Batchwiper is the latest malware that is targeting Iranian computers. The existence of the malware was reported by Iran’s CERTCC – Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center and according to reports it is designed to wipe disk partitions of data. Partitions labeled D through I are systematically erased, along with the desktop-based files of the ...

Alert Logic CEO Gray Hall shares that as we are entering a state of phenomenal cloud growth, an era of critical security has emerged as we are also facing an era of more critical apps. Cloud computing is increasingly considered quite simply as compute capacity, and it is a long time coming. Hall has been ...

Suresh Vaswani, the President of Dell Services sat down on theCube at DellWorld 2012 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. The Dell IT services division is an $8 billion and growing business. He shared his thoughts on this growth in services and Dell’s position on their services. The division has increased its global IT presence ...

Business of all sizes are always looking for an edge, and cloud computing in general has enabled many to gain significant benefits. There hasn’t always been a lot of choice if a company wanted affordable scale, optimized infrastructure, and ensured privacy with the ability to optimize their computer spend while unifying workloads. Just yesterday Austin-based Codero released ...

In today’s SocialANGLE Round-up, Kristin Feledy drills down the social news of the day.  Starting with Twitter, which announced that beginning December 12th all users will be equipped with updated Twitter profiles. The new feature will allow users to display their own style on their profile page by uploading a header photo.  Also, the latest versions of ...

On this morning’s NewsDesk program I spoke with show host Kristin Feledy regarding Huawei and their $90 million dollar R&D investment in Helsinki, Finland.  The center will be focusing on software research and development for smartphones and tablets with a particular task of further developing the customer user experience on Android and Windows Phone 8. ...

My first reaction to this whole saga of fugitive John McAfee was that it sounded like some kind of movie, and a damn good one too.  Well truth is stranger than fiction as we now we have confirmation from the Hollywood Reporter that this will probably end up as just that – a movie.  A ...

Bill Philbin VP of HP Storage was one of our guests on theCube at HP Discover 2012 Frankfurt.  Philbin shared his thoughts on a number of topics and led off with software-defined infrastructure. Put into its simplest form, these situations are where customers are looking to amortize their existing infrastructure in ways they want to. ...

Codero Hosting has added a third company office in Austin Texas.  The announcement also includes the addition of SVP of Product Development Chandler Vaughn to the company.  In a recent conversation with Vaughn, the strategic opportunities for Codero were made clear, from setting a base in Austin to a peek into the future of the ...

Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame has emerged from his solace in an Ecuadorian embassy to talk about a new book he has come out with, “Cyberpunks” Freedom and the Future of the Internet”. The headline is that Assange states that the internet may enslave us. The idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds. The ...