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How the National Guard trains its cyber soldiers

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The National Guard is best known for helping in natural disasters and domestic emergencies at the state level, but it also has a longstanding and perhaps surprising mandate: responding to cyberattacks. That requires a lot of training, and the Guard this week …

FBI issues warnings about explicit deepfake images

AI By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Deepfake still photos and videos have plagued the online world for several years, but now the stakes are getting higher. The problem is deepening as the quality of the fakes gets better and the ease of creating them gets easier, especially since …

New ways to reduce the chances of ransomware attacks

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Just this past week, ransom attacks have hit a major Spanish bank, a Canadian university and a legal software-as-a-service platform. So it’s good timing that two reports released in the past month from IBM Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are providing guides …

Freed from the corporate data center, cloud-based GPUs come of age

CLOUD By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The time has come for running graphic processing unit chips in the cloud. Virtual machines running GPUs are increasingly being offered by the cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services Inc.’s EC2 P4d, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure N series and Google LLC’s Compute Engine. Some …

Fixing email security: It’s still a rocky road ahead

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The foundational protocols for making email more secure and less of a threat have been in place for almost a decade, yet they remain mostly unused, poorly implemented and largely ineffective. A recent report from Sendlayer shows just how much of a problem that …

US to launch Moonlighter cybersecurity satellite this week

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

If all goes well, outer space will have its first capture-the-flag hacking competition later this summer. In early June, a SpaceX Falcon rocket sent into Earth orbit the Moonlighter satellite. It’s the world’s first and only hacking sandbox in space, designed and …

How the Mirai botnet continues to threaten business networks

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

One of the most powerful pieces of malware began with the efforts of three American teens who were motivated by playing “Minecraft” in 2014. Called Mirai, it would go on to crash Germany’s largest internet provider, knock Dyn’s Domain Name System servers …

With Project Fort Zero, Dell expands its zero-trust security offerings

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Dell Technologies Inc. announced today its Project Fort Zero as the latest in a series of its zero-trust networking services and products. The project is a combination of a public/private partnership with the U.S. government and the Maryland Innovation Security Institute’s Dreamport facility along …

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