Network Security
Most Common Cybersecurity Threats And How Hackers Exploit Them
The digital world is a rapidly evolving industry with constant innovations and additions. While it is a good thing, it also opens up new doors for hackers to exploit. According to various ...
YouTube To Lead Ultra-HD Industry Shift with 4K Streaming
January 3, 2014 12:10PM One major downside to the VP9 video codec that YouTube is pushing for 4K streaming is that both it and VP8 have been relatively unpopular, so TVs and ...
Can Foxconn Partnership Save BlackBerry?
December 20, 2013 12:44PM Beleaguered Canadian handset maker BlackBerry has inked a deal with iPhone maker Foxconn, under which the Taiwanese company will develop BlackBerry phones. Foxconn will also manage BlackBerry’s inventory, ...
L.A. Cloud Contract Goes To Google Over Microsoft
Los Angeles has awarded a $7.5 million contract for cloud-computing services to Google, which beat out Microsoft. Despite protests, the L.A. City Council accepted Google’s bid with incentives to avoid security breaches. ...
It’s Official — Bing Goes the Microsoft Search Engine
May 28, 2009 2:36PM It’s official — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that Bing is the new search engine that will replace Windows Live Search. When Bing is fully ready, it ...
Chrome Is Like Teflon in Browser-Hacking Contest
The Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security conference aims to unearth browser flaws. This year, “white-hat” hackers at Pwn2Own took down Safari on Mac OS X, IE8 and Firefox. Only Google’s Chrome ...
Researchers Show ‘Secure’ Sites May Not Be Safe
U.S. and European researchers have demonstrated that digital certificates using the MD5 algorithm can be faked. While some https sites are moving away from MD5, virtually all browsers still accept those “secure” ...
DVRs Are Essential To Households, Study Finds
September 3, 2008 10:22AM Digital video recorders like TiVo have become the second most essential technology in a home, behind mobile phones, a new NDS Group survey says. DVRs were ranked more ...
Swiss Bank Drops Controversial Wikileaks Suit
March 6, 2008 12:36PM The dismissal of the Wikileaks.org suit by Swiss bank Julius Baer came after a warning about liability. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White had reversed his shutdown order ...
Did China’s Great Firewall Cause Web Outage?
GreatFire.org, a group in opposition to China’s censorship that monitor’s the nation’s Internet goings on, has three theories about the Internet outage in China. Two of them are related to Falun Gong, ...