The massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack last month on Dyn, the New Hampshire-based Domain Name System (DNS) provider, was mostly an inconvenience. While it took down a portion of the internet for several hours, disrupted dozens of major websites and made national news, nobody died. Nobody even got hurt, other than financially. But …
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At a “Home Hacker Lab” event sponsored by Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB), part of Munich Re, and Prescient Solutions, an ethical hacker revealed how cybercriminals work — and what consumers can do to protect themselves. The October 13 workshop in New York City mounted a remote cyber-attack on an Internet-connected model home inside the American …
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Google Translate has now become better and more natural with the Neural Machine Translation system.(Tim Patterson / Flickr) Google is introducing a new system to translate text. The Neural Machine Translation system will make Google Translate smarter and even more natural. This system is only limited to only eight languages. Though the tech company will …
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Hyundai’s Blue Link smartphone app can now be used through Amazon Alexa’s – the virtual assistant being able to control functions such as starting the engine or charging the EV. If you’re a fan of science fiction you know that one of the running dreams of futurologists has always been the ability to interact and …
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The online retailer plans to add deals every five minutes from now until December 22nd. Time Amazon is adding lots of fulfillment centers in order to deliver packages faster.(Photo: The Motley Fool) Corrections & clarifications: A prior version of the story originally said the below deals would be available over the next 35 days. The story …
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The insecurity and accessibility of a multitude internet of things devices will make them favorite tools of cyber-attackers. After massive denial-of-service attacks in October, security experts are warning that the relative lack of security of the Internet of Things will continue to make connected devices favored targets of attackers looking to create botnets from which …
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The Internet of Things will cause a tsunami of data triggered by billions of sensors of all types deployed around the world. One of the big questions is how marketers will coral and utilize all that consumer activity information. There already is data from smartphone activity, such as information including location, motion and consumer traffic …
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General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — Back in August, GE CEO Jeff Immelt criticized Donald Trump over his racist comments on Muslims and Mexicans, calling them “unacceptable.” Now, Immelt tells Business Insider that while he stands by his view of Trump’s comments, he reaffirms that he’s only ever had positive interactions with …
Over 412 million users of adult websites operated by FriendFinder Networks Inc. were compromised last month in the largest hack of 2016, USA TODAY The Internet of Things promises to seamlessly interconnect our home devices, but also carries the risk of hacking due to poor security measures.(Photo: Thinkstock) SAN FRANCISCO – Having a home full …
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[embedded content] Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, is a number that can go on forever. Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant generally delivers brief answers to questions, but she makes an exception when you ask for the value of pi. Alexa’s not-so-pithy response came to our attention after Reddit user …
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