Новости за 10.03.2016

If PINs, passwords and biometrics just aren't making you feel secure about your smartphone contents, researchers at Rutgers University might have a new alternative: free-form gestures.

Adobe Systems released new versions of Flash Player in order to fix 18 critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take over computers, including one flaw that's already targeted by attackers.

Microsoft was a late entrant into the unified communication market. In a very short period of time, the company has jumped from relative obscurity to the No.2 market share vendor and now offers a robust premises-based solution with Skype for Business (formerly Lync) and burgeoning cloud service within Office 365. Microsoft’s best partner throughout this journey has been Polycom, which is the main supplier of IP phones to Microsoft Skype for Business or Office 365 customers.   

Broadband providers would often be required to get customer permission to use and share personal data they collect under regulations proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Blu-ray and DVD drives are being kicked out of PCs but finding a new life in data centers as storage that can retain data for up to 100 years.

Smartphones and tablets are becoming a fixture in business as industries embrace mobile technology -- for example, field workers are relying on portable rugged devices and  retail shops are managing an entire store from a single tablet. So it's not surprising that technology manufacturers are rushing to become the industry standard.

Savvy companies are getting smarter about compensation, and are using transparency, variable pay and bonuses to recognize their best employees.

Microsoft's Visual Studio added support for the R programming language this week with the unveiling of the open-source R Tools for Visual Studio, now available in public preview.

It’s ecosystem partnership week. And data center stalwart Mellanox, SDN start-up Plexxi and Cisco partner vArmour have all delivered.

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away. The company has made a number of announcements around its Skype for Business Online product geared toward conference calls and online meetings while killing off Skype for TV.

Almost exactly a year ago Salesforce launched an app that brings CRM data into Microsoft's Outlook email software, and on Thursday it made a like-minded move with its SalesforceIQ Inbox product for what it calls "relationship intelligence."

Police in Oregon are warning online shoppers that the pricey LEGO sets they’re seeing offered for a steal, may, in fact, be stolen. From a TV news report.

We all remember the Verizon Wireless commercials that asked “Can you hear me now?” over and over again from different locations around the world. While the ad campaign may have been repetitive, Verizon was driving home the point that its network had broad wireless network reachability.

Networks able to understand contextual clues will improve security, flexibility and provide broad new feature sets, said Aruba founder and CTO Keerti Melkote in a keynote address from the company’s Atmosphere conference on Wednesday.

It’s been a week since my last meetings at RSA and I’m already thinking about travel plans and agendas for Infosec Europe and Black Hat.  Before closing the book on RSA 2016 however, I have a few final thoughts about the industry and cybersecurity professional community.

Numerous telcos, like Verizon, CenturyLink and Tata, have publicly said they are evaluating the feasibility of selling off data center assets. This seems to have created a flurry of hasty conclusions that ‘the data center is dead’.

Cisco Systems has patched high-impact vulnerabilities in several of its cable modem and residential gateway devices that are distributed by some ISPs to their customers.

Microsoft's Kinect was one of its most impressive hardware creations. For a relatively low cost, it allowed for fairly accurate motion detection and voice recognition, which led to the development of games where players got off the couch and jumped around, manipulating the game with their bodies instead of a controller.

As businesses are scrambling to make better use of the growing volume of data they are collecting, the federal government sees in big data an opportunity for meaningful social improvement.

If you think of DevOps as failing fast – as Facebook used to put it, “move fast and break things” – then you might also think of rapid releases, automation and continuous integration and deployment as giving you less time to find security problems. After all, you’re changing code, updating features and adding new capabilities more rapidly. That means more chances to introduce bugs or miss vulnerabilities.

CIOs who strive to be board members must be able to communicate with senior executives and rapidly analyze balance sheets, 10-K filings and other financial documents. But there is much more to serving on a board than showing up for meetings and discussing corporate strategies. Board membership requires CIOs to build rapports with senior managers, which they say helps them become better leaders at their own companies

Programmers love to sneer at the world of fashion where trends blow through like breezes. Skirt lengths rise and fall, pigments come and go, ties get fatter, then thinner. But in the world of technology, rigor, science, math, and precision rule over fad.

Google's Android 6.0 Marshmallow release may have been announced last October -- but if you're like the majority of Android users, it's probably pretty new to you right about now. Heck, you might even still be waiting to receive it! (The joys of Android upgrades, eh?)

The FCC has slapped hotels and other organizations with nearly $2.1 million in fines since the fall of 2014 for blocking patrons’ portable Wi-Fi hotspots in the name of IT security, or more likely, to gouge customers for Internet service. But Network World’s examination of more than a year’s worth of consumer complaints to the FCC about Wi-Fi jamming shows that not all venue operators are getting the message (see infographic below).

Updated 03/09/16: Added the link to the over-the-air beta update enrollment page.