BARCELONA — Venerable smartphone brands Motorola, Nokia and BlackBerry got new life at Mobile World Congress 2017, but that was primarily due to the influence of Chinese and Finnish manufacturers that have licensed the names. One new Android smartphone, the BlackBerry KEYone, was launched by TCL Communication, based in Huizhou, China. The phone has both…
Everyone makes mistakes. But working at Amazon Web Services means an incorrectly entered input can lead to a massive outage that cripples popular websites and services. That’s apparently what happened earlier this week, when the AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) in the provider’s Northern Virginia region experienced an 11-hour system failure. Other Amazon services in…
Amazon Web Services said today its outage earlier this week that affected major websites and apps was caused by human error. Sites including Netflix, Reddit and the Associated Press struggled for hours on Tuesday — all because of a simple typo. “While we are proud of our long track record of availability with Amazon S3,…
One bug in Slack, the popular work chat application, was enough for a security researcher to design a hack that could trick users into handing over access to their accounts. Bug bounty hunter Frans Rosen noticed he could steal Slack access tokens to user accounts due to a flaw in the way the application communicates…
Computer users who have been affected by the Dharma ransomware and have held onto their encrypted files can now restore them for free. Researchers have created decryption tools for this ransomware strain after someone recently leaked the decryption keys. Dharma first appeared in November and is based on an older ransomware program known as Crysis.…
Microsoft yesterday started selling extended support for its Windows Server software, letting corporate customers add up to six years to the lifespan of Windows Server 2008 and later, and SQL Server 2008 and later. The company had announced this “Premium Assurance” in December, saying then that the extended support would be available for purchase this…
IoT goes to work Image by Stephen Lawson Along with all the hype about phones and 5G networks, Mobile World Congress 2017 was also a showcase for the internet of things, including IoT gear for enterprise and government use. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Source:…
Cisco and Docker today announced an expanded partnership that will see further integration of container management software from Docker with infrastructure equipment. Cisco also released a 1.0 version of an open source container networking project named Contiv. +More on Network World: 5 Lessons from Amazon’s S3 Cloud blunder – and how to protect yourself from…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has revamped its existing technology services unit to focus on helping customers adopt emerging technologies, including cloud computing, the internet of things, and big data. HPE’s new Pointnext technology services division, announced Thursday, is designed to help businesses speed up their adoption of several technologies, also including hybrid IT services and analytics, the…
Google has expanded its Safe Browsing service, allowing Google Chrome on macOS to better protect users from programs that locally inject ads into web pages or that change the browser’s home page and search settings. The Safe Browsing service is used by Google’s search engine, as well as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to block…