Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
NASA says it may be another 70 million years before the next Mars rings form
Microsoft holdings now account for just 13% of wealth
FBI, NSA working with European counterparts to stop suspected Russian hacking
IBM's public cloud will run Red Hat's OpenStack and Ceph storage products
Two teams of researchers chain multiple vulnerabilities together to escape from a guest OS running inside a VMware Workstation virtual machine
Bloomberg report fuels renewed speculation about Apple's AR intentions for iPhone 8, iOS 11 and beyond
IBM debuts open source, cloud-based blockchain services
Cisco says vulnerability in 300 models of Catalyst switches
Comey confirms a government investigation of the Russian election hacking campaign
Digital transformation is a theme we hear all too often. But a recent PointSource study shows existing systems make it difficult for enterprises to innovate.
The warrant, issued to police in the city of Edina last month, is unconstitutional, according to one legal expert
Experts urge small retailers and restaurants to upgrade to chip card payments and encryption
The Optane DC P4800X SSD has 375GB of storage and is priced at $1,520
Volunteers rush to archive data before it disappears from government websites
Bugcrowd shows how a bug bounty amount is calculated
Bundesdruckerei's Bdrive cloud file storage service uses erasure coding to increase redundancy and security
Candy-bar-style phones will add features such as LTE, better graphics, dual cameras, and secure mobile payments with the 205 Mobile chip
At Cebit, a prototype interface creates touch-sensitive buttons on demand
At the Cebit trade show in Germany, Japanese businesses want to go beyond smart factories, deploying industrial technologies to build a smart society
Four years after his revelations about internet surveillance, Edward Snowden is still making cybersecurity headlines in Germany
Security firm Fallible claims the app is still leaking personal information
Intriguing patent application hints at facial recognition-based security for Apple iPhone 8
SecuSuite for Samsung Knox is a new version of BlackBerry's established security platform tailored for Samsung Electronics' high-end smartphones
Many security products that intercept HTTPS traffic don't properly validate certificates, US-CERT has warned
The attacks use PowerShell and open-source tools like Mimikatz and Meterpreter loaded directly in memory
DARPA says DREaM transistors will transmit and receive the large and complex RF signals of the future in smaller packages while consuming less power
If their changes don't satisfy the European Commission then Twitter, Google and Facebook could face fines
Updater for browser add-on was caught installing malware
'Come on!!!' rages one Reddit commenter
It turns out people don't want to hear about 'Beauty and the Beast' when they ask for their daily agenda
IDC sees number of AR/VR headsets jumping dramatically as the nascent technology gains traction
Without a plan, you are flying blind. Here are 9 steps that you should follow.
Insiders praise administration's focus on infrastructure and deregulation, but worries linger over immigration policies.
Two Congressmen suggested that the U.S. create a cybersecurity reserves system, similar to the National Guard, but the idea has received a mixed welcome from the cybersecurity community
If you want to run Kaby Lake, you must use Windows 10
Relying on private hackers gives governments some deniability, but it can bring the whole scheme down
The new design could mean a single smartphone model that works everywhere
Auction house says Berkeley engineer offloading Apple I machine
SaaS and PaaS are still the stars, though, and its cloud is still dwarfed by AWS' revenue
The flaw can allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on affected devices
Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile Platform has a nice ring to it, no?
U.S. funding for supercomputers could also be at risk
The annual hacking contest has a prize pool of $1 million
DARPA’s Lifelong Learning Machines program wants to reset what machine learning systems can do
Not just purview of big telcos, 3.5 GHz shared spectrum also will enable cable providers, industrial companies to roll out LTE services, CBRS Alliance chairman says
Cisco discloses vulnerabilities with a severity rating of "critical" or "high" but now includes “medium” threats as well.
