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Microsoft Too Can Get Hip with MAKER Culture but It’s Weak MAKE-fu
Innovation is a fleeting firefly chased by every company and corporation, but often its an ideal arising out of a sudden leap forward by an individual and not part of the everyday grind. In many ways, this is why I gravitate towards looking at organizations such as Hacker Dojo and other in-your-garage oriented inventive and ...
North American Blizzard Players Swept Up in Hack that Also Breached Authenticators
Blizzard, the well known publisher of super-popular games such as World of Warcraft and Diablo 3, has suffered a breach—as a result, before jumping back into the game (or if you’re a hardcore gaming before doing anything) you should log into the web page and change your Battle.net password. This week, Blizzard published a security ...
Anonymous Strikes Back Against Ukrainian Government over BitTorrent with #OpDemonoid
The Anonymous hacktivist collective has pulled their try-hard pants on and taken their stomping books to the Ukrainian government over the takedown of the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid. As reported by TorrentFreak, the raid appears to have been done at the behest of IFPI (and potentially to earn brownie points with United States copyright regimes) ...
A Week of Infiltration, from the Olympics to Dropbox and Beyond
This week we’ve seen a dipping off of the London Olympics as the schedule begins to wind down, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not looking at it edgewise from the point of view of Big Data—Saroj Kar notices this year people around the world are able to tune in via the Internet, mobile devices, ...
Adrian Cockcroft Architecture Director at Netflix in #theCube Talking Chaos Monkey and Cassandra
John Furrier sat down in theCube to speak with Adrian Cockcroft, Director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix, and together they spoke about how Netflix handled the recent power outages, the AWS cloud failure, and how their system has grown from its inception into the behemoth of public cloud power it has ...
H+ Teaser Video: The H is for Post-Apocalyptic Transhumanism
Science fiction has always been a gold mine for the hopes and dreams of geeks everywhere—in fact, people might still think about the whole meme of “It’s the 21st century, where’s my flying cars?” One of the aspects of data technology is that it helps us become more than human, in fact, every device that ...
How Does Enterprise Solve “The Dropbox Problem” ShareFile Provider Citrix Speaks
It’s been a lot like the poem The Highwayman recently with the IT industry a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas and as a result many in enterprise have been looking to how to provide cloud locker services to their employees and also maintain a secure perimeter. New, shiny applications have always found their way ...
Hacker Dojo Auctions Off Its Geek Smarts for Charity
Geeks have always been greater than the sum of their stereotypes and the developer community center Hacker Dojo is taking that to the next level. The idea of an incubator isn’t one lost on us technological folks and bringing together great minds to saunas and summits or simply setting aside a space to be a ...
Dropbox Acknowledges Employee Hacked; Threats Don’t Always Hit the Clients Directly
Over the recent weeks, fears of a breach at Dropbox fueled a great deal of speculation when clients of the cloud-storage service discovered an increase in spam coming to e-mail addresses they registered there. To their credit, Dropbox quickly got the ball rolling on an investigation into what happened and how they could have leaked ...
What We can Learn from What Netflix Learned from the AWS Failure
Late in June (last month) the Amazon Web Services suffered a catastrophic series of failures often now referred to as an “AWS Storm” and Netflix found themselves caught up in the middle of it as their own servers were intimately linked to Amazon’s. Of course, an actual storm caused the AWS storm, but the effects ...