by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | HAPPINESS, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
Whether your talents involve playing video games, coding and app development, baking cookies, or something else that you’re really good at, ProBueno is a new webapp that lets you put your talents to good use by volunteering them up in exchange for charitable...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
Rackspace to launch Open Cloud Academy, a training program to fill skills gap in cloud computing Rackspace launched the Open Cloud Academy today, a training program to teach skills in various open source areas, such as OpenStack, Hadoop and Linux, with a specific...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals
Customers speculated on Twitter that the bank’s systems had been hacked Customers of JPMorgan Chase reported seeing zero balances in their accounts both online and on mobile, and speculated that the bank’s systems had been hacked into. The bank however...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the decker-brigade dept. Earlier this week, the newly minted head of the United States’ Cyber Command team and NSA head General Keith Alexander told assembled lawmakers that the US has created an offensive cyberwarfare division designed to do far more than...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS
from the wrong-crowd dept. Of the 42,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) surveyed, just 20 were found to be responsible for nearly half of all the spamming IP addresses — and some ISPs have more than 60% of compromised hosts, mostly in Asia. Phishing Bad...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
Could impact how information is shared and what powers government has in collecting your digital files Last year after an outpouring of opposition, Internet advocates logged a victory when they defeated the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Now there are...
