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New products of the week 5.15.17

New products of the weekImage by ArrayOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.FastCollect for Archives Commvault EditionImage by archive360To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 5.15.17

New products of the weekImage by ArrayOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.FastCollect for Archives Commvault EditionImage by archive360To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft blames US stockpiled vulnerability for ransomware attack

Microsoft on Sunday said a software vulnerability stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency has affected customers around the world, and described the spread of the WannaCrypt ransomware on Friday in many countries as yet another example of the problems caused by the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments.Referring to the attack as a “wake-up call,” Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith wrote in a blog post that governments have "to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits."The ransomware, also called WannaCry or Wana Decryptor, works by exploiting a vulnerability in some older versions of Windows. It has been suspected for some time now that the malware came from a cache of hacking tools reportedly stolen by hacking group Shadow Brokers from the NSA and leaked on the internet. WannaCry is said to take advantage of a NSA hacking tool, called EternalBlue, that can make it easy to hijack unpatched older Windows machines.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft blames US stockpiled vulnerability for ransomware attack

Microsoft on Sunday said a software vulnerability stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency has affected customers around the world, and described the spread of the WannaCrypt ransomware on Friday in many countries as yet another example of the problems caused by the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments.Referring to the attack as a “wake-up call,” Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith wrote in a blog post that governments have "to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits."The ransomware, also called WannaCry or Wana Decryptor, works by exploiting a vulnerability in some older versions of Windows. It has been suspected for some time now that the malware came from a cache of hacking tools reportedly stolen by hacking group Shadow Brokers from the NSA and leaked on the internet. WannaCry is said to take advantage of a NSA hacking tool, called EternalBlue, that can make it easy to hijack unpatched older Windows machines.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

What’s in your home’s basement? Bet it’s not a mainframe.

Over the years I've been tempted to buy all sorts of ridiculous things from sites such as Recycled Goods and eBay and, for various reasons such as lacking enough room (and spousal approval) to get a rotovap setup going in the kitchen, I've managed to restrict myself to a few small, reasonably sane acquisitions. Other people, for example, Connor Krukosky, not only laugh at temerity such as mine but go big with hardly a second thought.A couple of years ago, at the age of 18, Krukosky who has what we'll call "a passion" for collecting and restoring vintage computers, spotted a posting on a mailing list announcing that an decade-old IBM Z890 mainframe was being sold by Rutgers University and the bidding was at a measly $100. Krukosky was immediately interested and bid, winning the beast for the handsome sum of $237.39.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

iPhone 8 Rumor Rollup: Cranking up the processors; 3D cameras; $1K-plus price

Enough with the iPhone 8 (or iPhone X) rumors: News about the 10th anniversary Apple iPhone seems to be getting real...PROCESSOR IN PRODUCTION Much of the speculation about the expected 5.8-inch iPhone 8 of late has been about delays and more delays, but a report from DigiTimes that has been picked up by a slew of others states that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has started cranking out the main processors for the much anticipated iOS device. The presumed 10nm A11 system-on-chips would likely show up in the iPhone 8 as well as expected iPhone 7s and 7s Plus phones. While Apple uses multiple suppliers for other components, such as modems, TSMC is believed to be the only A11 supplier.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

SNL one step ahead of Amazon with Echo Silver

Amazon is cranking out new products as fast as it can, such as the new Alexa-powered Echo Show device with a screen, but SNL has an even more practical idea.The SNL spoof ad, from the minds of Amazon and AARP, addresses the unique needs of older people unable to quite get the latest gadgets. It even includes Uh Huh mode to deal with those situations where people make a short story longer... MORE: Most memorable SNL tech bits and skitsTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New WannaCry ransomware variants: Patch old PCs now to avoid becoming a victim

Monday is going to suck for some folks, those who run old, unsupported Windows systems which are vulnerable to WannaCry ransomware, if they didn’t put in some weekend time applying security updates.In response to the massive global ransomware attack on Friday, Microsoft took the “highly unusual step of providing a security update for all customers to protect Windows platforms that are in custom support only, including Windows XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003.” Europol chief Rob Wainwright told the BBC, “Companies need to make sure they have updated their systems and ‘patched where they should’ before staff arrived for work on Monday morning.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New WannaCry ransomware variants: Patch old PCs now to avoid becoming a victim

Monday is going to suck for some folks, those who run old, unsupported Windows systems which are vulnerable to WannaCry ransomware, if they didn’t put in some weekend time applying security updates.In response to the massive global ransomware attack on Friday, Microsoft took the “highly unusual step of providing a security update for all customers to protect Windows platforms that are in custom support only, including Windows XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003.” Europol chief Rob Wainwright told the BBC, “Companies need to make sure they have updated their systems and ‘patched where they should’ before staff arrived for work on Monday morning.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Introducing Load Balancing & Intelligent Failover with Cloudflare

Cloudflare's Enterprise customers have been using our Load Balancing service since March, and it has been helping them avoid website downtime caused by unreliable hosting providers, Internet outages, or servers. Today, we're bringing Load Balancing to all of our customers.

Even the best caching can't escape the fundamental limitations on performance created by the speed of light. Using Load Balancing, Cloudflare's customers can now route requests between multiple origins, allowing them to serve requests from the closest (and fastest) geographic location.

The Cloudflare Load Balancer automatically sends you notifications when things fail, and when they come back up again, so you can sleep well at night knowing we are keeping your website or API running.

If a DDoS attack can bring down your DNS provider or load balancer, it doesn't matter whether your servers are healthy or not. Our load balancing service runs in Cloudflare's 110+ datacenters, and with experience dealing with some of the largest DDoS attacks, we can withstand traffic volumes that smaller providers, virtual machines or hardware appliances can't. This also allows us to help you avoid business-impacting downtime when major cloud compute providers have issues: when we identify a connectivity reaching your application on AWS, we Continue reading

Learning Python: Week3 (Conditionals and For Loops) -Part 2

As discussed in post  ( https://crazyrouters.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/learning-python-kirk-byers-python-course/  ) , i will be sharing the my learning on weekly basis as course continues. This will not only motivate me but also help others who are in phase of learning python 3. This post will focus on Week 3 (Conditionals and For Loops) .This post will focus on […]

Learning Python: Week3 (Conditionals and For Loops) -Part 1

As discussed in post  ( https://crazyrouters.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/learning-python-kirk-byers-python-course/  ) , i will be sharing the my learning on weekly basis as course continues. This will not only motivate me but also help others who are in phase of learning python 3. This post will focus on Week 3 (Conditionals and For Loops)  Exercises. As Usual , lets […]

Website Migration Complete

I have completed migrating my website to GitHub Pages. URLs and RSS feed location should remain the same.

The only issue I’m aware of at the moment is with Disqus. I moved my Wordpress comments to Disqus prior to the switchover, but it looks like the comments are not showing up here. Hopefully will sort that out soon.

Let me know if you see any other issues.

Website Migration Complete

I have completed migrating my website to GitHub Pages. URLs and RSS feed location should remain the same.

The only issue I’m aware of at the moment is with Disqus. I moved my Wordpress comments to Disqus prior to the switchover, but it looks like the comments are not showing up here. Hopefully will sort that out soon.

Let me know if you see any other issues.

Warning: Site Migration

Very shortly I will be migrating my site to Github Pages. RSS feed and other URLS should stay the same, but there’s a chance some things will break, and that you might see double posts in the RSS feed. Hopefully all goes well.

I’ll post again from the other side. If you haven’t seen any new posts from me for a few days, might need to check your RSS feed setup.

The post Warning: Site Migration appeared first on Lindsay Hill.

Old Windows PCs can stop WannaCry ransomware with new Microsoft patch

Users of old Windows systems can now download a patch to protect them from this week’s massive ransomware attack.In a rare step, Microsoft published a patch for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 8 -- all of them operating systems for which it no longer provides mainstream support.Users can download and find more information about the patches in Microsoft’s blog post about Friday’s attack from the WannaCry ransomware.The ransomware, which has spread globally, has been infecting computers by exploiting a Windows vulnerability involving the Server Message Block protocol, a file-sharing feature.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Old Windows PCs can stop WannaCry ransomware with new Microsoft patch

Users of old Windows systems can now download a patch to protect them from this week’s massive ransomware attack.In a rare step, Microsoft published a patch for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 8 -- all of them operating systems for which it no longer provides mainstream support.Users can download and find more information about the patches in Microsoft’s blog post about Friday’s attack from the WannaCry ransomware.The ransomware, which has spread globally, has been infecting computers by exploiting a Windows vulnerability involving the Server Message Block protocol, a file-sharing feature.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

WannaCry

Information regarding the WannaCry ransomware is spreading as quickly as the malware itself and is expected to do so throughout the weekend. This blog provides some information from our malware processing system that may, or may not be, available elsewhere. The WannaCry ransomware propagates by […]
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