2017-03-15 13:30
Twitter accounts hacked, Twitter Counter steps forward as culprit
Twitter Counter, a third-party analytics service, appears once again to have provided a gateway for hackers to post messages to high-profile Twitter accounts.
2017-03-15 11:38
Hire a DDoS service to take down your enemies
With the onrush of connected internet of things (IoT) devices, distributed denial-of-service attacks are becoming a dangerous trend. Similar to what happened to DNS service provider Dyn last fall, anyone and everyone is in the crosshairs. The idea of u
2017-03-15 11:00
Spy agency, DOE, see China nearing supercomputing leadership
Advanced computing experts at the National Security Agency and the Department of Energy are warning that China is "extremely likely" to take leadership in supercomputing as early as 2020, unless the U.S. acts quickly to increase spending.
2017-03-15 11:00
Scaled-down Scala variant cuts ties to the JVM
Scala Native, which brings the Scala language closer to bare metal by leveraging LLVM compiler infrastructure, has been released, expanding opportunities for the platform on smaller devices.
2017-03-15 08:51
Court blocks American from suing Ethiopia for infecting his computer
An appeals court has barred an Ethiopian-born U.S. citizen from filing a civil suit against the African country, which allegedly infected his computer with spyware and monitored his communications.
2017-03-15 00:31
Wind River uses virtualization to turn M2M into IoT
Wind River, an IoT software division of Intel, wants to help industrial users bring their legacy machine-to-machine systems into the age of open source and cloud computing.
2017-03-14 22:03
Google Hangouts won't disappear for consumers despite enterprise focus
While Google Hangouts is making a shift to serve enterprise users, it won’t be vanishing for consumers.
2017-03-14 21:50
AWS follows Google with Reserved Instance flexibility changes
Customers who have Reserved Instance contracts with Amazon Web Services will be able to subdivide some of their Linux and Unix virtual machine instances while maintaining their capacity discounts, thanks to pricing changes announced Monday.
2017-03-14 21:31
US Army shows off its 'hoverbike' delivery drone
It's been a year since the U.S. Army began researching the use of a British-built hoverbike as an autonomous delivery drone for battlefields, and it recently showed off its progress.
2017-03-14 21:17
Microsoft stays security bulletins' termination
Microsoft today postponed the retirement of the security bulletins that for nearly two decades have described in detail the month's slate of vulnerabilities and accompanying patches.