Complexity is Still the Enemy of Security
Ease of Use, Ease of Integration Encourages Data Protection By Gregory Hoffer, CEO of Coviant Software In 1999 noted cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier wrote in his Schneier on Security blog…
Enhance Employee Productivity by Adopting a Modern Approach to Password Security
By Joshua Parsons, Product Marketing Manager at Enzoic For decades, enterprise security measures and employee productivity were seemingly at odds. In fact, 37% of respondents in a recent Vanson Bourne…
Crooks broke into AT&T email accounts to empty their cryptocurrency wallets
Threat actors are gaining access to AT&T email accounts in an attempt to hack into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts. Hackers are breaking into the AT&T email accounts and then using…
Russia-linked APT28 uses fake Windows Update instructions to target Ukraine govt bodies
CERT-UA warns of a spear-phishing campaign conducted by APT28 group targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides. Russia-linked APT28 group is targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows…
White hat hackers showed how to take over a European Space Agency satellite
Thales cybersecurity researchers have shown this week how they seized control of a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite. This week, during the third edition of CYSAT, the European event dedicated…
Microsoft is Now Supporting Right-to-Repair Legislation
Microsoft’s headquarters are in the state of Washington — and this year when the state legislature considered a right-to-repair bill, Microsoft showed its support. The nonprofit “climate solutions” site Grist…
Can OpenAI Trademark ‘GPT’?
“ThreatGPT, MedicalGPT, DateGPT and DirtyGPT are a mere sampling of the many outfits to apply for trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in recent months,” notes TechCrunch,…
Six Months Later, Poker Player Garrett Adelstein Still Thinks He Was Cheated
In October professional poker player Garrett Adelstein lost to a relative newcomer. Last month 15,000 viewers tuned in for his first new public interview, Poker News reports. Adelstein “reiterated his…
Red Hat’s 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from an Apartment-Based Startup
For Red Hat’s 30th anniversary, North Carolina’s News & Observer newspaper ran a special four-part series of articles. In the first article Red Hat co-founder Bob Young remembers Red Hat’s…
Report: Apple’s AI and ‘Siri’ Efforts Hindered by Caution, Dysfunction
The Information reports: Late last year, a trio of engineers who had just helped Apple modernize its search technology began working on the type of technology underlying ChatGPT… For Apple,…