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SentinelOne last week announced that it has detected a technique being used in Asia to infect systems with remote access Trojans that ensures that the payload remains in memory throughout its execution and doesn't touch the victim's computer disk in an unencrypted state Attackers remain hidden from antivirus technologies and next-generation technol...

Crafting an Online Strategy, Part 3: How to Get Paid for Your Wares As a maker in an e-commerce world, you have to get the word out about what you're creating. Whether you're crafting candles or jewelry, marketing, in short, leads to sales....

Bodhi Linux 3.2.0 is an update to the Bodhi Linux 3.x series and features key kernel and desktop improvements....

A white hat hacker last week announced the discovery of more than a half-dozen security flaws in some software Facebook used on its corporate network While performing penetration testing of some third-party software in a network appliance Facebook used, Orange Tsai, a security researcher forDevcore, discovered seven vulnerabilities that attackers c...

Google has been working on an incubator that would let employees pitch business plans and work full time on approved projects while remaining on its payroll, according to news reports published this week The incubator, to be called "Area 120," will be led by Don Harrison, VP of corporate development, and Bradley Horowitz, VP of streams, photos and ...

Google appears to be on the verge of executing a long-speculated plan to integrate Google Play's vast collection of more than a million Android apps into the Chrome operating system. A series of screen shots recently posted on Reddit show Chrome OS users able to access the Google Play store on a Chromebook. Users were able to find extensive refere...

Apple shares closed at US$105.08 Monday -- down 60 cents -- as the market steeled itself for what's expected to be a gloomy quarterly earnings call on Tuesday Apple will underperform the smartphone industry and become the only global top-five brand to see shipments decline in 2016, predicted Ming-Chi Kuo, a KGI Securities analyst who previously has...

While hobbyists, inventors and innovators alike have been experimenting and producing a variety of do-it-yourself projects, their world is expected to undergo a hard shift as DIY moves to the next level 3D printing is the cornerstone of the coming shift, and its effect on our daily lives will be multiplied by several converging forces: the collabor...

Respect is a vital ingredient in any mutually beneficial relationship, and that's never truer than in the case of business-to-business buyers and sellers. The most elementary way a seller shows a commitment to a healthy customer relationship is through an ongoing display of respect That doesn't mean some single, impressive gesture, like giving a po...

BMW and Daimler have broken off talks about forming a partnership with Apple to develop an electric car, according to news reports published last week Discussions reportedly stalled over issues that included which company would take the lead on the project and which would have ownership of the data. Apple apparently sought to develop a vehicle that...

Facebook last week announced that it had rolled out group calling worldwide in its Messenger app. Members engaged in a group conversation can tap the phone icon on their screen to initiate a group call. They can manage individual participants on the next screen Members of a group who miss the initial call can tap the phone icon in the group chat to...

The Chinese government ordered Apple to shut down its iBooks and iTunes Movies services in the country, according to news reports published last week China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television reportedly called for the closure....

Every time the "PC is dead" topic comes up, an old Monty Python movie comes to mind, and I'll bet you can guess which one. PCs are on almost every desk, and the installed base is measured not in the hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands -- it is measured in the hundred millions. Brian Krzanich, Intel's latest CEO, last week announced a ...

Information technology -- especially the Internet -- can have a positive impact on the U.S. financial system. Used improperly, however, such tools have the potential to wreak havoc on the financial sector and consumers TheOffice of the Comptroller of the Currency, a unit of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has launched an initiative on the futu...

The age of Unicorn investing has led to alarming overvaluations of startups that could result in an afterparty roll call not seen since 1999, Silicon Valley VC Bill Gurley warned Thursday Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark, raised a red flag over the large number of tech startups valued at more than US$1 billion, and suggested that the rise of ...

Fox News journalist John Stossel, who recently underwent an operation for lung cancer, on Wednesday wrote that although New York-Presbyterian Hospital's medical care is excellent, "the hospital's customer service stinks." Doctors "keep me waiting for hours, and no one bothers to call or email to say 'I'm running late,'" Stossel said.

Volkswagen has reached an agreement with federal and state authorities to repair or replace about 500,000 diesel cars in the U.S., according to court documents released Thursday. The cars were equipped with software designed to deceive emissions tests. Under the agreement, announced Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Volkswagen will...

Opera on Wednesday announced that it would add a free VPN service to the latest version of its browser VPNs, or virtual private networks, add an extra level of security for Web surfers. Companies use them to provide secure communications for employees remotely accessing office systems, and consumers use them to block unwanted snooping on their onli...

Intel this week announced that it would slash 12,000 jobs as part of a restructuring plan to focus more on cloud-based computing and the Internet of Things and less on PCs The cuts, which will involve about 11 percent of Intel's global workforce by mid-2017, will be achieved through a combination of voluntary retirements and layoffs, the consolidat...

Red Hat on Wednesday announced the general availability of Red Hat Cloud Suite and OpenStack Platform 8 The offerings provide a complete, integrated hybrid cloud stack with a container application platform (OpenShift), massively scalable infrastructure (OpenStack Platform 8) and unified management tools (Red Hat CloudForms), the company said....