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Report: Enterprises aren’t doing enough to mitigate API security threats
A new survey on API security has revealed the emergence of a new “digital divide”, as more companies embrace APIs without fully understanding how to mitigate the new threat vectors that might lead to critical data being exposed. API management firm Akana Inc. quizzed over 250 security practitioners for its first-ever Global State of API ...
GE’s Industrial Internet heads to the cloud
General Electric Co. (GE) has made no secret of its desire to become the ruler of what it calls the “Industrial Internet,” a concept that’s often described as the Internet of Things for big industry. But to do that, GE needs to refashion itself as one of the biggest players in IT, and no IT ...
Coverity claims open-source is “significantly” more vulnerable
Coverity, a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc., is controversially claiming that proprietary software is significantly more secure than open-source code. The latest Coverity scan open-source report (PDF) claims that static analysis defect density scans reveal how open-source software has outpaced proprietary software in terms of quality through 2013 and 2014. In addition, the 2014 report also ...
Bing delves into behavioral analytics with Interana
When considering how to do Big Data analytics, most IT people automatically think of Hadoop. But although the legendary elephant toy platform is by far and away the most popular choice, it’s far from being the only stat-crunching tool in the box. A good example of an alternative solution is Interana Corp.’s behavioral analytics platform, ...
Financial firms’ cloud strategies “rapidly maturing”
Far from being scared off by cloud security, financial firms are taking a “rapidly maturing approach,” with almost 100 percent of companies quizzed by CipherCloud, Inc. storing at least some personally identifiable information (PII) in the cloud. That’s according to the Q2 Global Cloud Security report from the enterprise security provider, which highlights emerging trends in the way ...
Media powerhouse Advance delves into Big Data with 1010 Data acquisition
Global media firm Advance Publications, Inc, which owns the Condé Nast publishing group and the cable company Bright House Networks LLC, among others, has raised a few eyebrows by delving into Big Data analytics with the acquisition of New York-based 1010data Inc. in a deal valued at $500 million. It’s an odd move for Advance, ...
Audi, BMW and Daimler snap up Nokia’s HERE Maps for $3B
Nokia Corp. has put an end to weeks of rumors surrounding the fate of its HERE Maps, announcing that it’s sold the service to a consortium of German car makers for $3 billion (€2.8 billion). The auto makers in question are Audi AG, BMW AG and Mercedes’ parent company Daimler AG, who all take an ...
Beware: Stealth ransomware posing as Windows 10 installer
Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the Windows 10 rollout to try and trick unsuspecting netizens into downloading a particularly nasty variant of ransomware, according to reports. First reports of the malware came from Cisco Systems Ltd.,’s security team, which noticed a gang of cybercriminals was stepping up its efforts to spread the CTB-Locker ransomware using ...
Azul launches “health check” for Apache Cassandra deployments
Azul Systems, Inc., has just released a new tool to help enterprises optimize their Apache Cassandra deployments on the fly. Azul is a developer of runtime platforms for executing Java-based applications, and Cassandra HealthCheck (Cassandra HC) has been designed to help eliminate Java-related barriers and improve Cassandra’s runtime consistency, reliability and up-time. Apache Cassandra is ...
Wikibon CTO urges caution over 3D XPoint memory tech
Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc., set the IT world abuzz this week when they unveiled their new 3D XPoint memory tech that offers up to 1,000 times the performance and endurance of regular NAND flash. The companies are touting 3D XPoint as a “breakthrough in technology”, but big question marks remain over its ability to ...