Electronics made in China are often less expensive than products sold by western companies such as Cisco and Juniper. But there may be a cost associated with that price. The Chinese security firm Boyusec is working with the Chinese Ministry of State Security intelligence service in conducting cyber espionage, according to the Pentagon. This would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security researchers have figured out three different ways to disable Nest Security Cameras (Nest is part of Google). As of a few days ago, Google said they were working on patches and would push them out shortly. But it speaks to the more general problem of wireless security. In the Nest situation, there are three […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. and Britain announced new restrictions on carry on electronics this week. While this has been considered many times before, it is now being implemented, but only from a limited number of airports and a limited number of airlines. The U.S. and British lists are different – of course. I will only talk about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When companies like Microsoft or Oracle develop software, they have massive teams who’s only job is to try and find bugs in the software. They also have made significant investments automated tools to help with software quality assurance. Still Microsoft usually patches 10-20 new bugs month after month. Oracle often patches 100 bugs a quarter. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google and Uber are both working on self driving cars, for different reasons. Google has had a strong lead in the game – until. Google’s self driving car subsidiary called Waymo says it has spent millions of dollars perfecting the technology for self driving cars. A former Google employee, Anthony Levandowski, started the self driving […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more people and more businesses embrace the cloud, the opportunity for disaster goes up. For example, we have seen companies move to the Amazon cloud and then be surprised when their web sites go dark (see this example). There are no silver bullets when it comes to data center availability and the cloud is […]
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