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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/technology/a-solution-to-hackers-more-hackers.html

Over the last year, people realize how dangerous hackers can be. This article brings to light the theory that What if the problem we face is not too many bad hackers, but too few good ones? In recent conventions hackers have discussed what happened in the last election and how to prevent those in the future.
There are hackers who are renegades and culprits, yet there are some that are patriotic and hack for good causes. The private sector has already discovered the benefits of hackers. Most major tech companies — including Facebook, Apple and Microsoft — offer “bug bounty” programs, in which they offer financial rewards to hackers who find holes in their security measures. Government jobs are not ideal environment for people with hacking abilities and the private sector pays more. So why are there so many cyber security jobs unfilled? Government jobs require extensive background checks so that eliminates some government opportunities.
Recently Government agencies experimented with a similar approach. The Defense Department offered the first-ever federal bug bounty program last year, called Hack the Pentagon. The result was that 138 vulnerabilities were found. At the recent Def Con convention most hackers were able to hack into all the voting machines that were bought in. Companies should take advantage of hackers and their willingness to help secure the national infrastructure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/technology/a-solution-to-hackers-more-hackers.html

Discovered on targeted devices in African countries, Tizi is a fully-featured Android backdoor with rooting capabilities that installs spyware apps on victims’ devices to steal sensitive data from popular social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, LinkedIn, and Telegram.

Some protection on your Android phone is good like Lookout Security & Antivirus.

 

https://thehackernews.com/2017/11/android-spying-app.html

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=door+locks

we rely on technology. Many of us cannot live without smart phone. if one day power off, do we have alternatives?

Amazon is really creative company. Now they are leading the trend of IOT, such as Amazon Echo. Embedding IOT device with AWS cloud is their new move.

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-freertos-will-connect-embedded-iot-devices-amazon-web-services-cloud/

This is very interesting article.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/how-did-north-korea-get-its-nuclear-weapons

if technology falls into wrong hand, bad things happen.

Quantum encryption is theoretically a dream for security, as you can’t even inspect the data without altering it. However, it’s currently several times slower than the conventional kind, which makes it impractical for voice calls or streaming video

Researchers have developed a quantum encryption key distribution system that promises to be five to 10 times faster than existing methods.

 

https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/26/scientists-develop-fast-quantum-encryption/

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacked-home-devices-can-spy-you-n814671

 

This is kind of scary considering more and more of our appliances/devices connect to the internet.

It is scary because if hackers really want to mess with major corporations they can potentially mess

with them through their appliances without them knowing it.

This new version will append the .cobra extension to encrypted files. It is not known exactly how this variant is being distributed, but in the past Crysis was typically spread by hacking into Remote Desktop Services and manually installing the ransomware.

 

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-cobra-crysis-ransomware-variant-released/