Новости за 03.03.2017

Ransomware is running rampant. The SonicWall GRID Threat Network detected an increase from 3.8 million ransomware attacks in 2015 to 638 million in 2016. According to a Radware report, 49 percent of businesses were hit by a ransomware attack in 2016. Quite often the attacker asks for some amount of cybercurrency – usually Bitcoin – in exchange for providing a decryption key.

HackerOne, the company behind one of the most popular vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platforms, has decided to make its professional service available to open-source projects for free.

With Snap Inc. riding a successful IPO this week, company executives likely are calculating what to do with the money that's pouring in.

In November, President Donald Trump said on his first day in office he would order an investigation of H-1B abuses.

Targeted attacks are moving away from traditional malware to stealthier techniques that involve abusing standard system tools and protocols, some of which are not always monitored.

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Apple's Safari browser, like rival Internet Explorer (IE), has lost a significant number of users in the last two years, data published Wednesday showed.

The question of how the electronics industry recycles or disposes of old batteries came up again due to a Greenpeace protest of Samsung at Mobile World Congress this week.

Google isn’t saying it will and Apple’s iOS developer guidelines say it can’t, but a senior Googler set the cat among the pigeons when he suggested the company would like to put its Assistant tech on iPhones.

Humans create a lot of digital data. And figuring out the best way to store it is a challenge.

Chief Information Security Officers are a relatively rare breed. Information security is, after all, a fairly recent addition to or subset of IT, and while most large organizations now do profess to having a CISO, CSO or head of information security, many still don’t. Indeed, it’s often the case that a company appoints its first CISO in the aftermath of a data breach - like Target did in 2014 or Sony in 2011.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reportedly used a private email account to transact state business when he was governor of Indiana, and his AOL account was hacked once, according to a news report.

If you're looking to double the storage capacity of a pre-2016 MacBook or MacBook Pro -- and you're not into ripping and replacing your existing drive -- the TarDisk SD expansion card may be for you.

For more than one-third of Computerworld’s first 50 years, the Shark Tank column has given readers a place to share their true tales of IT life — or, perhaps more accurately, a place to vent. Every day online and — until not too long ago — every week in print, Shark Tank has offered beleaguered IT pros a safe haven where they can commiserate and console one another as they laugh, cry and rant about the exploits of hapless bosses and clueless users.

This big health insurance company relies heavily on insurance brokers to sell group policies to small and medium-size businesses, according to an IT pilot fish working there.

Sunday nights screw-up naming the Best Picture at the Oscars offers a lesson in defensive thinking, if not exactly in Defensive Computing.

Since 2005, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) has been introducing H-1B reform legislation in the House and getting nowhere. But with the bill he introduced today, he might have struck gold.

BARCELONA -- Venerable smartphone brands Motorola, Nokia and BlackBerry got new life at Mobile World Congress 2017, but that was primarily due to the influence of Chinese and Finnish manufacturers that have licensed the names.