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Big Data pros make the big bucks, but before you leap, here are 5 questions to help determine whether a career change is right for you Salaries are on the rise for IT professionals, increasing anywhere from 3% to 7%, according to the latest surveys. For big data professionals, however, the news on compensation is…
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In today’s threatscape, antivirus software provides little piece of mind. In fact, antimalware scanners on the whole are horrifically inaccurate, especially with exploits less than 24 hours old. After all, malicious hackers and malware can change their tactics at will. Swap a few bytes around, and a previously recognized malware program becomes unrecognizable. To combat…
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Amazon took to social media and YouTube Wednesday with a cagey promotion for an upcoming launch event, setting off rampant Internet speculation that its long-rumored smartphone is about to be announced. “Join Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos for our launch event,” the company said on Twitter. The event will be June 18 in Seattle, which is…
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Web-based myBulletins organizes security updates; gets a ‘C’ grade from one professional Microsoft today launched a Web-based security dashboard for IT professionals that displays a customized view of the company’s past patches. Called “myBulletins,” the dashboard shows the security updates for user-selected products, including the permutations of Windows, the iterations of Office and the various…
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Sourcefire, architecture, and services place Cisco in the catbird seat for emerging enterprise cybersecurity requirements if Cisco remains aggressive It wasn’t too long ago that Cisco was a dominant force in information security technology. The company was a market leader in firewalls, IDS/IPS, and email security and was actively pushing products for endpoint security and…
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Say good-bye to Windows RT. The introduction of the Surface Pro 3 just killed it, if not sooner, then later. Here’s why the operating system has not future. With the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft has finally clarified its tablet strategy: Build productivity tablets that do double-duty as ultrabooks, and charge a premium for them. Aim…
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CEO Nadella will unveil new tablets Tuesday, but can he stop the bleeding? Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow’s revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the “devices” side of its corporate-refashioning strategy. On Tuesday, CEO Satya Nadella is expected…
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Microsoft has ended up encouraging users to stop using windows XP for very long. Microsoft’s choice to remove its support team in the sand has sowed uncertainty and will likely encourage bad manners by several clients, analysts said at present. “If next month someone finds another zero-day like this one, Microsoft might just shift the…
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Anti-malware vendors advise about downloaders used to infect PCs Microsoft is placing makers of downloader software on observe when it sees that their softwares are getting used to infect PCs, and it is effective anti-virus vendors that maybe these downloader agenda ought to be tagged as malware. In its latest Security Intelligence Report the corporation…
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From Ceylon to Egison, these 10 languages tackle tough programming problems in unique and increasingly popular ways Beyond the usual suspects: 10 programming languages on the rise The sheer number and diversity of programming languages in use today is immense. For better or worse, however, most organizations settle on a small subset, the usual suspects,…