Day: October 23, 2019

Brazilian government seeks data governance head

The professional will be responsible for leading the efforts around data sharing across public sector bodies …read more Source:: ZDNet


Digital transformation: Why companies need a sense of urgency

TechRepublic’s Karen Roby talks with futurist Brian Solis about the trends shaping digital transformation. …read more Source:: ZDNet


IBM is working on an alternative to AIOps

The field of AIOps is mostly hype at this point, says IBM’s head of artificial intelligence products; Big Blue is working on an alternative to automate CIO chores. …read more Source:: ZDNet


The World’s Top Economists Just Made the Case For Why We Still Need English Majors

An anonymous reader writes: A great migration is happening on U.S. college campuses. Ever since the fall of 2008, a lot of students have walked out of English and humanities lectures and into STEM classes, especially computer science and engineering. English majors are down more than a quarter (25.5 percent) since the Great Recession, according…


Daisy Chained Seven Segment Art Display

This seven segment art display makes use of a 81 seven segment red common cathode LED displays. The LEDs are arranged onto 100x100mm boards that each contain an Arduino Nano and 9 seven segment displays, daisy chained through three-pin headers located on the sides of the boards. The pins (power, ground, and serial) provide the…


A Roundtable Of Hackers Dissect The Latest Episode Of Mr. Robot

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Fujitsu Wireless Keyboard Plagued By Unpatched Flaws

Two high-severity vulnerabilities in a Fujitsu wireless keyboard expose passwords and allow keystroke injection attacks. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Planning a Zero-Trust Initiative? Here’s How to Prioritize

If you start by focusing on users, data, access, and managed devices, you will make major strides toward achieving better security. …read more Source:: DarkReading


UBoat – Proof Of Concept PoC HTTP Botnet Project

UBoat is a PoC HTTP Botnet designed to replicate a full weaponised commercial botnet like the famous large scale infectors Festi, Grum, Zeus and SpyEye. Reviews of popular botnets have shown HTTP-based botnets have a set of attributes that make it difficult for them to be detected. On the other hand, the number of studies…


Alphabet Exec Blames Media For Overhyping Self-driving Cars, Even Though Google Drove the Hype

Waymo executives think people have taken its promises of self-driving cars too seriously. From a report: The Alphabet subsidiary “went through a lot of hype that was sort of unmanageable,” said Tekedra N. Mawakana, Waymo’s chief external officer. “Sometimes a lot of hype is so mismatched to what’s happening in the real world.” Mawakana said…