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Software: Crowdstrike never heard of pilot testing and phased rollouts

2024 July 19

Crowdstrike takes down the entire world.

Cloud Emerging Technology Hardware/Tablets Etc

That’s fast: “Japan breaks internet speed record with a 319Tbps data transfer”

2021 July 23

Japanese researchers have broken an internet speed record by transferring data at 319Tbps — nearly twice as fast as last year’s achievement.. Source: Japan breaks internet speed record with a…

Cloud Crime/Corruption Security

Bloomberg’s “hacked” Supermicro server boards article comes under fire

2018 October 24

Bloomberg wrote an article a few weeks back accusing Supermicro of delivering compromised server system boards that were used by Apple, Amazon and up to 30 companies. Apple and Amazon…

Business Cloud Crime/Corruption Policy/Government Security Social media Spying

Loyalty Cards are used to spy on your purchases, and not just with the vendor

2018 March 7

The story of how that Sudafed ad got to me begins at Walgreens. As I bought tissues and Afrin, I keyed in my phone number so I could get loyalty…

Business Cloud Software/Tech

Workaround: Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader app no longer available for PC, Mac #BarnesAndNoble

2017 September 19

I discovered after a Mac OS X update that my very old Nook e-reader app for Mac OS X no longer works – and that Nook discontinued the app for…

Business Cloud Crime/Corruption Security Smart Phones Spying Uncategorized

Google spies on you, recording your voice when you are not expecting it to

2017 March 31

Android devices have an “Ok, Google” voice activation feature. This enables voice input of search and other functions on your Android device. Google also records a copy of the audio…

Automation Business Cloud Management Software/Tech Uncategorized

The role of the CIO in the future

2016 July 18

With high tech readily available “off the shelf” and probably from an outsourced cloud service, what is the role of the CIO in 10 or 15 years? A world where…

Business Cloud Software/Tech Uncategorized

The challenge of health information data normalization

2013 November 14

Different facilities and doctors use different terminology to describe the same things which makes the exchange of patient data difficult: Until the data is normalized, the true potential of HIEs…

Cloud Crime/Corruption

#NSA’s PRISM enables staff to query Internet service providers data using NSA gear installed at corporate sites

2013 June 10

According to the Washington Post, the PRISM system enables NSA staff to enter search commands that ultimately go directly to equipment that spies on US cloud-based servers: U.S., company officials:…

Cloud Crime/Corruption

The Guardian has released an additional NSA slide on PRISM

2013 June 9

It reinforces that the NSA is intercepting fiber communications within the Internet and has direct access to the server farms of major companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook and so on:…

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Software: Crowdstrike never heard of pilot testing and phased rollouts

That’s fast: “Japan breaks internet speed record with a 319Tbps data transfer”

Bloomberg’s “hacked” Supermicro server boards article comes under fire

Workaround: Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader app no longer available for PC, Mac #BarnesAndNoble

Google spies on you, recording your voice when you are not expecting it to

The role of the CIO in the future

The challenge of health information data normalization

#NSA’s PRISM enables staff to query Internet service providers data using NSA gear installed at corporate sites

The Guardian has released an additional NSA slide on PRISM

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