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Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers

Krebs on Security

“ Bluetana ,” a new mobile app that looks for Bluetooth-based payment card skimmers hidden inside gas pumps, is helping police and state employees more rapidly and accurately locate compromised fuel stations across the nation, a study released this week suggests. student and principal author of the study.

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Keeping up with Quantum Technology | Quantum Computing

Everteam

While everyone is digging deep into the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain and many other new digital transformation phenomena, Quantum Computing has been transformed from theory to reality. Let’s move to how it’s related to computers. What is Quantum Computing? A Quick Quantum look. Too much physics?

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Secret Service. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens.

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Banking on mainframe-led digital transformation for financial services

IBM Big Data Hub

Before the internet and cloud computing , and before smartphones and mobile apps, banks were shuttling payments through massive electronic settlement gateways and operating mainframes as systems of record. Complex analytical queries atop huge datasets on the mainframe can eat up compute budgets and take hours or days to run.

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The software-defined vehicle: The architecture behind the next evolution of the automotive industry

IBM Big Data Hub

Simultaneously, onboard electronics evolve from individual electronic control units to high-performance computers with higher performance and simplified integration. Come by the IBM Meeting Center to learn more about SDV technologies. It interacts with its environment, learns and supports service-based business models.

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Meet new Archive-It and Web Group teammates

Archive-It

Prior to working at the Archive, she studied music composition at Colorado State University and worked with open-source software at Canonical. In school, they studied physics/math (B.S. Rutgers) and machine learning/computational modeling (M.S. Helge Holzmann, Web Data Engineer, Hannover, Germany.

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EU to Force IoT, Wireless Device Makers to Improve Security

eSecurity Planet

Once in place, manufacturers will have 30 months to begin meeting the new legal requirements, giving them until mid-2024 to bring the devices into compliance. The result has been devices with trivial vulnerabilities or flaws that have been solved for a decade or longer in traditional computing. Device Maintenance Still Needed. “New

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