Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. In a short span of just a few weeks, a bunch of major firms including Chubb, Cognizant, Toll, ExecuPharm, Fresenius, and CPC Corp. have all become victims of…
Cisco has fixed 12 high-severity flaws in its Adaptive Security Appliance software and Firepower Threat Defense software.
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Technology has a history of helping to track and treat viruses. With the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, people are asking how new technologies such as the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and big data can slow down the proliferation of pandemics and avoid a future global health crisis.…
IBM senior vice president Bob Lord and Chelsea Clinton, chair of the Clinton Foundation, recently revealed three promising solutions to common pandemic problems being created by entrants from this year’s currently-in-progress Call for Code challenge. Call for Code is a five-year challenge created by IBM and the David Clarke Foundation. It calls on developers, humanitarians,…
The cybercriminals are using a deserialization vulnerability, CVE-2019-18935, to achieve remote code execution before moving laterally through the enterprise.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
May 7, 2020 Ahead of the 4th Internet of Manufacturing Midwest conference, Transforma Insights partnered with Internet of Business to survey enterprises’ approaches to, and perspectives of, IoT deployment. Unlike most surveys, we opted to ask open-ended questions, with free-text spaces. By doing so we hoped to understand what was really dominating the thinking of…
A consortium of 16 industrial companies and research institutions have combined in a €9.5 million project to set out the “groundwork” for truck platooning with autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, as the primary use case to establish usage of 5G and Wi-Fi in intelligent transport systems. The three-year 5G NetMobil research project, convened and funded by…
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An advanced group of Chinese hackers has recently been spotted to be behind a sustained cyber espionage campaign targeting government entities in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Brunei—which went undetected for at least five years and is still an ongoing threat. The group, named ‘Naikon APT,’ once known as one of the most…
COVID-19 is having an obvious negative impact on the ride-hailing industry, with Uber and Lyft reporting huge losses. Uber has announced it’s being forced to cut 3,700 employees amid the crisis, accounting for around 14 percent of its workforce. The redundancies will predominantly hit Uber’s recruiting and CommOps teams. “With people taking fewer trips, the…
