Author: Jim Pedd

Cloudera and Hortonworks go together in a $5.2 billion deal

Cloudera and Hortonworks go together in a $5.2 billion deal

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two leading Hadoop providers, will merge. The deal is worth $5.2 billion and should help companies offer a new generation of data platform across multiple clouds, on-premises and Edge computing. The two companies already have the same approach and customers. Under the terms... Read more

date5 years ago
British government: Russian secret service distributed ransomware

British government: Russian secret service distributed ransomware

The British National Cyber Security Centre reports after investigation that the Russian military secret service - the GROe - is behind a series of cyber attacks. According to the British Government, this is an attempt by the Russian Government to undermine the democratic process of Western countries... Read more

date5 years ago
Microsoft presents significantly improved Surface Studio 2

Microsoft presents significantly improved Surface Studio 2

Microsoft also announced Surface Studio 2 during its A moment of your time event in New York City. This device is also mainly equipped with an internal update; in terms of design, Surface Studio 2 still looks a lot like its predecessor. The first Surface Studio was announced just under two years ago... Read more

date5 years ago
Google Project Zero: slow patches Linux are dangerous for users

Google Project Zero: slow patches Linux are dangerous for users

The developers of Ubuntu and Debian receive a warning from Googles Project Zero. Project Zero researcher Jann Horn, who found the Meltdown and Spectre bugs, calls on them to update their Linux distros more quickly. Otherwise, users will be exposed to threats for an unnecessarily long time. According... Read more

date5 years ago
Hackers focus again on developers of Google Chrome extensions

Hackers focus again on developers of Google Chrome extensions

Developers of extensions for Google Chrome are the newest target of hackers. It seems that hackers are trying to get developers to surf to a phishing site, where they can then steal their login details. The ZDNet site reports this today on the basis of its own research. The hackers want the login c... Read more

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