HCL Tech to Acquire Select IBM Software Products for $1.8 Billion
HCL Technologies will purchase some software assets from U.S.-based IBM Corp for $1.8 billion, according to a statement by the companies on Friday. This makes it the largest purchase ever by an Indian IT services firm.
The software products in...
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BT Removes Huawei Equipment From 5G Network Core
Britain’s BT Group said on Wednesday it was removing Huawei Technologies’ equipment from the heart of its 5G mobile...
NYPD Unveils 14 Newly Acquired Drones and Special Unit to Operate Them
The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Tuesday announced its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program, which will be comprised...
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...
Scammers go Low-Tech to Target Senior Citizens
The FTC issued a warning on Monday about a ruse by scammers to get people to part with money...
Phishing Scams on the rise, Taxpayers Urged not to ‘Take the Bait’
The IRS has warned people to be on the lookout following what it termed “a surge of new, sophisticated...
FTC Recommends Precautions to Prevent identity Theft Following Marriott Breach
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released an alert to provide affected users with recommended precautions against identity...
DHS, FBI, NCCIC Issue Alert on SamSam Ransomware
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Quora Hacked: 100 Million Users Affected
Q&A website Quora disclosed on Monday that one of its systems was accessed without authorization by hackers on Friday,...
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,...
Dem Lawmakers Query Law Enforcement’s Use of Amazon’s Controversial Facial Recognition Software
Eight democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday reiterating their concern about Amazon’s facial...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Cybersecurity
BT Removes Huawei Equipment From 5G Network Core
Britain’s BT Group said on Wednesday it was removing Huawei Technologies’ equipment from the heart of its 5G mobile network when it is rolled...
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...
Scammers go Low-Tech to Target Senior Citizens
The FTC issued a warning on Monday about a ruse by scammers to get people to part with money in the form of gift...
Phishing Scams on the rise, Taxpayers Urged not to ‘Take the...
The IRS has warned people to be on the lookout following what it termed “a surge of new, sophisticated email phishing scams.”
According to the...
FTC Recommends Precautions to Prevent identity Theft Following Marriott Breach
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released an alert to provide affected users with recommended precautions against identity theft after the recent breach...
DHS, FBI, NCCIC Issue Alert on SamSam Ransomware
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday issued an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
