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Australia must take cyber security opportunity

Computer Weekly

Australia may never be able to create an IT industry like that in the US, but it can lead in cyber security

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How to keep terrifying medical device hacks from becoming reality

Network World

While some of the scariest IoT hacks envisioned – those involving hijacked medical devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps – have yet to surface in the real world, those in the medical and IT security fields are not letting down their guard. They’ve seen enough ransomware and other attacks on healthcare outfits of late to know they are major cyberattack targets.

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Liam Maxwell: How the UK government is supporting British Technology

Computer Weekly

A video of the presentation Liam Maxwell, national technology adviser, HM Government, gave at Computer Weekly’s 50th anniversary

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Meet Ameet Bakshi: The Insurance CloudMASTER®

Cloud Musings

Powered by Singapore-based Big Data start-up Crayon Data , BigData-MadeSimple.com tapped the insurance industry as being at the forefront of integrating cloud technology into their digital eco system. As stated in one of their recent articles "Cloud based platforms, storage and applications change the way of creating and delivering their products and services, managing risks and claims, collaborating with channel members and partners, and communicating with customers, agents and brokers.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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KrebsOnSecurity moves to Project Shield for protection against DDoS attack censorship

Network World

Unless you are a bad guy intent upon nefarious schemes to exploit technology in order to make money, then you probably have a great amount of respect for security reporter Brian Krebs. The crimes, breaches and attacks he has exposed have been so stunning that it boggles the mind. If cyber thugs have a “most wanted” list, then Krebs is likely at, or very near, the top.

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What is a Blockchain, and why is it here to stay?

Galido

In our latest post on Bitcoin Mining Profitability , we discussed the basics of Bitcoin, what it is, and how to mine it. This post discusses the bitcoin block chain, what it is, how it can be used, and why it’s here to stay. What is Bitcoin? To understand Blockchain, you need to know a little about Bitcoin, or digital currency. Bitcoin in a nutshell is a global peer to peer payments networking that is open to all with a computer or smartphone, open source, decentralized from banks, have

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Trump hotel chain fined over data breaches

Network World

Trump Hotel Collection has arrived at a settlement with New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman over hacks that are said to have led to the exposure of over 70,000 credit card numbers and other personal data. The hotel chain, one of the businesses of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, has agreed to pay US$50,000 in penalties and promised to take measures to beef up its data security practices, according to the attorney general’s office.

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The New Book “Thinkingare” Chapter 3 Introduction: Hybrid Minds

Future of CIO

Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think big, think deeper, think broader, and think critically, etc. We live in the digital world with all sorts of hybrid solutions. Organizations today are not limited to the physical buildings, but well mixed with virtual collaborations. Social business is perceived as the future of organization within the hybrid, networked, and extended modern working environment to empower workforce sharing thoughts and id

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