Day: September 29, 2016

FBI reports more attempts to hack voter registration system

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has found more attempts to hack the voter registration systems of states, ahead of national elections. The agency had reportedly found evidence in August that foreign hackers had breached state election databases in Illinois and Arizona, but it appears that there have been other attempts as well, besides frequent

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Microsoft's cloud dominance comes with a security risk

With each cloud vendor doing its utmost to shove more features into its offerings and tie them all together, are we looking at a new technology monoculture? That is, a community of computers that run identical software — sharing the same vulnerabilities and, thus, threat of widespread failure in case of successful attack. With so

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What’s left for BlackBerry? The products that still matter

The only surprise in this week’s announcement that BlackBerry is getting out of the hardware business is that it took this long. CEO John Chen has been hinting broadly for two years that this would happen, and the parade of unsuccessful Android smartphones that followed the parade of unsuccessful BlackBerry 10 OS smartphones pointed in

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