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The Neural Compute Stick will retail for $100 by Andrew Tarantola Ahead of its first AI developers conference in Beijing, Intel has announced it’s making the process of imparting intelligence into smart home gadgets and other network edge devices faster and easier thanks to the company’s latest invention: the Neural Compute Stick 2. Edge…
Watch as Kevin Mitnick shows how a malicious USB charging cable can be used by hackers:
Die weltweit leistungsfähigsten Rechnersysteme werden als Supercomputer bezeichnet. Die meisten dieser digitalen Giganten finden ihren Einsatz in der Industrie. Hier berechnen sie u.a. komplexe Simulationen. Die Infografik von Statista zeigt die Rechenleistung der leistungsstärksten Supercomputer weltweit im November 2018. Der Rechner “Summit” vom Hersteller IBM erzielt eine Leistung von rund 143.500 TeraFLOPS (21,23 Billiarden FLOPS,…
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By Ionut Arghire on January 24, 2019 A recently discovered PDF exploit used steganography to hide malicious JavaScript code in images embedded in PDF files, according to exploit analysis firm EdgeSpot. Steganography is a method of hiding information within files, and has been long used by cybercriminals in malicious attacks. The powerful exploit obfuscation technique…
R3D2 (not: R2D2) … laying the groundwork for a revolutionary global space-based internet, validating a resilient sensor and data transport layer in low Earth orbit New Zealand-based space company Rocket Lab said it plans to launch a satellite for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) next month from the company’s main launch complex…
von JOANA EKRUTT und CHRISTIAN UNGER — DIENSTAG, 22. JANUAR 2019 | BERLINER MORGENPOST “Der Raum, in dem Deutschland seinen Kampf gegen Hacker und Cyberkriminelle gewinnen will, ist gerade so groß wie ein Klassenzimmer.” “Die deutsche Cyberabwehr ist ein Flickenteppich. Neben dem BSI haben Polizei und Nachrichtendienste eigene Cyber-Abteilungen, in München arbeitet ein Zentrum…
By Eduard Kovacs on January 21, 2019 Hackers believed to be associated with the Russian government targeted the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, court documents show. The DNC, the formal governing body for the U.S. Democratic Party, was targeted by hackers in 2015 and 2016, before the presidential…
Normal fiber optics can be easily physically tapped and massages can be intercepted. Intruders can bend the cable with a small clamp, then use a specialized piece of hardware to split the beam of light that carries digital ones and zeros through the line. The people communicating have no way of knowing someone is eavesdropping,…
By Kevin Townsend on January 18, 2019 Venture capital firm Strategic Cyber Ventures (SCV) considers itself a part of the overall security industry. “First and foremost we are cyber operators,” it states on its website. “We advance cybersecurity through expert investment in synergistic teams and technology solving the world’s security problems.” This week it…
Space is a hostile environment. Most of the hostility is inherent — a void cannot itself be accommodating to humans, and the projects that do sustain human life in orbit do so by creating tiny livable pockets, encased in proverbial tin cans. That space could be a vector for other threats became clear from the…
With cybercriminals costing the global economy $600 billion last year alone, RiskIQ once again took a closer look at the growing volume of malicious activity on the internet during a single “internet minute.” Every single minute: Businesses spend $171,233 to defend themselves Yet, close to $1,138,888 is lost to cybercrime And 1,861 people fall victim…
The kill chain, the phishing attack and the broken trust graph Anshu Sharma – Jan 17, 2019 The Wall Street Journal published an explosive story about how state-sponsored Russian hackers used a variety of techniques and a spider web of compromised accounts to ultimately gain access to the control infrastructure that monitors and controls the flow…
Program seeks to create new software and hardware architectures that provide physically provable assurances around data security and privacy outreach@darpa.mil – 1/16/2019 DARPA created the Guaranteed Architecture for Physical Security (GAPS) program to develop scalable solutions that provide safe, verifiable methods of tracking information and communications between computer systems. The goal of GAPS is to…
GRIM SPIDER is a sophisticated eCrime group that has been operating the Ryuk ransomware since August 2018, targeting large organizations for a high-ransom return. This methodology, known as “big game hunting,” signals a shift in operations for WIZARD SPIDER, a criminal enterprise of which GRIM SPIDER appears to be a cell. The WIZARD SPIDER threat…
By Derek B. Johnson – Jan 10, 2019 The US federal government is worried about possible consequences of vulnerabilities in the global electronics and IT supply chain. The Department of Homeland Security and the intelligence community are leading efforts to persuade tech companies to fundamentally alter the way they do business to better protect the…
By Kevin Townsend on January 07, 2019 China is Conducting a Low and Slow Cyberwar, Attempting to Stay Under the Radar and Maneuver the Global Economy The potential for cyberwarfare between the United States and Russia is openly discussed, and – if not actually defined – is well understood. The British attitude is clear and…
By AFP on January 11, 2019 The computer security firm Kaspersky Lab helped the US NSA spy agency uncover one of its worst-ever security breaches — one year before the US banned the company’s products for government use, US media has reported. Politico and the Washington Post said the Moscow-based maker of anti-malware products told…
Laut McAfee Deutschlandchef fehlen bis zum Jahr 2020 etwa 160.000 Sicherheitsspezialisten. Berlin will für mehr Cybersicherheit sorgen. Allein das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik soll 350 neue Stellen erhalten. Nur: Woher sollen die Fachkräfte kommen? das Bundeskriminalamt, das Kommando Cyber- und Informationsraum der Bundeswehr (KdoCIR), die zentrale Stelle für Informationstechnik im Sicherheitsbereich (ZITIS),…
(Vlad’s comment nails it.) Police have found the likely culprit of last week’s big leak of high-profile personal data. A 20-year-old German man has confessed to being the culprit behind the massive leak of German politicians’, journalists’, and celebrities’ personal data that shocked the country’s political class last week. Police raided the central Hesse house…
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