2017-05-03 18:24
Verizon sells its cloud and managed hosting services to IBM
Verizon shut down its public cloud service in early 2016, and is now unloading its virtual private cloud and managed hosting offerings to IBM.
2017-05-03 17:25
Google echoes Amazon's assurance on EU data protection compliance
Google has joined Amazon Web Services in promising customers of its cloud services that it will be compliant with new European Union data protection rules due to take effect next year.
2017-05-03 17:00
Report: Average ransomware demand now over $1,000
The average amount of a ransomware demand has increased from $294 in 2015 to $1,077 last year, according to a report released last week by Symantec.
2017-05-03 16:30
Micron's SolidScale system pushes SSDs out to shared storage
SSDs operate the fastest when inside a computer. Micron's new SolidScale storage system uproots SSDs from servers and pushes them into discrete boxes while reducing latency.
2017-05-03 15:32
Xen hypervisor faces third highly critical VM escape bug in 10 months
The Xen Project has fixed three vulnerabilities in its widely used hypervisor that could allow operating systems running inside virtual machines to access the memory of the host systems, breaking the critical security layer among them.
2017-05-03 15:15
Fidelis Cybersecurity appoints security executive Jason Clark to board of directors
Fidelis Cybersecurity has appointed Jason Clark to its board of directors. Clark is a noted security executive and business transformation leader with more than 20 years of experience with top-tier organizations. The company, which provides intrusion p
2017-05-03 15:00
Criminals turning to fraudulent gift cards
As retailers and other businesses increase security measures to prevent the use of gift cards purchased with stolen credit card numbers, cyber criminals have been focusing on fraudulent gift cards, according to a report released this morning by Flashpo
2017-05-03 12:31
False positives still cause threat alert fatigue
It is commonly referred to as information overload. An infosec professional throws out a wide net in hopes of stopping malware before it gets too deep into the network, but like a motion-sensor light, sometimes the alert catches a squirrel instead of a
2017-05-03 12:13
Making sense of cybersecurity qualifications
IBM’s cybersecurity division has hired nearly 2,000 professionals to its security team since 2015. Leaders recognize that the skills needed to succeed don't always come in the form of a traditional degree, but “the sheer volume of new certification
2017-05-03 12:00
GCC GNU compiler adds C++ 17 support
With the 7.1 version of the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), released this week, the platform gets early support for the C++ 17 standard and diagnostics enhancements.