{"id":9052,"date":"2016-10-24T19:19:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T23:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2016-10-24T19:19:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T23:19:24","slug":"this-week-in-tech-585-i-cant-wait-till-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2016\/10\/24\/this-week-in-tech-585-i-cant-wait-till-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Tech 585: I Can&#8217;t Wait Till 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RVySXlkE5_U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A massive botnet of IoT devices took down Dyne DNS, knocking several major US websites off line in a DDOS attack Friday. Hackers were able to break into John Podesta and Colin Powell&#8217;s Gmail accounts via a simple phishing scheme. Both Microsoft and Apple will hold events next week announcing new hardware &#8211; rumors predict an all-in-one Surface PC and new MacBook Pro laptops, respectively. Google&#8217;s Pixel phones are out, and with Samsung damaged by Note 7 explosions, their timing couldn&#8217;t be better. AT&amp;T acquires Time-Warner. And Tesla announces full self-driving hardware will be in all new Tesla cars.<br \/>\n\u2022 David Pogue says that Friday&#8217;s DDOS attack is just the beginning, and we have almost no ability to protect against the next attack.<br \/>\n\u2022 Steve Kovach lost sleep over the AT&amp;T &#8211; Time-Warner merger &#8211; he says the deal was rushed to stay ahead of rumor.<br \/>\n\u2022 Leo says there are only two flagship phones anyone should buy now &#8211; the iPhone 7 and the Google Pixel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive botnet of IoT devices took down Dyne DNS, knocking several major US websites off line in a DDOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[610,1109],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-leo-laporte","tag-twit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-2m0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7924,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2015\/03\/31\/github-still-recovering-from-huge-ddos-attack-that-started-late-last-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":9052,"position":0},"title":"GitHub still recovering from huge DDoS attack that started late last week","author":"NCCT","date":"March 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Popular coding website GitHub was the target of a huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that started late last week and ran through the better part of the weekend. 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