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IDG Contributor Network: Distil Networks raises $21M to fend off the bots

We've been hearing all year about the calamitous state of venture funding. The decline in technology stocks, the revaluation of the "unicorns" and the general sense of unease about the economy (Trump, anyone?) has led to a tightening of the pure strings in venture capital land.But while the purse-strings have certainly tightened, the fact remains that venture capital companies still have cash they need to invest. The funds who give money to the VCs to invest for them certainly don't want to hear that those funds are simply sitting in a bank account awaiting deployment.And so deals are still happening—arguably a little more modestly, but happening nonetheless. A case in point is Distil Networks, which today is announcing Series C funding.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

200M Yahoo accounts go up for sale on digital black market

Yahoo users might want to reset their passwords. A hacker claims to have stolen the login information for 200 million Yahoo accounts and is selling them on the black market. The stolen records are up for sale on TheRealDeal, a darknet marketplace that offers illegal goods. For 3 bitcoins, or US$1,824, anyone can buy them. The hacker, known as peace_of_mind, has claimed to have previously sold login credentials for LinkedIn and Tumblr users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

200M Yahoo accounts go up for sale on digital black market

Yahoo users might want to reset their passwords. A hacker claims to have stolen the login information for 200 million Yahoo accounts and is selling them on the black market. The stolen records are up for sale on TheRealDeal, a darknet marketplace that offers illegal goods. For 3 bitcoins, or US$1,824, anyone can buy them. The hacker, known as peace_of_mind, has claimed to have previously sold login credentials for LinkedIn and Tumblr users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

200 million Yahoo accounts may be up for sale on the black market

Yahoo users might want to reset their passwords. A hacker claims to have stolen the login information for 200 million Yahoo accounts and is selling them on the black market.The stolen records are up for sale on TheRealDeal, a darknet marketplace that offers illegal goods. For 3 bitcoins, or US$1,824, anyone can buy them.The hacker, known as peace_of_mind, has claimed to have previously sold login credentials for LinkedIn and Tumblr users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

200 million Yahoo accounts may be up for sale on the black market

Yahoo users might want to reset their passwords. A hacker claims to have stolen the login information for 200 million Yahoo accounts and is selling them on the black market.The stolen records are up for sale on TheRealDeal, a darknet marketplace that offers illegal goods. For 3 bitcoins, or US$1,824, anyone can buy them.The hacker, known as peace_of_mind, has claimed to have previously sold login credentials for LinkedIn and Tumblr users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cybercrime infrastructure being ramped up in Brazil ahead of Olympics

Over the past few months, cybercriminals have set up thousands of malicious domains and servers in Brazil in anticipation of the 2016 Olympics in Rio.Threat data collected by Fortinet from over 2 million sensors worldwide shows that between April and June, the number of malicious URLs detected in Brazil grew by 83 percent. That's an unusually large spike compared to the 16 percent growth in malicious URLs for the rest of the world.According to a Fortinet report due to be released Tuesday, the number of spoofed domains that are typically used in phishing attacks has also increased, particularly those that try to mimic payment systems and government institutions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cybercrime infrastructure being ramped up in Brazil ahead of Olympics

Over the past few months, cybercriminals have set up thousands of malicious domains and servers in Brazil in anticipation of the 2016 Olympics in Rio.Threat data collected by Fortinet from over 2 million sensors worldwide shows that between April and June, the number of malicious URLs detected in Brazil grew by 83 percent. That's an unusually large spike compared to the 16 percent growth in malicious URLs for the rest of the world.According to a Fortinet report due to be released Tuesday, the number of spoofed domains that are typically used in phishing attacks has also increased, particularly those that try to mimic payment systems and government institutions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

HPE’s cloud chief is leaving the company

The head of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s cloud team is leaving the company in a reorg that will also see the creation of a new cloud division.Two other top executives are also departing: Manish Goel, the head of HPE’s storage business, and Robert Vrij, managing director of sales for the Americas.The changes, announced in a blog post Monday, follow the news last month that Martin Fink, HPE’s CTO and the head of HP Labs, will retire at the end of the year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Why Salesforce just bought this ex-Facebook CTO’s startup

Hard on the heels of its Demandware acquisition in June, Salesforce confirmed on Monday that it's acquiring cloud collaboration software maker Quip.The purchase price is $582 million, plus the value of Salesforce's previous investments in the company, according to a regulatory filing late last week. According to one estimate, the total value amounts to roughly $750 million.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FCC settlement with Wi-Fi router maker a win for open source advocates

The FCC and TP-Link have agreed to a creative settlement that slaps the home and SMB Wi-Fi router maker with a $200K fine for violating wireless emission rules, but also requires the vendor to work with the open source community and chipset makers to allow modification of TP-Link devices.“The Commission’s equipment rules strike a careful balance of spurring innovation while protecting against harmful interference,” said Travis LeBlanc, Chief of the Enforcement Bureau, in a statement.  “While manufacturers of Wi-Fi routers must ensure reasonable safeguards to protect radio parameters, users are otherwise free to customize their routers and we support TP-Link’s commitment to work with the open-source community and Wi-Fi chipset manufacturers to enable third-party firmware on TP-Link routers.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

MyScript hopes to get more people writing on tablets

For ages, human beings have been using their hands to write - whether on stone tablets, papyrus, parchment or paper. With the invention of computers, writing shifted to electronic screens, whether people use a keyboard to type or an electronic pen to capture thoughts on a modern tablet.But for many, the process of writing on a computer tablet has stalled - sure, digital pens and ink technologies can capture a person’s hand strokes, but those notes, diagrams or other drawings stay locked into whatever software (OneNote, Evernote) is being used. With pen and paper (and word processing applications), things can be edited, searched, stored and shared with others. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Four US firms rule the world’s cloud infrastructure

There are plenty of companies vying for a piece of the worldwide cloud infrastructure market, but the top four -- all in the U.S. -- currently dominate by such a wide margin as to effectively leave their competitors in the dust.That's the overriding conclusion of a study released Monday by Synergy Research Group, which provides quarterly market tracking and segmentation data, including vendor revenues by segment and region.Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM, and Google collectively control more than half of the worldwide cloud infrastructure service market, Synergy found, with an overwhelming lead by AWS, which held a 31 percent share in the second quarter. Microsoft came next with 11 percent, while IBM weighed in at 8 percent, and Google came in with 5 percent.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

38% off Philips Automatic Pasta Maker – Deal Alert

This powerful, fully automated pasta maker from Philips is currently discounted $134, officially making it less expensive to buy new on Amazon than refurbished. Add ingredients, choose a program, and the unit goes to work mixing, kneading and extruding while you sit back and enjoy a beverage. Up to 1600 pounds of force extrudes all types of pasta in as little as 15 minutes. Various shaping discs are attached to make Spaghetti, Penne, Fettuccini, Lasagna and more. Egg, herbs, spinach, carrot juice and many other ingredients can be added for all types of creative flavors, textures and colors. Cleaning aims to be easy and automated as well, with the push of a button. A recipe book comes with the unit and contains 20 recipes to get you started. The Philips pasta maker currently averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 225 customers (read reviews). Its typical list price of $349.99 has been reduced dramatically to $215.99.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

If Apple’s Irish tax loophole is a fraud, the whole tech industry is guilty

Apple’s profits in Ireland are “a fraud,” said Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Tom Keene. True it is, but almost every tech company uses the same loophole for which Stiglitz blamed the U.S. tax system.Stiglitz said: “Our current tax system encourages companies to keep their money abroad, opens up a vast loophole through what is called the transfer-pricing system that allows them not only to keep their money abroad but, effectively, to escape taxation.”How it works In international markets, companies manipulate higher costs, reducing taxes by using easily understood transfer-pricing. In this simplified example below, a product sells for $1,000 and costs $500 to produce. The taxes in the U.S. would be $175. But if the cost to produce it can be inflated to $600 and recognition of the sale and the cost transferred to a lower-tax country such as Ireland, $175 in taxes are saved.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Top VCE exec: We’re staying tight with Cisco

There was an interesting exchange between IDG Chief Content Officer John Gallant and VCE President Chad Sakac in an interview Network World published today. In it, Gallant asked Sakac about the company’s converged infrastructure partnership with Cisco in light of VCE presumably soon becoming part of the merged Dell/EMC. After all, Cisco (the “C” in VCE) sold off its stake in the venture some time ago and will likely find itself competing more directly with EMC once it combines with Dell.+More on Network World: Cisco: Potent ransomware is targeting the enterprise at a scary rate+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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