Isha Suri

Isha Suri is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering social news and security trends. If you have a story idea or news tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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Vulnerable Java Coats PCs in Poison Ivy, Zero-Day Exploits Abound

Poison Ivy, a common backdoor Trojan that has been infecting computers from some time, is being injected by Chemical biz ‘Nitro’ hackers via the now much-vulnerable Java. Team Nitro, which was the culprit behind the last year’s industrial espionage attacks, is again using holes in Oracle’s Java software to install Poison Ivy on victims’ Windows ...

jqMobi Version 1.1 Emerges, Will Develop Badoo Mobile App

Emerging from the beta, the JqMobi version 1.1 delivers several enhancements to the existing plugins, like css3Animate and carousel. Plus, the objects can now register jqMobi events, which was previously only available to DOM nodes. Available as a general release, jqMobi 1.1 comprises a new repository, created to house jqMobi plugins and making it easier ...

Super Computers Help New Orleans Prepare for Hurricane Isaac

For those living in New Orleans, we have a relatively good thing to share, as researchers at university supercomputing centers in Texas and Louisiana are working on Big Data-driven supercomputers that will quickly map mapped the weather data changes and how the storm surge will invade coastal regions and neighborhoods. These researchers are working to ...

Dropbox Competitor Takes Leading Edge via BitTorrent Support

BitTorrent is far and away one of the best tools for moving large amounts of data. It’s used everywhere by video game companies to deliver patches to clients and some media streamers to lighten the load of trucking around pretty pictures. Realizing this advantage, Maxxo, a new cloud hosting and synchronization service has added support ...

Dropbox Adds Another Layer of Security for Customer Accounts

Dropbox has just added two-step verification feature to enhance the security of Dropbox accounts. From now onwards, two levels of authentication will be required, i.e., password, and a security code that will either be texted to the user’s mobile phone or generated by a mobile authenticator app. This app will be available for iOS, Android, ...

Inside Huawei’s Cyber suspicions and espionage anxieties

As cybersecurity is becoming a big concern, it is increasingly becoming a part of global politics. Amidst the era of cyber warfare, the U.S. and global theater have become more and more suspicious of China when it comes to cyberespionage and hacking. It’s may be because we have already seen so many hacks and state-sponsored ...

Is Dublin the New Startup Hub?

For some time, we have been listening apropos Dublin for banking disasters and real estate dramas. Amidst all these unpleasant happenings, we noticed some good things happening, related to the technology business. And it’s that Dublin is emerging as a startup hub, as several technology companies are surfacing up having their roots back in Dublin. ...

DevOps for Drupal: How We Get it Done on the Web

DevOps movement has begun to take a good shape across the IT industry as Ops experts and development teams communicate, collaborate, and integrate toward a common goal, that is, to achieve the best in whatever they do. Nowadays, DevOps for Drupal is gaining momentum. The space is full of DevOps practices with Drupal, where everyone ...

OnLive Owed Creditors $40 Million at the Time of Insolvency

OnLive, the pioneer of on-demand cloud gaming that declared its insolvency last week, has much more trouble to handle than originally known. The company was running short of funds at the time of insolvency, and owed around $40 million to its creditors. As reported by the firm handling the insolvency procedure, OnLive failed to find ...

CIOs Are Now the Chief Integration Officers: The Changing Landscape of DevOps

Enterprise operations, especially across the IT industry, have become quite complex. It not only needs management skills, but integration skills as well. Though there are already specialized roles to handle enterprise operations in every organization, a new profile that is emerging as a successful role in integrating resources is the CIO. Yes, I’m talking about ...