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A telecoms firm owned by American cloud communications company Vonage has been awarded a patent for using blockchain technology to secure communications and recordings. The patent was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on March 12. NewVoiceMedia, Ltd. — a cloud service company based in Basingstoke, England — has been granted a patent…
von Mathias Brandt, 04.03.2019 Die Apple Watch dominiert den Markt für smarte Uhren. Das zeigen aktuelle Zahlen von Strategy Analytics. Demnach hat Apple im vergangenen Jahr 22,5 Millionen Apple Watches verkauft und kommt damit auf einen Marktanteil von 50 Prozent. Dagegen sehen die Absatzzahlen der Konkurrenten eher mickrig aus, wie die Grafik von Statista zeigt.…
von Matthias Janson, 04.03.2019 Die Fahrzeugzahl der Carsharingflotte in Deutschland liegt im fünfstelligen Bereich, die Kundenzahlen gehen in die Millionen. Die Statista-Grafik auf Basis von Carsharing-News-Daten zeigt, wie sich der Markt aufteilt: Nach der Fusion von Car2Go und DriveNow ist ein derzeit übermächtiges Joint-Venture entstanden, dass mit über 1,7 Millionen Kunden und knapp 7500 Fahrzeugen an…
The building that housed the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, shown in 2018. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP) By Ellen Nakashima February 27 The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said, a warning that the Kremlin’s operations against the…
D-Wave, the well-funded quantum computing company, today announced its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 in the company’s current system. The new platform will come to market in mid-2020. The company’s new so-called Pegasus topology connects every qubit to 15 other qubits, up from six in its current topology. With this,…
von Mathias Brandt, 26.02.2019 326 nicht börsennotierte Unternehmen werden laut CB Insights aktuell mit einer Milliarde US-Dollar oder mehr bewertet. 156 dieser sogenannten Einhörner (engl. Unicorns) kommen aus den USA. Weitere 92 sind in China beheimatet. Auch hierzulande gibt es mittlerweile neun Unternehmen mit Einhorn-Status. Neu in die Liste aufgenommen wurde zuletzt die Online-Bank N26…
UNICEF’s investment in blockchain startups extends its mission and also underscores the particularity of scenarios where blockchain promises to be the optimal solution. by Mary K. Pratt Most patients in Mexico get handwritten prescriptions on paper slips. It’s an outdated method of relaying sensitive medical information, rife with inefficiencies and potential security issues. Clinicians can’t…
Behördenschreiben, Amazon-Rechnungen, Gesetzestexte: Forschern ist es gelungen, populären PDF-Readern manipulierte Dokumente unterzujubeln – mit simplen Mitteln. Warnungen gab es fast nie. Montag, 25.02.2019 – Spiegel Online Ihr Erfolg überraschte die Forscher selbst. Kaum ein gängiges Programm merkte es, wenn elektronisch signierte PDF-Dateien in ihren Tests auf simple Weise manipuliert wurden. Rechnungen, Behördenbriefe und Mahnschreiben ließen…
Noch vor dem Start – eine neuentdeckte Sicherheitslücke betrifft auch 5G-Netze 26.02.2019, 08:38 Uhr Forscher haben neue Sicherheitslücken in den 4G- und 5G-Mobilfunkstandards entdeckt. Die Lücken könnten dazu genutzt werden, Telefonate abzufangen und die Position eines Handy-Nutzers zu bestimmen. Eigentlich sollte das Mobilfunknetz der fünften Generation (5G) neben höheren Geschwindigkeiten auch für mehr Sicherheit sorgen.…
1. What is an STO? 2. How is an STO different from an ICO? 3. How is an STO different from an IPO? 4. How are STOs defined and regulated around the world? 5. Are all governments open to the idea of STOs? 6. What are the advantages of an STO? 7. What are the…
South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, SK Telecom (SKT), is partnering with the world’s fifth largest telecoms firm, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, to develop a blockchain-based mobile identification solution. The news was reported in a press release from SKT on Feb. 21. A Memorandum of Understanding between the two firms is to be formalized during the Mobile…
2018 was a rocky year security-wise. Governments, universities, power companies and ‘big name’ entreprises became victims of elaborate hacks. This year, 75% of CEOs and board members name cybersecurity and technology acquisitions among their top priorities. Blockchain-based solutions are among the commonly considered options. And not just among business leaders. Recently, NASA decided to implement…
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Hadoop databases haven’t been getting much interest from hackers so far, compared to other data silos, but that’s changing, according to a new study. Security shop Securonix, reports that its research team has seen a sharp rise in attacks targeting known vulnerabilities in Hadoop components such as Hadoop YARN, Redis, and ActiveMQ in recent months.…
Just watch this – it is self-explanatory: From the author / maker: Firstly, the frontend needs some help! If you are good with JavaScript and would like to contribute, please reach out to me on twitter. cnlohr did the heavy lifting on the backend, so there is mostly just frontend work that needs to…
As long as there are ATMs, hackers will be there to drain them of money. Although ATM-targeted “jackpotting” malware—which forces machines to spit out cash—has been on the rise for several years, a recent variation of the scheme takes that concept literally, turning the machine’s interface into something like a slot machine. One that pays…
That the Soviet-made R-3S air-to-air missile — better known in the West by its NATO-designation AA-2 Atoll — is a copy of the AIM-9B Sidewinder, originally developed and manufactured in the USA, is relatively well-known. How it came to be … isn’t so well-known. It involved the mail. The story began back in summer of…
A simultaneous dual engine failure on modern twin engine commercial airliners is one of the rarest events in aviation. Rare or not, that’s exactly what happened to ANA flight NH985 when it touched down at Osaka Itami (ITM) on Jan. 17. The pilots completed the touchdown and were rolling down the runway when they realized…
The Rippel Effect Systems grenade launcher for drones was on display at the 2019 IDEX show. (Navy photo) The first grenades dropped from drones were an improvised experiment. Like the haphazard scouts of the 1910s who first chucked bombs out of cockpits onto foes below, the quadcopter grenade bombers were hardly a standardized tool…
The Department of Defense will now have the time to investigate information concerning a conflict of interest between two former employees and the $10 billion cloud contract. (BrianAJackson) Judge grants stay of lawsuit to investigate JEDI conflicts of interest An Oracle lawsuit challenging the Department of Defense’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract…
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