Dec 01, 2023NewsroomPrivacy / Data Protection Meta-owned WhatsApp has launched a new Secret Code feature to help users protect sensitive conversations with a custom password on the messaging platform. The feature has been described as an “additional way to protect those chats and make them harder to find if someone has access to your phone […]
The US cybersecurity agency CISA has published new guidance to help healthcare and public health organizations understand the cyber threats and risks to their sector and apply mitigations. Titled Mitigation Guide: Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector (PDF), the document was released as a supplemental companion to a Cyber Risk Summary distributed in July, and […]
Advances in AI, IoT and high-performance computing drive the need for additional data center help. With these advances, customers and facility owners need a way to bring more capacity and power density to their data sources. There are two types of data centers: modular data centers (MDCs) and traditional data centers (TDCs). MDCs are economical, […]
Nexusflow, a startup using generative AI to help companies make sense of cybersecurity data, today announced that it raised $10.6 million in a seed round led by Point72 Ventures with participation from Fusion Fund and several AI luminaries in Silicon Valley. The tranche, which values Nexusflow at $53 million post-money, will be put toward hiring, […]
FBI Director Christopher Wray urged private sector organizations to help the agency by coming forward with information regarding malicious cyber activity. Wray told attendees at Mandiant’s annual mWISE 2023 conference Monday that many of the agency’s successful cyber operations in recent years were accomplished with the assistance of private sector partners. He emphasized organization would […]
AuthMind, a Maryland-based startup that aims to help businesses protect themselves from identity-related cyberattacks, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million seed round led by Ballistic Ventures, with strategic participation from IBM Ventures. The company was co-founded by CEO Shlomi Yanai and CTO Ankur Panchbudhe. Both previously founded (and sold) a number of […]
Digital information exchange can be safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly with the help of a new type of random number generator for encryption developed at Linköping University. Experimental setup of the quantum random number generator. The yellow squares on the glass plate are the perovskite LEDs. Photo by Magnus Johansson. The researchers behind the […]
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released new guidance to help federal agencies adopt distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigations. DDoS attacks are a type of cyberattack in which threat actors flood a server or network with internet traffic, exhausting its resources and rendering the target inaccessible. Meant to help federal agencies prevent “large-scale […]
It is important that you know the pros and cons of the formats that are available, to help you confidently choose which format to go for when buying music online (you’ll often be given a choice), when ripping music, and to help you choose the right format for sharing DJ mixes, working on music files […]