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Internet of Things startup Afero says it can secure small and large IoT devices with a Bluetooth radio module and a cloud service.

There are at least 35,000 publicly accessible and insecure MongoDB databases on the Internet, and their number appears to be growing. Combined they expose 684.8 terabytes of data to potential theft.

Congressional leaders early Wednesday morning released a $1.1 trillion spending bill that dramatically hikes the H-1B filing fee for IT services that rely heavily on visa workers.

Rapid7 disclosed six vulnerabilities affecting four Network Management Systems, two of which are not patched. The vendors are Opsview, Spiceworks, Ipswitch, and Castle Rock, with the latter having neither issued a security bulletin nor a fix for two vulnerabilities in its NMS.

When IBM and Apple forged their partnership last year to bring new mobile apps to the corporate world, their promise of bringing 100 such apps to market by the end of 2015 was widely considered an ambitious goal. Sure enough, though, it now looks like they've hit their target right on schedule.

Despite the risks to online commerce, international high-tech sales, security of trade secrets and the fact that it won’t actually make encryption useless to criminals, decryption backdoors to let law enforcement access encrypted communications could become U.S. law in 2016 – and a nightmare to enterprises – especially if terrorists succeed in carrying out major acts of violence.

Padmasree Warrior, ex-CTO and strategy chief at Cisco Systems, has joined a Chinese electric car start-up competing with Tesla.

Public transport delays suck. There is nothing good about missing an important meeting because your train, bus, tram, or tuk tuk got delayed. So, in order to drive the highest levels of predictability for its users, Stockholmstag, the commuter train operator in Stockholm, has applied big data to its entire rail network in order to forecast disruptions in service.

One of the primary limitations in drone, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), development is power. Battery technology isn't ideal because batteries are heavy, limiting drone payload. That weight hinders lift.

More people are playing video games than all offline sports combined, and 188 million people currently watch professional competitive video gaming, or esports,. And according to Juniper Research projections, total esports viewing hours will reach 6.6 billion by 2018. The industry currently has a fan base that rivals many traditional sports leagues, and is on track to surpass $9 billion in revenue by 2017.

AT&T is pouring billions into its network to make it more dynamic, which is resulting in new capabilities for enterprise customers. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently stopped by AT&T headquarters in Dallas to talk to Josh Goodell, VP of Network on Demand, about what the company is learning from early adopters of its Switched Ethernet on Demand service and what comes next. Among other things, Goodell explains how provisioning now takes days vs. weeks, service profiles can be changed in seconds... Читать дальше...

While I don't like interrupting anyone's business plans in particular, I have a jaundiced eye towards how clouds are bringing us rain, and how in 2016, the rain will drench us and try to drown us in data.

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader's password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system.

Fittingly enough, the Apple-owned Topsy data analytics business that boasted of indexing every Tweet back to 2006, announced its demise on Tuesday night via a Twitter post.

Because who hasn’t wanted to make a Christmas tree out of wireless access points?

Box and Salesforce announced a new partnership Wednesday aimed at helping their joint customers get work done more efficiently by bringing documents from their cloud storage and content management solution into Salesforce.

Google doesn't appear to be playing favorites in its year-end release of the most searched terms of 2015: Apple products including the iPhone 6S smartphone dominate the top tech terms list.

LinkedIn will soon add more details and insights to its job postings, in an effort to find more fitting career opportunities for users. The move is designed to enhance job listings with details about a user's connections within a hiring company; a list of LinkedIn applicants the organization went on to hire; and details on the people the job seeker would work with if they got the gig. 

Look deep into my crystal ball

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Not that those in the industry – even the best informed – have an infallible crystal ball. But an accurate prediction of what is on the horizon next year can help an organization protect itself better. A wrong one can mean less ability to prevent or respond effectively to a breach that can damage reputation, the bottom line and more. So, here are some best guesses about 2016 from more than a dozen vendors and analysts.

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The U.S. data center industry is now operating just like a sports franchise. When a local NFL football team wants a new stadium, it can threaten to move to a city promising a bigger and better stadium.

As Apple makes more and more money by selling more and more iPhones, it seems like the company barely has to try to remain at the top of the heap. And yet 2015 was one of Cupertino’s biggest years ever in terms of innovation, with product refreshes almost across the board (sorry, Mac Pro), a new device category (hey, Apple Watch), and a streaming service to rival Spotify.

Confused about how updates work in Windows 10? Join the club. In this latest version of its operating system, Microsoft has transformed what was once a straightforward procedure into a seemingly complicated process that varies according to whether you have Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro. As a result, there have been lots of misperceptions about how Windows 10 Update works, and how to best use it.

The ongoing political discourse over encrypted Internet communications used by potential terrorists sparked some major fireworks in last night's GOP presidential debate.

About 73% of enterprise mobile app deployments run on iOS, while 26.5% are Android-based and just 0.3% are made for Windows, according to a report released today by mobile app management company Apperian.

70,000,000

An anonymous hacker has released records of 70 million phone calls by inmates in United States prisons and jails to the press – and it suggests that attorney-client privilege has been routinely violated on a huge scale. 

50-75 percent

Recent estimates of the percentage of merchants that lack the new EMV, or “chip and PIN” payment terminals ranged from 50 percent to as high as 75 percent. Card issuers doing better – that 70 percent will have issued EMV-enabled cards by the end of the year. Читать дальше...