Ultimate Software to be Acquired by Investor Group for $11 Billion
Ultimate Software, a provider of human capital management solutions in the cloud, on Monday announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an investor group led by Hellman & Friedman, a private equity...
News
HSCC Releases Medical Device and Health IT Joint Cybersecurity Plan
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) on Wednesday released new recommendations for manufacturing and managing the...
DOE Awards $40 Million in Funding for Grid Modernization Initiative
The Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced $40M in FY19 funding for the Grid Modernization Initiative (GMI). The...
International Ransomware Attack Could Cost $193B in Economic Damages: Report
A new report from the Cyber Risk Management (CyRiM) project has projected that an international ransomware attack could cost...
US Intelligence Officials Warn China, Russia Pose Biggest Espionage and Cyberattack Threats
China and Russia possess cyber capabilities capable of disrupting US critical infrastructure, including power networks, US companies, the military...
Apple Facetime Privacy Breach: New York AG and Governor Announce Investigation
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced an investigation into Apple’s failure to...
Justice Department Announces Efforts to Disrupt Joanap Botnet Used By North Korean Hackers
The Justice Department on Wednesday announced what it called “an extensive effort” to map and further disrupt, through victim...
Airbus Says Systems Breached in Cyberattack
Airbus on Wednesday said it had detected a cyberattack on its commercial aircraft business information systems which resulted in...
You Can Now Buy Bitcoin From Your Local Grocery Store Via Coinstar Kiosks
Coinstar is collaborating with Coinme to offer interested shoppers a readily accessible way to purchase Bitcoin while making grocery...
Researchers Develop System to Generate Song Lyrics That Match the Style of Specific Artists
Researchers at the University of Waterloo, Canada, say they have developed a system for generating song lyrics lines conditioned...
NCSC Launches Campaign to Help Private Sector Tackle Threats From Nation State Actors
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) on Monday said it is distributing videos, brochures, and other informative materials...
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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...
Privacy
Verizon-Owned Oath to Pay $5 Million for Violating Children’s privacy
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood on Tuesday announced a record settlement with Oath, Inc., formerly known as AOL, for violating the Children’s Online...
Legal
Apple Facetime Privacy Breach: New York AG and Governor Announce Investigation
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced an investigation into Apple’s failure to warn consumers about the FaceTime...
Cybersecurity
HSCC Releases Medical Device and Health IT Joint Cybersecurity Plan
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) on Wednesday released new recommendations for manufacturing and managing the security of medical devices for...
DOE Awards $40 Million in Funding for Grid Modernization Initiative
The Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced $40M in FY19 funding for the Grid Modernization Initiative (GMI). The GMI, a crosscutting initiative involving...
International Ransomware Attack Could Cost $193B in Economic Damages: Report
A new report from the Cyber Risk Management (CyRiM) project has projected that an international ransomware attack could cost $193 billion in damages. Such...
US Intelligence Officials Warn China, Russia Pose Biggest Espionage and Cyberattack...
China and Russia possess cyber capabilities capable of disrupting US critical infrastructure, including power networks, US companies, the military and election systems. Iran and...
Apple Facetime Privacy Breach: New York AG and Governor Announce Investigation
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced an investigation into Apple’s failure to warn consumers about the FaceTime...
Justice Department Announces Efforts to Disrupt Joanap Botnet Used By North...
The Justice Department on Wednesday announced what it called “an extensive effort” to map and further disrupt, through victim notifications, the Joanap botnet –...
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...
Researchers Develop System to Generate Song Lyrics That Match the Style...
Researchers at the University of Waterloo, Canada, say they have developed a system for generating song lyrics lines conditioned on the style of a...
NYPD Unveils 14 Newly Acquired Drones and Special Unit to Operate...
The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Tuesday announced its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program, which will be comprised of newly acquired Unmanned Aerial...
Waymo Launches Commercial Self-Driving Taxi Service
Alphabet’s Waymo on Wednesday unveiled its commercial self-driving service, Waymo One, to hundreds of early riders who have already been using their technology.
Riders will...
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...
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...
Delivery Robot Goes up in Flames: Manufacturers Blame ‘Human Error’
An autonomous food delivery robot caught fire on a Berkeley, California walkway on Friday. The robot is part of a fleet of robots manufactured...
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...
DOE Awards $40 Million in Funding for Grid Modernization Initiative
The Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced $40M in FY19 funding for the Grid...
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...
