Petya or NoPetya: a ransomware deadlier than WannaCry
Another "ransomware-as-a-service" nightmare - a growing concern that potentially opens up crime to non-technical audiences and opportunists The world is suffering another ransomware nightmare today, with pharmaceutical companies, Chernobyl radiation detection systems, the Kiev metro, an airport, and banks all affected. One U.S. hospital also appears to have become a victim. Worse is expected to come, thanks to some pernicious features in the ransomware sample. The malware wid
Cyberattackers targeting Canadian businesses (through phishing email scams and social engineering)
A group of cyberattackers that has been targeting Canadian businesses in financially-motivated hacks since at least 2013 has been identified in a new report. Cybersecurity firm FireEye has dubbed the group of attackers as “FIN10” in a report titled “FIN10 Anatomy of a Cyber Extortion Operation” released on Friday morning. FIN10 operates in North America with a predominant focus on Canadian organizations, particularly casinos and mining companies. FireEye believes the group is
The Coolest Cybersecurity Software You've Ever Seen
This Startup Recruited a Hollywood Designer to Create the Coolest Cybersecurity Software You've Ever Seen. Thanks to virtual reality, Denver-based ProtectWise is changing what security looks like. Cybersecurity is perhaps more important than ever, yet its aesthetic hasn't changed much over the past two decades. That inspired Scott Chasin, the former CTO of security software firm McAfee, to start a new company. "Most cybersecurity systems have the same interface as the cable m
How big data is helping startups and cities fight gridlock together
Like many drivers, David Alleyne-Martin has seen the engine light on his dashboard occasionally turn on, only to wonder what it means. “It’s the mystery light that tells you something is wrong with your car,” he says. “It’s saying, ‘Go take it in, and someone will figure it out.’” Frustrated by how little he knew about what was going on under the hood, Alleyne-Martin started a company, Drven, aimed at giving motorists a user-friendly look at their cars’ inner workings. For de
Boeing studies pilotless planes as it ponders next jetliner
Boeing Co. is looking ahead to a brave new world where jetliners fly without pilots and aims to test some of the technology next year, the world's biggest plane maker said in a briefing ahead of the Paris Airshow. The idea may seem far-fetched but with self-flying drones available for less than $1,000, "the basic building blocks of the technology clearly are available," said Mike Sinnett, Boeing's vice president of product development. Jetliners can already take off, cruise a
Mercedes Benz and the bus of the future
Mercedes-Benz wants to bring autonomous transportation to the masses. Last year, the company's semi-autonomous bus, called the Future Bus, drove a little more than 12 miles from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to Haarlem, a city just outside Amsterdam. The bus's journey was especially impressive because the route included traffic lights, tunnels, and required the bus to navigate around people. Mercedes is betting self-driving buses like its Future Bus will grow in demand as urba
Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal
Information science promises to change the world Data now stream from daily life: from phones and credit cards and televisions and computers; from the infrastructure of cities; from sensor-equipped buildings, trains, buses, planes, bridges, and factories. The data flow so fast that the total accumulation of the past two years—a zettabyte—dwarfs the prior record of human civilization. “There is a big data revolution,” says Weatherhead University Professor Gary King [6]. But it
Data Visualization: Telling the story of data
What does your data look like? In the era of big data, information comes from an astonishing array of sources. Structured data from within relational databases. Semi-structured documents in various forms of markup. Lightweight data structures stored as JSON, data coming from Twitter and Facebook status messages, along with an explosion of data coming from smartphones and other “sensors.” Natural language processing and big data scoops like Hadoop are also making legacy log da
