You know websites and advertising networks track you around the web, but now ads that track how and where you drive are coming to connected cars. Eventually, ads that know what you are doing inside the privacy of your house are coming to connected homes.
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DDoS attacks now coming from mobile apps, Prolexic report says
ITBusiness.ca In the fourth quarter of 2013, a team of security engineers at Prolexic uncovered a case where hackers were targeting a major, unnamed financial services firm located in Asia using AnDOSid, an Android operating system app. (Image: Prolexic). AnDOSid … |
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Pony Botnet Nabs 2M Passwords; Google Gets Into Robotics; New USB Coming
PC Magazine Former Android chief Andy Rubin is now heading up a team at Google that's focused on robots. It's one of the search giant's "moonshot" projects, meaning we probably won't see a Google Robot in the near future. Also making headlines yesterday, a new USB … Facebook, Google, Twitter Users Among Nearly 2 Million Accounts Hacked by … Pony Botnet Lifts Two Million (Mostly Weak) Passwords Two million stolen Facebook, Google passwords uncovered by security experts |
Six months ago, Facebook announced that its Open Compute Project (OCP) would develop a top-of-rack switch that could boot nearly any type of networking software. With the help of Intel, Broadcom, and others, the consortium devoted to open hardware specifications would develop a rival to Cisco’s network hardware.
Today, Facebook and friends described the first tangible steps they’ve taken toward reaching that goal. Intel, Broadcom, Mellanox, and Cumulus Networks have contributed specs and software that bring the Open Compute Project closer to a finished switch design.
Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain operations at Facebook and head of the Open Compute Project, announced the latest developments in a blog post and conference call with reporters today. Frankovsky says the project is on track to “help software-defined networking continue to evolve and flourish,” since open source software-defined networking systems could be installed on Open Compute switches.
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