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Richard Adhikari

Richard Adhikari

Contributing Writer at TechNewsWorld

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Amazon Trying Out Hand-Scanning Payment System: Report

Amazon is testing scanners that can identify a human hand to use as a payment method for in-store purchases. The company plans to introduce “Orville” to some Whole Foods stores by the beginning of 2020, and later expand it to all locations in the United States. Employees at Amazon’s New York offices are said to be using the technology to buy items such as sodas, chips, granola bars and phone chargers from specially equipped vending machines. The high-tech sensors used in the pilot use computer v…
about 5 years ago
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New Flaws in Intel's CPU Software Guard Extensions Revealed - TechN...

Two separate teams of academic researchers have published papers describing flaws in Intel’s Software Guard Extensions. SGX enhances application security by letting developers partition sensitive information into enclaves with hardware-assisted enhanced security protection. The aim is to protect application code and data from disclosure or modification. The recently uncovered flaws can prevent SGX from achieving its goal by compromising long-term storage, and by allowing attackers to control dat…
over 4 years ago
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The Perils of IT Security Hubris

Corporate cybersecurity has been increasingly compromised since organizations began implementing work-from-home policies in March as the pandemic continued its spread. In addition to the risks created by increased stress on personnel and depleted staff, IT leaders might be overconfident about the cy…
about 4 years ago
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Tech Job Market Hot for the Near Future

Computer systems design and related services added 13,000 jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s August jobs report. IT employment in July was up by more than 203,000 positions since the COVID-19 outbreak; and there were more than 235,000 job postings by U.S. employers, according to the Computing Technology Industry Association.
about 4 years ago
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Controversial Plan Urges DoD to Recruit Tech Pros to WFH

The United States Defense Innovation Board has recommended that the Pentagon hire civilians to work from home who can handle classified information as a way of attracting people with technology expertise. The individuals sought “will have technical degrees and/or highly specialized skills in digital technologies and innovation needed across the U.S. Department of Defense,” which is undergoing digital transformation.
about 4 years ago
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Drones for Hire Take to the Skies

Drones are now commonly used for aerial photography and videography, to cover live events, deliver small items, and to survey dangerous places and situations. While some companies maintain their own drone force, others prefer to outsource their use of drones to service providers that deal with the regulatory and legal issues that crop up with the commercial use of UAVs.
about 4 years ago
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Cyberthreat Hunter FireEye Hacked by Nation-State Attackers

Cybersecurity firm FireEye, which has been prominent in the fight against nation-state cyberthreats, has been itself attacked by “a highly sophisticated threat actor, one whose discipline, operational security, and techniques,” company CEO Kevin Mandia announced Tuesday. This indicates the attack is likely state-sponsored, by a nation “with top-tier offensive capabilities.”
almost 4 years ago
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Scientists Press AI Researchers for Transparency

An international group of scientists is demanding scientific journals demand more transparency from researchers in computer-related areas when accepting their reports for publication. They also want computational researchers to include information about their code, models and computational environments in published reports.
almost 4 years ago
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Trend Micro Handles VM Security Sans Agents - TechNewsWorld

Trend Micro on Tuesday announced an agentless antimalware module for VMware virtual environments in its Deep Security 7.5 product. The company also announced on Tuesday that it’s throwing open its Trend Micro SecureCloud beta to the public. Both products will protect data in the virtual environment as well as in the cloud. Deep Security 7.5 combines agentless antimalware with agentless intrusion detection and agentless Web application protection. Traditionally, security, monitoring and other app…
about 3 years ago
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The UK Riots, RIM and the Price of Privacy - TechNewsWorld

London’s burning, and it may lead to a clampdown on social media in the UK. UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday suggested censoring social media in response to the violence. Mobs reportedly communicating in part through BlackBerry Messenger, and later social media sites, wreaked havoc throughout the UK. Research In Motion’s UK office responded to news of the disturbances by tweeting that it would help the authorities in any way it could. That led to a storm of protest and the hijacking o…
almost 2 years ago
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The Virtualization Challenge, Part 5: Virtualization and Security -...

The concept of virtualization is so relatively new that there’s a lot of uncertainty as to just how and where to implement security. “The debate goes back and forth; like any technology, you can argue that virtualization makes things more secure or less secure,” Kevin Epstein, vice president of products for Scalent Systems, told TechNewsWorld. While there certainly are security issues, it’s not clear whether they are greater or lesser in extent than existing security issues.
almost 2 years ago