Top 5 proactive solutions to IoT security challenges

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A couple of years ago, an employee was fired from a position with a large food retailer in the United States. This event might have gone unnoticed had it not been for the fact that this disgruntled employee decided to get even.

He knew the password to the organization’s wireless network and could…READ MORE

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Why your company doesn't need block chain

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Blockchain is the new hot thing in IT. Basically, every company out there is trying to figure out where Block Chain fits into their environment.  Here’s the big secret of blockchain; your company doesn’t need it.

Blockchain is simply a write one technology that allows you to change records, but …READ MORE

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X1 Carbon Extreme 6-Core Really Flies

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A little over two weeks ago, Lenovo sent me a couple of loaner laptops. To be more specific, their largesse included one each X1 Carbon Extreme and an X380 Yoga.  Today, I’m going to explain some recent experiences with the X1. And when I say this X1 Carbon Extreme 6-core really flies, I’m not kidd…READ MORE

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How to force Maven JDK 1.8 support through the POM file

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Maven and Eclipse have always had a rocky relationship, and a common pain point between the two is how to force Maven JDK 1.8 support in new Eclipse projects. Without jumping through a few configuration hoops, the antiquated Java 1.5 version persistently remains the default.

The Eclipse IDE becam…READ MORE

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Virginia Court Throws Out License Plate Readers Data Collection

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As you may recall, police departments and other organizations have been loading up on automated license plate readers that help them track automobile locations, and even selling the data. Now, at least one judge, in Fairfax County, Virginia, has told them they can’t do that.

“The ruling by Fa…READ MORE

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PowerShell version incompatibilities

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There are incompatibilities between Powershell versions – you can’t use classes in Windows PowerShell v4 and there are differences between Windows PowerShell v5.1 and v6.x. One way to deal with PowerShell version incompatibilities is described in the recent post from the PowerShell team – htt…READ MORE

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How an 18th century Maths puzzle solves 21st century problems

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This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j, in which he explains how an elegant solution to the mathematical puzzle to find the most efficient way of traversing the bridges in Prussia’s Koenigsberg resulted in graph theory

It’s the anniversary this month (15 April) of Swiss mathemati…READ MORE

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TensorFlow Plug-In Enhances Machine Learning Capabilities @Quobyte

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TensorFlow plug-in recently launched by Quobyte for its distributed file system proves to enhance throughput performance by 30 percent for Machine Learning (ML) training workflows. Probably this is the first of its own kind of plug-in for a proven enhancement in machine learning capabilities. Quobyt…READ MORE

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Predictions for Edge Computing in 2019

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Edge Computing Image via Adobe
 

By James Kobielus (@jameskobielus)

Edge computing is the future of the cloud, and it’s the ecosystem in which all future devices will operate and within which they’ll engage with users and each other to optimize our lives 24×7.

 
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Deeper into DataOps: NetApp & PagerDuty

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The Computer Weekly Developer Network decided to cover the emerging area of DataOps… and we were overloaded.

After an initial couple of stories to define the term here and another exploring DataOps further here, we embarked upon a full feature for Computer Weekly itself.

After all that, the …READ MORE

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Going native on Google Chromebooks

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Where’s my desktop gone? That’s the obvious immediate first reaction for any Google Chromebook user.

We road tested a Lenovo Chromebook 11 500e (Robo 360) and an HP Chromebook x360 11 G1 EE (Snappy) to ‘go native’ on the Chromebook experience and assess the upsides and downsides of life …READ MORE

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Cutting off the internet is a TERRIBLE idea, whether or not you agree with Extinction Rebellion

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Many people using the London Underground today will likely have noticed that the usual Virgin Media-run Wi-Fi service is not working. Some might even have been mildly inconvenienced by not being able to access the internet on the platform like normal.

The network is down not thanks to some techni…READ MORE

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Banking and finance bigwigs yank climate change chord

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It has been a week of activism and a call for action, with the Extinction Rebellion, causing major disruptions in London.

But alongside grass roots demonstrations, there appears to be a greater awareness in the corporate world, that every business has a role to play in tackling the catastrophic e…READ MORE

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Ubuntu 19.04 is here

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The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team is running Ubuntu.

More specifically, we’re running Ubuntu 19.04 on an originally Windows-empowered Lenovo laptop as a dual boot.

NOTE: Incidentally, this is an altogether joyous experience… although the BIOS boot screen defaults to Ubuntu start…READ MORE

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Four things you should know about the 5G game in Asia-Pacific

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This is a guest post by Simon Lockington, director of global solutions enablement at Equinix Asia-Pacific

Industry watchers are predicting that 4G LTE subscribers in Asia-Pacific will naturally make the move to 5G’s faster network when the service becomes available post-2020. In Singapore, 5G …READ MORE

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Microsoft Build 2019 agenda reveals .NET, Azure insights

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Microsoft’s Build conference for developers and IT operations professionals is just a few weeks away, but a close look at the session catalog reveals clues to the event’s likely highlights. Here’s a look at four key themes slated for the event.
The .NET lowdown
Build attendees will peer into the f…READ MORE

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Facebook shutters Messenger payments in UK as Brits just not into it

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Facebook introduced the feature to its Messenger to enable people to transfer money to their friends in a few clicks. It was first launched in the US in 2015 and then in the UK in 2017.

But Facebook is closing down the service in the UK as well as France from June.

A statement from the company…READ MORE

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Carbonite integrating Mozy backup, ending free edition support

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Carbonite will end support for the free edition of Mozy’s consumer product on Monday. The cloud data protection heavyweight would like to convert remaining Mozy customers onto its own infrastructure but as of now continues to support Mozy’s other editions.

Carbonite acquired Mozy, one of its olde…READ MORE

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When will we see the digital transformation of politics?

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The digital transformation of government and public service delivery is well under way and is by now – hopefully – unstoppable. It’s taken longer to get here than it should have, and it will take longer to fully embed the new public sector practices and technology than it needs to, but it shou…READ MORE

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A review for “CCDE The Practical Guide.”  

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When it comes CCDE certification preparation, unlike CCIE exams it’s hard to get instant gratification as CCDE certification happens to be theoretical and one certainly will not be engaged in configuring the real gears.  

 Often those who come from hands-on experience find it hard to measure th…READ MORE

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