Making It Easier To Experiment With Compiled Swift Code In R

The past two posts have (lightly) introduced how to use compiled Swift code in R, but they’ve involved a bunch of “scary” command line machinations and incantations. One feature of {Rcpp} I’ve always 💙 is the cppFunction() (“r-lib” zealots have a simil… Continue reading Making It Easier To Experiment With Compiled Swift Code In R

Financial institutions can strengthen cybersecurity with SWIFT’s CSCF v2021

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) has introduced an updated set of baseline customer security controls that all of its users must implement on their SWIFT-related infrastructure by mid-year 2021. SWIFT is the worl… Continue reading Financial institutions can strengthen cybersecurity with SWIFT’s CSCF v2021

New SwiftR Chapter Up: Building an R-backed SwiftUI macOS App

Last week I introduced a new bookdown series on how to embed R into a macOS Swift application. The initial chapters focused on core concepts and showed how to build a macOS compiled, binary command line application that uses embedded R for some functio… Continue reading New SwiftR Chapter Up: Building an R-backed SwiftUI macOS App

Combating the virtual and physical threats banks face

The banking sector has always been at the center of criminal attention. Today, banks must contend with near-constant cyber attacks from organized criminal gangs, as well as highly skilled and well-resourced threat actors working on behalf of nation-sta… Continue reading Combating the virtual and physical threats banks face

Turn-by-turn Smart Glasses Give You Direction

[SamsonMarch] designs electronic products by day and — apparently — does it in his spare time, too. His latest is a pair of really cool shades that give him turn-by-turn directions as he walks around town. Unlike some smart glasses, these get around the difficult problem of building a heads-up …read more

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What happens to funds once they have been stolen in a cyberattack?

SWIFT and BAE Systems published a report that describes the complex web of money mules, front companies and cryptocurrencies that criminals use to siphon funds from the financial system after a cyber attack. The report highlights the ingenuity of money… Continue reading What happens to funds once they have been stolen in a cyberattack?