Month: September 2016

IDG Contributor Network: Amazon’s wacky workweek hours experiment

By Evan Schuman Amazon has never shied away from an experiment and, indeed, many of Amazon’s nontraditional business processes are now SOP for everyone else. Therefore, its experiments are worth watching. A new one surfaced this week, an effort to offer 30-hour workweeks “for select employees.” As described by The Washington Post, “the program will…

More IoT botnets connected to DDoS attacks

By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Security researchers have found another botnet operation exploiting internet of things devices to carry out powerful distributed denial of service attacks, prompting calls for IoT device makers to improve security …read more Source::

Lessons from the Dropbox breach

By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Dropbox is the latest major company to confirm a data breach, albeit four years old, but – as with all recent data breaches by cloud-based services – it highlights some key security lessons …read more Source::