GameStop announced last week that it will be closing more than 150 of its stores globally due to “weak sales of certain AAA titles and aggressive console promotions by other retailers.” The chain also mentioned it “anticipates that it will close between two percent to three percent of its global store footprint” in 2017. Nintendo Wire reports: The Q4 window is often the high point of video game sales, yet…
New signs point to possible container shortage
There may be a tightness of container supply during peak periods, a box lessor has warned. There are signs that a container shortage may be on the cards once demand rises with a severe decline in the numbers of boxes sold during 2016 and new Chinese paint regulations coming into effect… Source: http://www.joc.com
Stop Doing Five Things—and Convince Your Execs and Board to Properly Fund Cybersecurity
If you want to convince your execs and board to properly fund cybersecurity, you can start with this: Stop telling them scary stories and using Hollywood clichés to make your case. Hackers . . . hackers . . . hackers . . . they are everywhere. Stealing millions from a bank. Using ransomware to force grandma to pay up or never see the pictures of her grandkids again. Taking and…
Stop Doing Four Things—and Convince Your Execs and Board to Properly Fund Cybersecurity
If you want to convince your execs and board to properly fund cybersecurity, you can start with this: Stop telling them scary stories and using Hollywood clichés to make your case. Hackers . . . hackers . . . hackers . . . they are everywhere. Stealing millions from a bank. Using ransomware to force grandma to pay up or never see the pictures of her grandkids again. Taking and…
Mobile Application Security and Penetration Testing v2 Refreshed
We know it, you know it: things go by at warp speed in the mobile world. Everything – from the hottest smartphone models, the latest operating systems, to the freshest apps – becomes prehistoric and replaced with something faster/stronger/flashier/shinier almost as soon as it launches. With the good comes the bad, however, and along with each of these new technologies are new attack vectors and exploits springing about just as rapidly. Last September, we…
Your Mobile Application Security and Penetration Testing v2 training course has been refreshed!
Thank you for being one of the earliest students of the Mobile Application Security and Penetration Testing v2! First and foremost, we want to congratulate the select few of you for blazing through the certification. And, to those who are yet to take the exams, don’t stop – your eMAPT is already on the horizon! You guys, of all people, know full well how fast devices, OS versions, firmware, apps, and even threats come and go in…
NASA Spends 72 Cents of Every SLS Dollar On Overhead Costs, Says Report
A new report published by the nonpartisan think tank Center for a New American Security shows us where a lot of NASA’s money is being spent. The space agency has reportedly spent $19 billion on rockets — first on Ares I and V, and now on the Space Launch System rocket — and $13.9 billion on the Orion spacecraft. If all goes according to plan and NASA is able to…
Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: One of the scientists who demonstrated conclusively that global warming was an unnatural event with the famous “hockey stick” graph is now warning that giant jetstreams which circle the planet are being altered by climate change. Jetstreams are influenced by the difference in temperatures between the Arctic and the equator. But the Arctic has been warming much faster than tropical climates…
Hacking the Business Email Compromise
BEC attacks are on the rise, but plain-old spoofing of business executives’ email accounts remains more prevalent. Source: http://www.darkreading.com
New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World’s Worst Traffic
“Computer scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a new intelligent routing algorithm that attempts to minimize the occurrence of spontaneous traffic jams — those sudden snarls caused by greedy merges and other isolated disruptions — throughout a roadway network,” reports Motherboard. “It’s both computationally distributed and fast, requirements for any real-world traffic management system. Their work is described in the April issue of IEEE Transactions on Emerging…