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Blockchain technology company, The Bitfury Group, and Risk Cooperative, an insurance advisory firm, announced on Friday that they have entered into what they termed “a strategic partnership” to pioneer Blockchain applications in the $60 billion insurance intermediation market.
The Bitfury Risk Cooperative partnership will leverage Bitfury’s expertise in designing and...
Philips Lighting, a provider of lighting solutions, announced on Friday what it called “the first application” of an autonomous, indoor drone that uses Visible Light Communication (VLC technology) from Philips Lighting to navigate.
The drone, developed by Blue Jay, can play a game of tic-tac-toe with children who communicate with...
Eagle Eye Networks, Inc. on Friday announced the acquisition of Panasonic Cloud Management Service Europe B.V. (PCMSEU) makers of Panasonic Cameramanager and Panasonic Nubo.
PCMSEU operated the largest number of cloud recorded cameras in Europe and now combined with Eagle Eye creates the world’s first global cloud video surveillance company.
Panasonic...
Several attorney generals have urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ban telemarketers from leaving messages directly in the inboxes of consumers, in a bid to stem the tide of so-called “ringless robocalls.”
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear...
Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced a bill on Friday which would establish a bug bounty pilot program – modeled off of similar programs at the Department of Defense and major tech companies – in order to strengthen cyber defenses at DHS by utilizing “white-hat” or...
Hacking group TheShadowBrokers have launched what they called a “monthly dump service,” promising to release some interesting vulnerabilities this June.
This subscription-based service requires interested entities to subscribe and send 100 ZEC (Zcash) to a stated address. The hackers included specific instructions on what to include when sending the virtual...
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Virtru is Like a Spell Check for Security: We Take Privacy Very Seriously – Virtru CEO
John Ackerly is the cofounder, CEO of Virtru Corporation. He spent the earlier part of his career working as the lead policy adviser on technology issues at the White House, and Policy Director at the Department of Commerce. Ackerly...
There is a Powerful Argument to be Made for Ransomware as The Top Threat of 2016 – Protenus
Protenus’ Robert Lord talks about the unique challenges of providing healthcare-specific cybersecurity/privacy solutions.
Connected Medical Devices
We are currently facing a crises in a wide array of issues concerning cybersecurity, including network security, insider threat and ransomware – but IoT is...
IoT is in its Early Stages: It’s Hard to Standardize Something That’s Evolving Daily – Cisco
IoT offers exciting possibilities, but recently, the focus has been on the problems associated with this technology. Security is the biggest issue, but other challenges include interoperability and connectivity. Marc Blackmer is a contributor to the recently published Industrial...
Management and Control of Data a Key Inhibitor to Federal Cloud Adoption – NetApp
Tight budgets and the need for greater flexibility and agility in government IT has led to a rise in cloud adoption. Even so, the general atmosphere is that of testing the waters, with most government agencies preferring to take...
Exclusive: The Consensus is That FedRAMP is Broken and Confidence Lost – Avnet
Government cloud adoption is definitely showing an upward trend as federal, state and local agencies hampered by limited resources and bogged down by regulations see the cloud as a viable solution for increased agility, productivity and flexibility. Security remains...
Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Protect Online Privacy
Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Thursday introduced the Balancing the Rights of Web Surfers Equally and Responsibly (BROWSER) Act of...
Dell, Rackspace Collaborate to Sell ‘Cheaper’ Private Cloud
Cloud hosting company Rackspace said Monday it has partnered with Dell EMC to offer what it termed an “easy-to-consume private cloud as-a-service offering” service...
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Voter Information of Nearly 200M People Exposed Due to Breach of...
Detailed voter information on about 198 million potential voters was left exposed to unauthorized access on the internet by a data analytics contractor employed...
Eagle Eye Networks Acquires Panasonic Cloud Management Service Europe B.V.
Eagle Eye Networks, Inc. on Friday announced the acquisition of Panasonic Cloud Management Service Europe B.V. (PCMSEU) makers of Panasonic Cameramanager and Panasonic Nubo.
PCMSEU...
Lawmakers Introduce Hack DHS Act, Bipartisan Bill to Establish Bug Bounty...
Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced a bill on Friday which would establish a bug bounty pilot program – modeled off...
The Shadow Brokers Debut ‘Monthly Dump Service’
Hacking group TheShadowBrokers have launched what they called a “monthly dump service,” promising to release some interesting vulnerabilities this June.
This subscription-based service requires interested...
Chipotle Affirms Malware Responsible for Security Breach
Chipotle Mexican Grill on Friday provided further information about the payment card security incident that the company previously reported in April.
An investigation involving cybersecurity...
HHS to Launch Cybersecurity Center to Tackle Threats in Healthcare Sector
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon launch a healthcare focused cybersecurity initiative modeled on the Homeland Security Department’s National Cybersecurity...
Phillips Lighting Debuts ‘World’s First’ Autonomous Indoor Drone
Philips Lighting, a provider of lighting solutions, announced on Friday what it called “the first application” of an autonomous, indoor drone that uses Visible...
New Industry Group to Improve Interoperability for Smart City Solutions
NEC Corporation said today that NEC Laboratories Europe is one of five members of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) who have initiated a...
Phillips Lighting Debuts ‘World’s First’ Autonomous Indoor Drone
Philips Lighting, a provider of lighting solutions, announced on Friday what it called “the first application” of an autonomous, indoor drone that uses Visible...
Qualcomm Demonstrates Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles in Motion
Qualcomm Incorporated through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., on Thursday demonstrated dynamic electric vehicle charging (DEVC), which allows vehicles to charge while driving.
Qualcomm Technologies...
HPE Unveils ‘World’s Largest Single-Memory Computer’ Capable of Holding 160 Terabytes...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Tuesday introduced what it called “the world’s largest single-memory computer,” the latest milestone in The Machine research project (The Machine)....
Courier Company Hermes Trials Self-Driving Delivery Robots in London
Courier company Hermes announced last week it is partnering with Starship Technologies to launch a testing program for the use of self-driving delivery robots...
Sprint to Support Next-Gen IoT Devices With Nationwide Deployment of LTE Cat 1 Technology
Sprint announced Tuesday it will complete its deployment of LTE Cat 1 technology across its nationwide network by the end of July 2017. In...
Qualcomm Demonstrates Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles in Motion
Qualcomm Incorporated through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., on Thursday demonstrated dynamic electric vehicle charging (DEVC), which allows vehicles to charge while driving.
Qualcomm Technologies...
Airbus Standardizes on Stratasys 3D Printing Material to Produce Flight Parts for its A350 XWB Aircraft
Stratasys, a 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company, said Thursday that leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus has standardized on its ULTEM 9085 3D printing material for the production of flight parts for its A350 XWB aircraft.
“In 2014 Airbus produced...
ASTM International, ISO Unveil Global Additive Manufacturing Standards Framework
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and ASTM International said last week they have jointly crafted the Additive Manufacturing Standards Development Structure, a framework which they say will help meet the needs for new technical standards in this fast-growing...
Researchers at ORNL Use Bamboo to Print Table
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are conducting experiments to ascertain the effectiveness of using bamboo fiber in 3-D printing.
The experiments will examine the feasibility of using...
IBM, Google and Lyft Launch Open Source Microservices Management Platform, Istio
Google, IBM, and Lyft on Wednesday announced the first public release of Istio, an open source project that provides a uniform way to connect, secure, manage and monitor microservices.
Istio adds traffic management to microservices and creates a basis for...
Gender Bias Exists in Open-Source Programming – Study
A paper presented the outcome of a large scale study on gender bias, by comparing the acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community.
The paper, Gender Differences and Bias in Open Source:...
Google Consolidates Open Source Projects in One Place
Google Wednesday launched opensource.google.com, a new website for its open source projects which the company says ties together all its initiatives with information on how it uses, releases and supports open source.
The new site will include a comprehensive list...
Apteligent Open-Sources Its Xamarin SDK to Enable .NET Developers Build Native Apps
Apteligent, a provider of analytics and mobile business insights, said Thursday it has decided to open source its Xamarin component. Xamarin, which was purchased by Microsoft about a year ago, enables .NET developers to build native apps.
Apteligent offers a...
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Publishes Source Code on Github
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published source code on Github for a sample application enabling a user to access and track the status of a trademark. This is an offshoot of the new Federal Source Code Policy,...
ROMAD’s Genetic Sequencing of Malware Families Offers Unique Prevention and Detection Capabilities
Igor Volovich, the CEO and Co-Founder of ROMAD Cyber Systems talks about enabling genetic sequencing of entire malware families to deny cybercriminals the ability to exploit...
Itron Delves Into Demand Response With $100M Comverge Acquisition
Smart grid and AMI technology firm Itron said Monday that it has signed a definitive...
Toyota to Invest $35 Million in Research to Develop Advanced Materials With AI, Machine Learning
The Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America, said Thursday it...
BAE Systems to Develop Tech to Quickly Restore Power After a Cyberattack on Grid
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems an $8.6 million...
Raytheon, Utilidata Partner to Secure Utilities From Cyberattack
Raytheon, a technology and innovation firm specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions, said...
Siemens, LO3 Energy Collaborate on ‘First-of-its-Kind’ Blockchain Microgrids
Siemens and New York startup LO3 Energy said Monday they are collaborating in the field...
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