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The risk of serious cyber-attacks on nuclear power plants is growing, according to a new report by think-tank Chatham House. If you follow this type of news, then this is probably not a big shocker, but did you know there have been around 50 cyberattacks on nuclear plants? 

IBM will acquire object-based storage vendor Cleversafe in a move to bolster its cloud business unit with more flexibility and simplified management options in the hybrid cloud.

For almost a year, Chinese hackers have leveraged a novel one-two punch to compromise iOS devices, including non-jailbroken iPhones, then seed them with adware, a security company said today.

Windows 10 -- and the fate of Microsoft's smartphones -- will be front and center at the company's event Tuesday as the Redmond, Wash. developer highlights its focus on mobile with expected announcements of new Lumia smartphones, the next Surface Pro 2-in-1 device and an updated Microsoft Band smart wristband.

Locating became a standard feature of mobile phone service in the years following the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) order released in 1999 that described in detail how mobile network operators must provide the locations of wireless 911 callers to emergency call centers. The decision to require wireless 911 locating was first announced in 1996, when mobile phones were mainly used outdoors. People still relied on wired phones indoors -- and the phone company already knew the street address associated with each pair of wires. Читать дальше...

ORLANDO -- Gartner's vision for future tech is either very exciting or the stuff of nightmares.

Consumers rely on flash memory cards in phones, tablets and cameras every day. But put those same cards in security cams, cellular base stations or the electrical grid and you'll have a problem.

Welcome back, Jack!

Today marks a landmark shift at my favorite tech company, now that Jack Dorsey is making his triumphant return. Ousted in 2008 due to low employee morale and constant tech glitches, Dorsey went on to start Square while becoming a celebrity entrepreneur and serving on the Twitter board as Chairman -- up until today, when he takes over again as CEO.

Ironically, at least from my perspective, not much has changed since he left. Twitter is still a powerhouse of “data quips” (as you might call them). Читать дальше...

In case you haven't noticed, Microsoft is going to put on a big product introduction tomorrow at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. Rumors are that it will be showing a new version of its Surface Pro tablet/laptop (perhaps as an alternative for those Surface Pro 3 users who had their systems trashed after the latest Windows 10 update). Wearables are also said to be on the table.

Healthline Networks is a company that has a number of different offerings within the broader health technology space. It has a consumer subsidiary, Healthline.com, that delivers health information, news and resources to consumers alongside more enterprise-focused solutions that offer technology products for healthcare organizations. Healthline is adding to those businesses today with the formation of a new entity, Talix.

My company, like most, has been letting go of on-premise corporate applications in favor of cloud-based alternatives for quite a while now. Still, it wasn’t until last week that it really came home to me how thoroughly committed to the cloud we now are.

IT budgets globally are due to grow by 2.2% next year, the largest jump in the last five years, according to Gartner's survey of nearly 3,000 CIOs globally. In the North America, the projection is 2.3%.

You could be whoever you wanted

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The origins of what we think of as modern hacker culture emerged from the same California milieu as the 1960s counterculture, and it shows. In 1973, programmers from Berkeley who had worked on the time-sharing Berkeley Operating System launched Community Memory, the first public bulletin board system, and prominent among these pioneers was Jude Milhon, aka St. Jude. She passed away in 2003, much beloved. At the other end of the state... Читать дальше...

Microsoft tomorrow will live-stream its New York City event, where it's expected to unveil the next Surface Pro 2-in-1 and a pair of flagship smartphones.

Twitter made co-founder Jack Dorsey its new CEO, ending months of speculation and handing him the tough task of turning around the company's sluggish user growth.

Twelve countries representing nearly 40 percent of the global economy have reached basic agreement on an expansive new trade deal called the Trans Pacific Partnership, which may have implications for some digital rights.

When it comes to IT security, a guarantee is a very seductive and attractive concept. It's an emotional appeal, trying to send the message "No matter what happens, we'll have your back. You can relax and worry about other things." But in security, it can be as dangerous as it is unrealistic.

Note different

It wasn’t too long ago that Apple’s Notes app was relegated to the ‘never really use it’ stack by most Mac users, but this changes in OS X El Capitan, as Notes has become far more powerful.

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You may need to upgrade your iCloud Notes to use these new features. You can see this is the case if you see an ‘Upgrade’ button besides your iCloud account in the Notes sidebar. Once you upgrade your notes you’ll be able to view and edit them on other devices running... Читать дальше...

Windows 10's accelerated update and upgrade tempo requires enterprises to discard habits that accreted over decades, a painful change but one that can be managed, a Gartner analyst said today.

Facebook is buying its own satellite bandwidth to deliver free basic Internet services direct to Africans.

Aaron Bryson, director of information security at cybersecurity company Cylance, has been hired to hack everything from mobile apps to cars. Bryson, who became hooked on hacking as a kid growing up with movies like WarGames and Hackers, got his first real taste of the ethical hacking world in college.

iPhones are vulnerable to malware distributed via the Apple App Store. YiSpecter is the latest malicious app that Apple's crack security team let slip through the net -- despite being warned about the problem in February.

A few days before Microsoft and Google announced that they were dropping their patent disputes, a decision in an appeals court may have helped the two companies focus on a lasting compromise over their expensive lawsuits over smartphone and other patents.

Sometimes it’s easiest to learn something new simply by using it, and to my mind PowerShell is no exception. Often we discover new capabilities and features in looking at what tasks other people are accomplishing using PowerShell, and specifically, looking at how they’re using the scripting language.

We're trying to have a democracy here, and ideally an informed one.

Nowadays, however, almost everyone is too distracted with their smartphones to muster the attention span to put up with reading a newspaper or news magazine delivered by a publisher, or even watching TV news.

Instead, we get news through apps and on social networks. The biggest source of apps in the U.S. and the biggest social network are Apple's App Store and Facebook, respectively.

This trend transfers the... Читать дальше...