An in-depth security guidance report aimed at Internet of Things developers has been released by the Cloud Security Alliance. Titled Future-proofing the Connected World: 13 steps to developing secure IoT products, the report offers practical and technical guidance to devs trying to secure networks of IoT devices. “An IoT system is only as secure as Read more about CSA releases IoT security guide[…]
Avi Freedman has worked in networking for 30+ years and seen over 100 startups scale their infrastructure. Here are the most vital pieces of advice he has to share. They land themselves in Cloud Jail. They get sucked in by “hipster tools.” They don’t design for monitorability. Source: The Three Infrastructure Mistakes Your Company Must Read more about The Three Infrastructure Mistakes Your Company Must Not Make[…]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star. The plasma balls are zooming so fast through space it would take only 30 minutes for them to travel from Earth to the moon. This stellar “cannon fire” has continued once Read more about Hubble detects giant ‘cannonballs’ shooting from star[…]
A tweak to Microsoft’s Outlook.com cloud service has blocked a good number of people from accessing their messages. Specifically, the baffling and unannounced change affects Outlook.com users with connected accounts: these are email accounts hosted on third-party servers (such as a company’s private server or an ISP’s mail server) that are accessed via the Outlook.com Read more about Never explain, never apologize: Microsoft silent on Outlook.com email server grief[…]
The problem occurred with Spotify Free, which lets people to stream music gratis in exchange for being played and shown adverts. One advertiser sneakily embedded nasty software code into its Spotify ads that hijacked browsers on macOS and Linux systems. We’re told the ads caused the computers’ default browsers to open up dodgy websites that Read more about Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Spotify serving malware, no escape from reality[…]
Introducing the LudusScope, a 3D-printed, open-sourced system that lets you control and play games with living microbes on your smartphone. Tormenting single-celled organisms has never been so much fun. Source: This Smartphone Microscope Lets You Play Games With Microbes