FinTech

Cisco: These 12 High-severity Bugs In ASA And Firepower Security Software Need Patching

Cisco has fixes for a dozen high-severity flaws in Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense software. Read more

Apple Gives $10 Million Grant To COVID-19 Testing Firm COPAN Diagnostics

Apple says the grant will give the company the capacity to increase the production of testing kits across the US. Read more

Oracle Announces Second Cloud Region In South Korea

Oracle is on track to have a total of 36 cloud regions up and running by the end of the year. Read more

Salesforce Rolls Out New Low-code Features For Lightning App Builder

The new features are aimed at helping Salesforce users build forms and pages that are event-driven and change in real ti... Read more

Abby Kearns Takes Over As Puppet CTO

Cloud Foundry's former head has moved to the popular DevOps program Puppet -- where she'll be the CTO. Read more

Microsoft Build 2020 Goes Back To Developers, Developers, Developers

Microsoft's Build 2020 event will be very different this year. And not just because it will be a virtual-only conference... Read more

Microsoft Rebrands Visual Studio Online As 'Codespaces'; Plans To Lower Pricing

Visual Studio Online is being rechristened as Visual Studio Codespaces. And pricing cuts are coming for all tiers as of ... Read more

Microsoft Adds Music, Audio Control Capabilities To Its Your Phone App

Microsoft is rolling out a new feature to Your Phone that will be available to Windows 10 users (not just testers) for c... Read more

Brazilian Data Protection Regulations Postponed To 2021

The country's GDPR equivalent will no longer go live in August as planned. Read more

Spear-phishing Campaign Compromises Executives At 150+ Companies

PerSwaysion group appears to be formed of members based in Nigeria and South Africa. Read more

Microsoft: Why We Used Programming Language Rust Over Go For WebAssembly On Kubernetes App

Rust is not so easy to learn, but Microsoft engineers really like the programming language for coding for the cloud. Read more

COVID-19 (mis)information Highway: Have A Sick Friend? What Not To Do

I spent two weeks this month caring for a seriously ill friend. My second biggest problem? People who scan the internet ... Read more

Here's The NSA's Guide For Choosing A Safe Text Chat And Video Conferencing Service

NSA publishes guidance on choosing a secure teleworking service. Assessed tools include Slack, Zoom, Signal, Skype, more... Read more

The Best Cheap Phones You Can Buy In 2020: Flagship Features For Any Budget

Are you balking at the prices of the latest Apple and Samsung flagships? Consider one of these affordable alternatives. ... Read more

Walmart Quietly Updates Onn Tablets To Pro Versions With Android 10

The new house-brand tablets come in $99 8-inch and $129 10.1-inch versions with upgraded processors and double the stora... Read more