Apple will add additional security steps to keep hackers out of user accounts in the wake of the celebrity photo scandal and will aggressively encourage users to take stricter measures, the company's chief executive, Tim Cook, has said.
Over the course of the last few days, I've written a number of articles related to the celebrity photo thefts that surfaced Sunday. Many of those posts have focused on how safe - or unsafe - various cloud service providers are.
The new Microsoft, under the leadership of Satya Nadella, is making surprising and positive moves. The company just announced a Linux powered operating system for data center networking. Kamala Subramaniam, Principal Architect, Azure Networking wrote on the company blog, "The Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) is our foray into building our own software for running network devices like switches.
This is more of a sponsored post/Ad than it is a real new story, but it is still interesting to see how personal storage is changing. These hard drives being sold by Western Digital are able to back-up local files and then allow those files to be accessed from anywhere, while still keeping your data off of the servers of a large company.