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Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed increasing attacks against DNS infrastructure: DDoS attacks against authoritative name servers, name servers used as amplifiers in DDoS attacks, compromised registrar accounts used to modify delegation information, cache poisoning attacks, and abuse of name servers by malware. Thankfully, we’ve also seen the concurrent development of powerful new mechanisms for combating those threats, including the DNS Security Extensions, response policy zones, and response rate limiting. Читать дальше...

At least two universities are testing or preparing to test wireless charging stations embedded along roadways that will incrementally recharge vehicles as they drive over them.

Smart cars, airports and hospitals are likely to increasingly become targets for hackers -- and now the European Union's Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has them in its sights too.

MasterCard on Monday unveiled secure payment prototypes in the form of rings, wristbands and car key fobs after working with NXP and Qualcomm to develop the chip-level technology.

Retailers have a traditionally bristly relationship with credit and bank card companies. These companies have tight control over the mobile payment process and this control translates into a very expensive value proposition for retailers. Not to mention the fact that card companies insert themselves in the middle of the retailer/customer relationship. This situation is both expensive, but perhaps more importantly limits the depth of the relationship between buyer and seller.

Oracle set its sights on a bigger piece of the cloud pie Tuesday with new IaaS services that put it in more direct competition with Amazon Web Services.

Jasper Technologies has been connecting Internet of Things gear for years. A new partnership with IBM will help companies do more with the data that comes out of those devices.

A drone carrying drugs, a cell phone, hacksaw blades and other contraband was discovered crashed in an Oklahoma prison yard on Monday.

Apple has lined up a growing list of partners to help it improve the enterprise capabilities of its mobile devices. Now it's turned to Telogis, a provider of software solutions for managing fleets of mobile workers, which will refine its existing iOS apps and build new experiences for Apple's mobile platforms.

If there was any single take-away message from Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd at the company's OpenWorld show this week, it was that Oracle has now fully arrived at the cloud party and is ready to lead. Whether that can happen, however, is entirely up to customers -- and their buy-in is far from guaranteed.

South Korean organizations are being targeted in attacks with a new stealthy backdoor program that gives attackers full access to infected computers.

Thanks to the ever-marching progression of Moore’s Law, we’re moving into the era where data itself becomes a traded commodity. Before we look at this megatrend and how it will almost certainly impact nearly everything and everyone on Earth in some form, let’s take a brief look at where we’ve been:

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Apple’s connected mobile technologies are transforming personal health, from getting in shape to health insurance and medical monitoring and research. I caught up with health-focused iOS app developer Bojan Bostjancic, Azumio CEO, to discuss mobile’s impact on healthcare.

“We continue to believe the smartphone will be the unified tool for monitoring and taking care of the health and livelihood of every human being in future,”Bostjancic  explains.

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NoSQL databases scale by adding more commodity servers. With more commodity servers come increased costs and complexities. Some NoSQL systems are better at this than others and need less.

Microsoft's best advice to combat tech support scams? Hang up the phone.

The highest authorities on data protection from the European Union’s 28 member nations issued a statement on Oct. 16 declaring that unless the U.S. National Security Agency modifies its surveillance procedures by the end of January, they may launch a coordinated enforcement campaign against U.S. companies that have privacy protections they deem inadequate. Moreover, they added, any member state has their support to immediately initiate similar enforcement actions on its own accord.

In this CXO Talk interview Oracle CIO Mark Sunday discusses the role of IT, the relationship with the business and the impact of digital transformation on IT. He also shares his connection with customers and how he oversees the technical integration when Oracle acquires a new company.

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to consider early Tuesday the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, a controversial bill that is intended to encourage businesses to share information about cyberthreats with the government by providing them immunity from customer lawsuits.

OpenStack Foundation, the backer of an open-source project for software to build cloud services, has launched Project Navigator, an online tool to make it easier for new users to choose from the over 25 cloud-related services or projects offered under its aegis.

The UK ISP TalkTalk is still rushing about, trying to work out what actually happened last week. And now we learn that police have arrested and bailed a 15-year-old young man (or "boy" as the British press prefer it).

Microsoft's Office Lens scanning app finally made the jump away from Windows Phone and onto other mobile platforms earlier this year, giving users an easy way to capture physical documents and turn them into files for Microsoft's suite of software.

Nexus phones present a strange duality. To Android enthusiasts, they're the most buzzworthy devices of the year. And for good reason: They're the flagships of Google's Android platform, carefully crafted to show off the latest software and services -- and they get speedy ongoing updates directly from Google itself.

It's the weekly staff meeting in this IT department, and there's clearly a disconnect, reports a pilot fish on the scene.

It’s likely that you already have a variety of security tools -- intrusion prevention, network access control, endpoint security, mobile device management – that come with automation capabilities designed to quickly find and stop attacks.

A wireless network planned for San Francisco could once again make the local library the best place to go for information.