Editor's Pick: British Hospitals, FedEx Among Thousands Hit by Ransomware

British Hospitals, FedEx Among Thousands Hit by Ransomware

David Jones
May 13, 2017 10:40 AM PT

Authorities are investigating a massive ransomware attack that reportedly hit more than 45,000 computers in 74 countries worldwide, including the UK's NHS England national health service, international delivery service FedEx, and Spanish telecom firm Telefonica. Security experts have linked the exploit to an earlier leak by the Shadow Brokers, who allegedly pilfered hacking tools from the NSA. [More...]

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British Hospitals, FedEx Among Thousands Hit by Ransomware
Consumer WiFi Use: No Letup in Sight
Veeva Offers Cross-Stack Customer Insights

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British Hospitals, FedEx Among Thousands Hit by Ransomware

Authorities are investigating a massive ransomware attack that
reportedly hit more than 45,000 computers in 74 countries worldwide,
including the UK's NHS England national health service, international
delivery service FedEx, and Spanish telecom firm Telefonica. Security
experts have linked the exploit to an earlier leak by the Shadow
Brokers, who allegedly pilfered hacking tools from the NSA.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84529.html

Consumer WiFi Use: No Letup in Sight

Consumers use lots of data on their mobile devices. While half of
consumers use less than 7 GB per month, data consumption is heavily
skewed toward the upper end, recent Parks Associates research indicates.
Among U.S. broadband households, mean data consumption is roughly 20 GB
per month, with 14 GB used on WiFi and 6 GB through 3G/4G/LTE networks.
Consumers' monthly WiFi data consumption increased by 40 percent from
2015 to 2016.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84520.html

Veeva Offers Cross-Stack Customer Insights

Veeva Systems earlier this week announced Veeva CRM MyInsights, a new
cloud-based data visualization capability producing tailored insights
within Veeva CRM. MyInsights lets users of tablets or other mobile
devices access, analyze and visualize information in real time. It
includes fixed reporting for sales and activity data and a new,
customizable HTML5/JavaScript framework.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84526.html

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The Morning After: Windows and Linux, together forever?

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It's Saturday, May 13, 2017.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Welcome to the weekend, where we close out Microsoft’s Build 2017 event with some big news about Windows… XP? Also, this week we met Amazon’s touchscreen-equipped Echo Show and it’s time to say RIP to MP3.

It’s that bad.

‘WannaCrypt’ ransomware attack squeezes a Windows XP update out of Microsoft

Yesterday, the other shoe dropped as malware spread using an NSA exploit that recently leaked out. While Microsoft had already patched the vulnerability on its modern operating systems, millions of older computers were still at risk, and many were quickly infected. The NHS saw its systems go down, while FedEx and Renault have also reported significant outages.

In response, late last night Microsoft released a patch for three unsupported operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 8. Thanks to a security research accidentally finding and tripping the malware’s ‘killswitch,’ it’s stopped spreading for now, but experts warn that with a little tweaking it could again run rampant on unpatched systems at any time.

The vision.

Microsoft revealed its plans for world domination at Build

While yesterday’s attack may slightly dull the appeal of Windows everywhere, that’s what Microsoft is pushing (although, certainly, with current-gen operating systems that have much better security). This week during its Build 2017 even we got an idea of how the company plans to fit in across and even beyond the many screens we use each day.

Retro.

Amazon's Echo Show is Alexa with a touchscreen

Is the future here? It seems that way, with Amazon’s reveal of the Echo Show, although the CRT-ish 7-inch touchscreen device has a design that isn’t (yet) universally loved. The $230 device will be ready for your video chat and YouTube streaming needs starting on June 28th.

Changing of the guard

MP3 is dead, long live AAC

The Fraunhofer Institute brought MP3 into this world, and now it’s taking it out, by terminating licenses on certain patents. It’s been a pretty good two-decade run for the format, but the Institute sees AAC as the current de facto standard for digital music downloading.

Toss the LifeAlert

Robotic exo-shorts safely twist old folks out of falls

The Active Pelvis Orthosis (APO) watches its wearer's steps and provides a push when necessary to keep them from falling over. Falls cause injuries to millions of elderly people every year and these “exo-shorts” could cut into that -- if only the researchers behind it can make them significantly lighter than the current nine-pound weight.

We’ve heard this before

Google’s new plan to fix updates on Android is called Project Treble

The annual Google I/O event is coming up, and there we’ll surely hear more about the upcoming “O” version of Android. The only real problem is that we also know many Android devices don’t get very many updates, or when they do, it's after a long delay. Google’s latest initiative to change that trend is called Project Treble, which it says creates a “modular base” for the software. That’s supposed to smooth the path from Google to the manufacturer to the carrier to end-user, and eventually, mean we never have to discuss this issue again.

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