Microsoft ends support for Windows XP more than 12 years after its launch despite 25 percent of enterprises still running the platform
April 8, 2014
HP Autonomy Pushes On With On Demand Service
An online version of HP Autonomy IDOL can give IBM's Watson a run for its money, says Robert Youngjohns
‘Heartbleed’ OpenSSL Bug Left HTTPS Servers Vulnerable For Two Years
Exploitation of the OpenSSL bug, introduced in 2012, leaves no trace - meaning organisations may already have had their encryption keys stolen
Even Smaller Raspberry Pi Compute Module Targets Businesses And Industry
Raspberry Pi Foundation makes a unit with fewer connectors in a dinky DIMM package, for commercial users to build into embedded systems
How To Survive The Death Of Windows XP
If you really must run Windows XP after Microsoft cuts off support today, Wayne Rash tells you how to do it
Dark Market Zero-Days ‘Selling Regularly For $50k-$100k’
Symantec researchers tell TechWeek that dark market crooks are getting big bucks from selling zero-days, despite the rise of legitimate bug bounties
Microsoft Nokia Takeover Is Granted Chinese Regulatory Approval
Chinese Ministry of Commerce appears to be satisfied Microsoft won't abuse Nokia patent portfolio
2013 Saw 500 Percent Increase In Ransomware
European Cyber Crime Centre says it is tracking a number of strains as Symantec spies uptick in the malware
Lenovo Acquires NEC Mobile Patents
China's Lenovo has moved to back up its smartphone efforts as it looks to expand beyond PCs
Freescale Acquires Mindspeed’s ARM Chip Business
Freescale is to acquire Mindspeed Technologies' communications processor unit, helping it to expand into new markets
Microsoft Demonstrates ‘Cortana’ Machine Learning
The Cortana voice assistant makes use of machine learning to improve results with time, according to Microsoft
CryptoLocker Copycat CryptoDefence Has Fatal Flaw
The developers of the latest ransomware, CryptoDefence, made one major mistake - they left the decryption keys on the infected system
Teradata Universe: “Data Enables The New Economy”
The future will belong to companies that make data-driven decisions and value the trust of their customers, says Hermann Wimmer from Teradata