List of data breaches and cyber attacks in 2015 – over 480 million leaked records
There have been breaches of highly sensitive data (including that of children), targeted attacks on government agencies such as the US’s OPM and Germany’s Bundestag, and an alarming number of well-orchestrated DDoS attacks. Money has been stolen, data has been swiped and lives have been ruined. However, I must not fail to mention the fantastic work law enforcement agencies around the world have been putting in to bring justice down on the cyber criminals causing havoc this year. As Stuart Winter-Tear recently called it, 2015 has been the year of collaboration, and we can only hope to see the same in 2016.
Malware on the Smart TV?
So in this case, it’s not a new type of malware specifically targeting Smart TVs, but a common threat to all internet users. There are also reports that this scam has hit users on Apple MacBooks; and since it runs in the browser, it can run on Smart TVs and even on smartphones. These kinds of threats often get combined with exploits and may take advantage of vulnerabilities in the browser, Flash Player or Java. If successful, they may install additional malware on the machine or change DNS settings of your system or home router which may lead to similar symptoms. Such behaviour could not be observed in this case, since they malicious pages have been removed already. Keep in mind, there might be vulnerabilities in the software on your TV! Therefore it’s important to check if your device is up to date. Make sure you installed the latest updates for your Smart TV!
Red Hat's Ansible 2.0 brings new power to devops
Blocks also provide a way to perform exception handling, so that if something goes wrong during the course of a block, it can be handled. Existing scrips that don't use blocks will run as-is, but legacy scripts could only implement the same kind of functionality by way of a lot of boilerplate code. A new addition called strategies controls how playbooks execute, with the default for existing scripts being a "linear" strategy -- e.g., all hosts have to finish one task before any of them can begin the next one. A "serial" strategy, meanwhile, ensures one group of hosts finishes its work before another group can begin, and another strategy named "free" allows all hosts to run independently of each other. Strategies are not hard-wired into Ansible, either; they can be defined by plug-ins.
Will LiFi Take Big Data And The Internet Of Things To A New Level?
LiFi is a category of Visible Light Communication; an LED light flickers at speeds undetectable to the naked eye to transmit data — a bit like high tech morse code. In fact, scientists have demonstrated in a lab that they can transmit information at as much as 224 gigabits per second, the equivalent of 18 movies of 1.5 GB each being downloaded every single second. In an office setting, they were able to achieve speeds up to 100 times faster than average WiFi speeds. The LED lights require so little energy, they can be powered by a standard ethernet cord. Inventor Harald Haas has also suggested that the smart lights could be powered by solar cells charging batteries. In addition, LiFi does not create electromagnetic interference the way WiFi does, meaning it could have important applications in sensitive locations like healthcare facilities.
8 Things I Learned About SDx in 2015
This is, of course, the concept known as virtualization, whereby applications are detached or disaggregated from the underlying hardware. The most important aspect of this is on the development level, because it has ushered in the era of agile development in which software can be designed, deployed, moved, and updated on the fly. ... Bubbles have value in themselves even though there is going to be pain and carnage along the way. Even as a herd of startups is culled, the bubble can accelerate innovation in specific markets. What’s interesting about the orginal Internet bubble, which resulted in a crash and many failed companies, is that it created the largest economic engine in the world — and some of the world’s most valuable companies, including Amazon and Google. The same thing is happening in SDx and cloud-based security.
Tech innovations that will transform healthcare in the next five years
Healthcare providers are no strangers to the impact of technology on their operations. Over the past several years, for example, the move to electronic health records, though painful, has helped organizations develop the IT capabilities to pursue other innovations, with an eye toward better outcomes and improved operational efficiency. While many technology advancements hold tremendous potential to transform the industry, their timing and viability are unclear, particularly since promising technologies must often go through years of testing to obtain approval for use. Industry regulations, such as safeguarding patient information, can further cloud the timeline.
NAS vs object: Which one for large volumes of unstructured data?
Object storage enables enterprises and service providers to manage multi-petabyte secondary storage with relative ease. This does not directly compete with traditional file and block storage for serving frequently-accessed data and transactional workloads. In addition, when we refer to storage performance we usually think in terms of speed, latency and throughput in the datacentre. This is very different to the cloudy world of distributed applications and clients, where mobile devices typically access data over long distances and from widely disparate locations. The second differentiator is geographic scale. In the distributed world we need distributed storage performance and throughput.
Exposing the Lucene Library as a Microservice with Baratine
The ability to expose an existing application or library as a web service without any code modifications is a most appealing concept. Using Baratine, an open-source framework for building a platform of loosely coupled microservices, this can be accomplished in two steps: Implement a service portion (SOA) then; and Implement a client library for communication. Using this approach, Baratine can transform an existing library or application into a standalone web service. The Baratine services will communicate with the existing library, and the Baratine clients will service requests from the outside world. ... The Apache Foundation describes Lucene as: “a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.”
Scale-Out Storage and the Virtualized Data Center
Scale-out, as opposed to scale up, has the promise of allowing a solution to grow with the number of hosts in the cluster, but very often we see solutions that fail to live up to this promise. Why is scale-out hard? Well, there are multiple reasons why scale-out is hard and although the specifics of each solution are different, the common theme is that multiple hosts means multiple copies of data, and multiple copies means they need to be kept coherent or consistent. The price of keeping the copies coherent, henceforth referred to as doing “cache coherency”, goes up as you traverse down the following list: A. Immutable objects B. Mutable objects. Single Reader, Single Writer (Single-RW) C. Mutable objects. Multiple Readers, Multiple Writers (Multi-RW)
Quote for the day:
"The secret to success is doing the stuff other people won't do & doing it for a really long time." -- John Jantsch
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