IDG News Service - Cellular telecom carriers spent Saturday working to restore wireless service to customers across the U.S. northeast, which is just beginning to pick itself up from the battering it suffered earlier in the week from ...
Tags: Cellular telecom, wireless service, cell sites, company news
IDG News Service - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added PowerShell to the management options for its cloud, in a move that reaches out to the Windows community. Part of Amazon's Microsoft push is to let developers and administrators manage ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, PowerShell, cloud, AWS services
Computerworld - Ransomware is a growth industry that puts at least $5 million annually into criminals' coffers, Symantec said Thursday. "If you look at the nature of the beast, it really puts the screws to you," said Kevin Haley, director ...
IDG News Service - It looks like a bull, trots at the speed of a wolf and carries equipment like a pack mule, but does it have a place on the battlefield of the future Researchers are conducting a two-year study of a robot that promises to ...
Tags: DARPA, Robotic Mule, four-legged robot, LS3 program
IDV Solutions today announced a free, publicly accessible visualization application that lets users interactively explore more than 60 years' worth of data about tornadoes in the United States. The original Tornado Tracks infographic was ...
Tags: IDV Solutions, application, US, electronical development
Computerworld - An elite hacker group targeting defense industry sub-contractors has an inexhaustible supply of zero-days, or vulnerabilities that have yet to be publicized, much less patched, Symantec said today. In a blog post, the ...
Tags: Elite hacker gang, zero day bugs, Google, hackers, zero day
CIO - If you lead an IT shop today, chances are at least some of the employees who report to you are millennials--young adults in their 20s. Millennials--also known as Generation Y--think about life and work differently than older boom and ...
Tags: IT, Millennials, IT Environment, MTV
Security researchers have identified a botnet controlled by its creators over the Tor anonymity network. It's likely that other botnet operators will adopt this approach, according to the team from vulnerability assessment and penetration ...
Tags: Security researcher, botnet, Tor network, DDoS
IDG News Service - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Wednesday doubled down on the company's embrace of social networking software, urging customers, partners and prospects to join him in a "social revolution," during a keynote address at ...
Tags: social networking software, networking software, software
A new Flame and Stuxnet-related cyber-threat,dubbed Gauss,is targeting users in the Middle East,security researchers have revealed. Gauss is a complex,state-sponsored cyber-espionage toolkit with online banking Trojan functionality not ...
webMethods 9.0 unites cloud, social, mobile and big data technologies in a major development of the company's Cloud & Big Data strategies. Software AG unveiled a major update to its webMethods product suite at its ProcessWorld event in ...
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The former boss of the UK's MI5 security service has caused a security scare by losing her laptop at Heathrow. Stella Rimington left the computer on a luggage trolley from where it was stolen, according to the The Sun. The laptop is ...
In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor Cloudmark, poses a new challenge for ...
Tags: botnet, SMS spam, Android phones, victims
LONDON, ENGLAND, August 07, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- 4dots Software Releases New Free Application To Extract Images From PDF Documents. 4dots Software released a new free application that extracts images from PDF documents and has many ...
Tags: 4dots Software, PDF documents, batch image editing, PDF Image Extractor
Pay rates for software engineers are defying the downturn amid concerns that the UK faces a growing shortage of skilled programming professionals. Over a quarter of in-house software engineers have seen pay rises of 10%or more during the ...
Tags: software engineers, pay rates, UK