Back on March 1 2019, I reported that Russia was planning to disconnect itself from the Internet. On November 1, 2019, the Russian Federation decreed that all Russian ISPs are required to route Internet traffic through special gateway routers run by Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzo.
The stated goal is to protect Russia from major cyber-attacks from bad actors or other nation-state run cyber operations. ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Few people claimed to fully understand it, but the esoteric theory still managed to spark the public’s imagination.
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A guest post from From Siege Media
Data breaches are more or less becoming commonplace. In the last several years, companies the likes of Under Armour, Home Depot, Equifax, and even Target have fallen victim to ruthless cyber-attacks, resulting in the loss of profit, reputation, and customers.
This obviously has a huge affect ...
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October 29 is International Internet Day. For better or worse, the creation of the Internet has changed everything. It created new ways to communicate, provided an open platform for free speech and the free exchange of ideas. It created a new and level playing field where tiny Davids could successfully complete with ...
A recent report says that 75% of corporate executives believe what 100% of cybersecurity professionals know: phishing emails represent the greatest cyber-threat to business computer systems and networks. Humans are still the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain. Cybersecurity awareness training and simulated phishing testing is seen as the most effective way to improve detection and avoidance in employees. To be truly effective training frequency should happen quarterly, but often ...
Late in August and early in September, I was back in the classroom again teaching a great bunch of beginning IT technicians the finer points of networking so they can pass the CompTIA Network+ certification exam. They asked me for a list of the tools that I use on the job. Once I had put the list together for them, it looked like ...
Printers seems to be simple devices that we use to convert information into a physical form, usually text on paper. But all printers are really small special purpose computers. They have processors, RAM memory, and storage in the form of solid state chips or entire hard drives. The operating system is often some form of Linux. They usually can be accessed and ...
We are surrounded by helpful electronic female voices in the guises of Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Hello Google. As a man, I find these soothing female assistants to be cheerful, calming, and reassuring, sort of like an electronic Mom.
While some people want to get into the inherent sexist gender bias of having all these helpers ...
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Fintech Adoption: When Will the West Catch Up?
The floodgates of global investment for fintech startups did not open wide until after the 2008 financial crisis. Since then, the level of capital funding for these services has consistently increased.
Our friends at Fortunly attest that venture capitalists have always favored fintech startups ...
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I have written a number of times about The Singularity, an occurrence in the potentially not too distant future, about 2030 to 2050, when one or more of our computer pals wakes up and becomes self-aware. This Singular Artificial Intelligence would be capable of self-updating, making improvements faster and more powerfully, until it surpassed human intelligence. The outcome could have ...