July 29, 2015

IBM has announced a new Internet of Things (IoT) developer community that it calls IBM developerWorks Recipes. The community will provide advice and tutorials for connecting IoT devices to cloud computing services, and it will include step-by-step instructions for using the IBM Bluemix cloud development platform for various IoT projects.

Security vendor FireEye has identified a new malware backdoor called Hammertoss which is able to hide in network traffic streams related to GitHub, Twitter and cloud computing services. This ability to blend in to network traffic makes the malicious communications very difficult to spot. The researchers at FireEye believe a