by ray | Sep 9, 2017 | Security, Tech News
“Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove Andy Grove was a Hungarian refugee who escaped communism, studied engineering, and ultimately led the personal computer revolution as the CEO of Intel. He died earlier this year in Silicon Valley after a long fight with...
by ray | Sep 9, 2017 | Tech News
Yahoo’s shareholders have officially approved the company’s sale to Verizon for $4.48 billion. The deal is expected to close Tuesday. Once the deal closes, Yahoo and AOL will merge into a combined entity called “Oath.” AOL has indicated that it...
by ray | Sep 8, 2017 | Security, Tech News
‘Athena’ is the latest in the #Vault7 series. © Dado Ruvic / Reuters The latest in WikiLeaks’ series of #Vault7 leaks was released Friday detailing malware that provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers using several Microsoft...
by ray | Sep 8, 2017 | Tech News, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Tools, Google, Google Cloud Platform
Datacenter / server room Microsoft has announced a milestone moment for its cloud aspirations with the news that it’s launching its very first data centers in Africa. Beginning in 2018, Microsoft will operate its range of cloud services — including Azure, Office 365,...
by ray | Sep 8, 2017 | Security, Tech News
By now I am sure you have already heard something about the WannaCry ransomware, and are wondering what’s going on, who is doing this, and whether your computer is secure from this insanely fast-spreading threat that has already hacked nearly 200,000 Windows PCs...
by ray | Sep 8, 2017 | Security, Tech News
Equifax has suffered one of the largest data breaches in history that has left highly sensitive data of as many as 143 million people—that’s nearly half of the US population—in the hands of hackers. Based on the company’s investigation, some unknown...