The websites of several state organisations in Finland were inaccessible due to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack late Wednesday night. A DoS is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator disrupts the services of a host connected to the internet. The attack downed the websites of the Finnish Police, Tax Administration and the Population Register Centre, and caused disturbances at the websites of the Border Guard and the Suomi.fi online information portal. Juha Tretjakov, an IT security expert with t...
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At the public library in Wilmer, Tex., books were checked out not with the beeps of bar code readers but with the scratches of pen on notebook paper. Out on the street, police officers were literally writing tickets — by hand. When the entire computer network that keeps the small town’s bureaucracy afloat was recently hacked, Wilmer was thrown into the digital Dark Ages. “It’s weird,” said Jennifer Dominguez, a library assistant. “We’ve gone old school.&...
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Purdue University is collaborating with cyber defense company Cyberbit to create a cyberattack simulation program for career professionals. Using the Cyberbit Range software platform, Purdue will create a virtual model of an IT network, including servers, routers and applications, in which learners will able to develop their skills by facing simulated attacks such as denial-of-service or ransomware. Purdue and Cyberbit will also work together to enhance the university's cybersecurity offerin...
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A new report reveals how CISOs are shifting priorities and security strategies to manage increasingly advanced threats with limited resources. The Forbes Insight report found that 84 percent of CISOs believe the risks of cyber attacks will increase and almost a quarter believe the capabilities of attackers are outpacing their ability to defend their organization. This issue is compounded with limited resources, it said, including lack of sufficient budget and skilled professionals as well as a t...
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Hackers are always using inventive ways to implant malware on people’s computers, including the cloning of a popular VPN website to spread a banking trojan. Researchers at Doctor Web’s virus lab discovered that criminals created a website that was a copy of the one belonging to virtual private network service NordVPN. This nord-vpn[.]club website, which is currently inaccessible, was almost identical to the official nordvpn.com site. To make this cloned website appear more legitimate...
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Today, Lionbridge, one of the world’s most trusted global communications platforms, announced its acquisition of Gengo, a Tokyo-based, leading edge technology company providing crowdsourcing, machine learning and localization services to global customers. Lionbridge has a 20-year history of leveraging its 500,000 linguistic experts to help the world’s largest companies expand their businesses on the global stage by providing machine learning data to make their platforms and products ...
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Some of the biggest names in the cloud and hardware ecosystem have agreed to join a new industry group focused on promoting safe computing practices. Founding members include Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Swisscom, and Tencent. Named the Confidential Computing Consortium, this industry group's goals will be to come up with strategies and tools to accelerate the adoption of "confidential computing." By confidential computing, the group is referri...
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Lionbridge, the world's most trusted global communications platform, is pleased to announce that it has won the Technology division award for Employee Engagement in the Conference Board's Excellence in Marketing & Communications Awards Program. This prestigious program honors organizations for their innovative use of communications technologies. Last year, Lionbridge developed a new intranet known as The Bridge to help its more than 6,000 employees around the world live out its missi...
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Lionbridge Technologies is proud to announce it has again been named one of America's Best Employers by Forbes, which also recognized Lionbridge as a Best Employer for Women in 2018. The 2019 list recognizes organizations across a variety of industries that employ more than 1,000 people in the U.S. Working with Statista, Forbes deployed an independent survey to a representative sample of the US workforce and reached more than 50,000 employees overall. The rankings were mainly assessed based ...
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Cybersecurity investments in smart cities are “severely lagging” and are “seeding the future vulnerabilities of the IoT ecosystem,” according to new analysis from ABI Research. ABI finds that the financial; information and communication technologies (ICT); and defence industries will account for 56 per cent of the $135 billion projected total cybersecurity spend related to critical infrastructure in 2024. The remaining 44 per cent of the 2024 spend will be split between t...
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