Новости за 10.11.2016

There are reservations within the University of California system about a plan to move IT work offshore and lay off employees.

There is a growing desire to keep one’s messages private. Some users are concerned about hackers, or worry about foreign or domestic government surveillance, but most people just agree with the general principle that what you say in your chat conversations ought to stay between you and the people you chat with.

Hours after Donald Trump won the presidential election, a suspected Russian cyberespionage team was blamed for targeting several U.S. think tanks with phishing emails designed to fool victims into installing malware.

This is the second round of cumulative updates for Windows 7 and 8.x systems following Microsoft's announcement to use the Windows 10 patch roll-up approach for all desktop systems. With 14 bulletins for this November Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has updated Windows and Office and has also had to wrap another Adobe Flash Player update to manage two zero-day exploits. Six updates have been rated as critical and the remaining eight are rated as important, together covering a total of 68 vulnerabilities, three with public disclosures. Читать дальше...

In a perfect example of how public wireless networks can be dangerous for privacy and security, an Israeli hacker showed that he could have taken over the free Wi-Fi network of an entire city.

One of my favorite features of Google's Chromecast is the way it turns our TV into a family photo slideshow.

Technology trade groups are already pushing out their policy priorities for President-elect Donald Trump's administration, even though his campaign rarely touched on IT issues.

Regulations to protect people from falling drones moved a little closer to takeoff at the European Parliament on Thursday.

InfiniBand is set to hit 200Gbps in products that were announced Thursday, potentially accelerating machine-learning platforms as well as high-performance computing systems.

We live in interesting times. The 2016 US Presidential election has cast ripples across the planet.

AppDynamics is a vendor that sells solutions broadly covering the application performance monitoring (APM) and IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) space. Essentially, the company helps organizations get a handle on how their applications and infrastructure are working so they can ensure the best possible performance for the various stakeholders. As such, AppDynamics is in a busy space -- companies like New Relic and Datadog essentially do the same stuff.

Yahoo said investigators were looking into the possibility that some people within the company knew at the time about the late 2014 theft of information of at least 500 million user accounts.

A biometric fingerprint reader makes it convenient to sign into your computer, by just pressing or swiping your finger on the reader which scans your fingerprint. It bypasses the need for entering a password while increasing the level of security for the computer -- anyone can enter your password if they get it somehow, but not your finger, after all. It can also be a convenient and secure system to set up on a computer at work that should be accessed by only a specific person or persons.

Google is here to protect the little people, right?

That is why the tech giant is instituting new rules for malicious websites that have previously been able to game Google's "Safe Browsing" system. Now, sites that clean up their act only to reimplement malicious code or software won't have it so easy.

In IT Blogwatch, we cautiously visit new websites. 

So what is happening? Gregg Keizer has the details:

When President-elect Donald Trump officially takes office, he’ll inherit a powerful U.S. surveillance apparatus, including the National Security Agency, that’s already been accused of trampling over privacy rights.

It's a few years back, and this data center houses a pair of mainframes along with the midrange systems that are this pilot fish's responsibility.

IBM's Watson artificial intelligence platform has joined forces with researchers at MIT and Harvard to study how thousands of cancers mutate to become resistant to drug treatments that initially worked to beat back the disease.

President-elect Donald Trump, working with Congress, may try to make it harder and more expensive to hire H-1B workers. His intent would be to change the economics of visa usage and encourage employers to hire U.S. workers.

Hardly a day goes by that there isn't news of another vulnerability, another attack, another patch -- and often the biggest, baddest of its kind.

It's fun to buy a drone from a store, but perhaps more satisfying to build one from scratch. Intel in December will start shipping a fully loaded drone kit to let you do just that, with all the parts including the rotors, software, 3D camera and flight controller.

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Google said it will deal with website recidivists that have dodged the company's punishments for spreading malware and spawning email scams.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's vision for the country's economy-driving technology industry is largely a blank canvas, and when he's dipped his toe into IT issues, he's made people nervous.