Day: February 10, 2020

Do you control your data – or does your data control you?

Komprise wants to help you kick your storage habit Webcast If the task of storing ever higher piles of unstructured data is overwhelming your data center, you are not alone. Like many other organisations, your company may be devoting much more of its time and resources to buying and managing storage than to the actual…


Emotet Now Hacks Nearby Wi-Fi Networks to Spread Like a Worm

The new tactic used by Emotet allows the malware to infect nearby insecure Wi-Fi networks – and their devices – via brute force loops. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Justice Department charges Chinese nationals over Equifax hack – CNET

The Equifax breach affected more than half of the US population. …read more Source:: CNet


Why Can We Write Software To Get To the Moon, But Not To Count Votes

minstrelmike shares a report. From the article: The best way to get a feel for what NASA’s job was like is to read some of the code, now immortalized in a GitHub repository. Choose a file at random. GROUND_TRACKING_DETERMINATION_PROGRAM.agc, for instance, has 204 lines and more than 85 of them are comments. Each of the…


Forget the Oscars, the Solar Orbiter is off to take a close look at our nearest (and super-hot) star

Sun, science and, er, more science The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter launched on time at 04:03 UTC this morning on the back of an Atlas V.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Day in the Life of a Bot

A typical workday for a bot, from its own point of view. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Xerox ups bid in hostile takeover of HP Ink to more than $36.5bn

Rifles down back of sofa, finds extra $3bn for shareholders The mini saga that is Xerox’s effort to financially charm the pants off HP Inc shareholders has taken a new twist – the copier biz is upping its bid to more than $36.5bn.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Netflix, Which Spent $100M in Oscars Campaign Alone, Won Just 2 Awards. ‘Parasite’, a South Korean Movie That Cost $11M To Make, Won 4

An anonymous reader shares a report: Around Thanksgiving, it looked like this could have been Netflix’s year to win it all at the Oscars. Critics were heaping praise on the epic scale of Martin Scorsese’s mob movie “The Irishman,” which felt destined to be the streaming giant’s best shot at the elusive best picture trophy….


Special-edition Galaxy Z Flip leaks in artsy commercial – CNET

For those who love tech and fashion. …read more Source:: CNet


Samsung’s Galaxy Home Mini spotted in wild yet again ahead of Unpacked – CNET

Could a release finally be near? …read more Source:: CNet