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Hackers exploited app bug, then advertised data in underground forums, researchers say.

And this is the agency that wants to regulate the internet A laughably insecure comment system has left US comms watchdog the FCC open to malware attack, and the agency doesn't seem to know what to do about it.…

Irsquo;ve gone from recommending that you should have devops to you must havenbsp;devops.

At least, if a public cloud is in your future.There are two fundamental reasons why cloud computing and devops are necessary complements.[ What is devops? Discover how to transform software development. | Also: InfoWorld explains monitoring in the age of devops. ]First, the public clouds are all about automation, and so is devops. Devops takes advantage of orchestration systems that can autoprovision and autoscale, as well as proactively monitor the application workloads and data sets in the public clouds.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Relinquish your IP or lose one of the world's largest markets China's new cybersecurity law will enable its government to discover potential security vulnerabilities of any company doing business in the country, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future warns.…

Broken the law while spying? Someone will write to you, later The latest agency that audits state spying in the UK, the Investigatory Powers Commission (IPCO), formally started operating today.…

A simple Google search would have found oodles of prior art.

It combines the cellular modem and direct short-range radio together in one.

This is the fifth orbital rocket failure of 2017.

UK watchdog echoes Home Sec in anti-crypto comments The UKrsquo;s “independent reviewer of terrorism legislationrdquo; appears to have gone rogue, saying that encryption should be withheld from people who donrsquo;t verify their identities on social media.…

Sydney September 1, 2017 Equiteq, a global consulting and IT services sector MA specialist, is pleased to announce the merger of its client, GNC Group Consulting (“GNC Grouprdquo;), with Grant Thornton Australia (“Grant Thorntonrdquo;).

The transaction completed on September 1, 2017.GNC Group is a Melbourne-based retail and consumer product focused management consulting firm. Now in its eighth year of operation, the firm has a growing team of 55 and has opened offices in Sydney and... Source: RealWire

Subtle or camouflaged optical hacks can change a stop sign into something else.

Open source projects, companies and business models have been with us for more than two decades now.

There are business success stories around Linux, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Apache Camel, and others that deliver fully open source products.While the build environments and parameters may or may not be available to build the same certified binaries, the source code is available for users to pick up and use on their own if they so choose.Enterprise IT may go on their own either for initial deployments if total-cost-of-ownership analysis is not favorable for the product subscription or to migrate to in the case if dissatisfied with vendor quality and/or service.

This is the so-called “.org challengerdquo; to open source companies to deliver enough ongoing value to counter the self-support urge of customers and potential customers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

California's Supreme Court rules authorities must justify denying data requests Police departments cannot categorically deny access to data collected through automated license plate readers, California's Supreme Court said on Thursday – a ruling that may help privacy advocates monitor government data practices.…

Looking to mix physical and digital spaces, Google has released a beta SDK for augmented reality, dubbed ARCore, that is focused on bringing augmented reality (AR) to Android smartphones.ARCore is built on Googlersquo;s Tangonbsp;AR technology.

Developers can build new AR apps or enhance existing ones with AR capabilities. (Applersquo;s forthcoming iOS 11 has augmented reality APIs as well, called ARKit.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here