Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a rare kind of potentially dangerous malware that targets a machine’s booting process to drop persistent malware. The campaign involved the use of a compromised UEFI (or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) containing a malicious implant, making it the second known public case where a UEFI rootkit has been used in the…
Dryad Networks is deploying IoT technology to help prevent the devastation caused by wildfires. This year alone, we’ve had the ongoing wildfire in California that has now set the unwanted record of most acres burned in a single year, the wildfires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and another of Australia’s bushfires—to name just a few.…
Swiss Re and Hitachi are offering to insure industrial companies against business disruption from bad or back-firing algorithms in critical AI-controlled processes and operations. It is the first time enterprises have been offered insurance against AI. The arrangement is between the commercial insurance division of Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re), Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, and…
Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the key technology behind self-driving cars, automatic translation systems, speech and textual analysis, image processing and all kinds of diagnosis and recognition systems. In many cases, AI can surpass the best human performance levels at specific tasks. We are witnessing the emergence of a…
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a rare kind of potentially dangerous malware that targets a machine’s booting process to drop persistent malware. The campaign involved the use of a compromised UEFI (or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) containing a malicious implant, making it the second known public case where a UEFI rootkit has been used in the…
A study conducted by Asavie into the challenges presented by COVID-19 to businesses has found that cyberattacks are the leading concern. While an increase in home working has opened up new opportunities and productivity benefits, it’s also added new security challenges. Hackers are taking advantage of security gaps. 30 percent of the businesses in the…
Two of the most famous characters from Lewis Carol’s Through the Looking Glass are the twins, Tweedledum and Tweedledee. When Alice encounters them, they ridiculously mirror each other’s actions and words. Each brother frequently says “contrariwise” as if he’s about to disagree with his counterpart, only to inadvertently say the same thing. Unfortunately, far too…
Team Showcase, a sister plugin, is also vulnerable to the XSS and PHP object-injection bugs — together they have 66,000 installs.
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October 5, 2020 8 insightful answers in less than 8 minutes Internet of Business’ IoB 8×8 Series is designed to reveal more about the people who have helped shape IoB’s live event and digital content over the years, picking the key industry brains who have dedicated time to educating peers. Rich Baker, CTO at Protolabs…
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Apple released iOS 14, the latest overhaul to tis operating system, last month. It comes chockful of new features that can completely change the way you use your iPhone. Here’s…
