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Sierra Wireless expands board of directors with the appointment of Gregory L. Waters

Sierra Wireless, the leading IoT solutions provider that combines devices, network services and software to unlock value in the connected economy, announced the appointment of …

Sohaib Abbasi joins Nutanix board of directors

Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced it has added Sohaib Abbasi to its board of directors. “Sohaib is a great addition to our board. He is a …

industrial
Widely available ICS attack tools lower the barrier for attackers

The general availability of ICS-specific intrusion and attack tools is widening the pool of attackers capable of targeting operational technology (OT) networks and industrial …

World Health Organization
Hackers try to breach WHO, other COVID-19-fighting orgs

“Elite” hackers have tried – and failed – to breach computer systems and networks of the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this month, Reuters …

businessman
What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?

Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also …

Python
Python backdoor attacks and how to prevent them

Python backdoor attacks are increasingly common. Iran, for example, used a MechaFlounder Python backdoor attack against Turkey last year. Scripting attacks are nearly as …

insider threat
Social isolation is a risk factor for scam loss

The coronavirus crisis is forcing people to distance themselves from others, work remotely, and spend time indoors and online. While social distancing is a good health …

virtual reality
Increasing number of false positives causing risk of alert fatigue

More than two-fifths (43%) of organizations experience false positive alerts in more than 20% of cases, while 15% reported more than half of their security alerts are false …

virus
Top priorities for business leaders during COVID-19 crisis

88% of organizations have encouraged or required employees to work from home, regardless of whether or not they showed coronavirus-related symptoms, according to a Gartner …

Faraday’s 28Gbps programmable SerDes PHY now available on UMC’s 28HPC process technology

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), a leading global semiconductor foundry, and Faraday Technology Corporation, a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, announced …

Amnimo to develop an industrial-use LTE gateway, Edge Gateway

As IIoT continues to proliferate, examples of user work process improvements are increasing, but at the same time, we are witnessing operational issues such as suppressing …

MaxLinear welcomes Greg Dougherty to board of directors

MaxLinear, a leading provider of radio frequency (RF), analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for the connected home, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial …

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