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Cloud

Oracle updates cloud licensing policy, doubling costs for AWS users

By Mike Wheatley Jan 31, 2017

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…

Big Data

Passwords are passé, so what can stop privacy disasters in the IoT age?

By R. Danes Jan 31, 2017

How does an application know that users are actually whom they say they are? The answer in many cases is still: with a password. But the Internet of Things is exposing new problems with this…

Emerging Tech

Former Federal Reserve employee fined for mining bitcoin at work

By Duncan Riley Jan 30, 2017

A former Federal Reserve employee has been fined $5,000 and placed on 12 months’ probation for mining bitcoin from a server at the central bank. Nicholas Berthaume, who previously worked as a communications analyst…

Big Data

U.S. consumers growing more worried about data privacy, survey finds

By Mike Wheatley Jan 30, 2017

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…

Infra

Study: Common printers in enterprises are vulnerable to hacking

By Duncan Riley Jan 30, 2017

A new study has found that printers commonly used in enterprise environments are a security risk that can be exploited to leak information and execute code. The study, Exploiting Printer Security from Ruhr-Universität Bochum researcher Jens Müller, analyzed 20…

Infra

Hotel ransomware attack leaves guests locked out of rooms

By Duncan Riley Jan 30, 2017

A group of visitors to a luxury hotel in Austria found themselves locked out of their rooms following a targeted ransomware attack that disabled the resort’s central key management system. The attack that targeted the Romantik…

Apps

Facebook finally shuts down its Parse mobile development platform

By Duncan Riley Jan 30, 2017

Facebook Inc. has officially closed its Parse mobile development platform some 12 months after announcing that it intended to do so. Parse, which was used by developers to build mobile applications for iOS, Android, Windows and other platforms,…

Big Data

MXNet, Amazon’s preferred deep learning framework, gets open source blessing

By Mike Wheatley Jan 30, 2017

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…

Silicon Valley’s next battle: Trump’s proposed work visa program

By James Farrell Jan 30, 2017

President Donald Trump’s next move likely to provoke the ire of Silicon Valley could leave companies scrambling to find staff. On the back of Trump’s highly controversial immigration ban comes the possibility of new work…

Emerging Tech

Microsoft and Tierion link up on blockchain certificate technology

By Kyt Dotson Jan 30, 2017

Software giant Microsoft Corp. and blockchain technology company Tierion Inc. today announced a collaboration to build a system of distributed proof of integrity and existence for data. The resulting platform will be used to allow…

explore news

Passwords are passé, so what can stop privacy disasters in the IoT age?

Former Federal Reserve employee fined for mining bitcoin at work

U.S. consumers growing more worried about data privacy, survey finds

Study: Common printers in enterprises are vulnerable to hacking

Hotel ransomware attack leaves guests locked out of rooms

Facebook finally shuts down its Parse mobile development platform

MXNet, Amazon’s preferred deep learning framework, gets open source blessing

Silicon Valley’s next battle: Trump’s proposed work visa program

Microsoft and Tierion link up on blockchain certificate technology

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