Microsoft has made a strategic investment in ride-hailing and on-demand services company Grab as part of a deal that includes collaborating on big data and AI projects. Under the agreement, Singapore-based Grab will adopt Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platformAzure cloud computing service. Microsoft and Grab didn’t disclose financial terms. The idea behind the…
Google today revealed it’d be shutting down the consumer version of Google+ in response to a previously undisclosed security flaw — and also because no one’s really using it. Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal reported Google discovered the flaw, which exposed the data of thousands of users, earlier this year. It opted not to…
A known vulnerability in MikroTik routers is potentially far more dangerous than previously thought. A cybersecurity researcher from Tenable Research has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) RCE attack for an old directory traversal vulnerability that was found and patched within a day of its discovery in April this year. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-14847, was…
5/5 (1) When the ideal candidate accepts your job offer, you breathe a sigh of relief for hiring the perfect employee to tackle mission-critical assignments. Fast forward eight months and your favorite fair-haired staffer has absconded—leaving you to pick up the proverbial pieces and start the hiring process anew. So what went wrong? Perhaps your…
Facebook is making a video camera. The company wants you to take it home, gaze into its single roving-yet-unblinking eye and speak private thoughts to your loved ones into its many-eared panel. The thing is called Portal and it wants to live on your kitchen counter or in your living room or wherever else you’d…
Microsoft today revealed Project xCloud, a game streaming service that would bring the company’s games to multiple devices, including mobile. xCloud is, essentially, a gaming solution for those who don’t own an Xbox or a game-ready PC. The idea is that you can play the games on any device of your choosing, without having to…
Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to third-party developers. According to the tech giant, a security vulnerability in one of Google+’s People APIs allowed third-party developers to access data…
No ratings yet. WordPress is one of the more popular and most adopted Content Management Systems (CMS). It is amongst the favorites now. Regardless of how frequently you modify your site, this might be an ideal opportunity to do a revamp. Yes, the new features knocking around will drag you to rebuilding your website soon.…
Navionics, an electronic navigational chart maker owned by tech giant Garmin, has secured an exposed database that contained hundreds of thousands of customer records. The MondoDB database wasn’t secured with a password, allowing anyone who knew where to look to access and download the data. The company’s main products give boat, yacht and ship owners…
You probably know landing high in search engine results can make a big difference between scoring just a handful of clicks or managing a viral sensation. But the fact is, the difference is probably even wider than you realize. Search engine results account for almost 40 percent of all global ecommerce traffic these days, and…
