Think about this for a second: Every day, six billion SMS messages are sent in the US, about twice the number of phone calls made and roughly 25 times the number of pieces of first class mail processed and delivered […]
If you look around, it’s obvious that we depend on technology in almost every facet of our lives. With each passing year – or sometimes month – the technology we rely on is more connected and interdependent. There are a
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There’s no shortage of readily available hacker tools and techniques, and stories in the news about mobile app hacks for both the iOS and Android platforms. Fortunately, security solutions providers have responded swiftly and there are many approaches that one
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“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
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A recent study from Kaspersky Lab found that it costs significantly more to protect a virtual infrastructure. The survey determined that virtual servers are more likely to run mission-critical applications or contain sensitive data–making a successful attack against the virtual
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TalkTalk–a London-based phone and broadband company–has been breached by hackers. The attack could possibly have compromised sensitive data on all of its 4 million customers. A TalkTalk spokesperson called it a “significant and sustained” attack. I know it’s almost the
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Dell announced the biggest technology merger in history last week with EMC, and at Dell World he was clearly excited about the results. I expect he was especially excited because he stole this deal from Meg Whitman and HP. I know
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Most apps aren’t much use without a database running behind them. Deploying, maintaining and scaling a database in a dynamic environment like a Docker container ecosystem, however, is a Herculean task. DeepSQL thinks it has the solution, though: Containerized apps
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Trend Micro is acquiring TippingPoint from HP. The deal expands Trend Micro’s portfolio and gives it a more comprehensive security solution, and gives HP $300 million. I wrote this blog post about what’s in it for each of them and
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Developers develop and IT operations people operate the IT infrastructure. In a traditional IT environment there is a lot of friction between those two objectives. In fact, the goals of developers and IT operations often directly conflict. That’s why so
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