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Instances of Apple OS X malware are soaring this year, already totaling more than five times the number tallied over the previous five years combined, according to an in-house Bit9 + Carbon Black report.

A National Retail Federation attorney said Wednesday that an updated FBI warning on chip card vulnerabilities waters down the need for PIN security.

Microsoft is giving database administrators working with Azure SQL Database a new suite of security tools to check out.

Microsoft, Skype's parent company, earlier this year unveiled a public preview of its translator tool, and it's straight out of Star Trek.

Windows 10 users shouldn't expect Microsoft to bend on the just-take-it policy the company has adopted for the new operating system's updates.

In this CXO Talk interview, Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, discusses disruptive innovation, education and open data. In this episode O’Reilly describes his mission to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators and what disruption means to him.

Omid Kordestani, who until recently was Google’s chief business officer, is now executive chairman of Twitter, filling the last vacant spot in the company's leadership.

Google's original Chromecast media streamer proved to be nothing short of revolutionary in my life. The $35 stick was significant not so much for what it did but rather how it did it: The device took the overcomplicated task of Internet-to-TV streaming and made it as simple as can be. No clunky on-screen menus to navigate, no extra remotes to lose, no unnecessary hassles; just find something you want to watch or listen to in an app on your phone, tap a button, and boom -- it's playing on your TV. Читать дальше...

Samsung won't give up on its Tizen operating system for smartphones and launched a new handset running the OS, aimed at price-sensitive users in India.

How long do you wait for a page to load before giving up?

Five seconds?

Three seconds?

According to Slate, internet pages took about 30 seconds to load back in the digital dark ages of 1996. That’s almost unimaginable now, when the average user bounces after a fraction of that time. We expect a fast, responsive internet experience even on our mobile phones. Anything less leads to page abandonment.  

“These days, even 400 milliseconds — literally the blink of an eye — is too long, as Google engineers have discovered. Читать дальше...

“We can't afford to let any part of the Internet’s infrastructure rot in place,” Vint Cerf told the FCC. Cerf, co-inventor of the Internet, is fed up with the seemingly endless supply of security vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi routers. He’s not alone as more than 260 global network and cybersecurity experts believe the state of Wi-Fi routers is “dismal” and the FCC’s proposals to secure such devices risks “permanently locking in place buggy and insecure software.”

I have spent a good bit of my time over the past few months helping customers with risk assessments. Since many of the major regulatory frameworks, including HIPAA, PCI, and SSAE 16, all call for them, organizations have been forced, some kicking and screaming, to engage in reviewing their risks. 

An open-source tool for importing content into the Magento e-commerce platform, called Magmi, has a zero-day vulnerability, according to security vendor Trustwave.

Microsoft has provided a brief respite to the now regular patch onslaught, with a relatively small cohort of six updates for this October Patch Tuesday. With three rated as critical by Microsoft and the remaining updates rated as important, this set of updates affects IE, Windows desktop and server systems and some Office components.

Microsoft on Tuesday updated Office 2016 for Mac with security patches and a host of smaller feature changes, but did not fix the constant-crash problem users have reported on OS X El Capitan, Apple's newest operating system.

If you're trying to figure out an optimal fantasy baseball lineup, how an unusually cool summer affected beer sales, or what Twitter users can tell you about why your company's stock price tanked, then IBM's Watson Analytics team has something new for you.

A cybercriminal network that caused at least $10 million in losses has been disrupted by U.S. and U.K. law enforcement, with the U.S. seeking a Moldovan man's extradition, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.

Apple infringed six patent claims, says a U.S. jury. The technology invented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison improved the performance and power-efficiency of CPUs.

When Martha Poulter took on the role of CIO at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in June 2014, she saw a leadership team that shared her thoughts on how technology supports business strategy. "What really excited me in talking with the leadership team here was the spirit of innovation and creativity around how to continue to position Starwood, its brand, its properties, its owners in a leading light in a digital world," she says.

So you think you can control the security of the connected devices in your house? Ask the IT security professionals: They don't think so.

Oracle has been awarded $50 million in damages in a lawsuit against Rimini Street, which provides software maintenance for Oracle customers.

It's the early 1990s, the Cold War is ending, and at the big defense contractor where this pilot fish works, everyone understands what that means: cost cutting.

Outlook problems?

If you’ve been suffering problems using Outlook with El Capitan, then you should download the latest software patch released by Microsoft last week.

Verify

Apple offers a simple online tool to verify your email settings so you can ensure they’re set correctly in Mail.

Fix iCloud account

If you can’t send email using your iCloud account after upgrading to El Capitan then following these steps may help:

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People who want to buy Microsoft's new Surface Book laptop-tablet hybrid will have to look somewhere other than the company's online retail store, for the moment.

A jury on Tuesday decided that Apple's A7 smartphone chip infringes a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin, and the iPhone maker could now be on the hook for as much as $862 million in damages.