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We’ve all been there. It’s the middle of the night and you wake up to a sad and sniffly kiddo shuffling into your room. Yup, looks like someone has a temperature. You phone the on-call doctor to make sure it’s nothing serious and then set an alarm so you can make an appointment when the office opens. Yet this time that doctor’s visit could go a little differently. It may not take place in the…

We’ve all been there. It’s the middle of the night and you wake up to a sad and sniffly kiddo shuffling into your room. Yup, looks like someone has a temperature. You phone the on-call doctor to make sure it’s nothing serious and then set an alarm so you can make an appointment when the office opens. Yet this time that doctor’s visit could go a little differently. It may not take place in the…

American tech-driven beauty brand IL MAKIAGE has acquired Israeli deep-tech AI-based computational imaging startup Voyage81 for $40m.  IL MAKIAGE, which is based in New York City’s Soho area, was relaunched in 2018 by brother and sister duo Oran Holtzman and Shiran Holtzman-Erel. Two years later, the company became the fastest-growing online beauty brand in the United States. Voyage81 developed the only patented software in the world that gives smartphones hyperspectral imaging capabilities. Where a normal smartphone photo detects…

Securing the software supply chain is now an everyday concern for developers. As attackers increasingly target open-source components as a way to compromise the software supply chain, developers hold the keys to making their projects as secure as they can be. That’s why Docker continues to invest heavily in our developer tools like Docker Desktop and secure supply chain offerings such as Docker Official Images and Docker Verified Publisher content. This Tuesday, August 17, Docker…

Responsibilities are complex and require different job descriptions, reduced bias and a variety of skill sets, industry leaders say. Image: RawPixel/istockimages Much has been written about the shortage of cybersecurity professionals, and experts say diverse candidates can help fill the void–if organizations would only start thinking differently about how to attract candidates. Women will hold 25% of cybersecurity jobs globally by the end of 2021, according to a projection by Cybersecurity Ventures. That’s up from…

The White House has ordered federal agencies to identify all the critical software in their systems and secure it. The order was issued to the heads of executive departments and agencies on August 10 in a memo from the Office of Management and Budget’s acting director, Shalanda Young. Recipients were given 60 calendar days from the date of the memo’s publication to pinpoint the critical software.  According to the memo, much of the software that the federal…

Threat researcher explains why it’s tricky to tell the difference between legitimate Excel Macros and ones that deliver malware. Image: solarseven, Getty Images/iStockphoto Microsoft released Excel 4.0 for Windows 3.0 and 3.1 in 1992 and many companies still use this functionality in legacy operations. The problem is that bad actors have started using Excel sheets and macros as a new way to deliver malware.  Tal Leibovich, head of threat research at Deep Instinct, explained at…

A large cache of criminal case data belonging to the Dallas Police Department (DPD) is thought to have been lost forever.  About 22 terabytes of data went missing from the DPD computer database when data was migrated from an online, cloud-based archive to a server at the city’s data center in April. The data that disappeared included images, video, audio, case notes and other information gathered by police officers and detectives in relation to cases from before…