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- Top Security Risks Surrounding The Cloud
- Final Fantasy Designer Imagines The Most Craziest Looking Batman
- Is Apple Starving Their Workers Just to Make iPhones?
- Motorola and Google Join Forces to Bring the World the 5.9″ Nexus 6
| Top Security Risks Surrounding The Cloud Posted: 28 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT  If you've been following business technology over the last couple of years it's hard to avoid the buzz around 'cloud services' and how they're becoming mainstream in the corporate sector. A majority of businesses have applied the term to everything and anything imaginable within and outside their companies. Yes. The cloud is now mainstream. Most cloud adopters, however, have one major concern: exactly how safe is the platform? Although most reputable service providers have top-notch security measures, experts say the cloud can't be completely safe from data leaks. Why is the cloud closely associated with data leaks? Fundamentally, cloud integration takes some control away from the IT department and gives it to a third-party provider. When the network is not owned by the company, it's more open to outside entities. Netspoke founder and CEO Sanjay Beri said the companies can expect their probability of being a victim of a data breach to triple simply because of their increased use of the cloud. That's what IT departments are coming to grips with, and they're starting to recognize the need to align their security practices to mitigate and prevent these threats. While the security of cloud providers is better than practices of the average company, breaches will happen and responding to incidents will require security best practices when the response includes a service provider's infrastructure. Additionally, companies need to know the contractual obligations because there is usually a murky line between the customer's responsibilities and cloud provider's responsibilities. Other risks of cloud adoption include: Malicious insiders: these insiders could be a business partner, a former employee, or a service contractor gaining access to corporate data for malicious purposes. The risk is even more when service providers keep the encryption keys to themselves; this means the customer is solely depending on the provider for securing the network. Cloudtweak advises cloud adopters to endeavor to know insiders and vulnerabilities beforehand. Stolen passwords: Cloud adoption could also demystify assumptions about password security. A single compromise could make the entire database available to adversaries; making cloud breach attempts an affordable option to hackers rather than working to hack a single system for customer data. The recent iCloud password hack allowed hackers to breach multiple accounts after gaining access to user passwords. Being proactive against the risks Collective intelligence: proper cloud security requires collective intelligence for maximum protection and minimum impact on your systems. Collective intelligence technology can instantly share malware-based information, improving protection across all connected systems. Also, a company offering such technology can provide real-time protection and put an end to adversary activities when it matters the most. Encrypt your data: encryption is one of the best ways to protect the data. It requires you to move to the file to the cloud and password-protect that file so that no one can access the file without knowing the password. Also check with the cloud provider to see if the data is encrypted automatically. Backup data: one of the easiest ways to take control of your data is to make sure you have a secure backup of all data. This is more about securing your intellectual property. Check for external backup options with the cloud provider.
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| Final Fantasy Designer Imagines The Most Craziest Looking Batman Posted: 28 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT  The Dark Knight gets darker in this alternative take of the DC Comics’ hero from the character designer of the Final Fantasy games.
If distinct is something you want out of your character designs, look no further than Tetsuya Nomura. The Final Fantasy character designer and Kingdom Hearts creator from Japanese publisher Square Enix has made his whole artistic career on characters who exhibit too much stylistic flair for their own well being. His outrageous ideas don't just start and end with the cast of Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts, either. For Nomura and any project he's working on: it's either go bold or go home. And that couldn't be more spot on than with his wild reimagining (and boy-oh-boy is it ever) of the famed Caped Crusader, Batman. Batman? Or more like Bat-demonic-man? Whatever you'd like to call it, Nomura's take on Bats, which is apart of Square Enix’s DC Comics Variant Play Arts Kai line of action figures, is something I've never seen before. And weirdly enough I kind of like it. Just imagine being a crook in Gotham City and seeing this version of Batman descend from the night sky, demon-wings sprawled out and a mask glowing a devilish hue of red. That's some good ol' fashion nightmare fuel, I tell ya what. Dare I say that I'd take this over Bat-Affleck? Well, I'm not saying it outloud… But I might be thinking it. Square Enix hasn’t rolled out a PR release saying if Normura's Batman figure will be available in North America, but if you're down at San Diego Comic Con this weekend, you'll be able to see the figure and all its crazy dark glory in person at Square Enix’s SDCC booth. Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories at https://www.facebook.com/Walyou and https://twitter.com/walyou.    |
| Is Apple Starving Their Workers Just to Make iPhones? Posted: 28 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT  As the company gears up to make the iPhone 6, Apple have come under fire by former workers who claim that they were mistreated.
Worlds away from the cushy and idyllic working conditions of the United States of America is China, where the necessity of worker safety is all but non-existent and the worker protections that many of us know, love and sometimes take advantage of (paid sick days anyone?) are a thing of very hopeful dreams. It's well documented that the workers at Foxconn's plants are treated awfully (Foxconn are the company responsible making most of Apple's gadgets) but surprisingly, some of the biggest instances of worker negligence don't happen overseas: Apple is reportedly happy to see their American workers mistreated too and now several thousand ex-employees have filed a lawsuit against them to prove it. Represented by San Diego attorney Tyler J. Belong, one Apple store employee initially filed the lawsuit against Apple in 2011. Backed up by a mixture of Apple store employees and other hourly workers (at the retail and corporate level) for the electronics company, they claimed that not only had Apple denied them breaks, they were also required to miss meals. Oh, and as added insult to injury, when they finally quit – what sounded like a pretty abysmal employment situation – Apple took their sweet time paying their final paychecks too. Finally the lawsuit is getting somewhere though, 3 years down the line, as the California Superior Court has now decided that it's a class action lawsuit meaning that Apple could face seriously hefty fines in order to pay off these ticked off ex-employees. Not only does Belong say that the lawsuit could bring about change for the some 20,000 Apple workers within the state of California but it sounds like these changes are needed right away too. While the it's unsupported by any evidence, it's worth noting that one response to the story reads as the following, suggesting that Apple has workers' rights issues up and down the track,
As explained, it's unclear if this claim is truthful but if it is, I wouldn’t expect a small payout on this Apple lawsuit to make the entirety of their employment complains go away. Source: Re/code Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories, Apple And IBM Are Teaming Up to Tackle Enterprise Mobility, New Apple Patent Suggests iPhone 6 Could Pack 3D Photography    |
| Motorola and Google Join Forces to Bring the World the 5.9″ Nexus 6 Posted: 27 Jul 2014 01:37 PM PDT  Despite all those rumors that Google would put an end to its Nexus line, Mountain View wanted to prove us wrong and started working on the Nexus 8 tablet with HTC, and on the Nexus 6 smartphone with Motorola. Google's David Burake pointed out at this year’s I/O conference that the Nexus line is anything but dead. Leaks of specs and renders of the HTC Nexus 8 kind of established that, and now we’re hearing that the search giant is working on the next Nexus smartphone with Motorola’s help. The previous two Nexus phones were made by LG, and it would’ve been anyone’s guess that the next one, if any, would also be made by this South Korean company. Still, Google decided that a bit of diversification wouldn’t hurt, and went for HTC and Motorola instead. Besides, LG’s planned Nexus was first canceled, and at a later point denied entirely. It’s a bit weird that Google is only using Motorola now for a Nexus product, as the Mountain View company has owned the smartphone manufacturer for a few years now. Lenovo bought most of Motorola from them, but Google kept the licenses and quite a few patents. After all, Project Ara is a Mountain View product that was made by Motorola Mobility, a division that was kept as part of the deal. About the next Nexus phone not much is known, actually. Rumor has it that it will be called Shamu, and this might as well be true, as Google made of habit of naming some of its products after sea creatures. Other than that, the diagonal is yet another detail that circulated. It seems that Google stopped at 5.9 inches, thus stepping in phablet territory. Some people hoped that the next Nexus would range between 4.7 and 5 inches in diagonal, and think that at 5.9 Nexus 6 might be a bit difficult to handle. Motorola is said to include a fingerprint sensor in the next Nexus phone, sign that this technology is becoming more and more popular. One thing I wish is that this sensor is not as easy to hack as the iPhone 5S’ or the Galaxy S5′s. This way, Google could teach the other smartphone manufacturers an important lesson about the consumer’s safety. Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories about the high-end Nexus tablet HTC wanted to work on, and how Nexus 5 was spotted on the FCC website.    |
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