RSS_Virtulization

While I was teaching, one of my students asked if I had seen Cybergeddon, a film distributed by Yahoo! in 2012. I had not, so I decided it would be fun for VERT to watch the film and review it, since my hobby is writing film reviews for RotundReviews. Cybergeddon is not talked about as much as it should be given some of the background around it. It should be noted that while we’ll reference…

A panel of experts considers the best methods for safe domestic and international air travel including proof of testing, vaccination passports, and digital health passes. Image: iStock/Vanessa Nunes A recent panel conducted by the security firm Concentric Advisors, “Protocols, Testing, and Proof of Vaccine—What is the future of privacy and travel?” took a deep dive predicting how domestic and international air travel can be safely mandated during the continuing COVID-19 worldwide pandemic.  The panel of…

A South African man has admitted carrying out a cyber-harassment campaign against his neighbors in an attempt to extort money.  Residents of the same quiet street in a Durban suburb that Dharmesh Singh calls home were subjected to weeks of abuse with no idea that the person behind it was their immediate neighbor.  Twenty-three-year-old Singh used unregistered SIM cards to create fake social media profiles from which he sent threatening messages to residents of Battersea Road,…

European consumer groups have accused video-sharing app TikTok of failing to protect minor users from inappropriate content and hidden advertising. The Chinese-owned app was the target of multiple complaints from organizations in 15 different countries on Tuesday for allegedly violating European consumer rights. Along with its treatment of children and teens, the app was slammed for its allegedly unfair terms of service, misleading data-processing practices, and virtual gifts feature critics say modifies the exchange rate so transactions are financially in the…

Many applications can take advantage of GPU acceleration, in particular resource-intensive Machine Learning (ML) applications. The development time of such applications may vary based on the hardware of the machine we use for development. Containerization will facilitate development due to reproducibility and will make the setup easily transferable to other machines. Most importantly, a containerized application is easily deployable to platforms such as Amazon ECS, where it can take advantage of different hardware configurations. In…

By Udi Levy, CEO & Co-Founder at Cobwebs Technologies With a growing number of malicious cyber activities, threat intelligence has become an integral part of many organizations. Most threat intelligence solutions available in the market still rely on analysts or investigators collecting, processing, and analyzing huge amounts of data for actionable insights. Collecting and processing these millions of data points and indicators is just too much for human analysts to effectively identify threats and process…

Balancing Digital: Helping Your Family Manage Ongoing Stress Editor’s Note: This is part I in a series on helping families protect their mental and digital health in times of chronic stress. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or treatment. The data continues to confirm that living with the stress of a prolonged pandemic is taking a toll on the mental health of both the young and old. Add increased…

Google revealed that Gmail users from the United States are the most targeted by email-based phishing and malware. A joint five-month study conducted by Google with Stanford University researchers analyzed over 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users to determine what are factors influence the risk of attack. Experts discovered that malicious campaigns are typically short-lived and indiscriminately target users worldwide. “However, by modeling the distribution of targeted users, we find that…

Fraudulent product reviews for goods sold on Amazon’s Marketplace are available to purchase by the bundle, according to an investigation by consumer group Which? The group identified 10 different websites including AMZTigers from which Amazon sellers could purchase positive reviews at prices starting from £5 each. In return for their services, reviewers accept free products, discounted products, or payment.  Sellers could also purchase “packages” of fake reviews ranging in price from £15 for one package up to…