J.P. Morgan in collaboration with National Bank of Canada said Friday they have tested a new blockchain platform for issuing financial instruments. They issued...
News
Ikea's odd jobs marketplace TaskRabbit informed users on Monday it is investigating a "cyber-security incident," asking them to reset their passwords. The security incident caused the company to temporarily take its app and website offline while it worked on resolving the issue.
TaskRabbit did not reveal details about the incident,...
US Army researchers have developed an artificial intelligence and machine learning technique that holds interesting possibilities. The technology produces a visible face image from a thermal image of a person's face captured in low-light or nighttime conditions.
This development could lead to enhanced real-time biometrics and post-mission forensic analysis for...
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) last week issued a joint statement to describe matters that financial institutions should consider if they are determining whether to use cyber insurance as a component of their risk management programs.
The joint statement notes that cyberattacks are increasing in volume and sophistication...
Amazon said Tuesday it has launched an international shopping feature that will enable customers across the world to shop more than 45 million items that can be shipped to their country from the United States.
The International Shopping experience offers shopping in 5 languages, including English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, German,...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their taxes following system issues that surfaced early on the April 17 tax deadline.
Individuals and businesses with a filing or payment due date of April 17 will now have until midnight...
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Tuesday launched the Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative, a fact-finding inquiry into the policies and practices of platforms used by consumers to trade virtual or “crypto” currencies like bitcoin and ether.
The Attorney General’s office sent letters to thirteen major virtual currency trading...
The European Commission on Tuesday proposed the addition of what it called "security features" on EU citizens’ identity cards, and non-EU family members’ residence cards. According to the European Commission, EU citizens' ID cards (older than 12 years) and non-EU family members' residence cards will now include biometric data,...
Autonomous Vehicles
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...
Privacy
ISP Providers Band Together to Fight Legislation to Protect Consumers’ Privacy
Some of the nation’s largest internet service providers and advertising industry lobby groups are trying to stop a proposed California law aimed at protecting...
Legal
Coalition of 23 Attorneys General File Suit to Block Rollback of Net Neutrality
A coalition of 23 Attorneys General in filled a petition on Thursday to formally commence their lawsuit against what they called the Federal Communications...
Cybersecurity
Ikea’s TaskRabbit Shuts Service Down Due to ‘Cybersecurity Incident’
Ikea's odd jobs marketplace TaskRabbit informed users on Monday it is investigating a "cyber-security incident," asking them to reset their passwords. The security incident...
U.S. Army Researchers Develop Facial Recognition Tech That Works in the...
US Army researchers have developed an artificial intelligence and machine learning technique that holds interesting possibilities. The technology produces a visible face image from...
IRS Grants One-Day Extension to Taxpayers After System Outage
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their taxes following system issues that...
New York AG Launches Inquiry Into Cryptocurrency Platforms
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Tuesday launched the Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative, a fact-finding inquiry into the policies and practices of...
Facebook Feels the Heat for Use of Facial Recognition Without User...
A US federal judge on Monday ruled Facebook will have to face a class action lawsuit regarding its use of Tag Suggestions. According to...
Top Tech Companies Pledge to Resist Government Efforts to Launch Cyberattacks...
34 global technology and security companies on Tuesday signed what they called a Cybersecurity Tech Accord aimed at defending “all customers everywhere from malicious...
XPO Logistics Launches Platform to Let Shippers Track Cargo in Real Time
XPO Logistics Inc on Wednesday unveiled software that allows merchants to track truck and rail cargo in real-time nationwide
XPO Logistic, a global provider of...
Researchers Develop Cell Phone-Sized Smart Sensors to Prevent Power Outages
Dr. Jose Alexis De Abreu-Garcia and Dr. Yilmaz Sozer, professors of electrical engineering at Ohio-based University of Akron, are working with Exacter, a Columbus-based...
Lethal Autonomous Drone Weapon Systems to Identify Targets With Self-Learning Algorithms
For the most part, current military aerial weapon systems are still controlled by people, but all that is set to change with the push...
Nokia, Vodafone Collaborate to Set up 4G Network on Moon
Vofafone Germany is collaborating with Audi and Nokia to set up 4G network on the moon by 2019.
According to Vodafone, the 4G network will...
Spacex’s Tesla Roadstar Puts the Pedal to the Metal, Misses Mars...
Elon Musk’s Tesla roadstar dummy has more to worry about than the liberal dousing of radiation it is getting from its prime position on...
Spacex’s Falcon Heavy, World’s Most Powerful Commercial Rocket, Blasts Off Into...
SpaceX on Tuesday launched the Falcon Heavy, one of the world’s most powerful rockets. Tthe successful liftoff took place at 3:45 p.m. ET at...
T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon & Sprint Form ‘Mobile Authentication Taskforce’
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon said Friday they are joining forces and resources to develop a more secure solution for two-factor authentication through the...
Toyota, Lexus to Launch Vehicles That ‘Talk’ to Each Other in U.S.
Toyota and Lexus said Monday they plan to start deployment of Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) systems on vehicles sold in the United States starting...
NASA Wants You to Help it Build a 3D-Printed Home in Outer Space
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is currently running a competition to develop a habitat in outer space, and the space agency wants your input to help it build a house on Mars, with the help of advanced...
DARPA Awards Rocket Crafters Contract to Develop 3D-Printed Rocket Engine
Rocket Crafters, Inc. (RCI) announced Wednesday it has been awarded a $542,600 research contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Under the terms of the agreement, RCI is tasked to build and test a large-scale hybrid rocket engine...
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...
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...
Energy Department Invests $25 Million to Support Energy Sector Cybersecurity
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday that it has made a $25 million...
BP, Tesla Collaborate on Battery Storage Project at U.S. Wind Farm
BP Wind Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Rolling Thunder I Power Partners LLC, has signed...
Researchers Develop Cell Phone-Sized Smart Sensors to Prevent Power Outages
Dr. Jose Alexis De Abreu-Garcia and Dr. Yilmaz Sozer, professors of electrical engineering at Ohio-based...
DHS, FBI Warn Public About ‘Persistent Threats’ Targeting Energy and Other Critical Sectors
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued...
Energy Department Awards Funds to Improve Security of Nation’s Vital Energy Infrastructure
The Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday announced awards of up to $50 million to...
