When Going to Space Becomes Your Normal Commute
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:00:00 +0000
For most of spaceflight history, astronauts have been government employees. That will soon change.
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Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everybody’s Business
Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:00:04 +0000
What can individual users do to preserve cybersecurity at work? Your organization is spending on cybersecurity tools, you have an awareness program, and if you look you will find that there are standards and procedures for choosing and maintaining products to help keep information secure. But what can an individual do? Remember – you are…
It’s Illegal to Pirate Films in Iran, Unless You’re the Government
Credit to Author: Mahsa Alimardani| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:24:15 +0000
Administrators of the Iranian movie site TinyMovies have been arrested.
Read MoreSilicon Valley is Inserting its Biases into Nearly Every Technology We Use
Credit to Author: Stephanie Russell-Kraft| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000
Sara Wachter-Boettcher, the author of a new book on sexist apps and biased algorithms, shares her views on how the tech industry needs to change.
Read MoreUnderstanding the Explosion of IoT and Its Impact
Credit to Author: Phil Keeley| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:50:59 +0000
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us, with the digital transformation of business largely consisting of automation, AI, and rapid technological innovation. Industrial processes and machines are becoming smarter and more modular. A critical enabler of this transformation is the Internet of Things (IoT). Smart, always-connected devices provide real-time contextual information with low overhead to optimize processes and improve how companies and individuals interact, work, and live. Over a million new IoT devices are connected to the Internet…
Read MoreBargains and brotherhood: The underground Digital Souks of the Middle East
Credit to Author: Rik Ferguson (VP, Security Research)| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:00:29 +0000
The release of our report “Digital Souks: A glimpse into the Middle Eastern and North African underground” marks the 12th in our Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series (CUES). Having previously published several papers covering the Japanese, French, German, North American, Chinese, Russian and Brazilian undergrounds this is the first report of its kind focusing on this…
Duck! Windows and Office patches are coming
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 04:30:00 -0700
If you’re running Windows, do yourself a favor and put Automatic Update on a temporary hold. Then wait and see if anything comes bursting apart at the seams.
Last month, there was good reason to install specific patches shortly after they were released — at least if you couldn’t train yourself to avoid the “Enable Editing” button in Word. But by and large, if you could avoid that button, there were myriad reasons why waiting a bit before installing the September patches paid off.
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Hacking North Korea Won’t Stop Its Nuclear Program
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000
Security researchers say penetrating North Korea’s hacking operations and even its domestic intranet is possible. But not enough to stop its nuclear threat.
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