Lookout’s analysis of the mobile threat landscape suggests businesses should specialise in curbing risky online behavior. 16 Top Big Data Analytics Platforms (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) As more companies allow employees to bring their very own devices to work, they’re opening the door for cybercrime. Based on its review of 2013 data from greater than 50 million users of its Android mobile security software, Lookout expects cybercriminals this year to attack mobile devices because the weak link in heavily monitored enterprise networks. “The borders that traditionally protected companies at the moment are more porous because individuals are bringing their phones from homes to work day after day,” said Jeremy Linden, security product manager at Lookout, in a phone interview. “This enables attackers to get behind your firewall. We do think this type of thing turns into more prevalent in 2014.” Apple’s iOS presents less of a priority than Google’s Android on this regard, through malicious links and phishing are issues whatever the... Read More »

The US government now offers greater than 100 handy apps for mobile devices. Investigate new apps users rate highly. (Image: USA.gov, Apple) If you ever wondered in regards to the speed of your mobile broadband, there is a new app which could assess its performance and share the important points right for your smartphone. Speed Test, released as portion of the Federal Communications Commission’s “Measuring Broadband America” program, is only one of greater than 100 apps available from the government. Because it collects data, that’s then utilized by the FCC to create an in depth picture of mobile broadband performance nationwide, Speed Test raises some questions on user privacy. The FCC says its aim with this system and the app is to create open information, a top goal of the Digital Government Strategy. The agency claims that it won’t collect personally identifiable data within the process; instead, it is going to use the anonymous results to enhance both cellular and WiFi speeds on mobile devices.... Read More »

Hosting services giant enters cloud sector, aims to distinguish itself from competitors with high-speed, performance-guaranteed block storage. Internap Network Services moved into the general public cloud realm in November with its AgileCloud, and it’s now offering compute and storage services from its data centers located in key worldwide communications hubs. Internap is called large supplier of hosting services from its datacenters; that is answerable for the infrastructure, and its customers supply an application to run on it. Its services include both virtual servers and bare-metal servers devoted to a single customer. It has been edging as much as cloud services because it bought Voxel, with its automated management software, in late 2011. On Nov. 21, it announced it now offers “hybridized cloud services.” In its lexicon, this suggests that is offering customer self-service for infrastructure-as-a-service that may include multitenant hosts or bare-metal servers. Either option would be activated by customers throughout the OpenStack set of cloud APIs. If a customer uses Internap to construct out... Read More »