Today June 29, 2016 is the last day when you can apply the Windows 10 Upgrade from the eligible platforms, and the next August 2 is expected the Window 10 Anniversary Update, and the begin of Windows as a Service.
The idea is that Windows will be away from being a monolithic product with periodic major releases to a product that is continually updated and tweaked, in a similar a model how iOS, OS X are updated.
After the Word War II and during the Cold War, the security in sensitive communications was ruled by Electro-Mechanical Cyphers.
Until the 1950’s the WWII the ECM Mark II was used by the NATO, when it was replaced by machines like the KL-7.
KL-7 was an electro-mechanical rotor-based off-line cipher machine, developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and was introduced in 1952 and served for many years as the main cipher machine of the US and NATO.
The first world war showed the importance of cryptography on the battlefield, and the danger of weak encryption. The second world war became a defining moment in the history of cryptography and placed it squarely at the center of military and political strategy from that time to the present day.
The Enigma machine was developed by a German Arthur Scherbius in 1918 and was patented in 1919. It was marketed with portability and confidentiality as it sales features, but it had a lack of commercial success. When Germany discovered that they had lost WW I as a result of their cipher having been cracked by the British, despite the high cost, the machine was adopted by the German Navy in 1926, the Army in 1928 and the Air Force in 1935; also it was introduced into service with other sections of the German government.
The 20th century was marked by huge advances in all the humanity areas, and the cryptography not was the exception.
At the begin of the 20th century, cryptography was a labor intensive, error prone process, capable of transforming a small amount of written material into an encoded cipher text form.
With the advancement of communication technology, encryption and decryption came to be actively performed during World War I.
One common indication of a memory leak is the java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception. Usually, this error is thrown when there is insufficient space to allocate an object in the Java heap and the garbage collector cannot make space to accommodate a new object, and the heap cannot be expanded further. In this JorgeCode’s publication is explained how to handle it in JAVA.
Go to JorgeCode article: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError and X options
Julian Bolivar-Galeno is an Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Architect whose expertise is in telecommunications, security and embedded systems. He works in BolivarTech focused on decision making, leadership, management and execution of projects oriented to develop strong security algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) research and its applicability to smart solutions at mobile and embedded technologies, always producing resilient and innovative applications.
In order to validate large numbers like credit card and International Mobile System Equipment Identity (IMEI) in every smartphone or tablet over the planet is used the Luhn Algorithm; in this JorgeCode’s publication is explained how to implement it in JAVA.
Go to JorgeCode article: Credit Card numbers or IMEI in Java (Luhn Algorithm)
Julian Bolivar-Galeno is an Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Architect whose expertise is in telecommunications, security and embedded systems. He works in BolivarTech focused on decision making, leadership, management and execution of projects oriented to develop strong security algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) research and its applicability to smart solutions at mobile and embedded technologies, always producing resilient and innovative applications.
Some times when you try to update a Ubuntu your /boot partition is full, with this how-to published by JorgeCode explain how to solve this step by step.
Go to JorgeCode article: How can I remove old kernels/install new ones when /boot is full?
Julian Bolivar-Galeno is an Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Architect whose expertise is in telecommunications, security and embedded systems. He works in BolivarTech focused on decision making, leadership, management and execution of projects oriented to develop strong security algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) research and its applicability to smart solutions at mobile and embedded technologies, always producing resilient and innovative applications.
Bitcoin is a digital asset and a payment system invented by Satoshi Nakamoto who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open-source software in 2009.
In this publication from JorgeCode explain how Nakamoto has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics and the implications of this.
Go to JorgeCode article: Bitcoin developer nominated to Nobel Prize in economics
Julian Bolivar-Galeno is an Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Architect whose expertise is in telecommunications, security and embedded systems. He works in BolivarTech focused on decision making, leadership, management and execution of projects oriented to develop strong security algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) research and its applicability to smart solutions at mobile and embedded technologies, always producing resilient and innovative applications.
A federal judge ordered Apple to comply with the FBI’s request for technical assistance in the data recovery from the San Bernardino gunmen’s iPhone 5C.
In an open-letter published on Apple’s website, Tim Cook publicly challenged the US government and the FBI, saying what it is asking of the company fundamentally violates the privacy, security, and trust of its customers.
The White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the FBI request for access did not mean they were asking for a “back door” or unauthorized access into the company’s device or for it to be redesigned. “They are simply asking for something that would have an impact on this one device”.
CuaimaCrypt is a cypher designed by Julian Bolivar-Galeno in 2007, with improvements suggested by Jonathan Pastran during the development period.
CuaimaCrypt originally had two versions, CuaimaCrypt Stream Codec (CuaimaCrypt-SC) which was designed for hardware implementation, making encoding data streams in real time; and CuaimaCrypt Block Codec (CuaimaCrypt-BC) which was designed for software implementation because it uses the capacity of PCs to process data blocks efficiently.
Currently the most distributed and used is the CuaimaCrypt-BC and I will focus this article on it.
Speaking to the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C., National Security Agency (NSA) Director Adm. Mike Rogers stressed that the cybersecurity battles the U.S. is destined to fight call for more widespread use of encryption, not less. “What you saw at OPM, you’re going to see a whole lot more of,” he said, referring to the massive hack of the Office of Personnel Management involving the personal data about 20 million people who have gotten background checks.
Watch Rogers’ talk here…
Western Ukraine power company Prykarpattyaoblenergo reported an outage on December 23 2015, saying the area affected included regional capital Ivano-Frankivsk, with a population of 1.4 million, during few hours.
Now at January 2016, the researchers have proof that link that outage with the malware called BlackEnergy.
Quantum computing is a new way to build computers that takes advantage of the quantum properties of particles to perform operations on data in a very different way than traditional computers.
With this computational performance improvement came other risks, and more in the cryptography area where the security resides in apply to the plain data mathematical operations hard to replicate in a reasonable time without the knowledge of specific parameters values.
During the past six years, Volkswagen was cheating on the emissions testing for its diesel cars because the cars’ computers were able to detect when they were being tested, and temporarily alter how their engines worked so they looked much cleaner than they actually were and when they weren’t being tested, the car produced 40 times more the pollutants.
Computers allow people new ways to cheat, because the cheating is at the embedded software and the malicious actions only happen when the expected conditions are presented, otherwise continue with the normal operation mode. Because the software is “smart” in ways that normal objects are not, the cheating can be subtle and harder to detect.
From unmemorable times always the governments have trying to collect intelligence information about people problematic for them within same folks. But this always was an “in house business” where the own government develop itself tools and procedures to accomplish the task; until now when the ‘iSpyU’ business can be outsourced by anyone thanks to products like the FinFisher Suite.
The next day after the terrorist attack to Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS), the hacker association Anonymous published a video declaring the war to ISIS, and they in turn responded to these calling them ‘Idiots’; however, the hacker group Ghost Security Group and his partners are also fighting against ISIS before Anonymous’ announcement.
You have the curiosity about how the machine learning process really is?
