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Bislang konnten Gründerinnen ihre Identität nur beim Notartermin vor Ort prüfen lassen, das soll nun auch digital gehen. [ Schade … von einer Aktiengesellschafts-Anmeldung wie bei einer C-Corporation im US Bundesstaat Delaware für unter $180 online in 20 Minuten sind wir nach wie vor noch meilenweit entfernt — das macht in Deutschland einfach keinen Spaß…
Waiting like a lame duck, until it is our turn to get compomised? Just before Christmas 2020 the German publishing house “Funke Gruppe” – which publishes multiple newspapers, magazines, ad-papers etc in print and digital formats – was hit with a ransomware attack, which has shut it down over the holidays, and continues to be…
In this exclusive and groundbreaking report, Free Russia Foundation has translated and published five documents from the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency. The documents, obtained and analyzed by Free Russia Foundation’s Director of Special Investigations Michael Weiss, details the GRU’s modern psychological warfare program and are dated from within the last decade. The documents include…
Fields in California’s Central Valley agricultural region. Wall Street has begun trading water as a commodity, like gold or oil. The country’s first water market launched on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange this week with $1.1 billion in contracts tied to water prices in California, Bloomberg News reported. The market allows farmers, hedge funds, and municipalities…
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has been investing in quantum technology in the hopes that it will improve existing sensors on the battlefield and could lead to a solution for GPS-denied environments. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has been investing in quantum technology in the hopes that it will improve existing sensors on the battlefield and could…
[ROFL: I made that same move in 1998 already – for exactly the same reason] Texas has no state income tax and Elon Musk’s move to shift to Texas could save him billions of dollars. New York (CNN Business) — Tesla’s CEO says he has relocated to the Lone Star State. Elon Musk revealed his…
[Nicht zu verwechseln mit der Cybersicherheitsagentur – ADIC – des Bundes mit Sitz in Halle/Leipzig – eine gemeinsame Initiative der Bundeswehr und des Innenministeriums. … oder den vielen anderen Bestrebungen: Agentur für Sprunginnovationen BMBF, ZITIS, CIH, Forschungsinstitut Cyber Defence (CODE) Universität der Bundeswehr München, usw] Baden-Württemberg möchte Kräfte im Bereich der Cybersicherheit bündeln und eine…
A new set of vulnerabilities has been discovered affecting millions of routers and IoT and OT devices from more than 150 vendors, new research warns. Researchers – as well as the U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – are warning of a set of serious vulnerabilities affecting TCP/IP stacks. The flaws impact millions of internet-of-things…
The quantum computer Jiuzhang manipulates light via a complex arrangement of optical devices (shown). A second type of quantum device performed a calculation impossible for a traditional computer. A new type of quantum computer has proven that it can reign supreme, too. A photonic quantum computer, which harnesses particles of light, or photons, performed a…
Any sort of battle-ready machine-human interface using brain signals is likely decades away. So far, it is monkeys-for-soldiers. (Courtesy of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — DARPA) WASHINGTON — A breakthrough in decoding brain signals could be the first step toward a future where soldiers silently communicate during operations. New research funded by the…
Artificial Intelligence: ANI, LogicGate Computing, AGI, ASI GPT-3 seems to suggest it is a form of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI); however, its name “Generative Pre-trained Transformer – 3” includes “pre-trained”, so still relies heavily on machine learning. It is a very big step forward, and went widely unnoticed: for that very reason it is on…
2020 marks a new era for mining institutionalization, bringing with it both benefits and challenges. There are very few investments that can deliver an infrastructure-style downside case with a venture-capital-style upside. The combination of energy arbitrage with accumulating a balance sheet of Bitcoin (BTC) can deliver this. That is why we are seeing a rush…
CBDCs won’t fundamentally be changing anything — central banks still want to control your wealth and your money. By Mark Binns Mark my words: Governments and central banks will never care about your wealth and your privacy as much as you do. That reality is exactly why central bank digital currencies are dead in the…
The launch of a new ‘censored’ mining pool has some Bitcoiners worried its a harbinger of things to come. Blockchain analytics platform BlockSeer has launched the private beta version of a new Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool (Blockseer Mining Pool) that censors transactions from blacklisted wallets. The pool will use BlockSeer and Walletscore’s labeling data among…
The EU Cybersecurity Act’s first anniversary: one step closer to a cyber secure Europe The CSA has put the conversation of Cybersecurity into action through a stronger ENISA and the creation of the EU cybersecurity certification framework. On 27 June 2020, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) celebrates the first anniversary of the EU…
In a record-breaking year, the SEC seized $4.68 billion — more than a quarter of which came from cryptocurrency-related firms. The Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has collected more than $4.68 billion in illegal income and fines this year so far — with more than one quarter coming from Telegram’s ill-fated…
The Silk Road saga gets more airtime on the latest CBS News documentary Mainstream U.S. media outlet CBS aired a documentary on Nov 10th on the takedown of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. It features an interview with Julia Vie, former girlfriend of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht who claims ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ wasn’t…
Researchers have disclosed the details of a new side-channel attack method that can be used to obtain sensitive information from a system by observing variations in the processor’s power consumption. The attack method has been dubbed PLATYPUS (Power Leakage Attacks: Targeting Your Protected User Secrets) due to the fact that the platypus can detect weak…
The Event We are hosting a Control Systems Cybersecurity Virtual Conference as a part of our Hack the Building event. At the conference businesses will present their solutions for addressing critical infrastructure cyber challenges. Hack the Building is a cyber exercise and technology showcase that includes a conglomerate of offensive and defensive teams from across…
Obviously, financial applications come to mind instantly … With its (planned) network of up to 46,000 small satellites (eventually; 12,000 to start out with) in low orbit, and interconnectivity by laser-based optical communications in the vaccum of space, this infrastructure can beat any terrestrial communications in the sense of latency, and even speed. For a…
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