Optiv’s Tim Hoffman says the Northeast region, in particular, is important to the solution providers because of its high concentration of Fortune 500 and large enterprise companies. Source: www.crn.com
Trump’s TSA Budget Fails to Cut the Obvious: Air Marshals
Opinion: The Trump administration should direct more funding to TSA programs that prevent actually terrorism—not the air marshals.Source: https://www.wired.com
Qualcomm’s New Processor Brings 4G To Feature Phones As Company Eyes Growth in Developing Markets
With smartphone growth tapped out in many developed countries, the biggest opportunities remaining are in markets where consumers have considerably less disposable income. Qualcomm moved Monday to address this next wave with a renewed chipset for lower-end smartphones and feature phones (“candy phones”). From a report on Fortune: Dubbed the 205 Mobile Platform, the chips will allow less expensive smartphones and even feature phones to connect to 4G LTE networks,…
Mozilla Patches Pwn2Own Zero Day in Firefox
Mozilla patched a zero day uncovered at Pwn2Own in Firefox in 22 hours on Friday. Source: www.threatpost.com
Cisco Warns of Critical Vulnerability Revealed in ‘Vault 7’ Data Dump
Cisco said an unpatched critical vulnerability exposed by WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 release of CIA documents could give an attacker full control of the targeted switches and routers. Source: www.threatpost.com
Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds
From a report on The Guardian, shared by five anonymous readers: Happiness in the US is declining and is expected to continue on a downward path, with Donald Trump’s policies forecast to deepen the country’s social crisis. The US has slipped to 15th place in the World Happiness Report 2017, produced by the United Nations. The world’s economic superpower is well behind top-ranked Norway, although it remains above Germany in…
Solution Providers Say Focus On Application, DevOps Security At All-Time High
A growing threat landscape and an expanding application footprint have laid the groundwork for increased demand for web and application security, now one of CISOs’ top five priorities. Source: www.crn.com
Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion
Students attending Boston public schools are now getting a more accurate depiction of the world after the school district rolled out a new standard map of the world that show North America and Europe much smaller than Africa and South America. From a report on The Guardian: In an age of “fake news” and “alternative facts”, city authorities are confident their new map offers something closer to the geographical truth…
Ebay: Yes, Speedy Shipping Really Is a Thing With Us
Fast shipping is — finally — no longer all about Amazon. From a report on CNET: On Monday, eBay announced it will offer a new guaranteed-delivery program in the US starting this summer, pledging deliveries in three or fewer days for more than 20 million products. For the first time, Ebay’s shoppers will be able to filter searches to see only items guaranteed to arrive in one, two or three…
H1-415 Hackathon Delivers to Customers, Community, and Hackers
Just a few short weeks ago, an elite group of hackers huddled in conference rooms in a San Francisco high-rise, spending a day hunting software bugs for Airbnb and Shopify. Down the hall, eager groups of students from middle school to college were on h…