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Report: Insider trading finds a lucrative home on the dark web
Insider trading has found a prosperous breeding ground in the so-called dark web, as a number of marketplaces have emerged to sell corporate secrets to dodgy traders. U.S. risk management firm RedOwl Analytics and Israeli threat intelligence company IntSights said in a new report published Wednesday that the dark web marketplaces enable insider trading by selling ...
HPE acquires Niara to boost its network security portfolio
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is fortifying its software-defined information technology infrastructure with the acquisition of security analytics firm Niara Inc. for an undisclosed fee. HPE described Niara as a leader in the emerging market segment known as “user and entity behavior analytics” — in plain English, analyzing user behavior to find anomalies that may indicate ...
Microsoft previews browser-based query editing tool in Azure SQL
Microsoft Corp. has made it easier for Azure SQL users to access and query their databases and data warehouses with the addition of a new Query Editor tool, alongside several other cloud updates. The update means users no longer need to switch to a new tool, as Query Editor enables them to write queries, execute ...
AMD posts solid fourth-quarter earnings, aims for a 2017 turnaround
Computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. beat Wall Street’s expectations Tuesday with a smaller-than-expected fourth-quarter loss. The company also issued a strong earnings forecast for the current quarter. In particular, it expects high demand for its upcoming high-performance Ryzen desktop personal computer processors for gamers and other demanding users. AMD is the second-largest manufacturer of personal ...
Google finally open-sources Chrome browser for Apple’s iOS
After several years of work, Google Inc. has finally added the code for the Apple iOS version of its Chrome web browser to the open-source Chromium project. Google Chrome on iOS isn’t nearly as popular as Apple’s own Safari browser, which accounted for over 96 percent of all web traffic on the platform last year, ...
Oracle updates cloud licensing policy, doubling costs for AWS users
Oracle Corp. has altered its cloud licensing policy in a way that means anyone running its software on Amazon Web Services could be charged double what they were paying before. News of the new policy comes by way of prominent Oracle blogger Tim Hall, who noted that under the previous licensing regime, AWS’s virtual central ...
U.S. consumers growing more worried about data privacy, survey finds
U.S. consumers are more concerned about the privacy of their personal data than before, and that makes them increasingly likely to switch to a rival firm’s services if they believe their data is under threat. That’s according to a new International Data Corp. survey published Monday. IDC polled 2,500 U.S. consumers on their privacy concerns in ...
MXNet, Amazon’s preferred deep learning framework, gets open source blessing
Amazon Web Services is hoping for a little open-source love to boost the development of its preferred deep learning neural network framework, MXNet. The cloud computing giant Monday announced that MXNet has been accepted as an Apache Incubator project, the first step on its way to becoming a part of the Apache Software Foundation. MXNet ...
Google launches its own root certificate authority to better secure the web
Google Inc. said last week that it’s planning to become an independent Root Certificate Authority, which means it would be able to issue its own communications protocol certificates for securing web traffic. A certificate authority is a trusted entity that issues electronic documents that verify a digital entity’s identity on the Internet. The electronic documents, ...
Struggling Toshiba to spin off its flash memory business into separate entity
Toshiba Corp.’s financial problems are forcing the company to spin off its highly profitable flash memory business unit into a separate entity. The Japanese firm is credited with inventing NAND flash, which does not need power to retain data, back in the 1980s. Toshiba said it plans to complete the process, which includes its solid-state ...