CIA Spies Amazon For Its Private Cloud
An intriguing report has emerged today that claims the CIA has turned to Amazon to help it build a private cloud. According to the report in Federal Computer Weekly, the spy agency has signed…
Microsoft Ending Support for Windows Phone 8 Next Year, But What’s Coming Next?
Microsoft caused a bit of a stir earlier this week when it announced that support for Windows Phone 8 will end after a period of 18 months, on July 8, 2014. The revelation instantly…
6 Ways Enterprise Software Completely Changes in the New World of SaaS
By Jeetu Patel
As enterprise software moves into the world of SaaS and consumer technology innovations invade the workplace, how we design, build and sell business technology both changes fundamentally and remains exactly the same. Do you…
What Drives Alpha Geeks? Crunching Data for the Greater Good
We talk about the technology behind Big Data a great deal, but it’s important to remember the large scale implications of what Big Data becomes once it’s been contextualized for the human experience. Big…
Sqrrl Appoints New CEO to Spearhead Big Data Security Push
This morning, sqrrl announced that Mark Terenzoni will be taking over as company’s chief executive officer. The newly appointed CEO brings twenty years of experience to the Cambridge-based startup, which was founded in 2012…
Itanium Damage Done, HP Wants $4 Billion from Oracle
Prior to the acquisition of Sun, Oracle entered into a long term agreement with HP to develop software for Intel’s Itanium chips, which can be found in a large percentage of the latter’s high-end…
Hijacking Vulnerability Discovered in EA’s Origin Gaming Service
By Isha Suri
A vulnerability has been discovered in Electronic Art’s Origin game distribution service that allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code on players’ computers. Demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam, the hijacking vulnerability of the…
“Weev” Sentenced to 41 Month in Prison and 3 Years Supervised Release
Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months imprisonment due to finding a security flaw in AT&T’s website. The security flaw enabled weev to collect personal data of 114,000 iPad owners on AT&T’s network.…
The Revolution Will Be Augmented: OWS Should Embrace Google Glass
By Kyt Dotson
The newest threat to public privacy is barely out of the gate and already speculation is wild about how Google glass will be used. Thoughts on how it will lead to a black eye…
Atlassian Offers SourceTree Git Client for Microsoft Windows
By Isha Suri
Atlassian, a leading Australian provider of the popular products like issue tracking application, JIRA, and its team collaboration product, Confluence, is making a major move with SourceTree, a free desktop client for Git and…