IBM has recently announced what is to be the largest open source acquisition in history. They're buying Red Hat for a staggering $34 billion dollars. This, as the saying goes, changes everything.
IBM has lagged behind its competitors for years in the area of cloud computing.
Google is rolling out some important changes that will make it easier for people who use their services to control their data.
They're starting with their most widely used service, which is search. In the weeks ahead, it will be easier than ever for users to delete their search history, on both PC and Android devices.
Security in the Android ecosystem is awful. There's just no other word to describe it.
In large part, the blame for that can be placed at the feet of Google. Although they have succeeded in creating a wildly successful platform, their management of OEM devices (in particular, security updates for them) have been virtually nonexistent.
As far as hackers are concerned, no target is safe. Not even the Girl Scouts.
Recently, one of the Girl Scouts' official email accounts was accessed by an "unauthorized third party" and as a result, as many as 2,800 girl scouts in Orange County, California may have had their personal information compromised.
McAfee has long been a popular target of scammers, but recently, they've changed the nature of their game.
In years past, they'd display a webpage informing you that any McAfee products on your computer are out of date and provide a link to the company's virtual storefront where you could renew.
Move over Facebook. Where teens are concerned, Instagram reigns supreme, according to a recently published survey.
Piper Jaffray has been tracking how teenagers use the internet for nearly twenty years, and the second report of this year has some interesting findings indeed.
You probably haven't heard of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Systems.
They're a low-profile division of the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for administering the Affordable Care Act.
Recently, the company announced that they detected anomalous activity in the systems related to the healthcare.
Microsoft hasn't been terribly impressive lately when it comes to Windows 10 updates. In fact, it's fair to say that they've been a complete mess. Just recently, they've issued updates that have deleted user files and caused crashes after creating incompatibilities with keyboard drivers.
Google is taking additional steps to bolster user privacy and better secure the data of the company's legions of Android device owners. The company recently announced a change to the Android Backup Service that will encrypt all user backup data stored on its cloud servers, such that even Google itself can't read it.
As many as 30,000 people made up of a mix of both civilian and military personnel have had their personal and financial information exposed. This exposure is what has been reported as a major security breach of the Pentagon.
This is proof positive that no organization is safe from watchful hackers scattered all around the world.
