First there was Stuxnet, then there was Flame – cyberweapons allegedly designed by the U.S. along with Israel against Iran and their nuclear centrifuges.  Now there are reports that Iran has been “Thunderstruck” by a new attack that makes the target computer play the hard rock song “Thunderstruck” by the Australian rock group AC/DC at ...

Marissa Mayer is now the CEO of Yahoo.  The move is a surprising catch and major coup for Yahoo, which for years has been struggling to stay alive and losing market share in the search engine business. The former Google executive is a well-recognized and very public presence in Silicon Valley.  Her history at the company ...

Talking about DevOps can be quite conceptual in many cases.  How we integrate the Devops concept into the architecture of a company can quite literally be a blend of arts, discipline and the science of technology.  Where that line is drawn is really variable and it depends on a number of factors. At the intersection ...

It is currently expected that hundreds of thousands of infected PCs will lose internet connectivity come Monday July 9 at 12:01 am.  The loss of connectivity is related to a widespread virus and massive botnet, known as the DNSChanger virus.  At one point, a reported 4 million computers around the world were estimated to have ...

As Johnny Ringo said in Tombstone – “Smell that Bill?  Smells like someone died.”  It sure is looking that way for RIM, the once dominant and undisputed smartphone market giant.  With an enormous business user base, RIM failed to convert that into the consumer market.  As the iPhone hit the market, the beginnings of RIM’s ...

As confirmed here on SiliconAngle today, the acquisition of Quest Software by Dell was officially announced. The move had been anticipated under a cloak of anonymity in a bidding war for some time.  John Furrier notes, “This will augment Dell’s transformation to a full blown services company” The move is indeed significant and is a ...

Researchers at a university lab have successfully hacked a government DHS-owned unmanned aerial vehicle, known as a “drone” in a low-buck challenge.  The research team at University of Texas at Austin built a device that was able to spoof critical GPS systems on the drone craft with components totaling in the neighborhood of $1000.  The ...

Breaking this morning from Sky News is a report that a massive cyber fraud scheme has been uncovered on over 60 banking institutions around the world.  The scheme has pilfered an estimated 75 million dollars from a number of high balance accounts from the various institutions.  Automated software has infiltrated server systems and utilized a system of ...

This country is clearly engaged in active digital warfare. That is by launching Cyber Atacks against another nation, we have effectively declared a digital war against that nation.  This is reinforced as according to Secretary of Defense Leon Panneta, “A crippling Cyber Attack would be ‘Act of War’”, echoing a similar statement made by the ...

When the dust settles and the smoke clears, and the elections of 2012 are over there will be victors and there will be losers.  Rest assured that until then, each side will try to gain every edge possible; whether that edge is in technology, media, or whatever else that is a certainty as is always ...