The Confederation of All India Traders and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch have opposed any extension of the February 1 deadline for updated norms on foreign investment in e-commerce, as sought by some online retail platforms. In letters to the prime minister, they urged his office not to grant more time to the e-tailers after ET […]
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Twitter testing new feature to identify who started fake tweet
In a bid to curb the spread of fake and abusive content with untraceable origins on its platform, micro-blogging platform Twitter is testing a new feature that would help track the original tweeter. Once rolled out, the feature will help cyber cell and other law enforcement authorities nab the one who started a “bad” tweet […]
More than 200 hotels check out of Oyo over disputes
More than 200 hotels have ended agreements with SoftBank-backed Oyo over mismanagement of contracts, arbitrary charges and other disputes, industry associations said, adding that others want to exit contracts but are stuck for various reasons. Oyo refuted the allegations. “This is more dominant in the south and west but now hotels in north India are […]
What is a firewall? How they work and how they fit into enterprise security
Firewalls been around for three decades, but they’ve evolved drastically to include features that used to be sold as separate appliances and to pull in externally gathered data to make smarter decisions about what network traffic to allow and what traffic to block. Now just one indespensible element in an ecosystem of network defenses, the […]
How SD-WAN can improve your security strategy
Data breaches and security threats are a top concern among IT leaders, yet it’s harder than ever to hire skilled security professionals. That has organizations looking for ways to more easily improve their security strategy. One option is to implement a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). I recently talked with Hamza Seqqat, director of solutions architecture at […]
Batten down the DNS hatches as attackers strike Feds
If enterprise IT folks haven’t taken a look at their DNS ecosystem recently now may be a good time. This week the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told all federal agencies to bolt down their Domain Name System in the face of a series of global hacking campaigns. More about […]
Cisco patches serious SD-WAN software security holes
Cisco has patched security vulnerabilities in four packages of SD-WAN Solution software that address buffer overflow, arbitrary file override and privilege access weaknesses that could have led to denial-of-service attacks or access problems. The first patch, called “Critical” by Cisco, fixes a vulnerability in the vContainer of the Cisco SD-WAN Solution that could let an authenticated, […]
Powering the Next Wave of Intelligent IoT Devices with Machine Learning – Part 1
At BigML, we strive to bring the power of Machine Learning to as many diverse environments as possible. Now you can easily power your Internet of Things (IoT) devices with Classifiers, Regressors, Anomaly Detectors, Deep Neural Networks, and more with the BigML bindings for Node-RED. The BigML Node-RED bindings aim to make it easier to […]
Lloyd’s bank to advance digitisation by transferring accounts away from legacy IT
Lloyds bank is planning to move 500,000 customer accounts from its Intelligent Finance division out of its legacy IT onto a cloud-based banking platform built by Thought Machine, according to the FT. Intelligent Finance is a sunsetted business which services existing customers and doesn’t take on new ones. Back in November, Lloyds announced a partnership […]
Microsoft Office 365 goes down across Europe
Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-powered productivity suite went down yesterday morning across Europe, with users reporting issues connecting to the cloud-hosted email servers at around 9.30am. The tech giant confirmed that it was experiencing problems with its servers and it was working on a fix to get email back up and running. “We’re investigating an issue […]