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Today’s topics include IOActive announcing research showing embedded systems exposing airlines to risk, and Arista agreeing to pay Cisco Systems $400 million in a patent settlement. According to IOActive researchers, multiple systems on modern airliners are potentially at risk from a series of vulnerabilities. These flaws expose supply chain risks, where an embedded software technology […]

Today’s topics include Microsoft continuing Classic Skype support after customer cancellation backlash, and Toshiba releasing two new 12 and 14TB NAS hard drives. Microsoft has decided to continue support for Skype 7.0, also known as Skype Classic, after receiving overwhelming customer criticism for announcing in July its plan to stop supporting Skype Classic Sept. 1 […]

Today’s topics include the release of Motorola’s Moto Z3 smartphone, which will be upgradable to 5G, and research indicating CEOs and other executives routinely steal company IP. Motorola announced last week that its new Moto Z3 smartphone will go on sale exclusively through Verizon on Aug. 16 and will be an upgradable device that will […]

Today’s topics include Symantec warning of increasingly sophisticated tech support scams, and Google warning enterprises of potential attacks on G Suite accounts. Symantec issued a report on Aug. 3 revealing that technical support fraud scammers are using call optimization services to improve their results. According to Vikram Thakur, technical director at Symantec, “We were surprised […]

Today’s topics include Arm acquiring Treasure Data and introducing its Pelion IoT platform for managing connected devices, and Cisco expanding identity with its $2.35 billion acquisition of Duo Security. Arm on Aug. 2 announced the purchase of 7-year-old data management company Treasure Data, calling the acquisition the final technology component that it needed after an […]

Today’s topics include HP launching a bug bounty program to discover printer security flaws, and Microsoft raising Office 2019 prices by 10 percent starting Oct 1. HP announced July 31 that it is teaming up with Bugcrowd on a bug bounty program that will award selected researchers between $500 and $10,000 for finding security flaws […]

Today’s topics include T-Mobile achieving a major milestone in its pursuit of 5G wireless, and FireEye boosting endpoint security with MalwareGuard machine learning. T-Mobile’s CTO Neville Ray announced July 27 that the company has successfully tested a simultaneous, non-standalone 5G “New Radio” and 4G LTE connection. This along with its first standards-based 5G New Radio […]

Today’s topics include a NetSpectre attack that could enable remote CPU exploitation, and Panasonic rolling out thinner Toughbook business handhelds. Researchers from Graz University in Austria released a 14-page report on July 26 detailing how the Spectre CPU speculative execution vulnerability, which was first publicly disclosed Jan. 3, could be used over a remote network. […]

Today’s topics include Oracle bringing autonomous security to identity with Trust Fabric, and Google coming out with its Cloud Services Platform. Oracle announced its new Trust Fabric initiative on July 26, in an effort to bring autonomous security, enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning, to more of its portfolio. The Trust Fabric model includes […]

Today’s topics include Google improving its cloud platform security and introducing new IoT options, and Apple issuing a software update to fix a throttling glitch in its new MacBook Pros. At its Google Cloud Next conference on July 25, Google declared security as the top concern of enterprise customers. To that end, Garrick Toubassi, Google’s […]