web users are asked often to quickly change their account passwords to protect themselves against further attacks.
Unfortunately, doing so is said easier than done users tend to reuse their passwords across websites,
Dashlane and Lastpass, have stepped now in to help with new features that allow users to automatically change their passwords on affected websites.
which sites shared that same password and then jumped through the hoops to make the change,
Dashlane Password Changer works with over 50 top U s. sites including Amazon, ebay, Facebook, Google, Linkedin,
Twitter and Yahoo and is continuing to grow as the feature expands. The first version is available for PC and Mac with mobile support arriving oon,
That means its ability to change around 50 passwords automatically will cover a lot of the sites visited today.
The company supports a few more sites at launch, with 75 sites as of today, including big ones like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Pinterest, Dropbox and others.
Similar to Dashlane, Lastpass will automatically change a password for you when need be. To enable the feature
you click ditin the Lastpass dashboard for a supported site, and a hange Password Automaticallybutton appears.
and Lastpass logs you into the website, creates a new password and submits the changes to the site and to Lastpass.
The next time you log in, Lastpass will use the new password. One difference between the two implementations is that Dashlane feature lets you select all the supported sites
and change the passwords at once it even displays little progress bars at the bottom to show you how the work is progressing.
While the automated password changing technology is a huge leap in terms of efficiency and security protections for today web users,
The problem is that many of the most commonly used web services are accessed also regularly as mobile apps.
web users have shown consistently they prefer the latter. If a site lets you make your password 23456,
it will become one of the most popular password choices. On Android, we should note,
and Lastpass is available for download here s
#Youku Tudou One Of China s Leading Streaming Video Sites Launches Its First Hardware Line Youku Tudou, already one of China largest streaming video
sites, is moving into hardware as well. The company said that its first three devices Wifi router, smart TV box,
and 15.6-inch Android tabletill be available next January. To provide content for those devices,
the company is also launching a cloud entertainment business unit, which will create services that make it easier to stream videos and games from Youku Tudou main sites.
The Wifi router will be part of a P2p-based network that is supposed to make video stream faster while reducing Youku Tudou bandwidth usage.
The smart TV SET which supports 4k/Ultra HD video, will eventually start using Alibaba Aliyun operating system,
which includes online shopping connected to the e-commerce giant sites, as well as its Xiami streaming music service.
and services reach all Internet enabled screens in the forms that our users want, and offer a seamless experience across devices.
Several of China largest Internet companies have struck content partnerships over the past couple of months in a bid to win over as many viewers as possible.
has made already strategic investments in Youku Tudou as well as Baidu IQIYI, one of its main rivals.
Alibaba and Baidu also have smart TV SETS of their own. Other top smart TV makers that Youku Tudou has signed deals with include Huawei technologies, ZTE 9 Network Technology, Goldweb Technologies;
and Baidu purchased PPS to fold into iqiyi. Banding together can also help companies that have a stake in China streaming-video industry deal with regulators.
But that will most likely change as more people rely on the Internet to watch television shows and movies.
For example, China may decide to limit the amount of foreign-produced shows that streaming sites can offer c
wel see a torrent of new devices emerge that are connected to the Internet and each other through a wide range of different wireless networking protocols.
when we notice them doing their jobs. can go on Youtube without them winding up, making a bunch of noise!
At a Facebook, Google, or Amazon data center, replacing hundreds or thousands of fans with ones using 35 percent less power could yield significant cost savings.
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An early mover the firm has seen increased competition from younger firms like Dropbox and older companies like Microsoft and Google.
In a blog post Box##CEO Aaron Levie described the Trust effort in the following terms:#
Taking a page from the likes of ebay and Priceline, it is introducing a new dutch auction-style feature.
The move seems to be a clear bid to compete against the likes of sites like ebay for more business for its marketplace from third-party vendors,
what ebay does today. Amazon is clear to point out that this is ot an auction formatin that you are not actively bidding against others
Singapore Temasek Holding which invested in Rocket Internet Lazada last month led the round, which included participation from existing investors DST Global and Chinese internet giant Tencent.
The company is not disclosing its valuation but this new funding round which is one of the largest ever for a Chinese tech firm is a huge jump on its $100 million Series C round from January this year.
The company believes in its mission of making transportation easier for everyone through mobile Internet
#We ve built a type of search engine that indexes every tool/service you connect with Chatgrape (so far we ve got Github Bitbucket Google Drive Google Calendar
As naturally as it is for all of us to tag a friend on Facebook only that it s no longer about the pages you ve liked
Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop and Google Kubernetes, or customers can add internal software packages. DCOS is compatible with several versions of Linux including Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu,
and Coreos, as well public cloud infrastructure services from companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Finally, you can use it with private cloud infrastructure services including virtual machines, bare metal and Openstack.
and the web. in November, fashion and tech entrepreneurs and experts gathered at the Decoded Fashion New york Summit to discuss integrating technology,
Nordstrom and ebay. According to ebay Inc.,the Rebecca Minkoff partnership marks the company continuing expansion into the physical marketplace and not simply a ne-offdeal.
The company has filed several patents for the new technology, and according to head of Innovation and New Ventures Steve Yankovich, his is not a pilot for us.
but ebay is hoping for a deeper integration with the retail experience. In the past, ebay has released a transaction eat mapfollowing Thanksgiving
which shows online buyer-seller activity in a real world context. The new high-tech store Minkoff launched in Manhattan Soho neighborhood aims to capitalize on that kind of big data knowhow
It an extension of work ebay has done with other retailers, like Kate Spade. Minkoff and her cofounder (and brother), company chief executive Uri Minkoff explained their thinking
#Separating The Opportunities From The Obstacles In Open-source Networking Open standards have driven the networking market since the earliest days of the Internet.
A relatively new protocol proposed to the Internet Engineering Task force (IETF), Opflex was designed to offer a highly scalable architecture that works across a broad range of hardware devices to enable multivendor innovation.
and users will see increased collaboration between web scale companies, cloud operators and vendors to ensure that open-source tools meet the needs of the user community.
#Data From Alibaba E-commerce Sites Is Now Powering A Credit-Scoring Service Alibaba Group affiliate Ant Financial services has unveiled a new credit-scoring system that uses data from the e-commerce giant sites to gauge userscreditworthiness.
Data used from shopping websites indicate how often a buyer or vendors follow through on transactions and the quality of their interactions with other users.
Ant Financial says that it will supplement data collected from Alibaba sites and Alipay with information from public agencies financial institutions and other merchants.
or shopping sites that accept Sesame Credit scores. The idea of using shopping transactions to measure creditworthiness may be off-putting to some consumers after all it like having your FICO score determined by your ebay feedback or Amazon rating.
But Ant Financial says that Sesame Credit can give more consumers in China access to financial resources like home loans
However they might be active Internet users who shop online a lot e-pay their utility bills on time have a stable residential status
Sweet Pre-Roll Video Ads Chances are installed that you an ad blocking extension to skip Youtube pre-roll video ads.
But, according to an Adobe study, 26 percent of U s.-based Internet users installed an ad blocker.
advertising is the necessary evil of the web. So get ready to see some pre-roll video ads again s
The Clinicloud website is now open for pre-orders and the kits are expected to ship in July t
#Apple Will Spend $848 Million Building A Massive Solar Farm In Monterey Tim cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the Goldman sachs Technology and Internet conference today:
#Rakuten To Put Its Bitnet Investment To Work And Accept Bitcoin Worldwide Rakuten, Japan largest online retail firm, has announced that it will soon accept bitcoin across its global marketplaces.
The company is putting its investment in Bitnet a startup that raised $14. 5 million last October to work with this development.
Bitnet, which was founded by ex-Visa execs and is rivaled by Coinbase and Bitpay, will initially be integrated into Rakuten U s. marketplace to allow customers to pay in BTC.
Interestingly, there no specific mention of when Bitnet will be integrated into Rakuten Japan, which is the most prominent of its 12 country-specific services.
hopped onto the cryptocurrency to give customers an alternative avenue for payments. he integration with Bitnet platform will make Rakuten one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world to begin accepting bitcoin,
but it could help position Bitnet as a credible alternative to the increasingly dominant duopoly that is Coinbase and Bitpay both
Part of the plan to increase trade with Cuba included provisions aimed at allowing U s. telecommunications companies to provide better access to communication and internet services
#The Internet Applied To Things And The Third Industrial revolution Editor Note: John B. Rogers is chief executive and cofounder of Local Motors,
I call a product of the very recent Internet-applied-to-things (not the overused phrase Internet of things).
and download an STL file of a door grommet, send it to a 3d printer and within hours it printed
#Facebook Censors Blasphemous Page To Comply With Turkey#s Demand But Won t Publish It When Google and Twitter receive legal threats from countries to censor controversial content
or have their services shut down locally, they often publish them on Chillingeffects. org for transparency.
But today when Facebook followed Turkey legal order to block a Page that defamed the Prophet Muhammad from Turkish users,
Mark Zuckerberg has said it Facebook duty to comply with censorship so it can keep operating
Google and Twitter both have large archives of notices theye shared on Chilling Effects. But Facebook abstains from this transparency practice.
Instead, the company has been beefing up its transparency reports with an interactive map the shows
Some claim that Facebook is wrong to comply with censorship, and that it should accept bans.
Facebook growth and advertising objectives are cited often as supposed reasons it complies. However, Mark Zuckerberg recently commented on the censorship issue in a public Q&a saying one more country doesn add much extra ad money or growth.
Facebook declined to comment on this specific issue. Regardless it seems obvious that Facebook could maintain its current position
while also being more transparent and publishing the demands it receives in a timely fashion.
and is doing all it can to fight back without cutting off citizens from their social network i
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#Malaysia Airlines Site Hacked By Lizard Squad Hacker group Lizard Squad which took down Xbox Live
The site currently displays a picture of a lizard in a top hat and monocle as well as the text 04-Plane Not Found (a reference to flight MH370 which disappeared in March) and acked by LIZARD SQUAD-OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.
Some users may see a lite version of Malaysia Airlineswebsite as the air carrier restores access to its site.
It unclear whether or not Lizard Squad is linked actually to Cyber Caliphate a hacker group that claims to be associated with ISIS. Last month Cyber Caliphate took control of the U s. central military command Twitter and Youtube accounts.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed the attack on its Facebook page: In a tweet however Lizard Squad (which itself was hacked last week) claimed it had taken materials from Malaysia Airlinesservers.
#Google Joins Apple Others Cutting off Crimea Blocks Adwords Adsense Google Play Yet more developments around how U s. sanctions on Crimea in retaliation against Russia annexation by Russia are being adopted by tech companies:
Google is the latest to start complying with the orders to block import and export of tech products and services among other things.
According to multiple reports out of Russia Google has started now to block Adsense and Adwords accounts in the region
and from February 1 it will also cease Google Play services but it will continue to allow access to free Web-based services like Google search Google+Gmail
and Maps. anctions have recently been imposed on Crimea by the US and the EU. We are complying with thema Google spokesperson confirmed to Techcrunch.
The move comes after Apple expanded its own implementation of the sanctions from developers to products
In a way the Google block is a bigger deal than Apple considering that Android devices are far more prevalent among users
and Google is a key player in other web services. It also come up more than once against authorities in restrictive countries concerned about
While Google has yet to specify to us which services are impacted Russian press reports that Google is paid initially cutting off services specifically B2b products like Adsense and Adwords.
And even if Google did decide to circumvent U s. laws (which it is not) it wouldn be able to collect money for services
and out of the country. oogle prohibited from providing paid services in the Crimeaa source at Google told Lenta. ru. n addition Google cannot make payments to anyone in the Crimea.
It is now technically impossible as almost all international banks have ceased to make payments. ater the block will extend to apps via Google Play
The Russian agency ITAR-TASS reports that Google will be ending Google Play services both paid and free in the region from February 1 as they fall under the restrictions on the import
and export of services. rom February 1 we will start to limit access to apps in Google Play
Access will continue to free services Google such as search Gmail and Google Mapsa Google source told the agency.
The backstory here is that Crimea a peninsula with less than 2 million residents is effectively a pawn in a chess game between much bigger powers the U s. and Russia.
you can sync all of those notes to the team Dropbox or Google Drive for easy record keeping D
but the mazon Web Services Wind farm (Fowler Ridge) that the full name of what was called previously the owler Ridge IV Wind Projectwill only be used to power Amazon AWS data centers.
As Amazon announced last November, its long-term goal is o achieve 100 percent renewable energy usage for the global AWS infrastructure footprint.
US WEST (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt) and its AWS Govcloud. mazon Web Services Wind farm (Fowler Ridge) will bring a new source of clean energy to the electric grid where we currently operate a large number of datacenters
said Jerry Hunter, Vice president of Infrastructure at Amazon web services, in today announcement. his power purchase agreement helps to increase the renewable energy used to power our infrastructure in the US
While Google has made various wind energy investments over the last few years this is Amazon first (or at least the first one it is publicly talking about) s
#Microsoft Outlook Hacked In China New Report Finds Only a few weeks after Google Gmail service was blocked in China a new report from online censorship monitoring organization Greatfire. org released this morning
states that Microsoft email system Outlook was subjected recently to a an-in-the-middleattack in China.
but the web interfaces for Microsoft webmail services were not. That is Outlook. com and Login. live. com were affected not.
Affected users were shown warning messages in their email clients that weren as immediately worrisome as those web browsers display which means that some users may not have been aware that an attack was taking place.
However when Greatfire. org reproduced the same result via the Firefox web browser the message the browser offers is far more detailed saying also that the error could means hat someone is trying to impersonate the site
when their email client tried to automatically retrieve new messages. In most cases they would simply hit ontinueto dismiss the message likely thinking that a network problem was to blame.
so their emails contacts and passwords were able to be logged by the hacker. The self-signed certificate is suspected to be from CNNIC (China Internet Network Information center)
which is governed by the Cyberspace Administration of China as this would be consistent with previous man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in China. iven the dangerous nature of this attack on Outlook we again strongly encourage organizations including Microsoft
What happens when a Chinese user accesses Outlook in their email client: The attack comes within a month of China blocking Gmail
It also one of many recent MITM attacks in China including those affecting services from Google Yahoo
The company bought its shares from internet giant Tencent which reduced its stake in Kingsoft to 9. 6 percent.
Apple note which has been reproduced in more than one place online (including here on Russian-language tech site Habrahabr
Putin government has put in place measures for tracking data on websites and restrictions on certain types of content.
This has resulted in some sites like Github getting blocked and others like Intel shutting down some of their online operations u
and formerly ran Twitter security team. he idea is to scramble the information so well that it not worth pursuing.
#Facebook Open-sources Some Of Its Deep-Learning Tools In the world of machine learning the buzzword these days is eep learning.
It a technique that has been popularized a by Geoff Hinton who is now at Google and previously worked at Microsoft Research as well as other computer science researchers like Yann Lecun who are looking for better ways to teach computers how to recognize objects and speech.
Facebook too has done quite a bit of work in the area and today the company is open-sourcing some of its projects around the Torch7 computing framework for machine learning.
and artificial intelligence projects in academic labs and at companies like Google Twitter and Intel. Facebook today is optimized launching tools to increase the speed at
which deep-learning projects that use Torch run. One allows developers to parallelize the training of their networks using multiple GPUS simultaneously.
In addition Facebook is launching a number of additional tools that bring more speed to other parts of Torch as well.
Some of these are modest but many of Facebook projects results in 3 to 10x improvements over the default tools.
Google+Photos for example uses it to allow you to find images in your photo library.
Just look at the Google Trends for the word ronesor JI. Check out the number of drone videos on Youtube (827
000). ) According to Frost and Sullivan, an aerospace research firm, over 200,000 drones were sold each month in 2014.
Companies like Bouygues, Balfour Beatty and Webcor are using drones to map construction sites. They are employing drones made by Skycatch,
punch in your destination via Google maps, and be driven by a computer, guiding your destination while avoiding all other air traffic.
#Facebook Unveils Facebook At work Lets Businesses Create Their Own Social networks About six months ago we reported that Facebook was working on a new product aimed squarely at the enterprise market under the working title B@Work
today the company is launching new ios and Android apps called acebook At Workalong with a version of Facebook At work accessible via its main website
which will let businesses create their own social networks amongst their employees that are built to look
and act like Facebook itself. Facebook At work is now available for download on ios and wel update with a links to the Andriod version once it live though both are usable via a limited pilot to start with.
Check out Josh follow-up story for more screenshots details on privacy and analysis.)Employers can create separate logins for employees to use with their Work accounts
The product puts Facebook head-to-head with the likes of Microsoft Yammer Slack Convo Socialcast and a huge number of others who are trying to tackle the nterprise social networkspace.
Even Linkedin conveniently let drop last night that it too was looking at building a product for coworkers to communicate
(but not chat as a Linkedin spokesperson tells me). Not all of these have been a hit:
Lars Rasmussen the engineering director at Facebook who is heading up the project had in his past once headed up one of the failed efforts at an enterprise social network Google Wave.
Facebook is positioning today debut as a bold first step. ee putting the app into the app stores
In fact Facebook has already been running tests of the service with very small setof external businesses around the world Rasmussen says;
In fact the existing Facebook Groups product is used already by smaller organisations. Because of the early nature of the product there are a lot of questions in the air.
For now Facebook Platform has been disabled on the Work product meaning no ads or apps. That may not always be the case (t could be paidhe says.
Rasmussen says that Facebook has effectively been working on Work for the last 10 years because it is based on
what Facebook own employees have been using to communicate with each other pass on news plan meetings and share documents.
That long-time use and Facebook familiarity to all of us are part of what makes Facebook confident that it can carve a place for itself in a market that already is crowded very. acebook At work strength is spent that wee ten years
and incorporated feedback from 1 billion active usershe says. ll embedded of that is now in the same product
but adapted for different use cases. nd it actually used by staff hen Mark Zuckerberg the CEO makes an announcement he just posts it on Facebook at Workrasmussen says.
In fact Facebook own popularity could be Facebook At work biggest advantage. A lot of efforts in offices to get employees to collaborate more with each other have been stymied
In that vein Facebook At work built essentially on Facebook itself will be arguably the closest of all to an authentic onsumersocial experience.
By making this free Facebook could potentially drive a lot more users to its wider network.
The fact that Rasmussen would not rule out advertising as an option down the road to me suggests that Facebook could consider tiers of its own where some businesses may pay for the product
Plus this would give Facebook another revenue stream beyond ads and app-related payments. How it will work Facebook wouldn show me a demo ahead of the launch
but this is how Rasmussen describes it: hen an employer adopts Facebook At work they can construct it with a set of new accounts.
Users can then link their work and personal accounts together so that they are logged into both at the same time. his would work much like Groups
The content stays entirely within your personal or work Facebook. hat not there/integrations. You can share documents today
but for now there will be no in-app editing urrently. gain that leaves this open as something that will come down the line. he set of features are identitcal to personal Facebook
Hopefully in the future other enterprise tools will integrate with Facebook At work. ackstory on development. Back in June I deduced that Facebook At work was connected with Rasmussen work in London but what
I found out from sources after that report was that this was more than casual: this was his baby.
and the knowledge of a failure of doing this at a different companyhe says referring of course to Google Wave. thought that maybe Facebook experience was
however is one that Facebook will have to continue to grapple with all the more so as it continues to grow.
Canvassing opinion on a Facebook At work product I heard not only once people shy away from the idea concerned with the thought of Facebook wningyour data
and the potential lack of confidentiality resulting from it. That can be frustrating when related to pictures of you too drunk
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