Do know Amazon’s Leadership Principles. “Understand and be able to speak to how your experience aligns” with them. Also, be ready to apply “them to questions/hypotheticals that are posed during the hiring process.” Do “brush up your machine learning and coding capabilities.” For example, solve coding questions on the internet in 15 minutes, listen to […]
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Qualcomm’s booth at the 2016 CES show. (Image courtesy of Maurizio Pesce, Creative Commons). Qualcomm has made the clearest statement yet that its future lies beyond smartphones. The chipmaker said Monday morning that it had signed an agreement to buy NXP Semiconductors for $47 billion. The acquisition is by far the largest in Qualcomm’s history, but it also
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Device manufacturers’ failure to inform customers to change default passwords in their interconnected devices is being looked into as the cause of the DDoS attack on Dyn. Advertisement A yet unidentified entity was using an army of connected devices that attacked Dyn, one company that provides the address book for the internet. The resulting attack
Schneider Electric Like it or not, the Internet of Things is here: Smart, internet-connected devices are infiltrating every industry, from hospitality to retail to manufacturing to healthcare, helping companies run their businesses more efficiently. There will be roughly 24 billion IoT devices connected to the internet by 2020, accordingto a BI Intelligence report, which says that
“IoT adoption is rapidly increasing, while security considerations in connected devices remain largely absent”. The sites were overloaded with junk traffic through internet infrastructure company Dyn on Friday, before the issue was resolved on Friday evening. Dyn said in a statement that while they regularly experience DDoS blitzes, this large-scale attack was different and “more
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Bsquare (NASDAQ: BSQR) has announced it will be showcasing DataV™, its complete Internet of Things (IoT) software stack, at the 2016 Internet of Things Expo, November 1-3, in Santa Clara, California. Bsquare’s involvement in the expo will include four unique presentations, including one keynote, by Bsquare Senior Director
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Enlarge Image The attack on Dyn’s servers came in two waves, the company said. Screenshot by Laura Hautala / CNET If you kept trying to access Twitter, Reddit, Spotify or Netflix during Friday’s massive internet outage, you were part of the problem. Dyn, the company that manages traffic for those sites and that toppled under
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Some have worried that the massive cyberattack that disrupted the Internet on Friday was the work of Russian government-backed hackers, politically motivated hacktivists or sophisticated cybercriminals. But researchers at cyber-intelligence firm Flashpoint say the Internet meltdown may have been carried out by amateurs who haunt a popular hacking forum. Flashpoint helped Web service provider Dyn
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Experts: Everyday internet-ready devices susceptible to cyberattacks In this Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, photo, Brett Broviak, a manager of respiratory and sleep services at IU Health North Hospital, shows off his Fitbit fitness tracker for the camera on the hospital’s campus in Carmel, Ind.Photo by AP By Andrew Conte | Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, 4:57 p.m.
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Your refrigerator might have helped bring down the internet last Friday. As many users noticed, shortly before last weekend a massive cyber-attack disrupted service to major websites ranging from the New York Times to PayPal and many more. The attack took place in three stages, all targeted at the Domain Name Services (DNS) company Dyn, Inc.
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