Bheja Fry Mat Kar

The high-capacity system should be ready by October 2017. Microsoft and Facebook today have announced a partnership to build a massive underwater data cable connecting the US to Europe, an effort that'll help the two internet giants better move data back and forth around the world. The cable, dubbed " MAREA," should be ready by October 2017 and will have an insane estimated data capacity of 160Tbps, making it the highest-capacity subsea cable to ever cross the Atlantic. It's not hard to understand why having a better infrastructure for transmitting data is important to both Facebook and Microsoft. Facebook has a whopping 1.6 billion users, and that's not counting traffic from other hugely popular services like Instagram and Whatsapp. For Microsoft's part, its Azure cloud services use a ton of bandwidth, and that's without mentioning its other cloud-based products like Bing, Office, Skype and Xbox Live. The MAREA system isn't ...

Micro-blogging website Twitter has paid $322,420 (roughly Rs. 2.1 crores) to researchers and bug hunters who, under its bug bounty "HackerOne" program, have disclosed vulnerabilities in the last two years. "We maintain a secure development lifecycle that includes secure development training to everyone that ships code, security review processes, hardened security libraries and robust testing through internal and external services - all to maximise the security we provide to our users," Arkadiy Tetelman, software engineer at  Twitter , said in  a blog post on Friday. On top of these measures, the company also engages the broader information security community through their bug bounty program, allowing security researchers to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities to the company so that they can can respond and address these issues before they are exploited by others. The company has been utilising "HackerOne" since May 2014 and has found the program...