner for US$85.4bn.…
Lees meerThis is not the way to get vulnerabilities fixed Security startup MedSec and the financial house backing the biz have published new allegations of security flaws in pacemakers and defibrillators built by St Jude Medical – and again look set to profi…
Lees meerFed up with artificial intelligence hype? The blather is only just beginning Machine learning, Tableau, and user experience design represented the fastest growing skills on freelancing platform Upwork during the third quarter of the year, a finding …
Lees meerCompromised gadgets behind tens of millions of IP addresses flooded DNS biz Dyn Today, a huge army of hijacked internet-connected devices – from security cameras to home routers – turned on their owners and broke a big chunk of the internet.…
Lees meerPair abused typo blind spot to game certificate authority Two European security researchers exploited Comodo's crappy backend systems to obtain a HTTPS certificate for a domain they do not own.…
Lees meer4KM plummet to surface shattered Euro spacecraft Pic The European Space Agency has spotted what it assumes is what's left of its Schiaparelli lander that smashed into the Martian surface this week.…
Lees meerTwitter, Amazon, AirBnB, Github and many others impacted An extraordinary, focused attack on DNS provider Dyn continues to disrupt internet services for hundreds of companies, including online giants Twitter, Amazon, AirBnB, Spotify and others.…
Lees meerFun but it's probably better for measuring really small things Holograms created with neutron beams have been demonstrated for the first time by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.…
Lees meerQuadrantic magicians do their square rating thingy Gartner has published a distributed file systems and object storage magic quadrant with the top three suppliers being Dell EMC, followed by IBM and Scality.…
Lees meerBlockchain timestamped hashing fraud check Acronis's Storage software product for businesses and service providers uses blockchain technology to prove data has not been altered.…
Lees meerPrivate cloud - as a service, sir? Cloud-flinger Mirantis has signed up global telco giant NTT as its first data centre service provider partner.…
Lees meerCheck the Org chart, will you Comment We've learnt how the EMC organisation has been fitted into its new Dell house, at least at a top exec and product level, and here is an org chart set to show what we believe we know.…
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