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WALB-TV
April 25, 2018
Lee County has noticed other Georgia cities like Atlanta and Savannah having their computer systems hacked, and are taking preemptive steps to try to ... hired the software company Network Technology Solutions to install top of the line software to protect the information stored in their computer network.
The Conversation US
April 25, 2018
Protecting hospitals' computer networks is crucial to preserving patient privacy – and even life itself. Yet recent research shows that the health care ... A major challenge in hospitals' cybersecurity is the enormous number of devices with access to a facility's network. As with many businesses, these includeÃâà...
The Hill
April 25, 2018
on Tuesday introduced a bill that aims to boost the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) ability to protect federal computer networks from foreign attacks. Feinstein's Federal Network Protection Act clarifies that the head of DHS has the authority to issue orders, known as Binding Operational DirectivesÃâà...
Times Higher Education (THE)
April 23, 2018
Requirements: an excellent university degree (Master or Diploma) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, mathematics, or statistics with strong background in some of the following areas: statistics, data mining, and programming; experience in implementation (Matlab, R, C or C++); fluency inÃâà...
Analytics India Magazine
April 23, 2018
In the study, clustering aspects of machine learning is considered to detect network anomalies. Academics, say that the approach follows ... harbored by cyber-criminals. This study will definitely serve beneficial for future avenues to counter attacks on computer networks using big data and machine learning.
Live Science
April 23, 2018
A neural network would translate the muscle movements to speech and do the user's bidding — totally hands- and voice-free. "The motivation for this was to build an IA device — an intelligence-augmentation device," Arnav Kapur, a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and lead author of a paperÃâà...
Roll Call
April 23, 2018
Government agencies are increasingly buying and installing internet-connected devices in offices, and that poses greater challenges for government computer networks, Martina said. The bill would require the Office of Management and Budget and the National Institute of Standards and Technology toÃâà...
AppleInsider
April 15, 2018
... it to the Mac via USB, but this option involves spending money. However, if you happen to have another computer with a suitable drive on the network, such as an older MacBook or a Windows PC, you can take advantage of its optical drive on a Mac without the necessary hardware, via Remote Sharing.
Sputnik International
April 15, 2018
UK Reportedly Mulls Attacking Russia's Computer Network Amid Skripal Probe ... The sources said that the UK cyber-intelligence agency GCHQ and the country's Defense Ministry are already on high alert to respond "proportionately", with cyber-experts "pre-positioned" inside computer networks ofÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
April 13, 2018
A Microsoft network engineer is facing federal money-laundering charges linked to the Reveton Trojan malware, which freezes victims' computers and tries to force them to pay a “fine” or ransom. Raymond Uadiale, 41, a former Miramar resident who, his attorney said, previously taught mathematics atÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
April 13, 2018
Does Title 10 impose a legal barrier on U.S. Cyber Command conducting operations outside of the Pentagon's own networks? That's the question raised earlier this week by this story from Chris Bing at Cyberscoop (an increasingly interesting site), which builds on recent congressional testimony fromÃâà...
Hindustan Times
April 11, 2018
Some subordinate staff in the Union Home Ministry would see pornographic content on internet and download malware in office, leading to compromise of the computer networks, former Union Home Secretary GK Pillai said in Mumbai on Wednesday. “When I was the Union Home Secretary almost 8-9Ãâà...
Becker's Hospital Review
April 5, 2018
The health system's computer network suffered a major disruption around 6:30 p.m. April 4; however, by 2 a.m. April 5, the problem had been resolved. All 14 of the system's hospitals — located in Wisconsin and Minnesota — were affected by the outage, which led staff to operate under "standard offlineÃâà...
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
April 5, 2018
Staff at Allina Health System hospitals were knocked offline Wednesday evening by a widespread computer outage. KMSP-TV reports on the outage, which apparently affected all of Minneapolis-basd Allina's hospitals. Allina officials said they were investigating the cause but that all its hospitals were openÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 5, 2018
Allina Health, one of Minnesota's largest clinic and hospital systems, suffered a computer network failure on Wednesday night, but officials said medical care was not affected and there is no evidence that it was caused by a malicious hack or external tampering. “We have no evidence that this was the resultÃâà...
TechTarget
April 4, 2018
So, in a given message between users, there will be a flow of data down through the layers in the source computer, across the network, and then up through the layers ... The seven layers of function are provided by a combination of applications, operating systems, network card device drivers and networking hardware thatÃâà...
TechTarget
April 3, 2018
In the scanning phase, the attacker finds information about the specific IP addresses that can be accessed over the Internet, their operating systems, the system architecture, and the services running on each computer. In the enumeration phase, the attacker gathers information such as network user and group names,Ãâà...
Proactive Investors UK
April 3, 2018
Corero Network Security PLC (LON:CNS) said it has secured several new orders for its cybersecurity technologies to the tune of US$1.2mln. The AIM-listed cybersecurity firm said the orders included two for its SmartWall Threat Defense technology with a cloud-based web development customer and aÃâà...
WABE 90.1 FM
April 3, 2018
The bill does protect people who access computer networks for “legitimate business activity” and “cybersecurity active defense measures.” ... we were one of only three states in the nation where it was not illegal to access a computer or computer network so long as nothing was disrupted, altered or stolen,”Ãâà...
Calgary Herald
March 30, 2018
“As a result of a critical upgrade we needed to do from the back end of our network system, some of our systems did not come back online as planned,” said Moseley. “Our teams here responded as quickly as we could to get our systems back up, but what really were impacted were a lot of our passengers.”.
The New Yorker
March 30, 2018
The Times called last week's hack into the computer network of the largest city in the southeastern United States, which is home to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Coca-Cola Company, “one of the most sustained and consequential cyberattacks ever mounted against a majorÃâà...
Science Daily
March 29, 2018
The recipe for the success of this computer programme is made possible through a combination of the so-called Monte Carlo Tree Search and deep neural networks based on machine learning and artificial intelligence. A team of researchers from the University of Muenster in Germany has nowÃâà...
MIT Technology Review
March 29, 2018
The value of a network is famously accredited to Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and founder of the computer networking company 3Com. Metcalfe's Law states that a network's value is proportional to the square of the number of its users. It's straightforward to calculate a value for Bitcoin based on theÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 29, 2018
Mr Edwards remarked: “Obviously, Boeing isn't going to be running its entire production network on Windows. “I hope not. So it's likely a limited infection.” The analyst also stated that a “nightmare scenario” of planes being hit with a ransomware attack during a flight was “hysteria”. He went on: “The planeÃâà...
TechTarget
March 29, 2018
UTM devices are often packaged as network security appliances that can help protect networks against combined security threats, including malware and attacks that simultaneously target separate parts of the network. UTM cloud services and virtual network appliances are becoming increasingly popular for networkÃâà...
Tahlequah Daily Press
March 28, 2018
The Tahlequah Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors approved the purchase of a new computer networking system and updated equipment and software during a meeting Tuesday morning. "Our computer system, our computers and our software are very old," said Cindy Morris, TACC executiveÃâà...
Anglophone Tribune
March 28, 2018
The report emphasizes on the regional market, the key players within the market, and also the numerous market segments with associate degree in-depth analysis on totally different divisions and their applications. The report offers comprehensive knowledge on the individual segments of the PhysicalÃâà...
Insurance Journal
March 28, 2018
... and other city functions may be slow for a while because city workers have to do things manually rather than using their computers. Bottoms says the city is working around the clock with federal agency and private sector help. But she declined to say when she expects the network to be running normally.
Insurance Journal
March 26, 2018
City officials worked around the clock Friday to get things up and running again after a ransomware cyberattack that hobbled the city of Atlanta's computer network last week. The city's information security team noticed that something was amiss with the city's server about 5:40 a.m. Thursday and began anÃâà...
Newburgh Gazette
March 25, 2018
At this time city officials are saying that public safety and airport operations are unaffected. "Our city website, Atlantaga.gov, remains accessible and we will provide updates as we receive them." officials said in a statement. Thursday afternoon, Cox said several departments were affected, too. Atlanta isn'tÃâà...
Buffalo News
March 24, 2018
Buffalo Public Schools said there was no data breach or information lost during an attack on its computer network. District officials said it encountered a "denial of service" attack on Wednesday, which is when someone floods a network with so much traffic it prevents users from accessing Internet service,Ãâà...
MyAJC
March 23, 2018
Farrell said cities often resist investing in their computer networks but use third party applications to satisfy customer demands. Those outdated systems were often never intended to use modern day applications, she said. While she couldn't speak specifically about the city's network, Farrell said it would beÃâà...
CNBC
March 23, 2018
A spokesman says Atlanta's airport has taken down its Wi-Fi network and disabled parts of its website "out of an abundance of caution" following a ransomware cyberattack on the city's computer network. City officials said that the city had been hit by an attack that included the encryption of some city data.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
March 23, 2018
“The city network has been compromised,” the statement said. “If you have not already, please unplug your Ethernet cable from your desktop in an effort to prevent possible corruption, but the damage may already have been done. Unfortunately, this may affect payroll. Please let everyone know that thisÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 23, 2018
More than 24 hours after a ransomware cyberattack targeting the city of Atlanta's computer network was discovered, the fallout still wasn't clear. .... a clear silver lining for municipalities" because it could motivate the city to put resources and political will behind making its networks more secure, he said.
SiliconANGLE (blog)
March 23, 2018
Atlanta is the latest victim of a broad-scale ransomware attack that knocked out computer networks across the city. The attack was described in a press conference by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as “outages in various internal and external customer facing applications,” including payment systemsÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 23, 2018
City of Atlanta computer network hit by ransomware attack. City officials are talking to federal agencies about whether they will pay a ransom. Mar.23.2018 / 6:20 AM ET / Source: Associated Press. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms holds a press conference on the ransomware cyberattack that hit the city of Atlanta'sÃâà...
Sacramento Business Journal
March 22, 2018
Sacramento software developer Gluware Inc. has launched a new networking technology that it says can save large companies months of time upgrading their computer networks. The technology, announced in a news release Tuesday, works on nearly any existing enterprise network, said Jeff Gray,Ãâà...
Kenosha News
March 21, 2018
This year's club focused on computer networking essentials and cyber security. Students learned about the seven layer Open Systems Interconnection model, studying their components and experimenting with a variety of network types while exploring the differences between bandwidth and latency,Ãâà...
Chronicle Telegram
March 21, 2018
WELLINGTON — Wellington Schools is fighting a computer virus that found its way into the district's computer network system. District superintendent Ed Weber said the district discovered the virus March 11 and have frozen computer networks until further notice. The district's information technology staffÃâà...
insideHPC
March 20, 2018
Like other complex systems, computer networks can break down and suffer bottlenecks. Keeping such systems ... Being at ESnet, which has led networking research for years, provides immense experience and capabilities to learn and apply solutions to a high-speed network that is built to think, she says.
ComputerWeekly.com
March 19, 2018
It consists of the policies and practices that businesses implement to protect their computer networks from cyber attacks. .... more of the functions traditionally handled in the enterprise datacentre, which has shifted some investment, including that historically allocated to on-premises networking and network security,” he says.
Computerworld
March 19, 2018
That's not the case – history shows that other, focused social networking services have been able to deliver more features faster than Apple has in this space. History also ... While the popularity of the big social networks proves the demand for services of this kind, a truly private network doesn't really exist.
WOSU
March 19, 2018
“The network acts as this unchangeable record because each entry has unique set of random numbers associated with it, in computer technology it's called a hash. The data entries on ... NASA is using blockchain to help build intelligent computer networks in deep space far from a centralized computer hub.
Grand Haven Tribune
March 17, 2018
The state agreed or partially agreed with most of the auditor's findings, but disagreed with how serious some of the findings are, insisting it has strong measures in place to protect the state's computer system from outside attacks. "The data held within the state government network is safe and secure due toÃâà...
New York Times
March 17, 2018
Mr. Lamo was 22 when federal prosecutors accused him of breaking into The Times's computer network, creating fake usernames and running up over $300,000 in data research fees. Mr. Lamo also gained access to the computer networks of Yahoo, Microsoft and Cingular Wireless, prosecutors said.
Enterprise Storage Forum
March 16, 2018
There are various forms of storage networking, including network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs). ... to standardize on Ethernet-based networking equipment rather than use Fibre Channel solely for their SANs and Ethernet for the rest of their computer networking requirements.
News at UNG
March 16, 2018
In the textbook "Computer and Network Essentials," Two UNG professors analyzes best practices for securing computer networks in a chapter titled, ... Dr. Bryson Payne, director of the Center for Cyber Operations Education and professor of computer science in the Mike Cottrell College of Business at theÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 16, 2018
Perlroth and Sanger reported three years ago on a Kaspersky report that concluded that the United States “has found a way to permanently embed surveillance and sabotage tools in computers and networks it has targeted in Iran, Russia, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan and other countries closely watched byÃâà...
Crain's Detroit Business
March 16, 2018
Auditors have flagged the state of Michigan for gaps that could increase the risk of its computer network being hacked. An audit released Friday made 14 findings, including five that are "material" — the most serious. The Office of the Auditor General says the Department of Technology, Management andÃâà...
