BlackBerry to Boost Cybersecurity, AI Capabilities With $1.4 Billion Cylance Acquisition
BlackBerry said on Friday it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cylance, an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity firm, for US $1.4 billion in cash.
Cylance is a pioneer in applying artificial intelligence, algorithmic science, and machine learning to cybersecurity...
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Walmart, Ford Collaborate to Deliver Goods With Self-Driving Vehicles
Walmart and Ford will collaborate to design a service for delivering groceries and other goods to Walmart customers that...
Financial Institutions in Singapore Develop Blockchain Settlement System
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) said on Sunday they have successfully developed Delivery versus...
French President Macron Launches International Agreement on Cybersecurity Principles
President Emmanuel Macron of France on Monday launched the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace aimed at...
French Data Authority Publishes First-Ever Blockchain Guidance for GDPR Compliance
The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), an independent French administrative regulatory body charged with ensuring that...
Salesforce Wins Patent to Detect Spam Email Using Blockchain Technology
Salesforce has won a patent to detect spam emails using blockchain technology. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published...
IBM to Apply Blockchain Tech to Prevent Counterfeiting of Seagate’s Hard Drives
Seagate and IBM are working together to reduce product counterfeiting using blockchain and security technologies. The project, which is...
NCCIC Releases Report on Use of JexBoss by Hackers to Carry Out Exploits
The NCCIS on Thursday released a report on the use of exploitation tool JexBox by hackers to remotely access...
Bank of England to Carry Out Test to Gauge Finance Sector’s Resilience to Cyber Attacks
The Bank of England said it will carry out a test on Friday to gauge the financial sector's ability...
These Two Fellows Are The World’s First AI News Anchors, Courtesy of China
China’s Xinhua news agency says creepy news anchors will help save production costs.
China's state news agency has unveiled two...
Cisco and Amazon Collaborate on Hybrid Cloud
Cisco announced on Thursday that it is partnering with Amazon to offer cloud customers a hybrid cloud solution that...
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Financial Institutions in Singapore Develop Blockchain Settlement System
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) said on Sunday they have successfully developed Delivery versus Payment (DvP) capabilities for the settlement of tokenized assets across different blockchain platforms.
DvP system utilizes smart contracts to simplify post-trade...
Walmart, Ford Collaborate to Deliver Goods With Self-Driving Vehicles
Walmart and Ford will collaborate to design a service for delivering groceries and other goods to Walmart customers that could someday use autonomous vehicles, the companies said on Wednesday.
According to Ford, the companies are exploring how self-driving vehicles can...
French President Macron Launches International Agreement on Cybersecurity Principles
President Emmanuel Macron of France on Monday launched the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace aimed at developing common principles for securing cyberspace. Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian, laid out the challenges...
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
Draft U.S. Senate Bill Proposes Fines, Prison Time for Data Privacy Violations
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Thursday released a discussion draft of sweeping new legislation that would give consumers greater control over their personal information,...
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Uber Reaches $148 Million Settlement With U.S. States Over 2016 Breach
Uber has reached a $148 million settlement with 50 U.S states, including Washington, D.C., to resolve allegations that it failed to report a significant...
Cybersecurity
Financial Institutions in Singapore Develop Blockchain Settlement System
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) said on Sunday they have successfully developed Delivery versus Payment (DvP) capabilities for the...
French President Macron Launches International Agreement on Cybersecurity Principles
President Emmanuel Macron of France on Monday launched the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace aimed at developing common principles for securing...
Salesforce Wins Patent to Detect Spam Email Using Blockchain Technology
Salesforce has won a patent to detect spam emails using blockchain technology. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a document, Nov. 7. that...
NCCIC Releases Report on Use of JexBoss by Hackers to Carry...
The NCCIS on Thursday released a report on the use of exploitation tool JexBox by hackers to remotely access the systems of victims. Analysis...
Bank of England to Carry Out Test to Gauge Finance Sector’s...
The Bank of England said it will carry out a test on Friday to gauge the financial sector's ability to withstand a major cyberattack....
DOJ Charges Chinese Intelligence Officials With Recruiting Hackers and Insiders to...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that 10 Chinese intelligence officers and hackers have been charged with stealing airline engine technology from French...
Walmart Files Patent for IoT-Enabled Shopping carts That Track Biometric Data of Customers
Walmart has filed a patent for a shopping cart that monitors the biometric information of a customer through the handle.
The patent, published in August,...
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...
These Two Fellows Are The World’s First AI News Anchors, Courtesy...
China’s Xinhua news agency says creepy news anchors will help save production costs.
China's state news agency has unveiled two rather sharply dressed AI news...
Rolls-Royce, Intel Collaborate to Build Autonomous Ships
Rolls-Royce is partnering with Intel on designs for sophisticated intelligent shipping systems that will make commercial shipping safer, the parties announced on Tuesday.
The new...
Walmart Files Patent for IoT-Enabled Shopping carts That Track Biometric Data...
Walmart has filed a patent for a shopping cart that monitors the biometric information of a customer through the handle.
The patent, published in August,...
EU-Funded Initiative Develops Low Cost Navigation System for Drones
An EU-funded initiative has developed a low-cost positioning and navigation system for unmanned aerial systems (UASs), commonly referred to as drones.
UASs have attracted growing...
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile Demo Standardized Mobile Authentication
The Mobile Authentication Taskforce, comprised of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, will showcase its authentication solution that is less dependent on passwords to secure...
Walmart, Ford Collaborate to Deliver Goods With Self-Driving Vehicles
Walmart and Ford will collaborate to design a service for delivering groceries and other goods to Walmart customers that could someday use autonomous vehicles,...
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...
