A Primer On The Internet Of Things | Avast
The city of Portland, Ore. has set out to fully leverage the Internet of Things and emerge as a model “smart” city.
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How Hackers Set The Pace | Avast
In cybersecurity, the bad guys almost always have a head start on the good guys. There are several reasons for this, but basically security is fundamentally reactive, and there is asymmetry in the battle.
Garry Kasparov On La Liga And Privacy | Avast
I’ve often written here about how companies exploit our tendency to accept lax security defaults. People don’t have time to read thousands of pages of terms of service or bother to ask why a mobile game needs to know their ID and location. (It’s usuall…
Does The U.S. Need Its Own Privacy Law? | Avast
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become the world’s gold standard for user privacy and breach disclosure regulation. It affects any business around the world that processes or stores the personal data of individuals re…
Does The U.S. Need Its Own Privacy Law? | Avast
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become the world’s gold standard for user privacy and breach disclosure regulation. It affects any business around the world that processes or stores the personal data of individuals re…
How Did Ransomware Become A Lasting Threat? | Avast
“All we know is MONEY! Hurry up! Tik Tak, Tik Tak, Tik Tak!”
AI Is on Our Side | Avast
Headlines about ethical AI and stories about the dangers of artificial intelligence make me wonder if there would have been articles about ethical hammers or the dangers of knives had media and social media existed back when they were invented. Hammers…
How Do Nations Hack Each Other?
Cyber espionage turned a corner this spring when Israeli fighter jets eradicated a building in the Gaza Strip believed to house Hamas cyber operatives carrying out attacks on Israel’s digital systems.
Garry Kasparaov Asks Can AI Be Evil? | Avast
It’s always a great pleasure to talk with one of the founding fathers of cybernetics and computation. One of the benefits of AI and robotics being relatively young fields is that many of the people who created them are not only still alive, but are sti…
GDPR Leads Charge for Better IoT Security | Avast
We recently looked at some of the threats that come from smart or connected devices in the home, and the solutions we can employ. The threats arise because the devices are often inherently insecure when we buy them. The full solution seems obvious – ma…