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The Indian multinational HCL Technologies announced an agreement whereby they will acquire part of the IBM software business for 1,800 million dollars. The operation, which would be completed by mid-2019, would be the largest that an Indian technology company has made. For IBM this agreement is an opportunity to cut back on its oldest businesses and focus fully on cloud computing, especially after acquiring Red Hat in a historic $ 34 billion operation just to boost its Hybrid Cloud division. HCL will buy seven IBM software platforms looking for a larger clientele and allowing it to increase its presence in the areas of commerce, security and marketing. The acquisition would represent a market opportunity of more than 50,000 million dollars that, according to the Indian firm, would help boost their profits. The tools acquired include Appscan (web security monitoring and testing tools), BigFix (systems management), Unica (business marketing management), Commerce (e-commerce), Portal ...

It is usually the digital stores of Steam, GOG and even Humble Bundle that occasionally surprise us with great news by enabling the free download of a video game that we can stay forever. This time has not been any of the three, but Uplay, which has surprised us with this great news by allowing us to download free Anno 1602. The way to add it to your account is very easy and it will not take you a minute. You just have to click on the following link, which will include the notice to exchange it for PC. Next you will need to connect with your Ubisoft store account and voila, it will automatically be yours to play when you want. Anno 1602 02 The promotion is because the Anno saga is celebrating its 20th anniversary, being precisely this delivery the first one that was published 20 years ago in Windows 95, although it is better that you do it when before because it will only be available in this way until the December 23th. In Anno 1602 it will be possible to build a realistic and ali...

That fandom on the Internet becomes obsessive and even dangerous is nothing new, but the PewDiePie seems to be going beyond what had been seen so far in favor of a youtuber. If first there were thousands of printers hacked (although initially with the intention of showing their vulnerability) with documents that asked to follow the Swedish star, now it has been The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) who has suffered on their servers an attack by part of his fans. PewDiewPie fans are on fire because the youtuber with the most subscribers in the world can lose their position against T-Series, a channel without personal videos dedicated to songs and trailers. However, most seem to be with the WSJ, which at the time published an investigation on the alleged anti-Semitic language of Swedish. That caused YouTube as a platform to terminate the collaboration of the YouTube series Red Scare PewDiePie. In addition, Disney also ended its contract with Disney Maker Studios. Since then, and although that...

2018 has been a better year for Google than for Facebook, mediately speaking. However, the giant Mountain View has faced two major controversies. On the one hand there was Project Maven, which was a collaboration with the Pentagon with military drones, and which is supposedly canceled. On the other hand was Dragonfly, the project with which, after leaving China in 2010, Google wanted to return with a search engine that worked with the censorship imposed by the iron regime of Xi Jinping. As we have told, this has generated a division among employees and criticism of organizations that were responsible for human rights, such as Amnesty International. According to The Intercept, the media that uncovered everything, critics of the project may be in luck, because Google has effectively ended Dragonfly, after there were strong internal clashes. To build its search engine, and despite its experience in the field, Google has used data obtained through the website 265.com, which it acquired...

Year after year, year after year, the most used passwords are published and they are always the ones you imagine with very few surprises. They are the worst possible, and this year's list published by SplashData with the worst 100 passwords of 2018 once again shows that '123456' does not go out of style. At least 10% of people use one of the 25 worst passwords on the list, where they appear great of all time as "password", "12345" or "qwerty". And almost 3% of people use the worst of all: "123456". After evaluating more than 5 million passwords filtered on the Internet, the company found that users remain equally predictable year after year, verifying that despite all the time we have been pursuing security in passwords, even the most basic measures they still do not reach out to the general public. The report mainly includes filtered data from users in North America and Western Europe, and although most of the most used password...

There are companies that will end the year celebrating that in 2018 they have grown or improved their service. After so much scandal this year, Facebook is not among them, and is that a few days ago came to light the nth security hole, which exposed the photos of 6.8 million users. The good news is that they were not shared publicly, but only with the developers of applications to which the user had given permission. The bad, that the developers of Facebook do not have to be trusted (or the network itself, at this point), and may have acted on behalf of their own interests, and consequently, to the detriment of the privacy of users. Facebook has launched a statement where, in addition to reporting that the photos published in the biography and Facebook Stories were accessible between September 13 and 25, 2018 due to an API error, it also provides a tool to know what applications have had access to your other photos. If you open the web without being authenticated in the service, yo...

One of the most common tips when it comes to Internet security when we talk about authentication on websites and services is the use of two-step verification, which usually uses the smartphone with verifying element, with SMS as the main means to receive a second unique key that gives access to the service. However, as has already been demonstrated on some other occasion, "classic" security measures are becoming less infallible, and in this case the same thing happens. A group of researchers from Certfa Lab has published a study that explains how Iranian hackers, allegedly in charge of the eastern country's executive, have attacked US officials, journalists and activists. In the attack has had much prominence, as almost always, email. But the enabling part of hacking, according to researchers, is double-factor authentication, which in some cases can be very safe, but in others it does not offer the level of yesteryear. The Iranian hacker group did nothing too new. Fir...