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Cisco research helps countries bridge the digital divide
Co-Authored by Jeff Campbell, Pastora Valero and Dominic Scott. Cisco recently released the results of our 2019 Digital Readiness Index, a report measuring the digital readiness of 141 countries along with analysis of several components of how well-positioned a...
Internet for the future: Revolutionize your network
Participating in the internet for the future
Have you given much thought about what to expect from the Internet of tomorrow? Candidly, this topic has been foremost on my mind lately after I sat down with executives from Cisco to discuss the company’s vision of the Internet for the Future. If you missed my...
Looking for silver linings in the CVE-2020-0601 crypto vulnerability
by Chester Wisniewski The scene stealer in January’s Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft was CVE-2020-0601, a very serious vulnerability in the crypt32.dll library used by more recent versions of Windows. The flaw, which also goes by the names Chain of...
4 killer transportation projects to make your city smarter
Want to improve transport in your city in 2020 but don’t know where to begin? How about taking a leaf out of the book used by the world’s top smart city? In 2019, Stockholm was crowned the world’s smartest city during...
UN report alleges that Saudi crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone
by Lisa Vaas A forensic examination of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s mobile phone has pointed to it having allegedly been infected by personal-message-exfiltrating malware – likely NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus mobile spyware – that came from Saudi...
Apple allegedly made nice with FBI by dropping iCloud encryption plan
Sources told Reuters that Apple may have been convinced by arguments made during the legal fight over cracking the San Bernardino iPhone.
Sonos’s tone-deaf legacy product policy angers customers
Stopping software updates for legacy kit is nothing new, but it's the way the company has done it that has Sonos customers' hackles up.
FBI issues warning about lucrative fake job scams
by John E Dunn What’s the difference between a real job and the horde of fake ones found on the internet? It’s even more basic than the fact that one is fake – fake jobs are suspiciously easy to get interviews for. These hiring scams sound like...
