Новости за 10.08.2016

A flaw in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used by Linux since late 2012 poses a serious threat to internet users, whether or not they use Linux directly.

The size of SSDs are ramping up at a dizzying pace, and Samsung is intensifying the race with its highest-capacity 32TB SSD.

HP wants to add augmented reality to its Elite x3 smartphone, and it's looking at Microsoft's HoloLens as one way to do it.

Fitbit trackers come in various models and fitting each individuals fitness needs. Discounts are now being offered for many of these models.  Below are several of the models that are currently discounted on Amazon.

A security firm is offering up to $500,000 for information on zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS, surpassing Apple's bug bounty just days after it was announced.

Some city-funded broadband networks may be in trouble after a U.S. appeals court struck down Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibited states from restricting those projects.

Google yesterday set an early December deadline for purging most Flash content from its Chrome browser, adding that it will take an interim step next month when it stops rendering Flash-based page analytics.

This is going to get interesting.

President Obama -- ostensibly through The White House and his administration and staff, natch -- now has a personal chatbot on Facebook Messenger. You can ask a question like “how many steps do you do per day using your FitBit?” or “Can you send me a selfie?” and the bot will parse out your question, confirm a few things...and then proceed to create a security nightmare for you that could prove to be the worst thing Facebook has done in their existence to betray user privacy. Читать дальше...

The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD), enabled by default on Windows and supported by other operating systems, can expose computer users' online accounts, web searches and other private data, security researchers warn.

Business leaders will tell you that overseeing a company is undoubtedly risky.

Box has made no secret of its global ambitions, and on Wednesday it advanced them another step by announcing two new regional "zones" in Canada and Australia.

Microsoft released another batch of security patches Tuesday, fixing 27 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and its new Edge browser.

This August Patch Tuesday from Microsoft brings a relatively light series of updates, with five rated as critical and the remaining four rated as important.

What do a cute cat and Hitler have in common? Both are featured in ransomware; Hitler targets PCs and the cat-themed ransomware targets Androids.

Putting a little more iOS in macOS, Apple intends introducing a MacBook Pro equipped with a responsive OLED function control strip, according to Bloomberg. Why will you use this?

Like many people in this modern, hyper-connected age, I have a huge number of people that I'm in contact with. Not only do I have a lot of contacts, but I also have contact lists that exist in multiple locations -- there's my email contact list, of course, but also Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and 101 other locations where my "posse" exists. Managing all these contacts, while very much a first-world problem, is a pain. People change jobs regularly, duplicated contacts get created, and generally... Читать дальше...

The best tech jobs in 2016

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Computers, smartphones, tablets, e-readers -- technology touches every aspect of our daily lives. It facilitates business, communication, travel, entertainment and healthcare, just to name a few, and the industry boasts high salaries and low unemployment rates. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that technology jobs will grow at a rate of 12 percent this decade, almost twice the growth rate of jobs growth overall.

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Another day, another multimillion dollar acquisition.

This time, Intel is buying Nervana Systems, a deep learning startup based out of California. The deal speaks volumes about Intel's hopes for the future and where the company is going. So what is it that Intel wants to accomplish?

In IT Blogwatch, we wait for our machine overlords. 

So what are the details of the deal? Ina Fried has the background:

If you are developing a web application and have picked Python as the language to build it in, that’s a smart move. Python’s maturity of development, robust libraries and breadth of real-world adoption have helped make it a no-brainer for web development.

Do millennials make up a substantial portion of your IT staff? If not, they will soon. Within a few years, millennials — roughly defined as people born after 1981 — will comprise the biggest demographic in the country, overtaking the baby boomers, who are today's most populous generation. By 2020, one-third of U.S. adults will be millennials, according to researchers at the University of Southern California. PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that they will also account for more than 50% of the workforce by that time. Читать дальше...

Is your website data-driven or data-informed? If “data-less” is a more accurate description, let’s take a step back and look at what it takes for sites to adopt a data-driven mindset and strategy.

Endpoint protection

The days of simple endpoint protection based on traditional anti-malware tools are over. There are now advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools that go beyond proactive monitoring and endpoint protection. They evaluate threats in a larger ecosystem, combining the best aspects from network intrusion detection and examining the individual process level on each computer. That is a tall order, and the 10 products tested are all very capable. However, no one product does everything. Читать дальше...

These IT auditors work for a state government, and though the group is small, they can generate some very big files, according to a pilot fish on the scene.

Oracle has denied in a California federal court charges leveled by a former manager that she was sacked after she refused to cook accounts in the company’s cloud business and threatened to blow the whistle on the accounting practices.

Intel is buying deep-learning startup Nervana Systems in a deal that could help it make up for lost ground in the increasingly hot area of artificial intelligence.