Who is in charge of the digital transformation at your business? Your CMO? Your CIO? Someone else? Or, all together? Find out more on by reading this article from Forbes. The article talks about the organizational chart and how it is an issue for real change, because marketing and technology are connecting day by day. Therefore…
News of massive security vulnerabilities afflicting every modern model of Intel processor went public. Developers for practically every major platform frantically rushed to roll out fixes. Much more information has now become available about Meltdown and Spectre. They are a group of attack methods malicious parties could use to break into some of the most sensitive inner workings…
The Feds are accusing Boyusec of siphoning secrets from targets including Siemens. The company has connections with the notorious group APT3 that has connections with Beijing’s spy services. An obscure Chinese computer security firm acted as a front for a sophisticated hacking operation dedicated to siphoning secrets from targets around the world and the federal prosecutors have…
SHANGHAI — Chinese authorities have removed Skype from Chinese app stores, therefore the app is unavailable on all the app stores and this includes Apple’s app store. Statement from Apple “The Minister of Public Security notified that a number of VoIP apps do not comply with local law. As a result the administrators removed these apps…
Some hackers have broken the WPA2 protocol. Belgian researchers found that the internet traffic is not secure. The WPA2 WiFi Security protocol is NOT secure. And you are using it at home or at your office when you use the Wi-Fi. For full details of this security breach, please read https://helpdesk.ssbg.com.cn/index.php?/News/NewsItem/View/96/breaking-news—key-reinstallation-attacks-krack. At SSBG we have already…
The topic of internet censorship in China has been a hot one in recent months, after large-scale removal of VPNs on Apple’s App Store and rumors of blocking VPN services in the country altogether. And it seems that the country’s cyber security is set to tighten further. Reported by The Waijiao amongst others, this week a woman in Guangzhou was…
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has being busy cracking down on Email Hosting, Web Hosting and VPN providers lately. As a direct result, large chunks of foreign hosted systems, mainly email servers hosted in the United States and Europe have had their IPs blacklisted on the Great Firewall of China, meaning…
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Pennsylvania is suing IBM over a $110 million IT project to upgrade its unemployment compensation system that the state says was never completed. […] The Pennsylvania project was ended in 2013; at that point, it was 45 months behind schedule and $60 million over budget. The state has continued to rely on its legacy systems. See Full…
IN 2010, STEVE Jobs banished Adobe Flash from the iPhone. It was too insecure, Jobs wrote, too proprietary, too resource-intensive, too unaccommodating for a platform run by fingertips instead of mouse clicks. All of those gripes hold true. And now Adobe itself has finally conceded. The company announced Tuesday that it would “stop updating and distributing the…
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