Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is suing Donald Trump over the Pentagon’s decision to award a lucrative military artificial intelligence and cloud services contract to Microsoft instead of his company. Normally these kinds of lawsuits are yawn-inducing, but this case has some interesting caveats. And, if you’ll let me set the stage first, I’ll explain why…
Emotet, the notorious trojan behind a number of botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, has found a new attack vector: using already infected devices to identify new victims that are connected to nearby Wi-Fi networks. According to researchers at Binary Defense, the newly discovered Emotet sample leverages a “Wi-Fi spreader” module to scan Wi-Fi networks,…
This is where this Bluetooth keyboard shines. Thanks to its wireless connection, you can use this keyboard with pretty much any device, which is great. However, the software isn’t available on Linux and mobile devices, and there are a few keys that won’t work depending on which platform you are on. Nevertheless, all alphanumerical keys…
Smart TVs can do a lot these days, but these streamers can make them a lot smarter for as little as $30.
Shiv has over 8 years experience working on Internet of Things and an avid user of Drones
From helping people book their flight tickets or presenting them with shopping suggestions online, chatbots are everywhere.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
Plot twist: Mobile World Congress is not taking place this year. MWC 2020 was supposed to be from February 24 to February 27 in Barcelona, Spain, but today the organizers decided to cancel the entire thing because of fears regarding the possible spread of the novel coronavirus. Companies have been canceling their MWC or pre-MWC…
US carrier Verizon is the first carrier to certify Sequans’ LTE-M based Monarch Go modem components. Sprint and Deutsche Telekom have approved its other Monarch-based units. The French chipmaker has also opened a new design centre to develop 5G broadband and critical IoT products, to go alongside its flasghip LTE-M/NB-IoT products for so-called ‘massive IoT’…
The European Union is backing away from its plan to introduce a temporary ban on facial recognition technology, instead delegating decisions on the software to its member states. In a previous draft of a paper on AI, the European Commission had proposed introducing a five-year moratorium on the technology. But in a new draft seen by the Financial Times, that suggestion has…
The realistic approach to security is that incidents occur. While ideally, the CISO would want to prevent all of them, in practice, some will succeed to a certain degree—making the ability to efficiently manage an incident response process a mandatory skill for any CISO. Moreover, apart from the management of the actual response process, the…
Have you given any thought to the privacy and security concerns of your voice assistant or what might happen when you connect it to another smart connected device? Perhaps the bigger question should be are manufacturers doing their part and working in tandem to ensure when we use these devices the data being collected by…
