SiriusXM to Create World’s Largest Audio Entertainment Company With $3.5 Billion Pandora Acquisition
SiriusXM Holdings Inc. and Pandora Media, Inc. on Monday announced a definitive agreement under which SiriusXM will acquire Pandora in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.5 billion.
The combination creates the world's largest audio entertainment company, with more than...
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Microsoft, SAP and Adobe Form Data Alliance for Customer Data Control
Microsoft, SAP and Adobe on Monday announced they have partnered on the Open Data Initiative, to make it easier...
White House to Prioritize Cyber Offense on Hackers in New Cyber Strategy
The Trump administration on Thursday warned foreign hackers of its intention to increase offensive measures as part of a...
Wyden Says State-Backed Hackers Targeted U.S. Senate Staff
A Democratic senator said in a letter to Senate leaders Wednesday that foreign government hackers continue to target the...
We Are at The Edge of Realizing the Potentials of Bug Bounties and Crowdsourced Security – Hackerone
More organizations are taking advantage of bug bounty programs to strengthen their security postures. It simply makes sense –...
ICO Slams Equifax With Maximum £500,000 Fine Over 2107 Breach
UK’s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued Equifax with a £500,000 (US$660,000) fine for failing to protect up to...
Hackers Steal Newegg Customer Data Via Malicious Javascript Code
Online retailer Newegg is the latest victim of the actors behind Magecart, a financial theft group responsible for the...
Trading Firms, International Banks Launch Commodities Blockchain Platform
International banks and commodity giants have partnered with Royal Dutch Shell Plc to create komgo SA, a blockchain-based platform...
NCCIC Issues Advisory on Potential Hurricane Florence Phishing Scams
The National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) has urged for increased vigilance against malicious cyber activity seeking to...
Symantec Offers Free ‘Spoof Proof’ Campaign Website Testing Service Ahead of Elections
Cybersecurity firm Symantec on Tuesday said it is offering a free service to enable political candidates and campaigns test...
EU Probes Alleged Collusion by BMW, Daimler and VW to Use Anti-Pollution Tech
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether BMW, Daimler and VW (Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche) colluded,...
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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 interest for use in agriculture, public safety, smart cities, sustainable resource management, and many other...
Wyden Says State-Backed Hackers Targeted U.S. Senate Staff
A Democratic senator said in a letter to Senate leaders Wednesday that foreign government hackers continue to target the personal accounts of U.S. senators and their aides.
Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) expressed “serious concern” that the Senate's security office “apparently...
ICO Slams Equifax With Maximum £500,000 Fine Over 2107 Breach
UK’s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued Equifax with a £500,000 (US$660,000) fine for failing to protect up to 15 million citizens' personal data.
The incident, which happened between 13 May and 30 July 2017 in the US, affected 146...
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
White House to Prioritize Cyber Offense on Hackers in New Cyber...
The Trump administration on Thursday warned foreign hackers of its intention to increase offensive measures as part of a new national cyber security strategy.
“We...
Wyden Says State-Backed Hackers Targeted U.S. Senate Staff
A Democratic senator said in a letter to Senate leaders Wednesday that foreign government hackers continue to target the personal accounts of U.S. senators...
We Are at The Edge of Realizing the Potentials of Bug...
More organizations are taking advantage of bug bounty programs to strengthen their security postures. It simply makes sense – crowdsource the best cyber talent...
ICO Slams Equifax With Maximum £500,000 Fine Over 2107 Breach
UK’s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued Equifax with a £500,000 (US$660,000) fine for failing to protect up to 15 million citizens' personal data.
The...
Hackers Steal Newegg Customer Data Via Malicious Javascript Code
Online retailer Newegg is the latest victim of the actors behind Magecart, a financial theft group responsible for the recent breach of British Airways...
NCCIC Issues Advisory on Potential Hurricane Florence Phishing Scams
The National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) has urged for increased vigilance against malicious cyber activity seeking to exploit interest in Hurricane Florence.
Fraudulent...
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...
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...
Mitsubishi, Renault and Nissan Partner With Google to Power Vehicles With...
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi and Google on Tuesday announced a technology partnership to embed the Android operating system in vehicles sold by the world’s leading automotive alliance,...
Killer Robots: What No One Is Talking About
Countries should quickly agree on a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots "before it is too late," activists said Monday as talks...
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...
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...
EU Probes Alleged Collusion by BMW, Daimler and VW to Use Anti-Pollution Tech
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether BMW, Daimler and VW (Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche) colluded, in breach of EU antitrust...
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...
