AWS offers a lift to Amazon's Q3 profitability
Much of Amazon’s sunny Thursday earnings report for the third quarter of 2015 can be traced back to its Web…
Cloud growth buoys Microsoft even as revenue shrinks
Microsoft’s cloud successes buoyed the company through its last quarter, which was otherwise a mixed financial bag. Revenue fell more…
Social engineering: Employees could be your weakest link
Would your employees recognize a phishing email if they saw one? Social engineering, or the act of attacking the human…
Surveys say IoT dangers are here, they're real and they're widespread
Two studies, one from HP, and one from DNS and security vendor OpenDNS, took a look at the dangers IoT…
FCC looks to higher frequencies for 5G mobile
Frequencies once considered useless for most mobile services could start showing up on phones and other devices in a few…
Elon Musk responds to Consumer Reports' negative rating of Tesla Model S
Tesla CEO Elon Musk today tweeted out a response to Consumer Reports’ negative reliability rating of his company’s flagship all-electric…
Tech support scammers put Mac owners in crosshairs
Technical support scammers have begun targeting Mac owners, a security researcher said today, adding them to much larger pool of…
Chase's tweet backing PIN credit cards was a mistake, bank says
JP Morgan Chase Bank tweeted in error that its chip credit cards would be getting PIN security, a bank spokesman…
How WD installed a circuit breaker in its SanDisk deal
Before Western Digital (WD) drops $19 billion to buy SanDisk, it’s going to make sure certain conditions must be met.…