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Appthority Knows What Business is Thinking About App Security
Mobile development right now is fundamentally fragmented between a multitude of devices and a powerful ecology of vendors and platforms—on the cultural side, the rise of BYOD and personal connectivity has been a constant thorn in the side of corporate IT. Developers have found themselves in an odd place during this tug-of-war between employees and ...
25 GPU System Unveiled at Passwords^12 Conference Eats Password Hashes for Breakfast
At the Passwords^12 Conference in Oslo, Norway researcher Jeremi Gosney presented an extremely powerful password cracking rig that wields a spectacularly heavy 25 GPUs in order to quickly chew through cryptographic hashes and extract the passwords that they hide. The slides are available online [PDF] and in his demo he showed how the rig could ...
Anonymous Shows Us Again: People Still Suck at Choosing Passwords in 2012
Back when I worked as a programmer and sysadmin for a nonprofit, myself and other admins would sometimes make new login credentials for members and often the first password was something like “changeme,” and connected to a rule that forced the user to change their password upon sign in. In fact, I had a large ...
AppDirect Launches Incubator Program for Enterprising Developers
AppDirect, a leading cloud service marketplace company, is launching the AppDirect Developer Incubator Program, a unique 3 year program designed to give developers a risk-free way to pursue their dreams and make the jump from developer to entrepreneur. The unique and innovation incubator program is aimed at both entry-level and seasoned engineers, and will both ...
NSA Whistleblower William Binney Appears on RT, Big Data and Surveillance
As a security writer and futurist, when I hear someone from a cryptoanalysis outfit say the word “zettabyte” my ears do more than perk up, they triangulate and begin a careful spectrum analysis. So, when I was listening to NSA Whistleblower William Binney interviewed by Russia Today and these words cropped up I was soon ...
Stand Down, Liar! HP’s Battle Cry Heard Around the World
Last week saw drama rarely seen in the tech world when the numbers from Autonomy didn’t match what HP had paid for; Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch fired back at accusations with an open letter to HP, but the content of his letter didn’t turn any heads. Whereas the reply, as reported by John Furrier, boiled ...
Syria Just Fell Off the Face of the Internet: Sudden Nationwide Blackout
The AP is now reporting that Syria has dropped off the Internet as the government imposed a blackout over the entire nation’s critical communications from Internet to cellphones services (in select areas.) Thursday, rebels and government troops are engaged in warfare in the streets that have even strayed near the capital’s airport—suspending air traffic for ...
HP Converged Cloud: A Rich and Converged Cloud Delivers Automation Solution
With HP Discover just over the horizon–happening December 4-6 in Frankfurt, Germany–it’s a good time to start looking at what products and services that HP has to offer that directly impact the work done in DevOps. The cloud is an important and growing market for a multitude of development teams and at the same time it ...
Bitcoin Halving Day Draws Nigh
Prepare to fall to your knees and shake your fist to the heavens, a terrible milestone is upon us, one that will forever change the fabric of an entire community. It’s not the Mayan doomsday—it’s Bitcoin halving day. Within a day or two, the reward for block solutions in the Bitcoin block chain will be ...
Through the Looking Glass with Google’s Alternate Reality Game Ingress
The concept of the Alternate Reality Game (or ARG) was popularized across gamer culture with the “I Love Bees” viral marketing campaign by Microsoft that was meant to raise hype for Halo 2 in 2004. It turned what would generally be called a clue-based scavenger hunt into a national and Internet-related phenomenon. Nowadays, the standard ...
