Archive for the ‘cybercrime/malcode’ category: Page 199
Jul 12, 2016
Berkshire offers cyber cover for architects and engineers
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: cybercrime/malcode
Not shocked by this because I have seen some of these policies in various forms already.
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. on Tuesday said it has launched a U.S. professional liability policy for architects and engineers that includes cyber coverage.
Professional First Architects & Engineers Professional Liability Insurance’s cyber coverage addresses media, technology and network security and privacy liability exposures, including the cost of responding to a data breach or network extortion threat, BHSI said in a statement.
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Jul 12, 2016
Detecting Cybersecurity Threats
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, energy, robotics/AI
Jul 9, 2016
China Nears Launch Of Its “Hack-Proof” Quantum Satellite
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, quantum physics, satellites
Jul 9, 2016
Technical Failure, Not Hackers, Took Down NATO-Linked Websites
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, geopolitics
Makes me wonder how much money was spent on this technical masterpiece.
WARSAW—Officials blamed technical failure—not a cyberattack—for the recent outages of two websites affiliated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
NATO’s cybersecurity experts were on heightened alert for cyberattacks during the alliance’s biennial summit, which has seen the organization’s top leaders gather in the Polish capital this week.
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Jul 9, 2016
Microsoft calls for independent body to address cyber attribution
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: cybercrime/malcode
Jul 8, 2016
Google Tinkers With Chrome Cryptosecurity To Fight Quantum Hacks
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, encryption, privacy, quantum physics
Glad Google is doing this because next month could be a real test when China launches its Quantum Satellite.
Today’s encryption is an arms race as digital security experts try to hold off hackers’ attempts to break open user data. But there’s a new tech on the horizon that even the NSA recognizes as crucial to protect against: quantum computing, which is expected to dramatically speed up attempts to crack some commonly-used cryptographic schemes. To get ahead of the game, Google is testing new digital security setups on single-digit populations of Chrome users.
Quantum computing is such a potential threat because it can do many more simultaneous calculations than current computers. Modern binary bits can only be in two states when electric current is run through them: 0 or 1. But the ambiguous nature of the quantum state means its elemental units (known as “qubits”) could be in either state at a time, so two could potentially be in four orientations at one time: 00, 01, 10 or 11. That ambiguity is exponential, so three qubits could be in eight at a time, and so on.
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Jul 8, 2016
DARPA Goes Full Tron With Its Grand Battle of the Hack Bots
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
Jul 5, 2016
DARPA’s Hacking Contest Will Pit Machines Against Each Other
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: cybercrime/malcode
Jun 28, 2016
No need in supercomputers
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, information science, particle physics, quantum physics, robotics/AI, singularity, supercomputing
Great that they didn’t have to use a super computer to do their prescribed, lab controlled experiments. However, to limit QC to a super computer and experimental computations only is a big mistake; I cannot stress this enough. QC is a new digital infrastructure that changes our communications, cyber security, and will eventually (in the years to come) provide consumers/ businesses/ and governments with the performance they will need for AI, Biocomputing, and Singularity.
A group of physicists from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, has learned to use personal computer for calculations of complex equations of quantum mechanics, usually solved with help of supercomputers. This PC does the job much faster. An article about the results of the work has been published in the journal Computer Physics Communications.
Senior researchers Vladimir Pomerantcev and Olga Rubtsova, working under the guidance of Professor Vladimir Kukulin (SINP MSU) were able to use on an ordinary desktop PC with GPU to solve complicated integral equations of quantum mechanics — previously solved only with the powerful, expensive supercomputers. According to Vladimir Kukulin, personal computer does the job much faster: in 15 minutes it is doing the work requiring normally 2–3 days of the supercomputer time.
