Microsoft cites new EU personal data rules in support of email dispute

Microsoft has cited new European data protection rules in support of its claim that the U.S. government should use inter-governmental agreements rather than a warrant to force the technology company to provide emails stored in Ireland that are required for an investigation.The General Data Protection Regulation was adopted last week by the European Parliament with an aim to provide an unified data protection regime across member states. It was earlier adopted by the Council of the EU, and is to come into effect in a little over two years after its publication in the EU Official Journal. The legislation will replace the EU Data Protection Directive, which dates back to 1995.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

With the Hype around SDN- Is it Worth it in a Data Center?

With all the hype about SDN, we wonder: Is it worth deploying it in a data center? What goals does SDN meet? Is there a simpler way to achieve those same goals?

We think there is a better way, and it’s called Open Networking. And Open Networking is available today.

Vivek Venkataraman (my colleague and co-author of this blog) and I recently presented “Achieving SDN Goals through Open Networking” at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, CA. The talk was well attended and interactive. We examined the goals of SDN:

  • Controlling costs
  • Achieving agility and flexibility
  • Easily enabling and encouraging innovation
  • Using the network as a platform

You can achieve all of these goals today in a more pragmatic and efficient fashion using Linux and Open Networking.

Controlling Costs

Reducing both CapEx and OpEx is always an important goal for any enterprise. First, Open Networking reduces CapEx by encouraging vendor competition and giving customers choice, all the way from the optics and silicon up to the OS and applications. The modular choice allows data centers to be designed to their exact business requirements, so customers pay for and deploy only the necessary hardware, features and applications that Continue reading

Siri says: Apple WWDC 2016 is June 13-17

When you want to get an answer from Apple, your best bet is to go directly to Siri and cut out the middleman. Siri says Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference will be held June 13 through 17 in San Francisco. And Siri can't wait for it: "I'm so excited." Maybe that's because Apple is expected to reveal iOS and OS X updates in which Siri might even get a new feature or two. A thinner version of Apple Watch, plus upgrades to the Mac line, are also expected. The 9to5Mac blog first picked up on the Siri leak about WWDC.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Siri reveals that Apple’s WWDC event will take place from June 13-17

While Apple's annual iPhone unveiling is undoubtedly the company's biggest event each and every year, WWDC is clearly a close second. As the event where Apple showcases its latest advancements in user design and iOS and OS X technologies, Apple's annual worldwide developers conference typically provides us with a fascinating sneak peak at the future of mobile and desktop computing.This year, WWDC is slated to take place from June 13 and June 17 in San Francisco at the Moscone West convention center. Interestingly enough, word of Apple's WWDC schedule this year was initially leaked by Siri. Earlier today, a number of sites noted that when you ask Siri when WWDC is, Apple's intelligent personal assistant responds with the following:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

NASA: Top 10 space junk missions

While many of the usual suspects are still the top space junk producers, much more debris is now floating around Earth’s atmosphere since the six years NASA last looked a the top 10 space junk missions. NASA' s Orbital Debris Program Office said that by far the source of the greatest amount of   orbital   debris   remains   the   Fengyun-1C   spacecraft, which was the target of   a People’s Republic of China anti-satellite test in January 2007. +More on Network World: 13 awesome and scary things in near Earth space+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

NASA: Top 10 space junk missions

While many of the usual suspects are still the top space junk producers, much more debris is now floating around Earth’s atmosphere since the six years NASA last looked a the top 10 space junk missions. NASA' s Orbital Debris Program Office said that by far the source of the greatest amount of   orbital   debris   remains   the   Fengyun-1C   spacecraft, which was the target of   a People’s Republic of China anti-satellite test in January 2007. +More on Network World: 13 awesome and scary things in near Earth space+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Location data from 2 apps can ID you across domains even if you use fake names

If you think that making up a bogus name or using a fake age on a profile actually makes you harder to link to your profiles on other sites, then think again as researchers have determined how to use location data to link users across domains. You also should not be comforted when you learn that big data has been stripped of names and personal details; researchers say it is “no guarantee of privacy.”Columbia University computer science researchers Chris Riederer, Yunsung Kim, and Augustin Chaintreau, along with Google researchers Nitish Korula and Silvio Lattanzi, combined their considerable brain power to come up with an algorithm that only needs location data from two apps to identify someone. The researchers recently presented their paper, “Linking Users Across Domains with Location Data: Theory and Validation” (pdf), at the 25th International World Wide Web Conference.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Location data from 2 apps can ID you across domains even if you use fake names

If you think that making up a bogus name or using a fake age on a profile actually makes you harder to link to your profiles on other sites, then think again as researchers have determined how to use location data to link users across domains. You also should not be comforted when you learn that big data has been stripped of names and personal details; researchers say it is “no guarantee of privacy.”Columbia University computer science researchers Chris Riederer, Yunsung Kim, and Augustin Chaintreau, along with Google researchers Nitish Korula and Silvio Lattanzi, combined their considerable brain power to come up with an algorithm that only needs location data from two apps to identify someone. The researchers recently presented their paper, “Linking Users Across Domains with Location Data: Theory and Validation” (pdf), at the 25th International World Wide Web Conference.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Reddit’s Warrant Canary

A critical aspect of that promise was a legally experimental, categorical statement known as a “warrant canary.” A warrant canary, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, “is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received. Once a service provider does receive legal process, the speech prohibition goes into place, and the canary statement is removed,” thereby informing the public that the process has been received. -via Just Security

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Geekiest Boston Marathon Wellesley Scream Tunnel signs for runners

Wellesley College may be known as a liberal arts college for women, but you can see that STEM is in full bloom at the school too by the nature of some of the signs students waved to runners along the Scream Tunnel at this year's Boston Marathon.MORE: 2012's Geekiest Boston Marathon Scream Tunnel signs Bob Brown/NetworkWorld Kiss Me I Can Laser CutTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Sony cranks up optical disc storage to 3.3TB

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don't seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB.That's a big advance in Sony's optical storage, which is based on technology used in Blu-ray. The 3.3TB disc is targeted at studios, filmmakers, and broadcasters that store large volumes of video, and at large companies that store infrequently modified data.For example, video streaming companies could hold a large library of films in storage arrays with many optical drives. Instead of using PCs, servers in data centers could then pull out movies from the drives and serve them to users via the cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Sony cranks up optical disc storage to 3.3TB

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don't seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB.That's a big advance in Sony's optical storage, which is based on technology used in Blu-ray. The 3.3TB disc is targeted at studios, filmmakers, and broadcasters that store large volumes of video, and at large companies that store infrequently modified data.For example, video streaming companies could hold a large library of films in storage arrays with many optical drives. Instead of using PCs, servers in data centers could then pull out movies from the drives and serve them to users via the cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AI + humans = kick-ass cybersecurity

Neither humans nor AI has proven overwhelmingly successful at maintaining cybersecurity on their own, so why not see what happens when you combine the two? That's exactly the premise of a new project from MIT, and it's achieved some pretty impressive results. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and machine-learning startup PatternEx have developed a new platform called AI2 that can detect 85 percent of attacks. It also reduces the number of "false positives" -- nonthreats mistakenly identified as threats -- by a factor of five, the researchers said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AI + humans = kick-ass cybersecurity

Neither humans nor AI has proven overwhelmingly successful at maintaining cybersecurity on their own, so why not see what happens when you combine the two? That's exactly the premise of a new project from MIT, and it's achieved some pretty impressive results. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and machine-learning startup PatternEx have developed a new platform called AI2 that can detect 85 percent of attacks. It also reduces the number of "false positives" -- nonthreats mistakenly identified as threats -- by a factor of five, the researchers said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Personal data is exposed by older, shortened URLs

Services that convert long, cumbersome URLs, such as those found in mapping directions, to short URLs are publicly exposing the original URL.Original addresses can be obtained through brute-force scanning, researchers say. And that vulnerability allows foes to track an individual’s possibly sensitive movements, as well as see perceived-of-as-private documents.Additionally, the brute force-exposed cloud documents could allow “adversaries” to “inject arbitrary malicious content into unlocked accounts, which is then automatically copied into all of the account owner’s devices,” say Vitaly Shmatikov, of Cornell Tech, and Martin Georgiev, an independent researcher, in their paper (PDF). They made the discovery.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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