Mark Albertson

Mark Albertson is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He is an experienced technology reporter, recognized by Onalytica as a "Who's Who In Cloud Influencer" and named to Peerlyst’s “24 Powerful Cybersecurity Journalists.” Prior to SiliconANGLE, Mark wrote for the San Francisco Examiner, Blasting News, and CBS-Bay Area.

Latest from Mark Albertson

Bank sees enhanced data recovery, blockchain adoption in financial world

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The banking industry has been buffeted by the winds of change as international regulation and increasing cyberattacks are forcing financial institutions to ensure they have the strongest possible security controls and backups for critical data. This has forced data center managers to …

As network security becomes ‘irrelevant,’ here’s how Zscaler guards the cloud

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

During a major computer security conference two years ago, Zscaler set up a booth on the tradeshow floor and spent the week destroying various security devices made by other companies with a large hammer. The point did not go unnoticed. As business …

Distributed data challenge: Unifi develops tools to democratize data

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The growth of big data has led many organizations to store petabytes of valuable information in a centralized repository, more out of necessity than by design. But the value of a central data lake is increasingly being questioned, as end-users demand access …

Twitter uses Node.js to slim down and speed up its mobile web app

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Many years ago, a beverage company advertised its latest low-calorie product by proclaiming that “it tastes great and is less filling.” Now Twitter has borrowed a page from that script with the release of Twitter Lite, a Progressive Web App that could …

Why is this GitHub desktop, app-building framework so popular?

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

A GitHub framework to build desktop applications with Web technology and distribute it across three platforms automatically has become a global phenomenon, according to the project’s manager. And he’s officially lost track of the number of new applications being published. “I’ve never …

Microsoft project manager sees good fit for Node.js in Azure

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft’s recent announcement of Azure Container Instances, a new service designed to run software containers in the cloud more easily, is yet another example of how the company is interested in attracting Node.js developers to join the party. “We want to make …

Node.js has come a long way in five years, says VC

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Going back to 2012, there was plenty of discussion in technology circles about Node.js, a JavaScript runtime based on Chrome’s V8 engine. It held tremendous promise as a lightweight, efficient, non-blocking development framework that was made to order for the Web. The …

Can software containers be hacked? Yes, but Docker issues a fix

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Raising questions about the security of a popular method of distributing applications, a researcher from Aqua Security has published documentation of a potential attack approach that allows a hacker to plant malware via Docker Inc. “container” software and activate code on targeted …

Do bug bounties pay off? They sure did for these three companies

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It used to be that when security researchers found a software bug, they would bring it to a company’s attention and hope for a small sum of money in return. Some firms paid out and many did not. But in the last …

The downside of machine learning: It helps scammers target 400 companies daily with fake emails

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Machine learning has led to breakthroughs such as speech recognition and smart digital assistants such as Alexa. Then there’s the downside. Scammers are now using machine learning tools to mine social media data and target the executive organization chart with fraudulent emails …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Bank sees enhanced data recovery, blockchain adoption in financial world

Distributed data challenge: Unifi develops tools to democratize data

Twitter uses Node.js to slim down and speed up its mobile web app

Why is this GitHub desktop, app-building framework so popular?

Microsoft project manager sees good fit for Node.js in Azure

Node.js has come a long way in five years, says VC

Can software containers be hacked? Yes, but Docker issues a fix

Do bug bounties pay off? They sure did for these three companies

The downside of machine learning: It helps scammers target 400 companies daily with fake emails

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