If enterprise IT folks haven’t taken a look at their DNS ecosystem recently now may be a good time. This week the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told all federal agencies to bolt down their Domain Name System in the face of a series of global hacking campaigns. More about […]
Archives for 2019
Cisco patches serious SD-WAN software security holes
Cisco has patched security vulnerabilities in four packages of SD-WAN Solution software that address buffer overflow, arbitrary file override and privilege access weaknesses that could have led to denial-of-service attacks or access problems. The first patch, called “Critical” by Cisco, fixes a vulnerability in the vContainer of the Cisco SD-WAN Solution that could let an authenticated, […]
Powering the Next Wave of Intelligent IoT Devices with Machine Learning – Part 1
At BigML, we strive to bring the power of Machine Learning to as many diverse environments as possible. Now you can easily power your Internet of Things (IoT) devices with Classifiers, Regressors, Anomaly Detectors, Deep Neural Networks, and more with the BigML bindings for Node-RED. The BigML Node-RED bindings aim to make it easier to […]
Lloyd’s bank to advance digitisation by transferring accounts away from legacy IT
Lloyds bank is planning to move 500,000 customer accounts from its Intelligent Finance division out of its legacy IT onto a cloud-based banking platform built by Thought Machine, according to the FT. Intelligent Finance is a sunsetted business which services existing customers and doesn’t take on new ones. Back in November, Lloyds announced a partnership […]
Microsoft Office 365 goes down across Europe
Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-powered productivity suite went down yesterday morning across Europe, with users reporting issues connecting to the cloud-hosted email servers at around 9.30am. The tech giant confirmed that it was experiencing problems with its servers and it was working on a fix to get email back up and running. “We’re investigating an issue […]
We don’t sell people’s data: Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday renewed his defense of the social network’s business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was different from selling people’s data. “If we’re committed to serving everyone, then we need a service that is affordable to everyone,” Zuckerberg said in an opinion piece published in the Wall […]
Google’s bid to battle Amazon suffers blow as Walmart withdraws
By Matthew Boyle and Mark Bergen Walmart has quietly withdrawn from one of Google’s marquee efforts to challenge Amazon in e-commerce. Walmart removed its products from Google’s Shopping Actions service, the internet giant said on Thursday. The retailer also recently dropped out of Google Express, a related delivery service. In March, Google unveiled Shopping Actions, […]
Microsoft Office is now available on Apple’s Mac App Store
Apple has announced that Microsoft Office 365 is now available on Mac App Store where Apple users can directly download the flagship apps such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The debut of the Microsoft Office in Apple Store came a little bit later than what Apple first announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference last year, […]
Microsoft ‘waiting to find out’ why Bing went offline in China
A smartphone with the Microsoft Bing logo is displayed against the backdrop of a Chinese flag in this picture illustration taken January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Microsoft is still trying to figure out why its Bing search engine temporarily went offline in China, the company’s president said following speculation that it could have been blocked […]
Raymond taps B2B e-commerce to link retailers and dealers
Picture credits: ThinkStock Raymond, India’s largest textile & global conglomerate, will foray into B2B e-commerce to connect retailers and dealers in the clothing and textile space. According to sources in textile and apparel circles, Raymond had already enrolled 2,500 retailers across India and has been running pilot tests for more than four months, including in […]