Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
The guidelines issued by the NHTSA are only voluntary
The problem involves Lyft's use of cell phone numbers to verify customers' identities
Smallsats finding big role in space operations
What enterprises like GE, Pfizer and Citigroup want from Amazon, Microsoft and Google
What you need to know about the attacks and what to do
Increasing Mac numbers inspired LEGO to streamline device management
Attackers can reliably flip bits in physical memory cells in order to compromise mobile devices and computers
Since the Comcast-NBC Universal merger was approved, why not this one?
Researchers have built an AI system that can predict rulings by the European Court of Human Rights with 79 percent accuracy
The whistleblowing site said its founder Julian Assange has not endorsed an election candidate
The move reflects a trend for consolidation among communications and media firms
Botnets created from the Mirai malware were involved in Friday's cyber attack
A massive botnet patched together and deployed around the world swamped regional DNS data centers
DVRs and other devices compromised with the Mirai malware are being the attack
Apple TVs and iPads give patients more control
A consortium of banks led by financial IT company R3 plan to donate their distributed ledger code to the Hyperledger open source project next month
The flaw allows attackers with limited access to Linux computers to gain root privileges
90% of the products Apple bought undercover were counterfeits
Something else, likely the software, was at the root of Bill Belichick's problem with the Surface
Use your personal name in connection with your business but not as a trademark, Intel says
Network industry veteran turned VC aims to raise $100 million to fund pediatric cancer research
Investigators have seized 50 terabytes of information from Harold Martin, the former NSA contractor
10 near-term predictions from Gartner that may be worth caring about
There are important differences in how these clouds are built
The measure follows reports of use of stolen card data mainly in the US and China
The companies join forces to offer OpenStack as a service via NTT’s enterprise cloud and delivered from the company’s global data center network
GuardiCore Reveal lets security teams discover, monitor and visualize activity inside the data center, as well as control traffic through micro-segmentation policies
The tool acts as a system driver and blocks ransomware and other malicious programs from injecting rogue code into the master boot record
Clear Ballot’s independently developed software combined with commodity hardware has audited more than 5 million ballots and found an average error rate of less than .001%
IARPA program wants to build secure environments from the beginning that can respond to malicious actions more effectively than current offerings
New cumulative updates for Windows 7 will swell to 500MB a month, Microsoft acknowledges
Blown cover: Malware authors show how easy it is to get encryption wrong and, in the process, help security pros crack their code
Loyalty rewards tied to in-store payment apps could attract more users; banks need to get involved
Trump had the most to gain by raising the visa issue
An EU court erred in rejecting Intel's appeal of a record antitrust fine, a top EU judge advised Thursday
The tech giant is launching new managed storage and cold storage services
Gartner: Virtual personal health assistants and other technology eliminate the physician for annual exams
The branch target buffer mechanism in Intel Haswell CPUs can be used to leak ASLR memory addresses
Yahoo’s data breach and reports of email spying may cause Verizon to enact a clause in the contract between the companies that lets it cancel the deal
Spending on software and IT services should help the industry rebound from a lackluster 2016
Dell EMC says converged systems are too rigid in their deployment options and has come up with an on-premises offering it calls Validated System for Virtualization.
That depends on how good you are at managing infrastructure. 451 finds labor efficiency and utilization severely impact total cost of ownership for private clouds
Action Items help remind people what they're supposed to be doing
And then there were two: The Micro:bit Educational Foundation and the Raspberry Pi Foundation both support the teaching of coding worldwide -- but using very different computers
Open Networking Foundation and ON.Lab merge, promise to continue developing core open SDN projects
Riverbed’s SteelCentral 11 brings together end user experience, infrastructure, application and network performance management in a single platform
New Wi-Fi router supports high-speed data transfer for 4K video files, VR gaming scenarios
