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Evernote ramps up its prices by a third and imposes restrictions on free users

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 9:05pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Evernote has today announced that it is increasing the prices of its paid-for packages, whilst simultaneously increasing the restrictions on free Basic accounts. Both the Plus and Premium tiers are increasing in price by a third, while those looking to avoid having to pay will find that they are now limited to syncing data between just two devices. Evernote says that the price increase reflects a "significant investment of energy, time, and money" that will be needed "to deliver the Evernote we envision" -- something the company admits it has a "long way to go" before achieving. The announced change… [Continue Reading]
Facebook launches Share and Save extensions for Chrome, redesigns Social Plugin buttons

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 7:45pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Facebook is all about sharing and consuming, and today the social network launches two new extensions for the Chrome browser that make it easy to do both. The Share to Facebook and Save to Facebook extensions do very much what you would expect, encouraging not only sharing, but also the use of Facebook as a bookmarking tool for articles you want to read later. As well as these two extensions, Facebook is also rolling out redesigned Social Plugin buttons. The Like button that you see adorning so many websites is getting a modern makeover, losing the iconic Facebook 'f' logo,… [Continue Reading]
Happy fifth birthday, Google+: It's like you were never here

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 7:22pm CEST par Mihăiță Bamburic

I tend to look back fondly at the technology that has left a mark on me throughout the years. Memorable trips down memory lane involve things that have been a part of my digital lifestyle for many, many years. Google+ is one of them. As a longtime member, I should be reminiscing now as today the social network turns five. But, for some reason, the only thing that I can think about is knowing from the get go that it would never be the next big thing. It looks like I was onto something. Google+ is one of the largest… [Continue Reading]
Security researchers find major vulnerabilities in Uber

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 6:22pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

A group of hackers from a security company in Portugal managed to hack into Uber and get their hands on a bunch of data that should remain hidden. The team of three experts, Vitor Oliveira, Fábio Pires and Filipe Reis from Integrity, found a total of six flaws: they managed to use promotion codes, found private emails using UUID, found users’ phone numbers, created driver accounts, validated them, found where you went, who your driver was, and who you are and, ultimately, date of the trip, driver name and picture, the ID and the cost of the trip. The route map… [Continue Reading]
Passwords suck, and consumers want biometrics

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 6:07pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

The golden rule of password security is never use the same credentials on multiple sites. The idea is if one site suffers a breach, hackers can try the now-stolen credentials on other sites. This makes sense, yet many people still do it. You know what? I don't blame them. It can be impossible to remember all of the unique passwords, and writing them down is frowned upon too. What can be done to fix this? Enter biometrics. Rather than use a password, a user's face or fingerprint can be used. More and more smartphones, tablets, and laptops are offering biometics, but… [Continue Reading]
New solution allows intelligent management of data growth

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 6:04pm CEST par Ian Barker

The amount of data companies have to deal with is getting bigger and bigger, it's expensive to store and time consuming to manage. Little wonder then that businesses are looking for solutions that can automate the process. Komprise, emerges from beta today with a solution that lets companies automate the management of enterprise data with analytics and insight -- across both cloud and on premise. With no hardware to deploy, no storage agents, no changes to the hot data path, no complex configurations or proprietary interfaces, Komprise seamlessly works across storage environments, both on-premise and in the cloud. The solution… [Continue Reading]
Oops, looks like Windows 10 Anniversary Update is arriving later than planned

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 4:42pm CEST par Wayne Williams

Microsoft’s big Windows 10 Anniversary Update introduces a ton of new features and improvements to the new operating system, including a revamped Start menu, support for extensions in Edge, Windows Ink, and more. Windows Insiders have been testing these new features for a while, and it’s looking very much as if the Anniversary Update will be a great improvement. The big update was set to be released on July 29, the same day as the free upgrade offer ended, but according to an accidental release from Microsoft, it seems as if the software giant is going to miss that window.… [Continue Reading]
67 percent of used drives for sale contain sensitive data

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 4:41pm CEST par Ian Barker

An analysis of 200 second-hand hard disks and solid state drives purchased from eBay and Craigslist in the first quarter of 2016 reveals that 67 percent of them contained personally identifiable information. In addition 11 percent held sensitive corporate data, including company emails, CRM records and spreadsheets containing sales projections and product inventories. The study comes from mobile diagnostics and secure erasure specialist Blancco Technology Group. "With the Ashley Madison hack, in particular, users who wanted to make sure all of their data was erased from the dating site put all of their trust into the site’s $20 'Full Delete'… [Continue Reading]
Microsoft finally lets users say no to Windows 10

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 4:10pm CEST par Wayne Williams

Microsoft has used every trick in the book to get Windows 7 and 8.1 users to upgrade to Windows 10. From making the new operating system free, and introducing an app to simplify the upgrade process, to fooling users into requesting an upgrade even if they really don’t want it. The latest approach has been to change the behavior of the red corner X in the Get Windows 10 popup. People who clicked the button to close the message assumed they’d rejected the new OS, but had in fact sanctioned the upgrade. Microsoft even went so far as to remove… [Continue Reading]
Almost a third of IT professionals ignore cyber security alerts

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 4:01pm CEST par Ian Barker

Just over 30 percent of IT professionals admit to sometimes ignoring security alerts because of high volumes of false positives. This is among the findings of a new survey from Skyhigh Networks conducted along with the Cloud Security Alliance which also reveals that 20 percent of companies have more than ten security tools that generate alerts. Incident response will be the most important new skill in the next five years according to 80.4 percent of respondents. In addition 62.1 percent of businesses have security concerns about public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, 40.5 percent believe that they can't secure… [Continue Reading]
Cohesity adds protection for physical servers

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 3:33pm CEST par Ian Barker

As demand for data grows, companies often struggle to stay in control of a range of different secondary storage solutions. Californian company Cohesity has pioneered hyper-converged secondary storage and today announces new releases of its DataProtect and DataPlatform products that expand data protection to physical servers, enable faster recovery times, and double performance levels. Cohesity DataPlatform 3.0 delivers improved VMware backup performance as well as doubling IOPS and throughput performance for file access. Cohesity is also introducing a new proactive monitoring service that will analyze and recommend preventative maintenance actions for DataPlatform installations. DataProtect 3.0 extends its data protection coverage… [Continue Reading]
Organizations must transition from legacy 'wet ink' signatures to a 'digital' format

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 3:00pm CEST par Jon Wainwright

Even in today’s highly digital, technology-driven business environment, many organizations demand wet ink signatures for important business critical documentation. This is when, say a contract in an electronic format for a new deal could be signed and sent via email within minutes -- compared to wet inking it, scanning (sometimes running into 100s of pages), and posting to the other party, who then would follow the same process to send a signed copy back. It’s a hugely inefficient, time consuming and inconvenient process. But it’s a corporate policy that many businesses insist on. The misnomers surrounding digital signatures Perhaps the… [Continue Reading]
IBM Summit will be the world's fastest supercomputer

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 2:59pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

After it was reported that China has the world’s fastest supercomputer, IBM unveiled a few details about its upcoming behemoth, which is already branded as the computer that will dethrone the Chinese Sunway TaihuLight. IBM's supercomputer is called Summit. It is expected to reach US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in early 2018, and should have a quarter more computational power than originally intended. Originally, the machine should have been capable of 150 petaflops. Instead, it will be capable of 200 petaflops. The Chinese Sunway TaihuLight is capable of 93 petaflops, 124.5 at peak performance. The deal is reportedly worth $325 million.… [Continue Reading]
Huawei MateBook is the affordable Windows 10 hybrid PC of your dreams [Review]

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 1:58pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

Windows 10 is a great desktop operating system, and for the most part, OEMs have manufactured some solid hardware to showcase it. Respectable companies like HP and Dell have done Microsoft proud with some truly satisfying touch-friendly laptops. Unfortunately, Microsoft has been a bit deficient with its Surface line. Don't get me wrong, the Pro 4 and Book are pretty good choices, but there have been many known bugs, and they are quite expensive. There's a new player in the Windows world, however, and its looking to outdo Microsoft at its own Surface game. Huawei -- a well-known company in… [Continue Reading]
Mozilla uses emoji game Codemoji to teach about encryption

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 1:57pm CEST par Mark Wilson

The world of technology relies on encryption. Everything from private messages to online payments are secured in this way -- but how does it all work? Mozilla has come up with a way to teach people about encryption, combining gaming and emoji into a useful learning tool. Codemoji is described as "a fun way to learn about ciphers", and while you might think that it's aimed solely at children, there's something here for all ages. The idea is very simple: letters and words are translated into emoji so they can only be read by those who understand the decryption technique.… [Continue Reading]
New cloud platform delivers IT resilience

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 1:33pm CEST par Ian Barker

Economic pressures means IT departments need to provide high levels of service whilst cutting costs and using fewer resources. Legacy infrastructure not only gets in the way of this it limits IT's ability to quickly respond to incidents, outages and security breaches. Disaster recovery specialist Axcient is launching Fusion, a cloud-converged platform for IT resilience and agility that will allow enterprises to reduce infrastructure overhead and cost, regain valuable IT staff time and deliver a more reliable and high-performing service to their end users. "Until now, IT departments have been caught in a vicious cycle of buying more hardware and… [Continue Reading]
Stop common malware exploits with NoVirusThanks Smart Object Blocker

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 12:57pm CEST par Mike Williams

NoVirusThanks Smart Object Blocker is a low level tool which enables blocking the execution of certain applications, commands, DLLs and drivers. Default rules block some common malware exploits and attacks, and you can add more to fine-tune the protection available. Creating these rules requires editing a text file, which isn’t exactly convenient, but a few bundled examples help to explain the basics. You can block an individual file with a rule like this, for instance. [%FILE%: %SYSTEM%\drivers\file.sys] The first element tells the program to block a file by name, the second gives you the name and (optionally) location. Conditional rules… [Continue Reading]
Google teams up with LyricFind to show song lyrics in search results

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 12:40pm CEST par Mark Wilson

"Son and heir", not "sun and air". Excuse me while I "kiss the sky", not "this guy". If you've ever struggled to interpret the lyrics to a song, you've probably scurried online to look up what is actually being sung. By teaming up with LyricFind, Google just made this much quicker and easier. No more jumping from site to site. No more ad barrages. Now Google will display song lyrics directly in search results from the world’s largest lyric licensing service. As well as making things easier for searchers, the deal means that artists get paid royalties as their lyrics… [Continue Reading]
First impressions matter in email marketing

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 12:38pm CEST par Ian Barker

We all know that first impressions are important and it seems that the same is true when it comes to email marketing. According to a survey by email marketing company Campaigner 39 percent of marketers say that the first email content new subscribers see from their brand is a thank-you-for-subscribing message. And those messages work, with almost half reporting that 21 percent or more of new subscribers engage with them. "It takes just seconds within meeting someone to form a lasting impression", says EJ McGowan, general manager of Campaigner. "Unsurprisingly, first impressions for brands are just as critical and time-sensitive. Marketers who… [Continue Reading]
Intel Security is up for sale

Publié: juin 28, 2016, 10:07am CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Intel is looking for a buyer for its Intel Security. Intel Security, previously called McAfee, was bought from the security firm McAfee back in 2011 for $7.7 billion (£5.75bn). Intel rebranded the company as Intel Security, and aimed to implement its security features at chip level, giving cyber-security a whole new dimension. It seems, though, six years later, the plan had failed. Intel Security is still an important company, doing valuable work, which is why Intel is expected to sell it for a lot more than it paid for it. Still no word on how much that might be, but IBTimes.co.uk… [Continue Reading]