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Oct 4, 2021

Poorly Configured Apache Airflow Instances Leak Credentials for Popular Services

Posted by in category: futurism

Researchers discovered several unprotected Apache Airflow instances exposing credentials for popular services.

Oct 4, 2021

A New APT Hacking Group Targeting Fuel, Energy, and Aviation Industries

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, energy, transportation

The researcher warns that there is a new APT hacker group that targets the fuel, electricity, and aviation industries.

Oct 4, 2021

Creating Wireless Signals with Ethernet Cable to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Systems

Posted by in category: computing

Researchers demonstrated a new data exfiltration mechanism on Air-Gapped computers that uses ethernet cables to generate wireless signals.

Oct 4, 2021

Quantum computer breakthrough as scientists show vital behaviour for first time

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Scientists have demonstrated new behaviour, vital for the creation of quantum computers, that marks a major breakthrough.

For the first time, researchers were able to show in an experiment that a variety of quantum computing pieces, taken together, were more accurate than the sum of their parts.

Individually, quantum computers are built out of a range of different pieces, some of which can sometimes break. But in the new experiment, scientists showed that those pieces stuck together can be less prone to error than any particular part.

Oct 4, 2021

Elon Musk shares electrifying video of Starship during a storm

Posted by in categories: climatology, Elon Musk, space travel

Starship, SpaceX’s under-development rocket, braved the elements during an impressive lightning display.

Oct 4, 2021

NASA shares sounds from Milky Way’s center; netizens call them ‘divine’

Posted by in category: space

The post shared by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has given people a wonderful chance to witness the stars and galaxies in a better way.

Oct 4, 2021

This Awesome Sight Made the ISS Crew Dash to the Cupola

Posted by in category: space

Orbiting about 250 miles (402 kilometers) above Earth, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) enjoy a unique and enviable view of our planet.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who’s been on the ISS since April, has regularly shared impressive images that he’s captured from the station’s Cupola, the seven-window module that offers panoramic views of Earth and beyond.

While most of Pesquet’s shots show physical features such as coastlines, cities, and the occasional oddity, he also looks out for natural phenomena such as auroras.

Oct 4, 2021

One Identity has acquired OneLogin, a rival to Okta and Ping in sign-on and identity access management

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, governance

“Right now, organizations see a twofold gain from consolidating around a platform player in cybersecurity,” Nichols said. The first is, “to increase efficiency” but the other, he pointed out, is legislation. With more regulatory oversight in how companies are handling their cybersecurity challenges, the pressure is on them to make their systems more resilient, and having too many components becomes a challenge to manage for that reason, too.

“Joining One Identity provides us with the ability to further accelerate our growth and provide additional value for both of our customers,” added Brad Brooks, CEO of OneLogin, in a statement. “With OneLogin’s robust unified platform for both workforce and CIAM, combining forces with One Identity’s suite of products including their PAM solution will allow new and existing customers, on a global scale, to tap into the market’s only unified identity security platform.” consolidation is afoot in the world of cybersecurity, specifically around services to help organizations manage identity and access. Today, One Identity — which provides tools for managing “zero trust” access to systems, as well as running log management and other governance services for enterprises — announced that it has acquired OneLogin, a rival to companies like Okta, Ping and others in the area of secure sign-on services for end users.

Terms of the acquisition — which officially closed last week, on October 1 — are not being disclosed, but we are trying to find out.

Oct 4, 2021

How to get AI analytics right

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, robotics/AI

Enterprises of all sizes and across virtually all markets are scrambling to augment their analytics capabilities with artificial intelligence (AI) in the hopes of gaining a competitive advantage in a challenging post-pandemic economy.

Plenty of anecdotal evidence points to AI’s ability to improve analytics, but there seems to be less conversation around how it should be implemented in production environments, let alone how organizations should view it strategically over the long term.

Oct 4, 2021

Could Simulation Theory Explain Why “Space is Hard”?

Posted by in categories: alien life, existential risks

What if none of this is real? What if everything we see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and perceive is part of a gigantic simulation designed to keep us contained? And what if the beings who built this simulation are part of a highly advanced alien species that created the simulation so they could study us and keep us under control.

This is the essence of the “Zoo Hypothesis,” which is a proposed resolution to the Fermi Paradox. It is also sometimes referred to as the “Planetarium Hypothesis” as a way of clarifying that the intention of the big simulation is not to protect but to control. Moreover, the zookeepers in this scenario have designed the simulation so that humanity won’t suspect they are living in a cage.