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The Internet Association, a group representing major tech firms including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, on Monday urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to end plans to reverse 2015 rules prohibiting ISPs from manipulating the speed of consumers while accessing the internet.
In its filing on Monday, the organization...
Courier company FedEx Corp said Monday the recent Petya cyberattack will “negatively impact” its revenue as the company struggles to recover from the consequences of the attack.
The company made this disclosure in its annual report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2017 with the Securities and Exchange Commission....
Hyperledger, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced on Tuesday the general availability of Hyperledger Fabric 1.0. Hosted by The Linux Foundation, Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain framework implementation and intended as a foundation for developing blockchain applications, products or solutions.
Hyperledger Fabric offers a modular architecture...
Rising Cybersecurity Talent to be Recognized by Former CIO of the Department of Homeland Security, Luke McCormack
Cedar City, UT, July 11, 2017 – U.S. Cyber Challenge kicked off its 2017 boot camp season at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah this week for the Western Regional Cyber Camp. Camp...
A bipartisan pair of senators on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at combating cybercrime against U.S. computer networks. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Congresswoman Susan Brooks (R-IN) introduced legislation to combat cyberattacks and cybercrime.
The Promoting Good Cyber Hygiene Act instructs the National...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Monday that Chipmaker Broadcom Limited has agreed to establish a firewall to remedy the antitrust agency’s concerns that its proposed $5.9 billion acquisition of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. is anticompetitive.
These concerns arise because of Broadcom’s current access to the confidential business information of...
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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...
Senators Introduce Legislation to Combat Cybercrime
A bipartisan pair of senators on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at combating cybercrime against U.S. computer networks. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Senator Orrin Hatch...
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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Report: Data Breach Exposes ‘Close to 4 Million’ Dow Jones Customer...
Cybersecurity firm UpGuard reported Monday that a cloud-based file repository owned by financial publishing firm Dow Jones & Company, which had been configured to...
Tech Firms Urge FCC to Shelve Plans to Reverse Net Neutrality...
The Internet Association, a group representing major tech firms including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, on Monday urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
FedEx Discloses Petya Cyberattack on TNT Systems Will Have ‘Financial Consequences’
Courier company FedEx Corp said Monday the recent Petya cyberattack will “negatively impact” its revenue as the company struggles to recover from the consequences...
Hyperledger Releases Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, Open Source Blockchain Framework
Hyperledger, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced on Tuesday the general availability of Hyperledger Fabric 1.0. Hosted by The Linux...
Senators Introduce Legislation to Combat Cybercrime
A bipartisan pair of senators on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at combating cybercrime against U.S. computer networks. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Senator Orrin Hatch...
Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Ban Calls During Flights
Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) last week introduced bipartisan legislation directing the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to...
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...
Tech Firms Urge FCC to Shelve Plans to Reverse Net Neutrality...
The Internet Association, a group representing major tech firms including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, on Monday urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
London-Based Startup Blockchain Receives $40M in VC Funding – Largest Series...
London-based startup Blockchain, a leading software platform for digital assets, announced last week that they have raised a Series B of $40 million with...
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...
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...
Volvo, Autoliv and NVIDIA Collaborate on Advanced Systems for Self-Driving Cars
Volvo Cars, automotive safety company Autoliv, and NVIDIA, an AI and visual computing company, announced Tuesday that they are teaming up to develop advanced...
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...
ABB Eyes IIoT Expansion With Acquisition of Keymile’s Business Portfolio
Electric technology company ABB said Monday it has agreed to acquire the mission-critical communication business...
Democratic Senators Urge Trump Administration to Protect U.S. Energy Infrastructure From Cyberattacks
A group of Democratic Senators on Thursday wrote President Donald Trump and the Department of...
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...
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