Hidden costs in data breaches – such as lost business, negative impact on reputation and employee time spent on recovery – are difficult and...
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Walmart said Tuesday it is partnering with Microsoft as its preferred and strategic cloud provider to further accelerate its digital transformation in retail.
In a five-year agreement, Walmart has selected the full range of Microsoft cloud solutions, including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 for enterprise-wide use to help standardize across...
5nine's Vince Arneja talks to ITWatchIT about current trends in cloud computing, with a focus on security, operational efficiency and unity across platforms. 5nine offers end-to-end cloud management for Hyper-V, and the first and only agentless, multilayered security solution for Hyper-V and Azure.
Trends in Cloud Security
We see a lot of customers talking...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday announced that a grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment charging twelve Russian nationals for committing federal crimes that were intended to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
All twelve defendants are members of the GRU, a Russian...
Microsoft President Brad Smith on Friday called for greater government oversight and corporate responsibility regarding the growing application of facial recognition technology. According to Microsoft, the more powerful a tool, the greater benefit or damage it can cause. This is time with regards to the increasing proliferation of facial...
Democratic senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, are requesting that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launch an investigation into the privacy policies and practices of smart TV manufacturers.
They cited the practices of San Francisco–based software company Samba TV,...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced on Friday the lifting of the ban on U.S. suppliers selling goods to ZTE Corporation following the payment of $400 million, which was placed in escrow. The escrow funds are in addition to the $1 billion penalty imposed by Commerce that ZTE...
The BMW Group and Chinese car manufacturer Great Wall Motor on Tuesday signed an agreement to produce MINI electric vehicles through a new 50:50 joint venture based in China.
During an event for autonomous and connected driving attended by China’s Premier Li Keqiang and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin,...
Cybersecurity
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
Legislators Introduce Bipartisan Privacy Legislation to Protect Consumers’ Online Data
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Kennedy (R-LA) on Tuesday announced privacy legislation that will protect consumers’ online data.
The bipartisan legislation would require...
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
Hidden Costs in Data Breaches Hard To Quantify – IBM
Hidden costs in data breaches – such as lost business, negative impact on reputation and employee time spent on recovery – are difficult and...
Justice Department Announces Indictment of 12 Russian Spies Suspected in DNC...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday announced that a grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment charging twelve Russian...
Microsoft Advocates for Regulation of Facial Recognition Tech
Microsoft President Brad Smith on Friday called for greater government oversight and corporate responsibility regarding the growing application of facial recognition technology. According to...
Smart TV Tracking: Legislators Blast Privacy Policies, Call for FTC Probe
Democratic senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, are requesting that the Federal Trade...
Department of Commerce Lifts ZTE Ban After Payment of $1.4 Billion...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced on Friday the lifting of the ban on U.S. suppliers selling goods to ZTE Corporation following the...
AT&T to Acquire Threat Detection Firm AlienVault
AT&T announced Tuesday its plans to acquire AlienVault, a privately held company, to enable it expand its enterprise-grade security solutions to small and medium-sized...
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...
Microsoft Advocates for Regulation of Facial Recognition Tech
Microsoft President Brad Smith on Friday called for greater government oversight and corporate responsibility regarding the growing application of facial recognition technology. According to...
IBM’s AI System Publicly Debates Humans
An artificial intelligence (AI) system from IBM on Monday engaged in a live, public debate with humans. The debate, which was held at IBM’s...
EU to Boost Acceleration of AI Adoption With 1.5 Billion Euros...
The European Commission said Wednesday it will accelerate the development of artificial intelligence with an investment of 1.5 billion euros ($1.83 billion) by 2020....
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...
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...
BMW, Great Wall Motor Partner on MINI Electric Vehicle Production in China
The BMW Group and Chinese car manufacturer Great Wall Motor on Tuesday signed an agreement to produce MINI electric vehicles through a new 50:50...
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...
