SnapchatDB team explains its motivation for exploit
Snapchat was one of the most popular apps of 2013. If you’re not familiar with the app, it allows users to send photos and messages that are quickly erased after a few seconds. This…
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 1: Indian government raids BTC exchanges, Overstock.com joins the community, Stross and Krugman hate Bitcoin
By Kyt Dotson
Happy New Year everyone in the Bitcoin community! This little cryptocurrency that could has racked up yet-another-year of the interesting and the strange and has 2014 ahead of it. These past few weeks have…
CIOs racing business transformation to stay relevant
CIOs are always under fire, that is just a fact of life, writes Consultant, former CIO, and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Four Sobering Facts that CIOs Must Face in 2014”. The latest evidence…
How Datalink helps customers converge public and private clouds
As more organizations seek to adopt cloud computing in any of its forms, many will find that it may not always be as simple to implement as one might think. Cloud providers often offer…
Smart car solutions gets aggressive : New partnerships + funding
This week’s SmartCar roundup features Google’s entry into the connected car arena and Zubie’s $10 million funding round. Google partners with Audi for connected cars Sources claimed that come CES 2014, Google and…
Snapchat API exploit results in 4.6M usernames and phone numbers exposed
Snapchat users are mistaken if they think that the messaging platform is inherently more secure than others. While it’s gained millions of users over the last year due to the way it permanently deletes…
Stealth startup Pushd secures more funding for mysterious product
Pushd, a San Francisco-based stealth startup with rock star social networking talent, has bagged another $1 million from anonymous investors last week, an SEC filing picked up by VentureBeat reveals. The funding brings the…
DerpTrolling continues DDOS trolling gaming sites and Twitch streamers for New Years Eve Day
By Kyt Dotson
Yesterday, a new DDOS troll moved onto the gaming scene by lighting up a Twitter account (@DerpTrolling) and began to wash away Internet gaming services. The anti-fireworks and criminal behavior culminated in the harassment…
CloudFlare CEO predicts a big year of DDoS threats ahead
As we look at what lies ahead in security, we find that subject of DDoS has come up again and again. So we went straight to CloudFlare for some predictions in 2014. CloudFlare CEO…
HP’s David Scott on the different flavors of enterprise storage | #HPDiscover
As senior vice president and general manager of HP Storage, David Scott is at the forefront of industry change, with a finger firmly on the pulse of enterprise demand. In his latest appearance on…