Grasshopper: A Business-oriented Virtual Phone System

With all of the fancy technologies we use today, it’s easy for web workers to overlook the importance of the telephone. I communicate with my two colleagues at our home offices by email and IM, and through our project management system, but we still spend a lot of...

Probing the Whole Internet for Weak Spots

When a major flaw in the encryption that secures websites was revealed this March, Zakir Durumeric, a research fellow at the University of Michigan, was the first person to know how serious it was. By performing a scan of every device on the Internet, he realized its...

Is Amazon AWS Really HIPAA Compliant Today?

Amazon released a whitepaper called ‘Creating HIPAA-compliant Medical Data Applications with AWS’.  There is plenty to comment on, but for now I want to draw attention to some security concerns I have around AWS and thus its current readiness to handle data that...

Is mobile driving cloud or is cloud driving mobile?

At this year’s Mobile World Congress  (MWC), a mega event once dedicated solely to mobile and mobile tech, I found myself amazed at the many technological elements beyond mobile displayed there. Making an impact were the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented...