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A Resilient Cloud Strategy: Standardize or Diversify?
A Resilient Cloud Strategy: Standardize or Diversify?
Over the past few years, I have seen IT organizations adopt cloud in very different ways. Some organizations prefer to standardize their cloud
Nov. 29, 2016
Cisco and Apple: Understanding the Innovation
Cisco and Apple: Understanding the Innovation
To fully appreciate what these two industry leaders have accomplished, I thought it would be helpful to pull back the covers a bit, and level set on how things are usually done. This can help highlight where and how these tweaks can improve your own enterprise experience.
Nov. 29, 2016
Spammers Bombard iCloud Users With New Deluge
Spammers Bombard iCloud Users With New Deluge
Spammers Bombard iCloud Users in New Deluge. Calendar and photo sharing invites plague users
Nov. 29, 2016
Tokyo Denies Major Military Cyber Attack
Tokyo Denies Major Military Cyber Attack
Tokyo Denies Major Military Cyber Attack. Reports suggest sophisticated state operatives may have been involved
Nov. 29, 2016
380,000 xHamster Account Details Traded on Digital Underground
380,000 xHamster Account Details Traded on Digital Underground
Data traded at around same time a hacker found a vulnerability in xHamster's website earlier this year
Nov. 29, 2016
Mirai Again: DT Outage a Precursor to Larger DDoS Attack
Mirai Again: DT Outage a Precursor to Larger DDoS Attack
The outage that affected 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers was an attempt to hijack router devices for a wider DDoS attack.
Nov. 29, 2016
Celebs, Politicos Caught in Swiss Bank Account Blackmail
Celebs, Politicos Caught in Swiss Bank Account Blackmail
Unidentified hackers are demanding 10% of the account balances, to be paid in internet cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
Nov. 29, 2016
McAfee: Machine Learning a Key 2017 Tool for Socially Engineered Hacks
McAfee: Machine Learning a Key 2017 Tool for Socially Engineered Hacks
Researchers believe that 2017 will see a golden age of these tools, including target acquisition as-a-service.
Nov. 29, 2016
6 ways that the Final Fantasy franchise continues to influence devs
6 ways that the Final Fantasy franchise continues to influence devs
“Final Fantasy was the first game that really made you feel something for characters, and feel that the game world meant something," says Andrew Allanson, whose YIIK was inspired by the franchise.
Nov. 29, 2016
Facebook launches in-app game library with Instant Games service
Facebook launches in-app game library with Instant Games service
The social media giant has kicked off the closed beta for a gaming platform built directly into the company's mobile apps.
Nov. 29, 2016
UKIE exhorts British officials to jumpstart the UK's eSports scene
UKIE exhorts British officials to jumpstart the UK's eSports scene
UKIE calls on the UK government to institute eSports diversity initiatives, better regulation and installation of "superfast broadband" that would make the UK competitive with hubs like South Korea.
Nov. 29, 2016
OSVR support has quietly come to Steam
OSVR support has quietly come to Steam
In case you missed it last week, there's a new platform on the list of Steam's supported VR headsets: OSVR, the "Open-Source Virtual Reality" platform Razer debuted back in 2015.
Nov. 29, 2016