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IBM on Wednesday announced Cloud Pak for Security - an open-source technology which can search and translate security data from a variety of sources, bringing together critical security insights from across a company's multi-cloud IT environment. The platform is extensible, so that additional tools and applications can be added over time without moving data, the tech giant said in a statement. "We're currently at tipping point in the security industry, driven by two major market forces that are converging - security fragmentation, and the march towards widespread cloud adoption in the enterprise," said Vaidyanathan Iyer, Security Software Leader, IBM India South/Asia. IBM Cloud Pak for Security provides the much needed platform to help organizations more quickly integrate their existing security tools to generate deeper insights into threats across hybrid, multi-cloud environments, using an infrastructure-independent common operating environment that runs anywhere. Companies can … [Read more...] about New IBM open technology to secure firms without moving data

Facepalm: Just as the holiday shopping season is beginning to kick into gear, fashion retail giant Macy's has disclosed its wallet and shopping cart pages of the company's website have been compromised by hackers. Although it was tightlipped with details, sources say it was a MageCart-style attack. On Tuesday, fashion retailing giant Macy’s has issued an advisory to customers that its website servers have been breached by hackers. The attack was initiated on October 7, and the company was notified about it on October 15. Macy's claims the attackers allegedly inserted an obfuscated script into the Checkout and My Wallet pages of the company's shopping website and skimmed data as it was submitted. “On October 15, 2019, we were alerted to a suspicious connection between macys.com and another website. Our security teams immediately began an investigation. Based on our investigation, we believe that on October 7, 2019, an unauthorized third party added unauthorized computer … [Read more...] about Macy’s suffers credit card data breach for the second year in a row

The world's first injectable male birth control may may finally be on its way to approval in India, according to news reports.This week, researchers in India announced that they had completed clinical trials of the injectable male birth control known as RISUG, which stands for reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance, according to the Hindustan Times. The product is injected near the testicles, and lasts up to 13 years, the researchers said. It has now been submitted to the Drug Controller General of India, the government department responsible for approving drugs in the country."The product is ready, with only regulatory approvals pending," Dr. R.S. Sharma, senior scientist at the Indian Council of Medical Research, which conducted the studies, told Hindustan Times. The lengthy trials involved more than 300 men and showed the product had more than a 97% success rate at preventing pregnancyRISUG involves injecting a polymer into the vas deferens, the tubes that carry sperm from … [Read more...] about World’s First Injectable Male Birth Control May Soon Arrive in India

In its short journey Realme has created a comfortable space for itself in the Indian smartphone market. In a little over one year the brand that was born as Oppo’s sub-brand has created a loyal fan base in the budget smartphone category with value-for-money devices. Now, the firm is taking a big leap from the budget to the flagship category with the launch of Realme X2 Pro. The handset has a super promising specs sheet and comes at a starting price of Rs 29,999. We got to spend some time with the Realme X2 Pro and here are our first impressions of the device: Design and display Realme X2 Pro comes in a familiar unibody design and doesn’t come with any major design overhaul even being a flagship smartphone. From the front, it looks like any other Realme smartphone with a tiny water drop notch. On the back you get a centrally placed quad-camera setup. The only notable change for you to know whether this is the Realme X2 Pro is the placement of the company logo. Instead of … [Read more...] about Realme X2 Pro: First impressions

The future of the connected home, connected car, and connected everything will have a lot of imaging technology at the center of it: sensors to track the movement of people and things will be a critical way for AI brains to figure out what to do next. Now, with a large swing towards more data protection — in part a reaction to the realization of just how much information about us is being picked up — we’re starting to see some interesting solutions emerge that can still provide that imaging piece, but with privacy in mind. Today one of the startups building such solutions is announcing a big round of funding. Vayyar, an Israeli startup that builds radar-imaging chips and sensors as well as the software that reads and interprets the resulting images which is used in automotive and IoT applications (among others) — providing accurate information about what is going on a specific place, even if it’s behind a wall or another object, but without the kind of … [Read more...] about Vayyar nabs $109M for its “4D” radar tech, which detects and tracks images while preserving privacy