What is the preferred IoT application of ICT executives? They tell it to the Silicon.es cameras. Throughout the IOTSWC 2016 held this week in Barcelona there was talk about technology, cloud, analytics and business applications of IoT. Especially industrial, the segment that will benefit most from its advances. But from NetMediaEurope, parent publisher of this and other IT professional headers, we wanted to […]
Thoroughly. The threat of ransomware: pay or else … The ransomware is already one of the largest cyber threats. Hackers have realized that they can be a very lucrative business. What is your target? And what tools to use? The ransomware is becoming one of the preferred weapons of criminals. According to the Global Index of the Threats of Check Point, the ransomware is […]
Spain is the country with the highest consumption of mobile internet in the world The cell represents the 85 % of internet usage in our country, compared to 79 % of Hong Kong, and 76 % of China, which are the two following large markets for the consumption of mobile internet. Spain is the country that consumes more mobile internet. According to the data of Zenith, here 85 % […]
In a single day, 1,476 botnet-assisted DDoS attacks accumulated it Was the 3 of August, stands out in the latest report from Kaspersky Lab as the day with most active attacks of the past four quarters. How has the third quarter of the year in a matter of DDoS attacks? Why is it characterized? According to a study made by the security firm Kaspersky […]
Google alerts about a vulnerability in Windows that is being exploited Seven days after being informed Microsoft about the problem, Google explains that the Redmond company neither has corrected or has issued recommendations for protection of the users. Google has warned about the existence of a vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft is aware but for which there is still no patch. As explained by the company […]
Symantec and Telefónica come together to secure the Internet of Things The unit of cybersecurity ElevenPaths, will leverage the technology Symantec Managed PKI Service to strengthen environments IoT from cyber attacks. there are more and more connected devices, they relate to one another and that shape what is known as the Internet of Things (IoT). These devices generate a large amount of information and need for […]
Google improves the filtering of fraudulent apps on the Play Store The company has just announced a new detection and filtering platform to increase user confidence. Google is increasing its efforts to detect fraudulent app developers and has just announced a new detection and filtering platform in the Play Store. From now on, when your system detects fake installations or designed to increase ranking revisions, […]
BlackBerry signs an agreement with Ford to implement its QNX software in autonomous cars The canadian company is studying to expand the use of your operating system security to control other vehicle systems. BlackBerry has signed an agreement to work directly with Ford and expand the use of its operating system security QNX as the signature car develops increasingly autonomous vehicles. Ford’s increasing their efforts on vehicles without driver […]
Employees, the worst nightmare of security companies? From Panda Security warn about the danger of certain workers, who might act out of spite or to be paid by third parties to steal information. criminals, those thugs, external with sufficient competence and enough intentions to steal confidential data which do not belong to them, are not the only ones who can make it […]
Skype modifies voice messages Skype introduces video options and gets rid of personalized greetings, email notifications and SMS transcription. Advancing its modernization ambitions, the communication tool Skype , in Microsoft’s hands for some years now, has decided to introduce changes that will affect the user experience. One of them has to do directly with the mobile. Both the […]
Lenovo finally releases a BIOS update on its Yoga 900 laptops for Linux The criticism of users during the last month of “lock-in Linux and shielding your PC exclusively for the Windows operating system 10”, have forced the measure. following the críticas last month, Lenovo has released a BIOS update for your range of laptops Yoga 900, allowing them to finally support the installations of GNU / Linux. […]
So far in 2016, security researchers have detected about 130 serious vulnerabilities in Firefox “Without our community of security researchers”, appreciates the own Mozilla Foundation, “all of the Firefox users would be more at risk”. As part of its strategy of online security, the Mozilla Foundation features a rewards program it pays to external researchers who find vulnerabilities in its software and report about it to remedy it. This […]
Fortinet enters more despite the challenges, such as expanding sales cycles During the third quarter of this year has entered 316,6 million of dollars, which is a 22 % more than the 260.1 million dollars in the same period of 2015. Fortinet has managed to improve its revenue during the last quarter of his fiscal year 2016. In the course of the third quarter has entered, […]
The OpenStack Security project adds new tools and processes to the OpenStack platform The goal is to establish best safety practices through a process of analysis of threats. safety is an critical element of the open-source platform in the cloud OpenStack. In the OpenStack Summit 2016, held in Barcelona on the 27th of October, Rob Clark, the technical lead of the project OpenStack Security, explained the most recent […]