9 – 11 December 2015:
The AFCEA International Cyber Symposium will address these opportunities in building “Cyber Resilience.” Presentations and discussions will highlight national, institutional, and organizational perspectives within Europe, NATO, EU, and the US. Focus Workshops will further refine opportunities in Governmental Services, Cyber Defense, Critical Infrastructure, and Law Enforcement. Networking opportunities are emphasized and supported.
6 – 9 August 2015:
DEFCON is one of the oldest continuously running hacker conventions around, and also one of the largest. Originally started in 1993, it was a meant to be a party for member of “Platinum Net”, a Fido protocol based hacking network out of Canada.
1 – 6 August 2015:
Black Hat – built by and for the global InfoSec community – returns to Las Vegas for its 18th year. This six day event begins with four days of intense Trainings for security practitioners of all levels (August 1-4) followed by the two-day main event including over 100 independently selected Briefings, Business Hall, Arsenal, Pwnie Awards, and more (August 5-6).
22 – 24 July 2015:
Join your fellow information security professionals at RSA Conference Asia Pacific & Japan 2015, where we’ll be discussing security issues from both a global and Asia Pacific perspective.
Last December, Instagram said it had purged millions of fake accounts, in an effort to provide more accurate numbers to marketers. Now, Italian security researchers say about 8% of Instagram accounts appear to be run by computer-generated “bots.”
In a fact sheet on the agreement, the European Commission tries to hide the reality that net neutrality is being destroyed by defining something called the open Internet : “Under today’s agreement, paid prioritisation in the open Internet will be banned. Based on this new legislation, all content and application providers will have guaranteed access to end-users in the open Internet. This access should not be dependent on the will or particular commercial interest of Internet service providers.”
But running alongside this “open Internet,” on the same network, there will be “specialised services,” which are not open and where paid prioritisation is permitted: “The new EU net neutrality rules guarantee the open Internet and enable the provision of specialised or innovative services on condition that they do not harm the open Internet access.” The caveat is vague, and in practice will not prevent “specialised services” competing with those offered on the “open Internet”—the Commission mentions “internet TV” as an example of a specialised service—so large companies will be able to offer premium services at attractive prices, which startups with limited resources will find hard to match.
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MIT says it’s found a new, more efficient way to blend data mining with the privacy protections of encryption.
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It’s expected to be the longest leg of the Solar Impulse’s planned around-the-world flight, a trip that will last five days and five nights.
Things like activity trackers and sensors might make it easier to keep people with dementia safe and help caregivers. Researchers are going to test that idea in the real world.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) analyst Jeremy Malcolm and EFF attorney Mitch Stoltz said the content industry wants “new tools to discover the identities of website owners whom they want to accuse of copyright and trademark infringement, preferably without a court order.”
ICANN is accepting comments on the proposal until July 7. Comments can be e-mailed to: comments-ppsai-initial-05may15@icann.org.
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