Новости за 08.08.2016

Daniel Strabley's day job is helping to protect the U.S. from weapons of mass destruction. He works on a software suit that interacts with sensors to detect chemical and radiation threats. The sensor information, as you may imagine, is complicated, and one of his tasks is to make it understandable to users.

Want to skip wearing your Fitbit or Jawbone when you’re out for a run or hitting spin class?

Kinsa Smart Thermometer takes accurate readings in just 10 seconds. It is also incredibly durable, comfortable, and easy to use.  With the free iOS & Android app it remembers and records fever, symptoms and medications for each family member on your phone so you don’t have to. Keep track for yourself, another caregiver, or your doctor.

If you've ever downloaded software, chances are you've experienced an all-too-common surprise: ads or other unwanted programs that tagged along for the ride, only to pop up on your PC uninvited. Turns out there's a highly lucrative global industry making it happen, with "layers of deniability" to protect those involved.

Google has acquired Orbitera, a startup that aims to make it easier for software vendors to sell cloud-based products to businesses. The startup gives software vendors a suite of tools for deploying and managing cloud applications and for billing businesses that use them.

With cyberattacks putting everyone on edge, companies are looking for ethical hackers--IT pros paid handsomely to hack their network, expose security flaws, and fix them before someone else breaks in. Learn the tools of the ethical hacking trade with the Become an Ethical Hacker Bundle, now only $44.99 for a limited time.

Russian cybercriminals have infiltrated systems at Micros -- an Oracle division that is one of the world's biggest vendors of point-of-sale payment systems for shops and restaurants -- according to an influential security blogger.

AT&T will pay a $7.75 million fine for allowing suspected drug traffickers to add millions of dollars in bogus directory assistance charges to its customers' landline bills.

Microsoft last week bolstered its claim that Windows 10 will be its last operating system by extending the OS's support lifetime to 2026.

Not everything is obvious to new players

Image by Niantic / Pokémon

I wouldn’t have loaded Pokémon Go on my cellphone if I had known more about how it works. My intention was to kill some time while I was traveling and help my children out by catching some Pokémon in places they couldn’t go. Killing time was no problem; I’m now on Level 24. But I later learned that you can’t trade Pokémon (at least not yet). Hours of game time later, I am still picking up things that would have been useful to know much sooner. Читать дальше...

One of the most popular models for analyzing cyberattacks doesn’t focus  enough on what to do after adversaries break into networks successfully, which they inevitable will do, Black Hat 2016 attendees were told this week in Las Vegas.

The Federal Trade Commission made an appeal at DEF CON in Las Vegas last week in hopes of getting hackers to help them crack down on manufacturers and service providers that leave customers vulnerable.

I’ve been managing cybersecurity product development for about two decades, including running the firewall business at a large networking company for several years. During this time, I’ve met a number of very interesting technical professionals from the NSA and the CIA. Recently, I had drinks with someone who was responsible for managing the offensive cyber capability for the NSA.

The word ransomware conjures images of kidnappers and ransom notes. But that doesn't quite capture the reality of PC ransomware. In fact, "it’s not always obvious when ransomware is the problem," says Mike Cobb, director of engineering at data recovery and digital forensics firm DriveSavers.

Hundreds of millions of Android devices based on Qualcomm chipsets are likely exposed to at least one of four critical vulnerabilities that allow non-privileged apps to take them over.

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Oh goody, a hacker could crank up the temperature of a smart thermostat to a sweltering 99 degrees and leave the IoT device like that until its owner pays a ransom to regain control.

The debate about whether frequent password changing is a good or a bad practice is raging.

When it comes to Apple there’s facts, FUD and opinions, but one industry watcher with a good reputation of getting things right, KGI analyst, Ming-chi Ku, thinks there’s not one but two new Apple Watch models coming this year.

It's Monday, and you know what that means -- it's Apple rumor time!

These rumors have some weight to them, though, thanks to the source -- Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst with KGI Securities who has had accurate insight into Apple announcements in the past. This time Kuo is speculating about the Apple Watch 2 and what changes will be coming to the wearable, along with upgrades coming to the Apple Watch 1. So what can we expect?

In IT Blogwatch, we're not in Cupertino anymore.

So what does Kuo have to say? Читать дальше...

One of the long-held truths about life as a C-level in a Fortune 500 company is that money — and the number of projects under your command — is power. And, the mantra continues, power is good. Power is respect. The goal, by the way, of having power is to achieve far more power. Target's CIO has a very different view.

Delta said Monday morning that its flights awaiting departure were delayed because of a widespread computer outage.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new chief data scientist likens the adoption of big data analytics at the agency to the early adoption of the iPhone in 2007. Those early adopters "didn't know exactly what it was, but they wanted to use it because they perceived the value," says Robin Thottungal.

Bitfinex, the digital currency exchange in Hong Kong that reported a bitcoin theft last week, has decided to shave a little over 36 percent from its customers' accounts and assets to make up for losses from the hack.

This IT pilot fish works for a big museum, and he's just finishing up some maintenance on a PC when the secretary for a museum executive asks him for help.