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Credit to Author: Michael Miley| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:00:32 +0000
Ransomware is the gift that keeps on giving for cybercriminals. Google research revealed recently that online extortionists have managed to grab more than $25 million from their victims over the past two years. Other estimates suggest businesses and netizens handed over as much as $1 billion in 2016 alone. Whatever the final figure, it’s clear…
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000
An early taste of the hacked robot uprising.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 05:11:00 -0700
I was talking with an industry CEO the other day and he offered an intriguing thought. He said that the LAN is dead — along with its associated routers and hubs and other network hardware — and that mobile has killed it. But the LAN isn’t dead, I resisted, noting that there are LANs within just about every corporate campus in the country.
And yet his argument can’t be dismissed. All of the data and security assumptions that existed when LANs came into being have gone away, courtesy of cloud and mobile. Still, I insisted, that’s an argument for why LANs should be dead, not that they are.
Let’s explore this a bit more. The CEO I was chatting with is Steven Sprague, from a cybersecurity vendor called Rivetz.
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Will you Slack the wrong gossip to the wrong person? Probably, but who cares. Will Skynet become self-aware and kill us all? Nah. At least, not yet.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 23:37:06 +0000
Crypto’s fine and good, but make sure you’re looking after the basics.
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Credit to Author: Tom Simonite| Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:23:23 +0000
Elon Musk and others seek restrictions on use of autonomous weapons
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Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:42:00 +0000
The “world computer” has a people problem.
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