CTOvision
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Bob Gourley. For years now the firms with the most to lose by cyber crime have been investing in cyber defense technologies, techniques and procedures designed to mitigate threats. Motivation do enhance defenses has largely been directly correlated to the potential for loss. Resources put on cybersecurity and threat mitigation has been correlated to size of a business.
Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
DNS services provider Dyn, which was the victim of a large-scale DDoS attack perpetrated by an IoT botnet earlier in October, discusses details of its experience
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CTOvision
OCTOBER 27, 2016
AJ Morris. Poor employee performance might be a result of poor choice of tools. Here are a few signs it might be time to look for some new ones. What does your agency’s workflow look like? Are your employees happy, productive, and efficient, or do they frequently struggle to get work done? Are tasks completed in a timely fashion, or do your teams run into frequent bottlenecks?
Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Government Digital Service chief technology officer Andy Beale is the fifth senior executive to leave since appointment of new chief Kevin Cunnington
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.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Recent changes in the storage market have weakened the argument that storage in the public cloud is the only cost-effective option. Read More.
Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Open source breaks the rules on corporate procurement, but developers never play by the rules and now open source has sneaked in through the back door
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Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
By helping to create a thriving, diverse and open information security community, (ISC)2 hopes to ensure a steep rise for the profession
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Rometty sees proprietary data combined with AI as the competitive advantage for companies going forward. Read More.
Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Samsung retained its smartphone market leadership in the third quarter despite recalling and scrapping the Galaxy Note7 and taking a 30% hit in operating profit
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Your Android device most likely contains unused apps that could still use data or fall prey to vulnerabilities. The solution to this potential security problem: delete those apps.
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Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
The collapse in the value of the pound following the EU referendum has not dented BT’s confidence, with strong growth reported across multiple business units
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Deal may be announced in coming weeks, but talks can break down Read More.
Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Schneider Electric has patched a security flaw that highlights the vulnerability of industrial control systems to cyber attack
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Aerohive Networks recently unveiled a new security offering to protect against network attacks from compromised IoT devices, including botnets like Mirai.
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Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
The Public Accounts Committee is to scrutinise the controversial Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme
Network World
OCTOBER 27, 2016
The Australian Red Cross said its blood donor service has found that registration information of 550,000 donors had been compromised, which the agency blamed on human error by a third-party contractor. The moot issue at this point, which may decide how the breach unfolds, is that nobody knows how many people have the data. The information from 2010 to 2016 was available on the website from Sept. 5 to Oct. 25. this year.
Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
The University of Oxford has appointed Tim Berners-Lee as a professor at its computer science department
Network World
OCTOBER 27, 2016
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on charges of hacking the Google and Apple email accounts of over 100 people including celebrities, and getting access to nude videos and photographs of some people. The sentencing against Ryan Collins, 36, of Lancaster is the offshoot of a Department of Justice investigation into the online leaks of photographs of numerous female celebrities in September 2014, widely referred to as "Celebgate.
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Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Google parent Alphabet calls a halt to its roll-out of FTTP broadband in the US as it embarks on a strategic rethink
Network World
OCTOBER 27, 2016
“How many of you or your staff had trouble getting on the internet Friday?” That was how cybersecurity consultant Bryce Austin kicked off his talk Tuesday at SIMposium 2016, a big gathering of CIOs and IT execs at the Mohegan Sun resort in Connecticut, on the "Unintended Consequences of the Internet of Things." Uncomfortable laughter ensued. Austin, who then went on to make attendees even more uncomfortable, swears that even though his session didn't make the original program, it wasn’t added to
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
OCTOBER 27, 2016
The optimism and demand for innovation has never been higher. We are on the verge of a massive change in the day-to-day experiences of employees and customers as applications become more cognitive, but there is significant work to be done. Today, our most advanced applications are intelligent. Look no further than IBM Watson or Salesforce Einstein A.I.
Network World
OCTOBER 27, 2016
There’s no magic behind the success of Mirai DDoS botnets that are made up of IoT devices: the software enabling them is publicly available, which makes it easy for relatively inexperienced actors to create them and turn them loose on anyone. Flashpoint speculates that the attacker in the case of the Dyn DDoS, which had an enormous impact on major Web sites, was the work of low-skilled script kiddies – a frightening prospect that contributes to Trend Micro’s assessment that “the Internet of Thin
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The Investing Edge
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Last week, we announced that Baiyin Zhou joined Ascent Venture Partners as our newest senior associate. This is particularly exciting because adding to our team is the most important thing we do – and it’s not something we do often. Baiyin is our first new investment team member in 10 years. At Ascent, we treat hiring very seriously, and our process reflects this.
Network World
OCTOBER 27, 2016
A security researcher has devised a method of hijacking a wide variety of radio- controlled airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats and other devices that use a popular wireless transmission technology. The attack was developed by Jonathan Andersson, manager of the Advanced Security Research Group at Trend Micro DVLabs, and targets a "wideband, frequency-agile 2.4GHz signal protocol" called DSMx.
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 27, 2016
BlackBerry's new Android phone is intended to feature security functions a step above the competition.
Network World
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Looking to protect military personnel from a swarming drone attack is the goal behind a new system that the researchers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are set to develop. The three-phase program, called Mobile Force Protection will in the next few years potentially develop a prototype system that could sense an attack, identify the attacker and then use a number of techniques, from communications jamming to capturing mid-flight any attacking drones.
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The Investing Edge
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Last week, we announced that Baiyin Zhou joined Ascent Venture Partners as our newest senior associate. This is particularly exciting because adding to our team is the most important thing we do – and it’s not something we do often. Baiyin is our first new investment team member in 10 years. At Ascent, we treat hiring very seriously, and our process reflects this.
Network World
OCTOBER 27, 2016
This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. For many security professionals, passwords are the scourge of the authentication world, and their death can't come soon enough. Passwords are too often stolen, shared, forgotten or simply too weak or obvious to be effective. According to the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 63% of confirmed data breaches involve the use of weak, default or stolen passwords.
ComputerWorld IT Management
OCTOBER 27, 2016
It was shocking to learn that the recent distributed denial-of-service attack of the nation’s internet infrastructure via DNS provider Dyn was aided and abetted by a hijacked army of products from the internet of things. It is thought to be the first DoS attack to rely overwhelmingly on a lot of “dumb” appliances that have little processing power of their own but are connected to the internet.
Network World
OCTOBER 27, 2016
It's still unclear who pulled off Friday's massive internet disruption, but the malware largely responsible for the cyber attack has since assaulted new targets -- possibly including video gamers. Since last Friday, botnets created by the Mirai malware have been launching distributed denial-of-service attacks at seemingly random targets, in short bursts, according to a security researcher who goes by the name MalwareTech.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
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