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Crowdsource your security knowledge: A simple guide to OWASP Top 10

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 11:07pm CEST par Debbie Fletcher

Over the past two years, the Internet has seen some of the biggest, most devastating data breaches in history. With each attack, millions of personal identifiable information records are stolen, leading to the possibility of identity theft, banking fraud, and in some of the most notable cases, that's right -- divorce. From an internet security standpoint, what’s most interesting about these data breaches isn’t the various celebrities naive enough to sign up for Ashley Madison with their real names but rather that these breaches often come from some of the most common methods hackers have for accessing data. Shouldn’t these… [Continue Reading]
Stick to the script: 5 ways to keep your software development outsourcing on track

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 8:07pm CEST par Steve Mezak

The good news -- you’ve found a software development team that you’re comfortable with and work well alongside. They fit so well into your company’s culture, you even begin to view them as you would any internal employee. While this is all well and good, it’s not to say that you won’t run into challenges along the way -- from day-to-day communication gaps to even uncertainties in tracking of overall progress. Certainly no relationship is perfect, but it falls within your job description as the project manager or product owner to ensure outsourced projects stay on track and more importantly… [Continue Reading]
Microsoft predicts the Kentucky Derby winner -- will you use it to win money at OTB?

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 7:18pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

My knowledge of horses doesn't extend much past watching Mr. Ed on "Nick at Nite" (Hello, Wilbur) as a kid. Equestrian activities are often reserved for the wealthy and gamblers -- two things I am not. I did go to OTB (Off-track betting) a couple of years ago to bet on a horse named after Tony Danza, but I digress. One of the most popular horse racing events is the Kentucky Derby. Microsoft's Bing is now focusing its predictability-powers on it. Bing Predicts has been quite succesful in the past -- could this help folks win some money? "Thoroughbred racing is an… [Continue Reading]
G.SKILL goes full rainbow-mode with new colors for Trident Z Series DDR4 RAM kits

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 6:44pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

Building a computer is extremely fun. In fact, for some folks -- including yours truly -- the build itself can sometimes be more enjoyable than using the computer! Getting to select the case, components, and color scheme is very rewarding. When I say "color scheme", I am not just talking about the outward appearance. The design of the inside is important too -- sort of like art. Picking SATA cables, SSDs and RAM sticks with matching colors can create something beautiful -- especially if you have a window case. Today, one of my favorite RAM manufacturers, G.SKILL, announces five new colors for its Trident Z… [Continue Reading]
What you need to know about spear phishing

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 6:19pm CEST par Vidur Apparao

Unlike spam or phishing emails, which involve a broad and varied range of targets, spear phishing is a highly-targeted email attack against a specific group, organization, or even person. The main aim of a spear phishing attack is either to obtain unauthorized access to sensitive data, whether this is intellectual property, financial data, trade or military intelligence, or to get the recipient of the email to act on a command, whether this is to transfer money or share confidential data. What Does a Typical Spear Phishing Email Look Like? Spear phishing emails are extremely deceptive as they typically attempt to… [Continue Reading]
GoPro to launch Karma drone in Q4 2016

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 3:19pm CEST par Mihăiță Bamburic

While GoPro has not revealed much information about its upcoming drone, called Karma, the company did say that we can expect to see it in stores this year. Question is, when? If we are to go by its latest earnings report, GoPro is not in its best possible financial shape. For the first quarter of this year it just posted $183.53 million in revenue, down by 49.5 percent year-over-year, but also $107.45 million in net income losses, down by $741.5 percent year-over-year. This affects Karma's release date, but it should still make its public debut by the end of 2016,… [Continue Reading]
US government certifies LG's G5, V10 for enterprise and military use

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 2:08pm CEST par Mihăiță Bamburic

LG today announced that the US government has certified its G5 and V10 flagship Android smartphones for enterprise and military use. The testing was conducted by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), which verifies the compliance of products with the "Common Criteria" international security standard, which is said to be recognized by 25 countries. Although LG is only boasting about the two aforementioned handsets, NIAP's test results show that G4, its flagship from last year, is also fit for use in enterprise and military sectors, when running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. NIAP's stamp of approval was received on April 14. NIAP has… [Continue Reading]
What's the most popular ransomware?

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 2:02pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Ransomware is something like the digital version of Kanye West -- everyone hates it, but its popularity just keeps on growing. And it takes your money for things you really don’t want to buy. The news about the rising popularity of ransomware was confirmed by security firm Kaspersky Lab, which released its quarterly report into the state of malware. According to the Q1 report, the company reported 2,900 new malware modifications in the quarter, representing a 14 percent increase compared to a quarter before. The most popular ransomware in Q1 was Locky, Kaspersky Lab confirms, which has been seen trying to… [Continue Reading]
DevOps means Test Automation (too)

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 1:50pm CEST par Joan Wrabetz

You have started down the road to DevOps. You have re-structured your teams and you are experimenting with DevOps tools and processes. You now understand that DevOps is a continuum that starts with planning and development and ends with deployment into operations. So where do you start your DevOps initiative? DevOps projects tend to start in only one part of the continuum. Often, DevOps teams start with application build automation (development) or they start with automating the deployment of apps into operations. When the driver for DevOps is in the test organization, it is called Continuous Integration. However, it is… [Continue Reading]
Open source framework enables native mobile app development

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 1:01pm CEST par Ian Barker

Although HTML5 has allowed apps to work across platforms, there's still demand for companies to develop native apps for the major mobile platforms. Progress Software is launching the latest version of NativeScript, an open source framework on the Telerik platform, enabling developers to use JavaScript to build native mobile apps running on the major mobile systems. With the release of NativeScript 2.0, developers using Google's Angular 2 JavaScript framework can now write native mobile applications for iOS and Android. They can reuse existing skills and code from the web and achieving time and cost-efficiencies. "Angular integration first shipped with our popular… [Continue Reading]
EU GDPR: Get your data privacy act together

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 12:26pm CEST par Nigel Hawthorn

The moment of reckoning is on its way for companies that collect or store data on European Union citizens. Last week EU legislators signed data privacy regulations into law, creating what may be the most stringent data protection law in place today. The requirements will not be easy for many companies to meet and will demand financial and personnel resources. There is sure to be criticism that the EU stifles technology innovation. In reality, the GDPR demonstrates a progressive approach to data transactions and the digital economy. The introduction of the regulation states, "The protection of natural persons in relation to the processing… [Continue Reading]
Best Windows apps this week

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 11:14am CEST par Martin Brinkmann

One-hundred and seventy-nine in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps and games released for Windows 8.x and Windows 10 in the past seven days. More and more full price games are coming to the Windows Store. This week alone saw the release of the long awaited Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, as well as Shadow Complex Remastered, and The Escapists: The Walking Dead. As always, if I missed an app or game that has been released this week that you believe is particularly good, let me know in the comments below or notify me via email instead.… [Continue Reading]
Take, annotate, process and share your screenshots with Photon

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 11:01am CEST par Mike Williams

Photon is a free PC screen capture tool for Windows Vista and later. The program’s core capture engine is basic, but good sharing support and some unusual processing options make it worth a closer look. Install Photon, press PrtSc, and you’re prompted to draw a freehand rectangle. There’s no full screen capture type, no "active window", no ellipses or anything advanced, unfortunately (like we said, it’s basic). Once you’ve selected an area, a couple of toolbars appear around it and the rest of the screen dims. You’re able to annotate the image with simple drawing tools: a pen, line, arrow,… [Continue Reading]
Five ways to take your passwords to the next level

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 8:58am CEST par Mark Stockley

World Password Day is apparently a day for “taking our passwords to the next level”, so here are five traditions the crooks and password crackers really, really don’t want us to start. In 2007, Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research looked into the password habits of half a million users in their large-scale study of website password habits. They found that the average user needed about 25 distinct passwords but only had about six. The average user has 6.5 passwords, each of which is shared across 3.9 different sites. Each user has about 25 accounts that require passwords.… [Continue Reading]
Apple continues iOS enterprise ascension with SAP partnership for iPhone and iPad

Publié: mai 6, 2016, 1:27am CEST par Brian Fagioli

When it comes to business devices, employees can often have a big impact on decision-making. In other words, they can influence IT and executives by expressing a desire for the same type of device they use at home. When Blackberry devices, for instance, fell out of favor with home users, they soon lost their luster in the enterprise too. iPhone and iPad devices are wildly popular in the enterprise, but not only because employees love them. They are also very secure, thanks to things like touch ID and regular operating system updates. Apple has even partnered with world-class companies, such as IBM,… [Continue Reading]