Few innovations surpass the transformative, global impact of mobile…and we’re only just getting started. There are now more mobile devices than people, and they’re multiplying five times faster than we are. Mobile commerce, which is projected to hit $31B in 2016 (up 1000%+ from 2010), received more venture capital last year than the two prior years combined. Image shared by James Theophane And yet, despite 81% of CEOs acknowledging mobile to be strategically important for their organization, only a select few have strategically employed mobile to drive business transformation and…

With the hype around IoT reaching crescendo all kinds of players are getting into the scene. These players design from Things to applications addressing various solutions. Telecom service providers have a head start in providing the interconnection. They manage their network and ensure the connectivity is ensured. However an IoT network will be successful only if it is robust enough so that the service levels are high. In any network high reliability is achieved only when the connected devices are monitored on a real time basis.  The best example is…

Cybercrime is happening more frequently leading to more costs and more prevention efforts. It is become a billion dollar business… Cybercrime is becoming such a common occurrence. Too many of us have to hear about and become familiar with the Deep Web sooner than I ever dreamed we would. I heard Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek – the presenters at Black Hat who hacked a 2014 Jeep Cherokee’s onboard computer sparking a massive vehicle recall – say that “everything is hackable.” And it is. If you think you’re safe then…

Two years ago at the Black Hat conference, WhiteHat Security researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Matt Johansen explained how hackers could in theory leverage an online ad network to distribute malicious JavaScript efficiently and quickly.  Image: Threat Post Depending on how much money the attacker wanted to spend, they could do just about anything from drive-by download attacks, to search engine poisoning to DDoS attacks. “For a DDoS attack, for mere dollars we could bring down one Apache server very quickly for probably under $10 and hold it down for a…

Google has single Sin In implemented for many of its services. By logging in to Google account for example, one has access to Gmail, YouTube, and other services in a single browser session, without the need to sign in again. Also, it is in users’ interest, to stay with one account, meaning if he or she registers with one unique handle, it is in his or her only interest to stay with that handle or account. Each application, software solution, intranet solution, or internet solution, should have settings and options,…