Jumat, 30 September 2016

E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- September 30, 2016

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Garden-Variety Cybercrooks Breached Yahoo, Says Security Firm
Apple Steers Its Car Project All Over the Map
Oracle OpenWorld
Adobe Leaps From AWS to Microsoft's Cloud
Germany Dope Slaps Facebook Over WhatsApp Data
The Growing Customer Trust Gap

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Garden-Variety Cybercrooks Breached Yahoo, Says Security Firm

The hackers who stole the data of hundreds of millions of Yahoo users
two years ago were two cybercriminal gangs, InfoArmor reported. That
finding contradicts the notion that state-sponsored actors were behind
the attack, which Yahoo suggested when it disclosed the breach. Further,
the number of users' records stolen is closer to 1 billion than to the
500 million Yahoo acknowledged.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83948.html

Apple Steers Its Car Project All Over the Map

McLaren Technology Group, which manufactures Formula One and luxury
supercars, has denied rumors that it was engaging in discussions with
Apple regarding a possible purchase or strategic investment. Apple has
been pursing a highly secretive project to develop its own venture in
the electric and autonomous vehicle space, and it reportedly has entered
negotiations with McLaren on a potential deal.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83943.html

Oracle OpenWorld

Larry Ellison was having too much fun. In his second keynote of this
year's Oracle OpenWorld user conference, he was talking about his
company's database, Oracle 12c, and comparing it highly favorably to
Amazon's competing databases. It seems Ellison always has fun, which is
one likely reason that the 72 year-old CTO and executive chairman of the
board, looks 52, sounds 42, and probably feels 32.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83942.html

Adobe Leaps From AWS to Microsoft's Cloud

Microsoft has announced a series of major enhancements to its enterprise
cloud platform, as well as a new strategic partnership with Adobe,
advancing its drive to attract new business from core competitors like
Salesforce and Amazon. Microsoft has entered a strategic partnership to
make Azure the preferred cloud platform for the Adobe Marketing Cloud,
Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Document Cloud.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83939.html

Germany Dope Slaps Facebook Over WhatsApp Data

Germany's data protection regulator on Tuesday ordered Facebook to stop
collecting and storing data from WhatsApp users in the country. Facebook
also must delete any data it already may have harvested from German
WhatsApp users, according to Johannes Caspar, Hamburg Commissioner for
Data Protection and Freedom of Information, who issued the order.
Facebook purchased WhatsApp two years ago.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83937.html

The Growing Customer Trust Gap

Like most of you, I'm a bank customer -- and I expect that like me, most
of you are getting sick and tired of all the stories about how banks
abuse customers. Recent news about bad behavior in the banking industry,
as well as my own personal experiences, shows that banks don't care
about their customers. It's just the opposite: Banks seem to be trying
to squeeze every dime out of every customer.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83936.html

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Google consolidates its Cloud. It's The Daily Crunch.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 2016 By Darrell Etherington

The Daily Crunch 09/30/16

The future is cloudy for Google (good) and virtual reality (less good). All that and more in The Daily Crunch for September 30, 2016. And if you're looking for a way to lose weight, Andreessen suggests dropping the Twitter 50.

1. Google's forecast is Cloud

Google has unified its cloud-based products under a new Google Cloud brand, and also running Google Apps for Work (which now live within Google Cloud) as G Suite. It took me about 5 hours or so yesterday to figure out that G Suite is a play on C Suite, but the Cloud product re-org, under Diane Greene, is a super smart move and one that should help Google better position its combined offerings.

2. State of VR

What is going on with VR? It's not an easy question to answer, and you'll hear that it's either the best, blue sky opportunity out there or the worst, stupidest misplacement of resources ever, depending on who you ask. Lucas takes a nice look at the state of the industry as a whole, and comes out with a more balanced perspective then you'll likely see most places. Meanwhile, John's swimming in gravy with the HTC Vive.

3. You probably won't be able to afford the first self-driving cars

Surprising no one, it looks like the first self-driving cars will be reserved for the kinds of people who would otherwise just hire chauffeurs anyway. Volvo's CEO shed some more light on the company's plan to launch a self-driving car by 2021, and basically he told people to expect it to be a luxury option on high-end vehicles.

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Tech News Flash: Friday -- September 30, 2016

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Headline Scan
Hacking Elections Is Easy, Study Finds
Early Reviews Fuel High Hopes for Civilization VI
Surviving the Internet's Troll Apocalypse
Google AI Gives More Context to Chinese-to-English Translations
Cisco Battles Shadow Broker Exploits
Black Panther OS Is No Cool Cat
Hackers Get Up Close and Personal With WH Staffer's Email
Project Shield Has Krebs on Security's Back

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Hacking Elections Is Easy, Study Finds

It's no longer a question whether hackers will influence the 2016 U.S.
elections -- only how much they'll be able to sway them. Leaked emails
already have cost a Democratic Party chairperson her job, and the FBI
last month issued a flash warning that foreign cyberadversaries had
breached two state election databases. Those two states -- most likely
Arizona and Illinois -- aren't alone.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83947.html

Early Reviews Fuel High Hopes for Civilization VI

Early hands-on previews of Civilization VI came out Thursday, and those
who had a chance to partake in the turn-based PC game found that it
successfully built on the foundation of the past versions, while
bringing some fresh changes to the experience. It has been 25 years
since the classic debuted to great acclaim, and it seemed that Firaxis
would have to pull out all the stops.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83945.html

Surviving the Internet's Troll Apocalypse

Social media has sharpened humans' age-old appetite for public shaming,
providing a stage and unlimited seating for an endless stream of
immorality plays. Those who share even the simplest identifying details
about themselves are vulnerable to being pushed into the glare of the
spotlight. Anonymity frees many individuals of the consequences they
might face offline for being abusive to others.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83940.html

Google AI Gives More Context to Chinese-to-English Translations

Research at Google on Tuesday launched Google Neural Machine Translation
system, now in production with Chinese to English -- "a notoriously
difficult language pair," according to Quoc V. Le and Mike Schuster,
research scientists on the Google Brain Team. GNMT already is powering
the Google Translate mobile and Web apps for 18 million or so Chinese to
English translations daily.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83941.html

Cisco Battles Shadow Broker Exploits

Cisco has swung into action to combat a hacker group's exploitation of
vulnerabilities in its firmware. The group, known as the "Shadow
Brokers," released online malware and other exploits possibly stolen
from the Equation Group, which is believed to have ties to the U.S.
National Security Agency. Cisco earlier this month disclosed the
vulnerability, even though patches were not yet ready.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83938.html

Black Panther OS Is No Cool Cat

The Black Panther OS is a bare-bones Linux distribution built around the
KDE desktop. The KDE environment itself is not a minimal component, but
how it is integrated within Black Panther gives you an almost-nothing-
there installation until you painstakingly install system tools and
applications, literally piece by piece. Black Panther OS, originally
forked from Mandriva Linux, is now under independent development in
Hungary.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83933.html

Hackers Get Up Close and Personal With WH Staffer's Email

Federal authorities last week launched a probe of a suspected
cyberattack that targeted the private Gmail account of a White House
staffer. The employee's correspondence turned up on the DCleaks
hacktivist site, which earlier this month posted the private emails of
former Secretary of State Colin Powell. The latest dump involves the
private account of White House staffer Ian Mellul.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83935.html

Project Shield Has Krebs on Security's Back

The website of prominent security blogger Brian Krebs is back online
this week after sustaining one of the largest distributed denial of
service attacks in Internet history. DDoS attacks typically disrupt
service at a website by flooding it with junk traffic. In this case,
garbage traffic assaulted Krebs' site at 620 gigabits per second. By
comparison, consumer bandwidth is in the 10-15 megabit per second range;
businesses, 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83932.html

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