A trio of tech CEOs say red tape and onerous requirements are undermining Ash Carter’s outreach efforts. Here’s a story about three Silicon Valley startups that are making just the sorts of products that Pentagon says it wants. Liquid Robotics sells … Read More
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Bangladesh says 20 foreigners involved in theft from NY Fed
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh investigators have determined that at least 20 foreigners were involved in the cybertheft of $101 million from the Bangladesh central bank’s account in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a senior investigator said Monday. … Read More
ITRC Report: Data Breaches Compromise 57M Social Security Numbers in Government Sector Since 2005
A new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center says there were 6,013 reported cases of data breaches since 2005 across the government, financial services, healthcare and education sectors. The nonprofit organization collaborated with Arizona-based information security firm IDT911 on the … Read More
Will Quantum Encryption Arrive Before Quantum Computers Break All Our Passwords?
Scientists are racing to deploy foolproof quantum encryption before quantum computers come along that render all our passwords useless. Passwords work today because the computers we have, while theoretically capable of breaking passwords, would take an impractical amount of time to do so. “The encryption … Read More
A Convoy of Autonomous Trucks Just Platooned Across Europe
A dozen trucks utilizing an autonomous driving system arrived Wednesday in Rotterdam, Netherlands, after traveling across Europe in the European Truck Platooning Challenge. The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, along with the Directorate General Rijkswaterstaat, the Netherlands Vehicle … Read More
Nvidia Puts the Focus on Self-Driving Cars at GTC
Company officials unveiled a new development board, talked about their upcoming software platform and announced a race featuring driverless cars. Nvidia officials spent much of last week’s developer conference talking about the promising future of self-driving cars and showing off … Read More
WhatsApp, the messaging service, announces full encryption on all platforms
WhatsApp, the world’s most popular instant-message app with more than 1 billion users, is now fully encrypted on all platforms: Android, iPhone, BlackBerry and others. That’s good news for users who care about security and privacy, including journalists and dissidents. … Read More
A cyber attack turned out the lights on 80,000. What can stop the next one?
In the middle of the afternoon on Dec. 23, at least 80,000 Ukrainians suddenly lost access to electricity. It was, U.S. officials and other analysts believe, the most dramatic escalation in several years of the quietly growing international confrontation in … Read More
Department of Homeland Security singles out hospitals in ransomware alert
The Department of Homeland Security is taking action in the wake of myriad recent cyberattacks against hospitals, issuing a ransomware alert to provide more information about the attack type. In 2012, security vendor Symantec found that by extorting an average ransom of … Read More
WhatsApp turns on end-to-end encryption
Messages sent with the popular app may be much harder for law enforcement to access now. Facebook-owned WhatsApp has strengthened the encryption of its widely used instant messaging app, a development that in theory makes it harder for law enforcement to … Read More