Erneut werden Apple-Nutzer mit Hilfe der iCloud-Fernsperrfunktion erpresst: Angreifer mit Kenntnis der Zugangsdaten versehen iPhones und Macs aus der Ferne mit einer PIN – und fordern Lösegeld in Bitcoin.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Allo-Nutzer können in der neuen Version der App ein Sticker-Set anfertigen, das nach ihrem Ebenbild geschaffen wird. Googles Chat-App nutzt ein neuronales Netzwerk, um aus einem Foto eine Comic-Variante des Users zu erstellen. Die verschiedenen Bildchen können dann an Freunde verschickt werden. (Google, Instant Messenger)
Quelle: Golem
Am letzten Tag gab es auf der re:publica noch einmal ein volles Programm. Wir haben uns angeschaut, wie Roboter und ein interaktiver Donald Trump entstehen und wie Shenzhen zur Makermetropole aufgestiegen ist.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Einzig durch Lichtbrechung konnten dänische Forscher farbige Bilder produzieren. Dazu braucht es eine chemische Lösung, einen potenten Laser und Kunststoffplatten. Das Vorbild: Schmetterlinge und Pfauen. (Wissenschaft, Studie)
Quelle: Golem
Eine Gruppe von AfriNIC-Mitgliedern setzt sich für eine eigene Art der 3-Strikes-Strafe ein: Regierungen, die den Internetzugang ihrer Bürger sperren, sollen nicht länger ungestraft davonkommen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Eine ganze Reihe Router der RT-Serie von Asus beinhalten eine CSRF-Lücke und weitere Schwachstellen, die es unter Umständen möglich machen, die Einstellungen des Gerätes aus dem Web zu ändern. Updates stehen bereit.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
When everything at your business changes so quickly, how can IT operations teams be effective and responsive to maximize customer service?
We will try to answer this question when we talk about our approach to operational systems support (OSS) in an age of OSS transformation at TM Forum Live in Nice, France next week.
Analysts agree the next frontier of IT operations is to directly support the business in a fast-moving, agile world. Our approach to operations management starts with greater comprehension of the environment. We are building operations solutions that are dynamic, cognitive, and hybrid-oriented to tell you what is happening as it happens—or even before it happens.
IBM is introducing dynamic service management to support lifecycle management of your operational applications and services. You’ll get the operational context you need to understand and act on emerging problems. The agile service manager starts with a scan of your total infrastructure and then interacts with the change agents in your environment, incrementally updating topology information based on changes—whether or not you intended them. Knowing what the environment looks like right now combined with knowing when important changes occurred can radically speed problem remediation. It is the key to mastering automated lifecycle solutions.
The IBM Netcool family of solutions also remains critical to communications service providers across the globe. Recent IBM innovations in cognitive computing enable the solution to hit what I call the Three Es:
Effectively identify important problems
Allow teams to operate efficiently
Detect emerging problems before they impact customers
These analytics solutions process event and performance information, learn about your environment and identify emerging problems and opportunities for operations improvement.
All these solutions are as hybrid as the organizations using them. They manage applications and services distributed across on premise equipment as well as private and public cloud-based solutions.
Come talk to us about how Netcool and the Agile Service Manager lay the groundwork for real-time OSS, speeding operations response and enabling fully automated orchestration. Learn more about why IBM cognitive, dynamic, and hybrid solutions are right for managing your business. We would love to discuss with you. To request a meeting during the week at TM Forum, click here.
For more information on IBMs Point of View check out this white paper from Analysys Mason. Or take a look at the most recent Gartner OSS Magic Quadrant.
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Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Ein Audiotreiber soll eigentlich nur für guten Klang sorgen. Bei zahlreichen HP-Notebooks sammelt das Programm allerdings zusätzlich die Tastaturanschläge der Nutzer. (Keylogger, Virus)
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According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, almost half of all losses due to natural disasters, both humanitarian and financial, are caused by floods. Yet 87 percent of funding available is allocated to post-disaster relief, recovery and cleanup, as stated in a jointly funded report from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery at the World Bank and the Overseas Development Institute.
Floods can literally wash away community development that has taken years to build.
The Z Zurich Foundation, funded by Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. and Zurich Life Insurance Company Ltd., initiated a global flood resilience program to advance knowledge, develop expertise and design strategies to help communities better manage flood risks, bringing together different organizations in a Flood Resilience Alliance.
The Alliance defines flood resilience as the community’s ability to pursue its social, ecological and economic development and growth objectives while managing disaster risk over time in a mutually reinforcing way.
Photo credit: M.Szoenyi
Measuring flood resilience
To effectively direct interventions (and measure their impact), the Alliance needed to gather information from communities and the wider environment in which those communities were located. To make that happen, there was a need to pull all the data together into a measurement tool in a centrally accessible location. However, there was no existing toolkit that fit the requirements.
Because Zurich has a longstanding relationship with IBM, when the Alliance identified the scope of its needs for the flood resilience initiative, it chose to work with IBM Global Business Services to develop an IBM Bluemix Public solution.
The Bluemix solution comprises questionnaires that are administered through a mobile app or web-based interface and a secure platform for data analysis.
Through discussions, research and on-the-ground experience in communities, combined with Zurich risk expertise, the foundation developed more than just a measurement tool. It has created a holistic framework that fosters understanding of flood resilience and how it can be developed.
Focusing on pre-event resilience building
Research from the program suggests that there’s a 5:1 benefit to budgeting resources prior to a flood rather than after. This means that for every dollar spent before the event, $5 in costs can be saved after the event.
The Bluemix measurement framework and tools help the program to deliver tangible evidence that demonstrates communities should shift their priorities from post-event funding to pre-event funding. Doing so will have a significant impact on improving flood resilience.
Learn more about how the Zurich Foundation is measuring flood resilience.
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Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Microsoft pflegt in seinen Azure-Cloud Diensten künftig auch MySQL- und PostgreSQL-Datenbanken. Bislang mussten Entwickler dafür eigene VMs aufsetzen und betreuen. Die Arbeit mit den Datenbanken sollte also deutlich einfacher werden. (Build 2017, MySQL)
Quelle: Golem
