Collaborate Disseminate
Once upon a time, the automobile was a mostly mechanical beast, but no longer. Advanced electronics have weaved their way into the modern car, from engine to infotainment and climate control to the buttons now sprinkled throughout the passenger cabin. …read more
Continue reading Pandemic Chip Shortages Are Shutting Down Automotive Production
Recently, I was offered a 1997 Volkswagen Golf for the low, low price of free — assuming I could haul it away, as it suffered from a thoroughly borked automatic transmission. Being incapable of saying no to such an opportunity, I set about trailering the poor convertible home and immediately …read more
Continue reading Peeking Inside A VW Gearbox Reveals Die Casting Truths
It remains unknown as to why Microsoft is allowing a spoof of their very own domain against their own email infrastructure. Continue reading Spearphishing Attack Spoofs Microsoft.com to Target 200M Office 365 Users
Perovskite solar cells are rapidly catching up to their silicon forebears in terms of efficiency, but one area they continue to lag behind in is production speed. Now, researchers at Stanford University have developed a new method of making perovskite … Continue reading New technique rolls out 40 feet of perovskite solar film per minute
Belden, a U.S. manufacturer of networking and industrial cable products, said Tuesday that unidentified attackers had accessed and copied data on current and former employees, and some of its business partners. The St. Louis-based company, which reported more than $2 billion in revenue last year, said in a statement that it believed it prevented the attackers from further accessing data on its servers, and that it had hired lawyers to help it “notify appropriate regulatory authorities [of the incident] around the world.” The company said law enforcement is investigating the incident. Executives did not disclose the type of data involved, or how many people’s information was compromised. Belden, which has offices on multiple continents, makes fiber-optic cables and networking equipment used in the transportation, oil and gas, and other sectors. Belden has invested considerably in cybersecurity products. The company in 2014 bought cybersecurity company Tripwire, which makes data-integrity software, for $710 million. Belden said it […]
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The number of publicly documented ransomware incidents at manufacturing organizations has jumped considerably in 2020 as attackers have found ways to disrupt facilities’ operations by affecting both traditional IT networks and software that supports industrial processes, according to research published Thursday. Industrial security company Dragos found that ransomware incidents in the manufacturing sector had more than “tripled” this year compared to 2019, though the company did not specify the number of incidents. Two things help explain the report’s findings: Companies are being more transparent about reporting incidents; and manufacturing, like other sectors such as health care, has endured a rise in opportunistic attacks from criminals who know how bring an organization to its knees. “Companies that rely on availability of their operations [are] being targeted and held for ransom to be able to restart those processes,” said Selena Larson, a senior cyberthreat analyst at Dragos. Among the Dragos tally were reported ransomware […]
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Engineers at Cornell University have developed a new technique for 3D printing metallic objects – and it involves blasting titanium particles at supersonic speeds. The resulting metals are very porous, which makes them particularly useful for biomedica… Continue reading New 3D printing technique fuses titanium particles at supersonic speeds
Engineers at Cornell University have developed a new technique for 3D printing metallic objects – and it involves blasting titanium particles at supersonic speeds. The resulting metals are very porous, which makes them particularly useful for biomedica… Continue reading New 3D printing technique fuses titanium particles at supersonic speeds
This has been a long time coming, but the OpenStack foundation today announced that it is changing its name to ‘Open Infrastructure Foundation,” starting in 2021. The announcement, which the foundation made at its virtual developer conference, doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. Over the course of the last few years, the organization started adding […] Continue reading The OpenStack Foundation becomes the Open Infrastructure Foundation
Modern society has brought us all kinds of wonders, including rapid intercontinental travel, easy information access, and decreased costs for most consumer goods thanks to numerous supply chains. When those supply chains break down as a result of a natural disaster or other emergency, however, the disaster’s effects can be …read more