Uber Technologies is reportedly under a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in the U.S. over its use of secret software, which helped the company avoid officials seeking rides to investigate the ride-hailing service, according to news reports Thursday. Their accounts appear to tally with a report last month by the Portland Bureau of Transportation, which…
Google has stopped Wednesday’s clever email phishing scheme, but the attack may very well make a comeback. One security researcher has already managed to replicate it, even as Google is trying to protect users from such attacks. “It looks exactly like the original spoof,” said Matt Austin, director of security research at Contrast Security. The…
A sophisticated Russian cyberespionage group is readying attacks against Mac users and has recently ported its Windows backdoor program to macOS. The group, known in the security industry as Snake, Turla or Uroburos, has been active since at least 2007 and has been responsible for some of the most complex cyberespionage attacks. It targets government…
After about half a decade, Intel is wiping the confusing E5 and E7 monikers off its Xeon chips and rebranding them to bring more clarity about the performance and features that come with the processors. Xeon chips are used in servers and workstations like Mac Pro. Xeon chips being released mid-year will be broken down…
AppDynamics’ application monitoring tools played an important role in ensuring that Credit Suisse’s FX trading platform was able to handle the market price fluctuations brought about by the UK Brexit vote, just two weeks after a major outage took its systems offline. The Swiss financial services firm conducted its ‘proof of value’ (PoV) of the…
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is fast approaching but with significant resource investment required, many organisations are struggling to meet the May 2018 deadline. According to Google executives, moving data to the cloud will help take some of the pain out of upgrading security practices and data protection standards in line with the…
Microsoft today asked enterprise customers to test a new anti-malware, anti-exploit technology in Windows 10’s baked-in browser. Windows 10’s latest preview, tagged as build 16188 and released Thursday, includes Windows Defender Application Guard, a virtualization-based feature that isolates the contents of a tab in Edge, the OS’s default browser, from the rest of the system.…
China already has the world’s fastest supercomputer and has now built a crude quantum computer that could outpace today’s PCs and servers. Quantum computers have already been built by companies like IBM and D-Wave, but Chinese researchers have taken a different approach. They are introducing quantum computing using multiple photons, which could provide a superior…
When Microsoft made it possible for enterprises to quickly resolve incompatibilities between their applications and new Windows versions, it didn’t intend to help malware authors as well. Yet, this feature is now abused by cybercriminals for stealthy and persistent malware infections. The Windows Application Compatibility Infrastructure allows companies and application developers to create patches, known…
Following a $3.7 billion acquisition, AppDynamics is already looking to access Cisco’s enterprise customer network as it plans to keep up the pace with the big hitters in the new wave of enterprise software vendors. Cisco completed the acquisition of AppDynamics in March this year for a reported $3.7 billion (£2.86 billion), nearly double its…