Over at Motherboard, Kayleigh Rogers revisits the first community to pilot Google’s Fiber and takes note of the fact the once-promised future of broadband has, apparently, been put on-hold: Thousands of customers in KC who had pre-registered for guaranteed service when Fiber made it to their neighborhood were given their money back earlier this year, […]
Techcrunch has posted an interesting article describing a new partnership between Google and public interest journalism website ProPublica to assemble a nationwide hate crimes index. The need for trustworthy facts on the details and frequency of hate crimes and other incidents born of prejudice has never been more urgent. At this point, there is simply […]
Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with more than 50 Internet-based business powerhouses like Google and Facebook, launched a major campaign to convince FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to preserve the concept of net neutrality: Let’s Save Net Neutrality Why is this important? Because the Internet belongs to you. It was your tax dollars that funded […]
An increasing numbers of law offices across a widening spectrum of practice areas are looking to apply advanced technology based upon deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their operations. Now we can add information governance to this group if applications. Microsoft (MS) has recently announced their own entry into this sector with an […]
The Netherlands’ National High Tech Crime Unit, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, Kaspersky Labs and Intel Security have teamed up to launch a new project and website intended to fight the rise in ransomware attacks on global businesses: PC Mag’s write up is here: http://www.pcmag.com/news/346410/security-experts-team-up-to-help-you-fight-ransomware And the official site can be found here: https://www.nomoreransom.org/ While there […]
This is seismic news from Microsoft: Announcing SQL Server on Linux
Over at the Barracuda Tech Blog there’s a post up describing the explosion of spending for mobile applications, and what a sudden influx of un-managed applications this could mean for companies already run ragged trying to manage a plethora of known security threats. As Barracuda points out: These apps bring risks like malicious code that […]
Via TechCrunch: IBM is making a number of business deals in the cloud-computing space, announcing a new partnership with Apple to make its “Swift” programming language more readily accessible: ” By bringing Swift beyond the client to the server, IBM is breaking down barriers between front-end and back-end development, which can provide enterprises a single language […]
Via ZDNet: Security firm Avecto has released a report that argues that up to 86% of all Windows security vulnerabilities could be mitigated by the simple removal of administrative privileges on enterprise workstations. The full text of the report itself can be found here: http://learn.avecto.com/2015-microsoft-vulnerabilities-report
As of today, Microsoft is ending support for all but the most current version (11) of its venerable, if not always beloved, Internet Explorer web browser. Of crucial interest to end-users is that this means Microsoft will no longer be providing security updates for any version of IE prior to 11. As Microsoft notes: Security […]
