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Tor scoffs at claims that 81 percent of its users can be identified
Tor was supposed to be the Holy Grail of Internet anonymity, providing a secure and private way to browse the web. But a new study claims it could actually be a poisoned chalice because of an exploit to Cisco Systems, Inc. routers called Netflow that is said reveal the identities of as many as 81 percent ...
HP digs Vertica’s claws deeper into Hadoop
Hewlett-Packard Co. has become the latest vendor to build a bridge between Big Data on Hadoop and traditional SQL databases with a version of its HP Vertica database for Hadoop. The technology is aimed at allowing everyday business users to manipulate unstructured data using the same familiar syntax they’ve been using to access traditional relational systems. ...
Google goes trawlin’ for poachers with Global Fishing Watch
Google has come up with some pretty awesome maps like Street View and Google Sky. Now it’s turning to a new market with Global Fishing Watch, a mapping service that enables people to track and share information about fishing all over the planet. The efforts isn’t just for weekend anglers. Illegal fishing has become a huge problem ...
Facebook said to be working on enterprise social network
High expectations for the potential of Facebook-like social networks that work behind the corporate firewall have mostly met with frustration, but now a new player appears set to enter the game: Facebook. According to a report in the Financial Times this weekend, Facebook is on the verge of launching a new service called “Facebook for Work,” which ...
Latest Windows 10 build sports new touchpad gestures, revamped OneDrive
Microsoft Corp. has pushed out a new release of its work in-progress Windows 10 operating system. Called Build 9879, the latest edition includes an improved OneDrive file management system, new gesture controls, new icons and the ability to hide taskbar buttons. The release is only available to those who have signed up for Microsoft’s “Fast” preview ...
Amazon’s enterprise push: “We’re in it to win it” | #reinvent
“The message from Amazon is, “we’re going to win the enterprise”, they’re serious now and they’re showing some proof points.” That’s how theCUBE host John Furrier sees it at the close of this year’s AWS Re:invent 2014 conference, and it’s true there’s plenty to be excited about. 2014 has proven to be break out year ...
US judge rules Iran’s top-level domain cannot be seized
A global diplomatic crisis seems to have been averted after a Washington DC judge ruled that it’s unlawful to seize a country’s Internet domain registry. Lawyers working on behalf of nine American citizens who were inured during an Iranian-sponsored bombing in Jerusalem back in 1997 had attempted to seize the top level “.IR” domain in ...
Amazon spins out ‘lifecycle management’ tools for cloudy devs
Amazon Web Services Inc. considers itself to be quite the expert when it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, and it’s just underlined that point with the launch of a new range of tools for developers to improve their cloudy app’s build and deployment cycles. The products, based on some of Amazon’s own internal ...
Chinese hackers took out the NOAA’s weather satellites
Chinese hackers have been blamed for an attack on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather forecasting systems, which caused a multi-day data outage when the agency reacted to the breach in October. The NOAA, which is the parent of the National Weather Service, was hit by a three-day long satellite data outage from ...
AWS launches Aurora relational database in the cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc., has just taken a shot at rival Oracle Corp., with the release of a new, cloud-based relational database service that it claims will deliver better performance at a fraction of the cost of on-premises installations. Called Amazon RDS for Aurora, AWS’ new relational database offers the speed and reliability of traditional ...