Tag: Tool

September 4, 2018

Google has open-sourced an internal tool that can help security researchers find security bugs in font display (rasterization) components. The tool is named BrokenType and is the work of Google Project Zero security engineer Mateusz Jurczyk, one of the leading […]

May 22, 2017

Are your digital transformation initiatives putting your organization into data debt? Data analytics startup Dremio, still in stealth mode, this week released a free Big Data Debt Calculator to help you estimate the unplanned costs that stem from the use […]

May 9, 2017

The Linux Foundation announced a new software project under its Hyperledger open consortium aimed at creating a collaboration tool for building blockchain business networks — or smart contracts — and their deployment across a distributed ledger. The new project, called […]

April 24, 2017

Has your computer been infected with a suspected NSA spying implant? A security researcher has come up with a free tool that can tell. Luke Jennings of security firm Countercept wrote a script in response to last week’s high-profile leak […]

April 14, 2017

In his first public remarks as head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo slammed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, defended the agency’s foreign surveillance work and said he intends to review the agency’s recent reorganization. “We steal secrets from foreign […]

March 10, 2017

Intel Security has released a tool that allows users to check if their computer’s low-level system firmware has been modified and contains unauthorized code. The release comes after CIA documents leaked Tuesday revealed that the agency has developed EFI (Extensible […]

February 21, 2017

The time has never been better for startups to access well-tested, feature-rich, affordable project management product previously offered only to larger companies. Here are just some of web-based options that a startup can license to manage its activities right out […]

January 17, 2017

Facebook plans to deploy a tool to deal with fake news in Germany in the coming weeks, after announcing tests of the tool last month. The move comes after reports that some German politicians wanted to impose fines of thousands […]

January 13, 2017

The hacking group that stole cyberweapons suspected to be from the U.S. National Security Agency is signing off — but not before releasing another arsenal of tools that appear designed to spy on Windows systems. On Thursday, the Shadow Brokers […]

October 7, 2016

Imagine a futuristic society in which robots are deployed to everybody’s house, fulfilling a mission to scan the inside of each and every residence. Does that mental image look far-off and futuristic? Well, this week’s Yahoo e-mail surveillance revelations perhaps […]

August 17, 2016

The leak over the weekend of advanced hacking tools contains digital signatures that are almost identical to those in software used by the state-sponsored Equation Group, according to a just-published report from security firm Kaspersky Lab. “While we cannot surmise […]

July 25, 2016

Tableau Software is expected to release the next major upgrade of its popular data visualization software, Tableau 10, within a couple of weeks. Version 10 will feature better data-mashup capabilities, drag-and-drop clustering, more mobile-friendly dashboards, support for Google Sheets and […]

July 22, 2016

Security researchers have released tools this week that could help users recover files encrypted by two relatively new ransomware threats: Bart and PowerWare. PowerWare, also known as PoshCoder, was first spotted in March, when it was used in attacks against […]

July 4, 2016

Finding insight in oceans of data is one of enterprises’ most pressing challenges, and increasingly AI is being brought in to help. Now, a new tool for Apache Spark aims to put machine learning within closer reach. Announced on Friday, […]

June 28, 2016

The IRS has nixed its online and telephone-based electronic filing PIN offerings following increased cyberattacks. In a June 23 statement, the agency cited an increasing frequency of automated attacks through which hackers could generate the e-file PINs needed to file […]

May 18, 2016

The IRS will soon debut revamped security features and bring back its Get Transcript tool as part of its push toward online taxpayer accounts, but the Taxpayer Advocate Service has raised concerns about the impact of the new features. Central […]

February 5, 2016

The IRS experienced a hardware failure across several systems, forcing the tax agency to suspend electronic filing as tax season kicked off. “Several of our systems are not currently operating, including our modernized e-file system and a number of other […]

January 28, 2016

Google’s VirusTotal service has added a new tool that analyzes firmware, the low-level code that bridges a computer’s hardware and operating system at startup. Advanced attackers, including the U.S. National Security Agency, have targeted firmware as a place to embed […]

September 3, 2015

This has been a record-setting year for the area on the ground lost to wildfires in the United States. Nearly 8 million acres (3,237,485.12 hectares) have burned in seven states. To battle forest fires, more than 20,000 firefighters have worked […]

July 23, 2015

Microsoft will be making two services generally available as part of the company’s push to improve the security of businesses’ data. Brad Anderson, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of enterprise client and mobility, said in a blog post today that the […]