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It is still too early to map out the full impact of the coronavirus (or COVID-19 as it is now called) on the global economy or on global tech markets. The disease has not yet run its course or been contained in China, and it could still pop up and spread in other countries. There […] More
Facebook wants to be crystal clear: the social media platform is stepping up its game to fight harmful content on the internet, and in doing so it wants to work hand-in-hand with regulators. Unfortunately for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, EU Commissioners don’t seem to be embracing the message. The company has just released a white paper […] More
If you’ve like me you probably have handfuls of USB flash drives on your desk at any one time. But how many of those flash drives have built-in data encryption? How many can carry on working after exposure to water and dust? Or after being dropped from a height on concrete? Or driven over? The […] More
USB flash drives don’t come much tougher than Kingston’s IronKey D300. Following a validation process, the Kingston IronKey D300, along with the IronKey D300S and IronKey D300SM (serialized and managed serialized versions with etched barcodes and serial numbers) have been given NATO Restricted Level Certification. This means the drives are now listed in the NATO […] More
The Singapore government will look to invest SG$1 billion to beef up its cyber and data security systems, which it says is critical as its agencies increasingly adopt technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, and Internet of Things (IoT). To be spent over the next three years, the funds will go toward readying the […] More
Image: Ring Security camera vendor Ring announced today plans to forcibly enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for all user accounts. Prior to today, Ring had provided a 2FA option for account owners, but the feature was not enabled by default, being left at each user’s discretion. The move to make 2FA mandatory comes after a long […] More
Connected medical devices are twice as likely to be vulnerable to the BlueKeep exploit than other devices on hospital networks, putting patients and staff at additional risk from cyber attacks. This is especially concerning when healthcare is already such a popular target for hacking campaigns. BlueKeep is a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) […] More
Two-thirds of customer-facing enterprise systems are bearing the majority of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, of which 8.4 million were recorded in 2019 alone. DDoS attacks are aimed at disrupting online services. A flood of illegitimate traffic is generated by PCs, Internet of Things (IoT), and other devices which send request after request, and these queries […] More
