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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Connected car hacking: Who's to blame?

I’ve just about recovered from the sensory overload that is CES to gather my thoughts from what was another fascinating event. This blog, on connected car hacking, is the first of two posts.
New cars are networked computers with an engine attached. Yours doesn’t sync with your phone when it detects you driving? That’s so 2016. At this year’s CES, we saw cars that attempt to connect all the dots along your morning commute, including suggesting routes with less congestion, reminding you of appointments and such. But when this complex ecosystem has issues, who do you call? Auto manufacturers point to the third party computer systems, and they, in turn, point to upstream providers. You’re now driving a tech mashup that just happens to be mobile.


Connected car hacking: Who's to blame?

Attacks That Change the Course of History

Data theft is steadily refashioning itself as a political weapon. This past December, Barack Obama took advantage of his final days in office to take retaliatory measures against Russia. The Obama administration attributes to its Muscovite counterpart the cyberattacks carried out over the course of the recent presidential elections whose goal it was to tip the scales in Donald Trump’s favor for the presidential bid.



Attacks That Change the Course of History

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Public and Private Cloud Adoption - What Financial Services Need to Know

Back in 1950 the first broadly available credit card was introduced to provide people with an alternative and more convenient payment option to cash. In the late 1950s mainframe computers debuted, and by 1969 the first ATM was installed. And in 1983 the first online banking service was launched on the then fledgling Internet. All of these financial technologies (sometimes referred to as “FinTech”) were developed and brought to the market to make the lives of customers easier and to move the financial industry forward.