Day: August 5, 2020

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, quickly donates it to CNCF

‘Customers are trying to use Istio and having a hard time, we see this from the support ticket volume’ Interview Microsoft has donated a new open source project, the Open Service Mesh (OSM) described as a “lightweight and extensible service mesh that runs on Kubernetes,” to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).… …read more Source::…


Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Loud Music and Porn

From a report: A judge was forced to suspend the virtual bond hearing of the 17-year-old accused of being the “mastermind” behind the recent massive Twitter hack, after several people got into the Zoom meeting posing as CNN and BBC staffers and played loud music and even a porn video. Multiple reporters who attended the…


RGB LED Shutter Shades

[splat238] is back at it again with another cool RGB LED display project. We were contemplating whether or not our readers have had enough of these over the last few weeks, but we’ve learned over the years that you can never have too many LED projects. Instead of making a cool mask like we’ve covered…


HealthScare: Prioritizing Medical AppSec Research

Seth Fogie, information security director at Penn Medicine, explains which healthcare app vulnerabilities really matter in the day-to-day business of providing patient care. …read more Source:: DarkReading


A Most Personal Threat: Implantable Medical Devices

Alan Michaels, director of the Electronic Systems Lab at the Virginia Tech Hume Center, explains why implanted medical devices could pose a threat to secure communication facilities. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Voatz Delivers Multi-Layered Security to Protect Electronic Voting

SPONSORED CONTENT: While electronic voting has been plagued by fears of tampering or fraud, Voatz is looking to make the process more transparent and auditable, according to company founder Nimit Sawhney. He offers learning points from three recent pilots that highlight how governments can improve the integrity and better protect the voting process and its…


Canon Hit by Maze Ransomware Attack, 10TB Data Allegedly Stolen

Canon has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts numerous services, including Canon’s email, Microsoft Teams, USA website, and other internal applications. From a report: BleepingComputer has been tracking a suspicious outage on Canon’s image.canon cloud photo and video storage service resulting in the loss of data for users of their free 10GB storage feature. The…


Russian Election Interference: What’s Next?

Nate Beach-Westmoreland gives a look back at the past 10 years of Russian election interference and disinformation campaigns. What can we learn from the past and what should we expect as the 2020 US presidential election approaches? …read more Source:: DarkReading


Illegal Blast Fishing Detector is All Ears

Blast fishing — the act of using explosives underwater to kill entire schools of fish with shock waves — has been a widespread problem in the Philippines for decades. Although a few fishermen get rich from the first blast at a fresh site, it isn’t good for anyone in the long term, especially the coral…


Galaxy Watch 3 is promising some pretty hefty health-tracking features – CNET

But Samsung’s new smartwatch won’t deliver them at launch. …read more Source:: CNet