Author: ITCurated

March 2, 2018

In June 2017, a Florida federal judge decided that Winn-Dixie’s website violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (also known as ADA). The North American retailer was required to update its site because it was inaccessible to the visually impaired. According […]

February 10, 2018

Cloud storage is undoubtedly one of the dominating online trends of the past 4 years. Work has become more mobile and on multiple devices, so the need for an appropriate storage option was quite obvious. Accessing important files and documents […]

November 3, 2017

There’s no denying that data thefts have increased over the past few years. It’s becoming a profitable business to be even a mediocre hacker. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continues to receive reports from individuals who have received extortion […]

September 3, 2017

Both organizations and everyday users are always glad to hear the internet is speeding up. Thanks to Google’s engineers – or rather their new congestion control algorithm, the Google Cloud Platform can achieve higher bandwidths and lower latencies for internet […]

August 10, 2017

During a recent conversation I was surprised to find out that not all people understand the value of privacy protection. Unless confronted with the perspective of their data ending up in malicious hands, of course. However, when talking about privacy […]

July 24, 2017

Cloud migration is generally regarded as a must (at least in the future) for a lot of companies, but this doesn’t meant that the cloud is ideal for everyone. SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, […]

January 31, 2017

On Friday, January 27th, President Trump signed an executive order that temporarily blocks travel for immigrants from seven Muslim countries and suspends the US refugee system. This attempt to “keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US” has been met […]

September 28, 2016

By now everyone know how serious security bugs are. Organizations all over the world have unanimously reached the conclusion that it’s worth investing in order to prevent security issues. At the Ignite conference in Atlanta, Microsoft introduced a unique cloud-based […]

June 28, 2016

In a time when other political candidates are polishing their golf clubs in Scotland – or rather have other people polish them, and describe Brexit as a “great thing”, Hillary Clinton announced her tech agenda. Friendly for the commercial technology […]

June 21, 2016

In an ongoing chain of twists, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) breach got another development today. After a lone hacker named Guccifer 2.0 claimed he was responsible for the breach, another security firm reinforces the original findings – that Russian […]

June 16, 2016

One of this week’s top stories featured the Democratic National Committee (DNC) breach, where allegedly a group of Russian hackers stole opposition research on Donald Trump, the Republican president candidate. Security firm Crowdstrike was hired to mitigate the data breach […]

May 27, 2016

Over $80 billion are invested in government IT annually – a large amount reportedly for maintaining existing systems, therefore efficiency studies are required at some points. The United States Government Accountability Office assessed federal agencies’ IT O&M spending, evaluated the […]

April 19, 2016

Remember those movie scenes where the protagonists are trying to track someone down, and they have to keep them on the phone until the police or agency can pinpoint the perp’s location? They usually need about 1 minute or so […]

April 5, 2016

The U.S. Government just took a big commitment towards open-source software. The “Federal Source Code Policy — Achieving Efficiency, Transparency, and Innovation through Reusable and Open Source Software” paper sheds some light on the Government’s plan to improve the acquisitions, […]

March 1, 2016

A federal judge in New York ruled on Monday in favor of Apple in a case involving the unlocking of a seized iPhone. This decision is an important victory for the tech giants for two reasons: the locked iPhone 5s […]

February 25, 2016

The Apple vs. DOJ/FBI week continues with a Tim Cook interview that aired Wednesday evening on national television. Apple’s CEO sat down (in his office) with David Muir of ABC News, in his first public discussion since the court order […]

February 19, 2016

Earlier this week, Apple was ordered by a U.S. judge to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case of the San Bernardino shooting that took place in December 2015. The judge ruled that the tech giants must provide […]

February 11, 2016

President Obama released the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) – a response to the growing number of cyberattacks on federal networks that seeks seeking $19 billion for cybersecurity, a considerable increase from last year (more than 35%). The plan aims […]

February 5, 2016

We generally tend to have a high tolerance to terrorism. We watch the news in horror when the attacks happen, but we tend to forget them as soon as we can. It’s not because the tragedy might not affect us […]

January 26, 2016

Microsoft announced in a blog post the release of its first technical preview of Azure Stack. The release will take place live on Friday, January 29. The event will be followed on February 3 by webcast where Mark Russinovich CTO, Microsoft […]