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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. There were over 28,000 registrations, with attendees and sponsors from industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, logistics, and manufacturing.

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Triaging modern medicine’s cybersecurity issues

The Parallax

In their pursuit of patient data, cybercriminals often reach for the lowest-hanging bunches of fruit, which often are the least secured legacy Windows computers, as well as Internet-connected devices collectively known as the Internet of Things. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things?

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2017 in cybersecurity and privacy news

The Parallax

The Spanish government, on the other hand, seems to have figured out how to use the Internet against its citizens. Ransomware, a particularly nasty form of malware that locks your computer until you pay off your attackers and has been around for decades, continued to wreak havoc in 2017.

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Radar trends to watch: July 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Microsoft is stressing biometrics (which have their own problems) and multi-factor authentication. The malware somehow slipped through Microsoft’s signing process. Amazon Sidewalk lets Amazon devices connect to other open WiFi nets to extend their range and tap others’ internet connections. It is also a Very Bad Idea.

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