Новости за 24.02.2016

Social engineering can be easily used to trick users into confirming authentication codes, says a computer science professor at NYU.

The U.S. Congress should allow an expert commission to recommend ways to resolve the contentious debate over police access to encrypted communications before passing "knee-jerk" legislation, one lawmaker said.

Another day, another flaw revealed in the Internet of insecure things. If you have a Nissan Leaf, then prepare yourself to potentially be pranked by friends, frenemies – even complete strangers on the other side of the world. All a person needs is your Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) – which happens to be visible on your Leaf for anyone who wants to see it – and for you to use the Nissan Leaf remote management app.

TrustPipe, a startup that made bold claims last year about stopping 100% of network-borne attacks on endpoints, has retooled its software and distribution system in order to better fit into enterprise security schemes.

GPS app Waze (owned by Google) this week launched a new celebrity voice for its users to download: Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman (anyone else remember him from when he was on “The Electric Company”? No? Just me?) can now give you directions on your way to work, home or steer you away from traffic accidents. The voice download is part of an ad promotion for Freeman’s new movie, “London Has Fallen,” in which Freeman’s vice president character takes on terrorists, etc. 

Publications across the Internet have praised Netflix on the triumphant migration of its operations into Amazon Web Service’s cloud. But there’s one caveat: Netflix isn’t quite all in on Amazon’s cloud.

Last year, Google introduced a Voice Typing feature for the desktop Web version of Google Docs that allowed users to dictate their documents. It's now getting upgraded to let people control formatting with voice commands as well. 

In large enterprises, purchasing and administering software has never been more difficult. Unlike chairs or stationery, software contracts and licenses come in a variety of forms. At one end of the spectrum, small software vendors typically use simple licenses and pricing. At the other end of spectrum, many large enterprise software vendors use complex contracts to define multi-million dollar deals.

According to a new benchmark, the three leading SQL-on-Hadoop engines — Apache Impala 2.3, Apache Spark 1.6 and Apache Hive 1.2 — all have unique strengths and weaknesses that make them well-suited to some Business Intelligence (BI) use cases and less suited to others.

BARCELONA -- BlackBerry on Wednesday announced a new 60-person cybersecurity consulting service, which will include staff from its recent acquisition of UK-based Encription Limited.

Two security researchers have demonstrated security vulnerabilities in the Nissan Leaf electric car by using mobile management APIs supplied by the car manufacturer.

True 5G mobile networks and devices won't be here until 2020. That may seem like a long time to you or me, but for the carriers and network equipment makers at Mobile World Congress, it's time to get cracking.

First impressions of the LG G5 recollected Google’s project Ara, one of the Google ATAP team’s projects led by former DARPA chief Regina Dugan to prove the viability of building a modular mobile hardware ecosystem. The goal of the project is to enable users to create a modular smartphone that is precisely tailored to their functional and aesthetic preferences.

Researchers from the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center recently patented a new type of bullet capable of self-destructing after traveling over a predetermined distance.

The group of hackers that crippled the computer infrastructure of Sony Pictures Entertainment in late 2014 has been responsible for a large number of attacks against organizations from South Korea, the U.S. and other countries over the past seven years.

Samsung has started shipping its first Artik developer board, hoping it will find a place in  robots, drones, wearables and a whole range of connected devices in the Internet of Things.

Struggling smartphone vendor BlackBerry is looking to diversify its business by launching a cybersecurity consulting service, focusing in part on the Internet of Things, and providing related tools to customers.

With more people using email on their phones, Google has finally added two key editing and calendar features to its Gmail app for Android.

The most frustrating thing about Oppo's SuperVOOC fast-charging demonstration at Mobile World Congress is waiting for the battery to discharge so that they can run it again.

Rallies in some 50 cities express support for Apple in showdown with FBI

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If you haven't been paying much attention to virtual reality, now might be a good time to start. In a series of announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, some of the biggest names in smartphones, consumer electronics and social media have given the technology a major boost.

Oracle announced this week its intention to acquire Ravello systems. The deal, which VentureBeat reported was worth $500 million, was announced by way of a scant two sentence on the Oracle website.

In a traditional WAN infrastructure, the control plane and data plane are tightly coupled, typically congruent, and cannot be separated due to how they are integrated with each network device. This architecture served the networking needs of enterprises well until now, since most data flows were structured around data centers with centralized exits.

The biggest downside of Wi-Fi for most users might be that it can really drain your smartphone or tablet battery, but a research team at the University of Washington has come up with a way to make using the nearly ubiquitous wireless technology in a less taxing way.

Determining indoor location based on Wi-Fi signal strength is easy enough if you know precisely where the access points are located, but gathering that information across a wide area is time-consuming.