Jennifer Lawrence, one of the victims of an iCloud hack that leaked nude images of female celebrities, is finally speaking out about the massive violation of privacy she experienced."Anybody who looked at those pictures, you’re perpetuating a sexual offense," Lawrence, the Hunger Games actress, says in a forthcoming Vanity Fair interview. "You should...
Has this man seen the cloud?Oracle still doesn't get cloud computing. At Oracle OpenWorld this week, there were signs that Oracle was making serious changes to its business model, embracing cloud computing in a way that it hitherto hasn't. Unfortunately, a review of what Oracle announced suggests that it has...
Apps are big business. Everyone is using them for games, messaging, and information. Some people are even making their own. Small businesses and amateur programmers might be interested in getting into the app game, too. There are plenty of tutorials online for building an app. The hard part is figuring...
Despite its misleading name, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 made it legal for the U.S. government to obtain citizens’ email without a warrant or probable cause. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 70 other civil liberties organizations, public interest groups, and companies are trying to get it revised....
The future of enterprise computing looks a lot like a cloud, and that cloud will increasingly run datacenter-level operating systems. Apache Mesos, born at UC Berkeley and embraced by Twitter, eBay and Airbnb, is coming soon to an enterprise near you.Christos Kozyrakis, an associate professor at Stanford, is a rock...
Apple CEO Tim CookApple said it will introduce more security alerts and better educate consumers about why and how to use iCloud in the wake of an iCloud breach in which hackers obtained personal and revealing pictures of female celebrities and posted them online.CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal that...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.If we can't trust Apple with our photos, can we trust it with our medical data?See also: How Apple Made Its Users Vulnerable To iCloud TheftApple has kept details about HealthKit, its framework for collecting personal health...
Apple now says the attack in which hackers rifled the iCloud accounts of female celebrities for nude or otherwise revealing photos wasn't its fault. The company calls the incident "a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions" that didn't involve any underlying vulnerabilities in its cloud-storage service.That...
In technology, there’s no such thing as "unhackable." Female stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Rihanna, Kirsten Dunst and a slew of others found that out the hard way when an anonymous 4chan user leaked a bevy of naked smartphone photos of them on the image-sharing forum.Lewd or risqué celebrity...
The massive iCloud hack that exposed photos of female actresses stored in their personal Apple accounts, has left many—including myself—scrambling to change their passwords.Some speculated that the hack was due to a vulnerability in Apple’s Find My iPhone feature, with which hackers used a “brute force” attack to guess the...
If you weren't to attend LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America then fear not as the keynotes are now available and are listed below for your viewing pleasure. The event was kicked off on Wednesday, Aug. 20, with Executive Director Jim Zemlin's keynote “State of Linux”. Wednesday Morning Keynotes...
Cloud storage platform Dropbox announced today that it is offering a terabyte of storage for $9.99 a month, the same terabyte storage price set by competitors Google Drive and Microsoft’s One Drive. This is just the latest move in the great cloud computing war of 2014, as these three heavy...
Amazon's cloud service dominates the Internet so thoroughly that it's scarcely worth noting new customers. Unless, that is, the customer in question is ... Apple. [Updated: see below.]Tucked away in a Monday New York Times piece on the online-storage price wars lies this brief but interesting nugget (AWS is Amazon Web Services—i.e., Amazon's...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.For a 100-person company founded in 2009, the tech firm Cloudflare certainly seems to have an outsized impact on the Internet.Shortly after the Heartbleed bug became public knowledge on April 9, Cloudflare decided to revoke...
Cloud first, mobile last. See also: What Microsoft's Fiercest Critics Forget: AzureThat’s about how you can sum up Microsoft’s earnings for the last quarter. Microsoft’s cloud revenue is on a steady trajectory up—$4.4 billion in the last year—as it rolls out Office 365 and Azure services to its core customers....
No one doubts anymore that Amazon Web Services is a big deal. But few appreciate just how unprecedented its growth has been. In fact, no other software business in history has grown as fast past the billion-dollar mark as AWS, as Businessweek's Ashlee Vance points out. See also: Amazon's Cloud Spends...
Every enterprise wants to be Amazon these days. Tempted by the promise of cheap, elastic cloud computing, companies are rolling out OpenStack and other private cloud solutions, certain that they're building a winged unicorn.Red Hat's Alessandro PerilliIn reality, many of them are building a donkey.That's the message from former Gartner...
Just days after Microsoft announced a price cut for its online-storage offering OneDrive, Google has struck back. Its new cloud service, Drive for Work, will do battle with Microsoft, Dropbox and others for the bargain-basement price tag of $10 per user per month. What you get for that price: Unlimited storage.No...
The great cloud computing war of 2014 is in full pitch. Cloud storage providers continue to jockey for the chance to store all your digital data, they’re giving away more for free and dropping the prices for their paid add-ons. Microsoft wants to remind everybody that it has significant stake...
A billion dollars isn't what it used to be. Indeed, anyone that hanging around the cloud computing industry for the past couple of years has been barraged by $1 billion strategic commitments from big vendors like IBM and HP. While $1 billion sounds like a big number, it's not always...
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