Software: Crowdstrike never heard of pilot testing and phased rollouts
Crowdstrike takes down the entire world.
That’s fast: “Japan breaks internet speed record with a 319Tbps data transfer”
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…
Bloomberg’s “hacked” Supermicro server boards article comes under fire
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…
Loyalty Cards are used to spy on your purchases, and not just with the vendor
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…
Workaround: Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader app no longer available for PC, Mac #BarnesAndNoble
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…
Google spies on you, recording your voice when you are not expecting it to
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…
The role of the CIO in the future
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…
The challenge of health information data normalization
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…
#NSA’s PRISM enables staff to query Internet service providers data using NSA gear installed at corporate sites
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:…