Entries by Bruce Quiroz

Dropbox hack leads to dumping of 68m user passwords on the internet

Data stolen in 2012 breach, containing encrypted passwords and details of around two-thirds of cloud firm’s customers, has been leaked The Dropbox data breach has highlighted the problem of password reuse. Photograph: Alamy Samuel Gibbs Wednesday 31 August 2016 06.43 EDTLast modified on Wednesday 31 August 201611.11 EDT Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Shares 2,203 Save […]

Sports Authority handles 2,000 transactions per second with Google Cloud Platform

Sports Authority handles 2,000 transactions per second with Google Cloud Platform Friday, February 19, 2016 Posted by Jon Byrum, Product Marketing Manager, Google Cloud Platform (Cross-posted on the Google Cloud Platform Blog.) Athletic gear, much like all apparel categories, is quickly shifting to an online sales business. Sports Authority, seeing the benefits that cloud could […]

Say hello to WooCommerce 2.5 “Dashing Dolphin”

Today we’re proud to release WooCommerce 2.5 “Dashing Dolphin” into the wild! 2.5 has been in development for ~5 months and has seen around 1600 commits from 42 contributors. This is another evolutionary release which focusses on improvements to existing functionality, as well as stability and performance. We do however have some new features to mention in 2.5 which developers […]