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 shipping intelligence systems will have data center and artificial intelligence capabilities as well as sophisticated...
News
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...
Google Hid Google+ Security Bug That Exposed Information of Almost 500,000 Users
Google’s Vice President of Engineering Ben Smith on Monday revealed that the company will shut down the consumer version...
Chinese Government Allegedly Infiltrates Servers of Multiple U.S. Companies: Amazon, Apple Deny
The Chinese government managed to gain access to the servers of almost 30 U.S. companies, including Apple and Amazon,...
50 Million Users Affected in Latest Facebook Security Breach
Facebook said Friday it has discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. According to Facebook, attackers exploited...
Port of San Diego’s IT Systems Disrupted by Ransomware Attack
The Port of San Diego said Thursday it is partnering with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the...
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...
Salesforce, Apple Collaborate to Bring Siri to Enterprise Customers
Apple and Salesforce are partnering to integrate Apple’s features, such as its Siri voice assistant, into Salesforce’s mobile apps....
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...
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...
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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 shipping intelligence systems will have data center and artificial intelligence capabilities as well as sophisticated...
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
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
Google Hid Google+ Security Bug That Exposed Information of Almost 500,000...
Google’s Vice President of Engineering Ben Smith on Monday revealed that the company will shut down the consumer version of its social network Google+...
Chinese Government Allegedly Infiltrates Servers of Multiple U.S. Companies: Amazon, Apple...
The Chinese government managed to gain access to the servers of almost 30 U.S. companies, including Apple and Amazon, according to a Bloomberg report.
The...
50 Million Users Affected in Latest Facebook Security Breach
Facebook said Friday it has discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. According to Facebook, attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code...
Port of San Diego’s IT Systems Disrupted by Ransomware Attack
The Port of San Diego said Thursday it is partnering with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
