Another disruptive trend, another set of headaches for IT. The Internet of Things (IoT), spurred by the arrival of inexpensive storage and better chipsets for connectivity, promises a future where Internet smarts extend far beyond the familiar realm of smartphones and computers. Familiar devices and things never before associated with having Internet intelligence – items like [...]
The latest sign robots are taking over the world: They're building a bridge over an Amsterdam canal. That's the plan at least, for an ambitious project that will use industrial robots to print a metal bridge over water by "drawing" steel structures in 3D. Dutch robotic printing firm MX3D is leading the gravity-defying build. Here's how [...]
SAFE FROM HARM?: Your company may be protected from outside attacks but not from inside ones. By Amir HamzahBack in the day, cyber criminals operated like traditional burglars. They typically broke into systems to steal data like how traditional burglars break past fences, cameras and other physical barriers. Techniques such as crafting malicious code and conducting [...]
HIDDEN AGENDA?: The Washington Post and other US media cited government officials as saying that Chinese hackers were behind the breach. – Reuters WASHINGTON: The US government admitted hackers accessed the personal data of at least four million current and former federal employees, in a vast cyberattack suspected to have originated in China. “As a result [...]