As expected.
Trump-Kim
Summit Attracts Wave of Cyber-Attacks on Singapore
The
number of cyber-attacks targeting Singapore skyrocketed from June 11
to June 12, during the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump
and North Korean President Kim Jong-un in a Singapore hotel, and most
of these attacks originated from Russia, F5 Labs reports.
Russia
has long been said to keep the United States under a continuous
barrage of cyber-attacks, and even attracted a series of sanctions
following the hacking
aimed at the 2016 presidential election, which was supposedly the
doing of state-sponsored Russian threat actors.
Thus,
it’s no wonder the Trump-Kim summit earlier this week was targeted
as well, but the number of assaults coming from Russia is indeed
impressive: 88% of the total number of observed cyber-attacks came
from this country. Furthermore, 97% of all the attacks that
originated from Russian during the timeframe targeted Singapore, data
from F5 Labs and Loryka reveals.
“We
cannot prove they were nation-state sponsored attacks, however the
attacks coincide with the day President Donald Trump met with North
Korean President Kim Jong-un in a Singapore hotel. The
attacks targeted VoIP phones and IoT devices, which
appears to be more than a mere coincidence,” F5 says.
The cost of a software hack.
In 2017, the U.S. hit Volkswagen with a $4.3
billion fine as part of the company’s plea agreement for
violating of the Clean Air Act. It was a rough ride for the
automaker, caught using defeat devices on its diesel engines, but it
brought the scandal more or less to a close in America.
An ocean away, it
seemed nothing would come of the endless
raids by German authorities on VW-owned facilities. Apparently,
the wheels of justice just turn a little slower in Europe, as the
automaker was fined 1 billion euros on Wednesday. It’s one of the
largest financial penalties ever imposed on a company by German
authorities.
According to Reuters,
Volkswagen is not contesting the penalty. “Following thorough
examination, Volkswagen AG accepted the fine and it will not lodge an
appeal against it. Volkswagen AG, by doing so, admits its
responsibility for the diesel crisis and considers this as a further
major step toward the latter being overcome,” the automaker said in
a statement.
This might work in classrooms! Do they really
need one jammer per cell?
Federal
officials: Prison cellphone jamming test a success
Federal officials say they conducted a successful
test earlier this year of a jamming technology some hope will help
combat the threat posed by inmates with smuggled cellphones.
A report obtained Friday by The Associated Press
details the January 17 test of micro-jamming technology at a federal
prison in Cumberland, Maryland. Officials say they were able to shut
down phone signals inside a prison cell, while phones about 20 feet
away worked normally.
I think this might be wise. (Not something I
often say about California.)
California
officials move to reject court ruling on coffee and cancer risk
California officials bucked a recent
court ruling Friday and offered reassurance to concerned coffee
drinkers that their fix won't give them cancer. The unprecedented
action by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to
propose a regulation to essentially clear coffee of the stigma that
it could pose a toxic risk followed a review of more than 1,000
studies published this week by the World Health Organization that
found inadequate evidence that coffee causes cancer.
The state agency implements a law passed by voters
in 1986 that requires warnings of chemicals known to cause cancer and
birth defects. One of those chemicals is acrylamide, which is found
in many things and is a byproduct of coffee roasting and brewing
present in every cup of joe.
If the regulation is adopted, it would be a huge
win for the coffee industry which faces potentially massive civil
penalties after recently losing an 8-year-old lawsuit in Los Angeles
Superior Court that could require scary warnings on all coffee
packaging sold in California.
Judge Elihu Berle found that Starbucks and other
coffee roasters and retailers had failed to show that benefits from
drinking coffee outweighed any cancer risks. He had previously ruled
the companies hadn't shown the threat from the chemical was
insignificant.
… "The proposed regulation would state
that drinking coffee does not pose a significant cancer risk, despite
the presence of chemicals created during the roasting and brewing
process that are listed under Proposition 65 as known carcinogens,"
the agency said in a statement. "The proposed regulation is
based on extensive scientific evidence that drinking coffee has not
been shown to increase the risk of cancer and may reduce the risk of
some types of cancer."
Turning trash into treasure. Now that’s smart
technology!
Chinese
Smart Garbage Recycling Platform Xiaohuanggou Raises $164M Series A
Round
… Founded in 2017, Dongguan, Guangdong-based
Xiaohuanggou is owned by Paithink Group, an investment company that
focuses on fintech. It places smart garbage recycling machines close
to residential areas, hotels and business centers. With
Xiaohuanggou’s app and WeChat mini-program, users can locate the
nearby recycling stations. The
machine will automatically weight the garbage and pay users by cash.
Its recycling station has several machines for
different types of wastes, including paper, plastic, metal, waste
textiles, glass and others. Its staff will then send the garbage to
different specialized recycling organizations.
Perspective. The robots are already here!
“Human! Fetch me a nice cup of WD40!”
In China, a
picture of how warehouse jobs can vanish
JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce gargantuan, has built
a big new Shanghai fulfillment center that can
organize, pack and ship 200,000 orders a day. It employs four people
— all of whom service the robots.
Perspective.
The supply chain is the heart of a company’s
operations. To make the best decisions, managers need access to
real-time data about their supply chain, but the limitations of
legacy technologies can thwart the goal of end-to-end transparency.
However, those days may soon be behind us. New digital technologies
that have the potential to take over supply chain management entirely
are disrupting traditional ways of working. Within 5-10 years,
the supply chain function may be obsolete, replaced by a smoothly
running, self-regulating utility that optimally manages end-to-end
work flows and requires very little human intervention.
With a digital foundation in place, companies can
capture, analyze, integrate, easily access, and interpret high
quality, real-time data — data that fuels process automation,
predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and robotics, the
technologies that will soon take over supply chain management.
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