Microsoft has posted bounties of up to $US100,000 ($106,000) for "truly novel" ways to hack the latest version of its Windows software for powering computers. "For the first time ever, Microsoft is offering direct cash payouts in exchange ...
Tags: Microsoft, Hacking Bountries
Microsoft has reversed the DRM [digital rights management] policy for its upcoming new console, the Xbox One, only a week after it was announced. The policy, made public on 10 June 2013 at the Electronics Entertainment Expo [E3] in LA, ...
Tags: Microsoft, DRM Policy, Xbox One
This article is about the progression in technology of animation which is very facilitative in designing the building and other images. Earlier people use to make sketches with pen or pencil. This process was time consuming. Therefore ...
Tags: Industrial Mechanical, Manufacturing&Processing Machinery, 3D Animation
Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the cloud for big customers is a similar type of lock-in as they experience with on-premise apps vendors such as Oracle and SAP, two CIOs said Tuesday. ...
SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to ...
Tags: SAP Security, HTTP Services
Java continues to be Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to computer and network security. Oracle released a huge update for the virtually ubiquitous software, but attackers aren’t done exploiting Java as the weakest link in the security ...
Tags: Java Update, Oracle
The latest Chevrolet Spark is the most recent EV to attempt to shatter electric cars' reputation as anemic and inept. And it succeeds, being the best version of this small hatchback. Unlike the Mitsubishi i, this is no glorified golf cart. ...
Tags: Chevrolet Spark, EV, Transportation
While LED LCD TVs seem to get all the attention, and certainly the lion's share of sales, 2013 is actually turning out to be something of a renaissance for plasma TVs—at least in terms of picture quality. Leading the charge are ...
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
Tags: Facebook, Network Fabric, Social Network
There was a largely euphoric reaction online in the hours after Microsoft reversed its policies for the upcoming Xbox One game console, which had restricted resales of used games and required a constant Internet connection. A Facebook ...
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox One, DRM Reversal
CEO of business analytics and intelligence firm Jim Goodnight is glad his company does not have to C"strange world of the internet", and is mystified by Google's recent decision to spend $1bn for crowd-sourced GPS app Waze. Goodnight told ...
Wall Street plans to hold a simulated cyber-attack against equity markets this month that experts hope will set an example of how industries should test their defences against assailants. Called Quantum Dawn 2, the drill will involve big ...
Tags: Wall Street, Security Defences
LeaseWeb, one of Europe's biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn't warned. "This is the largest data massacre in the history of ...
Tags: LeaseWeb, 630 Megaupload Servers
Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or later ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8, IE, Security Bounty Programs
There's been a lot of buzz surrounding the Tesla Model S, so I was anxious to get a chance to live with it for a few days and see if I felt it deserved the top score awarded by my engineer colleagues. I am happy to say, the car did not ...