Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Ukraine's national power company investigates whether hacking caused blackout in Kiev
Integrating the data created from the VOSS-4-UC suite with the LayerX analytic engine makes it easier to manage Unified Communications applications
Blame Methbot: The victims pay premium prices for eyeballs but get none
IT managers may already be considering increase costs in their calculations
Developers can use Project Wycheproof to test cryptographic algorithms against a library of known attacks to uncover potential weaknesses
Combination of services could create a massive world map of locations
The complaint alleges that Google changed its policy in June to combine personal and browsing data
Law enforcement use needs to be better regulated
Cisco: WAN design, Internet of Things, SDN and other developing network changes on the menu
A report from Asia claims hardware makers are quite interested
Two Android trojans that steal financial information and login credentials now double as file-encrypting ransomware programs
Intel's Joule 550x is available for $349 at Mouser and $291 at Newegg, which are huge markups
Cisco, Google, IBM and others are moving to get the humans out of enterprise security defense
Enterprises go heavy and hard to the cloud as machine learning, serverless computing and containers advance
Ireland's Department of Finance has published the arguments it intends to make against the ruling, while Apple is now ready to file its appeal
The online learning platform reset passwords for close to 55,000 affected users
Obama is hopeful incoming president Donald Trump will take the hacking seriously
The company also revealed functionality that helps organize people
Dirty devices at the edge sometimes send messy data to the cloud
Custom-made Thunderbolt devices can be used to extract the encryption password from locked Macs
The company will anonymize data that employees see to help with machine learning
The BlackBerry smartphone is dead: Long live the BlackBerry smartphone
Employees will not be reading note content unless users opt in, the company said
A Russian-speaking hacker was found trying to sell the allegedly stolen login credentials
‘Should be a major focus for security defenders,” Carbon Black says
More security vendors joined the No More Ransom project and contribute 32 new ransomware decryption tools
New report from Riverbed Technology identifies pervasive headaches stemming from unreliable applications in the federal government.
This may be risky for some employees, particularly those with a security clearance
Wheeler pushed for net neutrality rules and municipal broadband
Artificial intelligence seems to be a huge growth area. Every vendor wants to be there, and investors have given Conversica $34 million in Series B funding for its AI software.
The massive data breach can be an opportunity to do some cleanup and implement security recommendations
Wearables are collecting a huge amount of personal information, but regulations are lax, privacy groups say
A bevy of new technologies next year will bring PCs into the era of VR, AI and 5G
Parts of Cisco’s Command Line Interface at question in this component of the lawsuit
Elite hackers-for-hire or state-sponsored actors may have been involved, according to experts
President-elect Donald Trump remains skeptical Russia was involved, despite U.S. intelligence findings
Tech summit sees Trump ask companies for ideas on cross-border trade reform
Microsoft's minimum requirements for VR headsets will go up with Creator's Update next year
Consumers can't opt out of being snooped on for the purpose of training algorithms
UNH-IOL testing services will address security interoperability
Serverless computing is a hot topic in the cloud
What to glean from the DNC and Yahoo hacks, the rise of ransomware
Keep customers in the fold, even though they're running the old
Former Texas governor has called for closing the Energy Department he's been tapped to run
The hiring over four years may not represent a boost over existing plans
The company has rolled out a multitude of offerings for conversational computing and bots
