PayPal announced Thursday that it has agreed to acquire iZettle, a small business commerce platform providing its services in Europe and Latin America, for...
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Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo on Monday announced that the New York State Department of Financial Services has authorized Gemini Trust Company, LLC founded by internet entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to offer the custody services and trading of Zcash, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash, emerging cryptocurrencies, on its...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) announced Monday that they will lead their Senate Democratic colleagues in forcing a vote on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 on Senator Markey’s Resolution of Disapproval to undo President Trump...
HSBC and ING on Monday announced they have carried out the first live trade-finance transaction on R3’s scalable blockchain platform called Corda. This transaction was for agrifood trading giant Cargill.
The blockchain transaction involved a bulk shipment of soybeans from Argentina, through Geneva’s trading arm of Cargill, to Malaysia, through...
Researchers from the University of Applied Sciences (FH) in Münster, Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have released a paper demonstrating that the two most common email encryption standards are vulnerable to attacks.
Referred to as Efail, this exploit can allow an...
Brinker International, the parent company of Chili's Grill & Bar, announced Saturday that a data incident at some Chili’s restaurants may have resulted in a credit and debit card data breach.
According to the company, the data incident may have resulted in unauthorized access or acquisition of customers’ payment card...
Google on Wednesday launched a revamped Gmail, with new security and intelligent features. This includes an all-new Gmail, with a brand new look on the web, advanced security features, new applications of Google’s artificial intelligence and even more integrations with other G Suite apps.
The company also introduced a new...
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 for users in Europe to help it comply with new data privacy rules coming into force next month.
According to the company:
If you live in a country in the European Economic Area (which includes the European Union), and any...
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
HSBC, ING Complete First Live Finance Transaction on Blockchain Platform
HSBC and ING on Monday announced they have carried out the first live trade-finance transaction on R3’s scalable blockchain platform called Corda. This transaction...
Efail: Email Encryption Standards Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
Researchers from the University of Applied Sciences (FH) in Münster, Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven...
Chili’s Customers’ Information Compromised in Data Breach
Brinker International, the parent company of Chili's Grill & Bar, announced Saturday that a data incident at some Chili’s restaurants may have resulted in...
Google Launches Overhauled Gmail With New Security Features, Self-Destructing Messages
Google on Wednesday launched a revamped Gmail, with new security and intelligent features. This includes an all-new Gmail, with a brand new look on...
WhatsApp Raises Minimum Age to 16 Ahead of EU’s Incoming Data...
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 for users in Europe to help it comply with new data privacy rules...
International Operation Shuts Down Website Linked to More Than Four Million...
A website linked to more than four million cyberattacks across the globe has been shut down following an investigation led by the National Crime...
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 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...
Nokia, Vodafone Collaborate to Set up 4G Network on Moon
Vofafone Germany is collaborating with Audi and Nokia to set up 4G network on the moon by 2019.
According to Vodafone, the 4G network will...
Spacex’s Tesla Roadstar Puts the Pedal to the Metal, Misses Mars...
Elon Musk’s Tesla roadstar dummy has more to worry about than the liberal dousing of radiation it is getting from its prime position on...
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...
Amazon Will Deliver Packages to Your Car
Amazon announced Tuesday that Amazon Key, the service that already enables in-home delivery and keyless guest access, now gives customers an option to receive...
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...
