Last week, I was in New York for two events: one for Lenovo’s Advisory Council, which I cannot talk about, and another for BlackBerry’s Security Conference, which I can and will discuss. At the BlackBerry event, instead of doing his customary entertaining keynote, Blackberry CEO John Chen interviewed Victor Zhora, who shares responsibility for Ukraine’s…
A large-scale phishing campaign built on typosquatting is targeting Windows and Android users with malware, according to a threat intelligence firm and cybersecurity website. The campaign currently underway uses more than 200 typosquatting domains that impersonate 27 brands to hoodwink web surfers to download malicious software to their computers and phones, BleepingComputer reported Sunday. Threat…
Like many of you, I was enthralled with the holodeck concept when “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (TNG) came out. For many of us, that became the bar for the coming metaverse or 3D web implementation. The holodeck was a photorealistic virtual environment built on the concept of hard light, which could render solid objects…
Sharing high-resolution media online can unintentionally expose sensitive biometric data, according to a report released Tuesday by a cybersecurity company. That can be particularly dangerous, the 75-page report by Trend Micro noted, because people don’t know that they’re exposing the information. The report cited, as an example, the #EyeMakeup hashtag on Instagram, which has nearly…
Significant scientific research recognizes that the climate over the past decades has influenced humans and animals. Reasonable people can debate, and should, about the severity effect level. But it’s also rational to ask what the world can do to mitigate the impact of climate change in a pragmatic, cost-friendly and scalable manner. Schneider Electric is…
Elon Musk has gone on record saying that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts are “a scam” that has “been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” Were we back in the early 2000s, he’d have been right. Back then, Dell’s ESG plan of record was to plant a tree for every complying sale. The entities…
In the wide-open field of videoconferencing tools spawned by the pandemic, the Poly Studio P5 professional webcam should be high on your list of candidates for home or office use. This USB 2.0 plug-and-play camera comes with an integrated type A cable, privacy shutter, and an adjustable monitor clamp that doubles as a desktop base….
The conviction of former Uber Chief Security Officer Joseph Sullivan may pose a chilling reassessment of how chief information security officers (CISOs) and the security community handle network breaches going forward. A San Francisco federal jury on Oct 5. convicted Sullivan of failing to tell U.S. authorities about a 2016 hack of Uber’s databases. Judge…
Will this be the deal that breaks Elon Musk? He’s a risk-taker which has proven to be a good thing in many ways. Businesses like Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink would have either failed or failed to launch successfully without him. However, most of his businesses are also at risk, often because of Musk’s moves. For…
I was fortunate to get a chance to spend some time with Amazon’s new robotic sidekick, Astro, over the past week. Presumably named Astro because of Amazon’s fondness for the lovable dog on the 1960s cartoon series “The Jetsons,” it is now available on an invite-only basis for $1,000. However, the price will eventually climb…
