October 30, 2014

IBM Announces Twitter Partnership, New Cloud Data Services

October 30, 2014 10:10 pm

At its Insight 2014 conference, IBM made several announcements related to big data and analytics. First, the company has partnered with Twitter to enable enterprises to access Twitter data with IBM tools. Developers will be able to integrate and analyze Twitter feeds in applications they are building on the IBM’s

Thank Goodness for POODLE

October 30, 2014 6:10 pm

The latest cyberattack to hit the news is POODLE (Padding Oracle on Downgraded Legacy Encryption). While POODLE wins points for both the cutest title and including Oracle in its name, I’m cheering it on for a different reason. POODLE compromises the obsolete protocol SSL 3.0. That alone wouldn’t be a