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The hardware-based encryption built into popular Western Digital external hard disk drives has flaws that could allow attackers to recover data without knowing the user password.

Tesla shares plunged more than 15% after Consumer Reports announced it was withdrawing its recommendation of the company's flagship Model S P85D electric sedan.

Energy was high and ideas were flying at the recent 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and US CTO Megan Smith leading the charge.

The Irish Data Protection commissioner has agreed to investigate allegations that Facebook exposes its users' personal data to mass snooping by U.S. intelligence services, following a ruling of the High Court of Ireland on Tuesday.

The FCC announced late last week that it would investigate Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink and Frontier over highly strict service terms in wireline business service contracts, which critics say lock customers into their deals unfairly.

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced its Inspector vulnerability detection offering at its re:Invent conference a few weeks ago, there was an audible gasp as a number of AWS partners saw their addressable market evaporate in front of their eyes. It's an often-repeated scenario -- an AWS partner spends time and money building a solution that hangs off AWS's core services only to have AWS introduce a similar product a little later. It's not that AWS is particularly predatory -- it is, however... Читать дальше...

HTC on Tuesday unveiled its new 5-in. display One A9 smartphone with an unusual appeal to smartphone purists -- offering to sell it unlocked and with few alterations to pure Android 6.0 (Marshmallow).

What is the best notebook to take on the road? In my opinion, it’s not the one you use everyday, which might have all of your important business docs stored securely on a hard drive or your daughter’s senior picts you just off-loaded from a professional photographer. There’s the laptop you use at work, and then the laptop you carry to the airport terminal.

What with Samsung introducing its latest smartphones, Motorola coming out with the new Moto X and Moto G, and Google's Nexus 5X and 6P on the horizon, HTC has a lot of catching up to do. Its HTC One M9, which shipped last April, got excellent reviews, but despite that, the company's stock took a nosedive in August that did not bode well for its future.

Once a rite of passage for any teenager, owning a car is increasingly being overshadowed by the desire for a smartphone, a new survey shows.

My previous blog, about hidden Lenovo tracking software on their Think branded PCs, generated a bigger reaction than any of my previous blogs, and I have been writing about Defensive Computing for more than eight years. 

Samsung is reportedly announcing in January its next Galaxy S7 smartphone, which would come in two processor versions: Premium and Sub-Premium.

Coming off the heels of a major hardware announcement earlier this month, Microsoft revealed a smorgasbord of new initiatives aimed at boosting the appeal of its Surface tablets for large enterprises and other organizations such as schools and governments.

Nexus phones aren't your average Android devices. They're made by a variety of different manufacturers, with close involvement from Google -- and they're created specifically to show off the latest Android software. Between those factors and Google's ever-evolving nature, you really never know what interesting surprises are gonna pop up from one year to the next.

Want to visualize and interact with data on the go? Tableau Software has launched a free data exploration app for iPad that the company says "allows people to sculpt data into visualizations in seconds" with typical mobile gestures like pinch and swipe.

By many accounts, 2015 was the year of the big data professional, with data scientists even being hailed as the “sexiest job of the year” in one study. But 2016 may emerge as the year of the chief security officer, as another new study reveals that pay for CSOs is rising faster than most every other IT job.

The Internet crisis du jour concerns ad-blocking technologies. Although these tools have been available for years, their popularity has now reached a level to make them controversial, a situation that was magnified when Apple recently announced that for the first time it would allow ad blockers into the App Store.

It's been just over a year since Oracle first released an OpenStack version tailored for its namesake Linux distribution, and on Tuesday it followed up with a key update reworked specifically for today's containerized world.

Google's plan to encrypt user data on Android devices by default will get a new push with Android 6.0, also known as Marshmallow.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook teased us with tantalizing remarks about cars and offered some insights into Apple Music, but also let us know the new edition Apple TV ships next week. But don’t expect too much from the future of television just yet.

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While most of the public cloud runs on low-cost x86 hardware, it's not the only game in town. Rackspace is building a service using a new server based on IBM's Power processor, and now Fujitsu is making moves with its Sparc-based M10 Unix systems.

Tim Cook, Apple top chef, talks turkey. At the WSJD conflab, Cook was interviewed by Gerry Baker, who grilled him about many and various savory topics.

Healthcare organizations are latching on to big data for everything from population health management to genomic research. For Penn Medicine, the healthcare system and medical school affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, those technology advances are touching patients in very real ways.

How does a company operationalize its risk and security programs? More specifically, with all of the talk about big data, how does a company operationalize its threat intelligence process?

In the 1960s and 70s, technically savvy enthusiasts sought to game telecommunications systems to make free calls, keeping telecom engineers on their toes.