Новости за 07.11.2016

Facebook has agreed to stop using WhatsApp data to target users with advertising in the U.K. and has been warned could face legal action if it resumes the practice.

Microsoft last week announced that it would support the Enterprise Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) through July 2018, a year-and-a-half extension for the anti-exploit utility.

AMD is excited about its Polaris GPUs and upcoming Zen-based PC and server chips, which the company hopes will end years of struggles.

Diamonds are among the most expensive gems in the world, but they could also serve as a building block for quantum computers.

Statistician Drew Linzer was pretty accurate predicting an Obama win in 2012 and Republican wins in 2014 Senate races. Here's his take on 2016:

When you travel between countries, the mobile operators that temporarily provide service to your phone need to communicate with your operator back home. This is done over a global interconnection network where most traffic still uses an aging protocol, called SS7, that's known to be vulnerable to location tracking, eavesdropping, fraud, denial of service, SMS interception and other attacks.

Don't be surprised if hackers make their presence felt on U.S. Election Day. Distributed denial-of-service attacks and high-profile leaks are among the tactics they might use if they try to influence Tuesday's vote.

In a Twitter exchange today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will likely add solar charging technology to the roofs of future all-electric cars.

Architects have a new reason to pick up Microsoft's HoloLens. A new app can help them explore 3D models of buildings.

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Microsoft last week said it will add the Access database application to small business Office 365 subscriptions, two years after plucking the program from a similar plan.

Pathetic passwords and password re-use is a worldwide problem, but recent analysis indicated the United States is a top offender when it comes to poor password security hygiene.

Tesla Motors today announced it will discontinue its popular free electric vehicle charging program for vehicles purchased after Jan. 1, 2017.

It's been a lot of years since colors were first introduced on the command line of Unix/Linux systems. But, yes, there was a time when terminal windows were simply black and white. Today, file names might show up in a number of different shades -- green, red, blue, purple/magenta, or some other color -- depending on the type of file (whether they are executable files, directories, images, etc.) or the file extensions. Sometimes you might just want to turn the colors off because they're distracting you from what you want to pay attention to.

Containers have become a major fixture of modern application development. Companies are turning to the technology because it helps them more easily create portable, scalable applications that can work in a wide variety of environments, including the public cloud.

A hacker armed with a $25 PCMCIA card can, within a few minutes, change the vote totals on an aging electronic voting machine that is now in limited use in 13 U.S. states, a cybersecurity vendor has demonstrated.

Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO and he who had a penchant for screaming during keynotes, once stated that “Linux is a cancer.”

A virtual private network is a secure tunnel between two or more computers on the internet, allowing them to access each other as if on a local network. In the past, VPNs were mainly used by companies to securely link remote branches together or connect roaming employees to the office network, but today they're an important service for consumers too, protecting them from attacks when they connect to public wireless networks.

With developed economies facing political and economic crisis, Apple’s decision to focus on emerging economies makes absolute sense as the company seeks to maintain growth. It has already seen significant success in China, but its attempts to expand its business in India have so far been thwarted by local economic policy.

While certain areas of the Windows file structure may be off-limits to direct action -- most notably, deleting files inside the C:\Windows (or %windir%) folder -- that doesn’t mean that savvy Windows admins and power users can’t selectively prune excess or obsolete files. You just need the right tools.

The banking arm of U.K. supermarket chain Tesco has suspended online payments for its 136,000 checking account customers following a spate of fraudulent transactions.

By 2020, 24 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices are expected to be connected to the internet, driving an estimated $6 trillion in IoT spending over the next five years. As IoT becomes a widespread reality, it will undoubtedly impact every facet of how organizations operate. After all, IoT promises a new level of digitization that will impact how businesses interact with their partners and suppliers and deliver value to customers. And this includes managing and securing a far more extensive network of interconnected devices. Читать дальше...

In celebration of Echo's 2nd birthday, Amazon has discounted their popular Echo device 22%. This discount is good for today only, Monday, November 7th. Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, automate your home, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more. All you have to do is ask. Its typical list price of $180 has been reduced 22% to just $140, today only. See the discounted Echo now on Amazon. 

Cloud computing is throwing more variables into network performance, but it’s also helping to make network management smarter.

Traditionally, Macs have been second-class citizens in the Windows-centric enterprise world, but it doesn’t have to be so. In this review, we looked at four ways to manage Macs in a Microsoft Active Directory (AD) network.