MoD offshoot names winners who dipped into £2m anti-drone ideas pot o’ gold The British government has funded 18 anti-drone projects as part of its £2m push to stop a repeat of the Gatwick drone fiasco of 2018 – including a friendly drone swarm that will employ “peregrine falcon attack strategies” to down errant unmanned…

Cybercriminals are leveraging political names and figures for social engineering as the elections loom. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Xiaomi, which competes with Apple for the top position in the wearable market, today made the competition a little more interesting. The Chinese electronics giant has launched its first smartwatch called the Mi Watch that looks strikingly similar to the Apple Watch in its home market. From a report: The Mi Watch, like the Apple…

Security and public safety leaders Deanne Criswell, commissioner of the New York Cirty Emergency Management Department, and Angela Stubblefield, deputy associate administrator for security and hazardoues materials safety at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), will headline the 2019 SIA Education@ISC East Keynote Series. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine

The best HP laptop and desktop deals for Black Friday 2019. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Dell’s very best deals on laptops and desktop PCs for Black Friday 2019. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Ignite 2019: Microsoft says its latest collaboration with Warner Bros could help store data for generations to come. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Open-source design for Root of Trust chips The OpenTitan project – an open-source design for a Root of Trust (RoT) SoC (System on a Chip) based on RISC-V and managed by a team in Cambridge, UK – was teased by Google along with several partners today.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The social media giant says its plans could do for money what the internet did for data. But not everyone is convinced. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Unions and researchers who study workplace surveillance worry that employers who begin gathering data on workers for whatever reason will be unable to resist using it against them. From a report: Productivity tracking is already widespread throughout the industry — and workers can be fired or punished if their performance dips. The opacity of data-analysis…