April may not have been the busiest month for security breaches, but what it lacks in volume it made up for in variety. The month began loudly when a hacker set off all of Dallas’s 156 emergency tornado alarms for 90 minutes in the wee hours of the morning on the seventh. Then on April…
Emphasizing enterprise devops, Atlassian is focusing on automation enhancements this week to its code management and continuous integration platforms. The 5.0 versions of Bitbucket Server and Data Center, Atlassian’s Git code management tool, focus on compliance requirements with a committer verification capability. Only the author of a commit can push changes back to the central…
In the current climate of major data breaches amidst an ever-shifting cyber threat landscape, the people in charge of vast volumes of valuable financial data are under increasing pressure to keep customer data safe from hackers and fraudsters. Speaking at the SWIFT Business Forum in London last week, a range of senior security professionals at…
Two things will immediately strike you about the new Surface Laptop: It’s amazingly light and sturdy, and it borrows a lot of its look and feel from Surface Pro 4. Microsoft debuted two classes of devices for education at its event Tuesday morning: a number of third-party, rugged inexpensive clamshell devices for elementary and middle-school…
Red Hat is beefing up its OpenShift containerization-as-a-service offering with a new developer tool for packaging apps into containers, foundations for incorporating microservices into those applications, and tighter integration of Amazon Web Services functionality with the platform. The biggest news, as far as Red Hat is concerned, is that it will offer native access to…
Microsoft will sever the update ties between Windows 10 and its default browser, Edge, to give company developers a way to refresh the browser more often than twice a year, according to an online report. “Users will finally be able to get updates to the Edge browser via the Windows Store, which will allow Microsoft…
If you can’t afford Intel’s super fast Optane SSDs but need a massive speed boost, the company’s latest DC P4600 and DC P4500 SSDs may fill the need. The new SSDs are based on conventional 3D NAND and targeted at data centers. The SSDs will be used in servers or storage arrays to serve up…
Microsoft’s bringing its big guns to bear to support the launch of Windows 10 S, an education-focused version of the operating system limited to Windows Store apps alone. Not only is there a sleek new Surface Laptop to lead the charge, but Microsoft’s crucial Office suite is coming to the Windows Store as well. “Wait,…
Microsoft has added a new laptop to its growing stable of Surface devices, and it’s amazingly thin and fast. The Surface Laptop has performance, features and design that will redefine the category, said Panos Panay, corporate vice president at Microsoft during an event in New York City on Tuesday. The 13.5-inch laptop is the first…
Android is getting security fixes for more than 100 vulnerabilities, including 29 critical flaws in the media processing server, hardware-specific drivers and other components. Android’s monthly security bulletin, published Monday, was split into two “patch levels,” which are represented as date strings on the “About” page of Android devices. The 2017-05-01 security patch level covers…