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Malfeasance by Cheatware

Software_Auditory 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.

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2016-02-22 Julian Bolivar

Now ‘iSpyU’ business is outsourcing

CellPhone.pngFrom 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.

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Hackers can be a Threat to Islamic State?

Anonymous GhostSecGroupThe 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.

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Artificial Intelligence, is really so dangerous?

IA_Brain_Web As Benjamin “Ben” Parker said “With great power comes great responsibility“, this is true with any new technology advance, imagine if Marie Curie not had continued with their pioneer radioactivity studies because is possible that will be dangerous, at this moment we don’t have radiotherapy to treat cancer, radiocarbon dating in archaeology, power our spacecraft and supply electricity to satellites that are sent on missions to the outermost regions of our solar system where the solar power is not a choice; because this for me is impressive ear respected people like Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking talking so ease about an AI apocalypse were we would create an AI that was able to adapt and evolve on its own, and would do so at such an accelerated rate that it would move beyond human ability to understand or control, when the reality is so far away from that.

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Windows 10 and the 83-33 of the Dead

Windows_BugsNear to 6 month passed from the launch of Windows 10 and the massive campaign to upgrade from windows 7, 8 and 8.1; but with that upgrades come some bugs that freeze it when is at the 83% of the whole process and during the 33% of the configuring settings, and this is known like the 83-33 of the dead.

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Defensive Programming to Mitigate Security Breach and Unforeseen Events

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Every one that have years working at the security ITC area know that so many security breach are caused by stack overflow, out of range, malformed parameters and NULL pointer exceptions to mention the more commons; this unhanded errors open gaps that interrupt the program’s flow leaving it in an undetermined state, and this is the factor used by hackers to insert tampered instructions in the programs’ flow in order to gain access to resources that is not supposed to have.

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Welcome to News BolivarTech

Icon_BTToday, after almost 7 years has passed when JulianBolivar.com website was closed due to the political situation that is passing my natal country Venezuela.
I’m returning to talk about my passion, the technology evolution and trends, but now with a more Information Technology and Communications (ITC) security focus point of view based on my expertise acquired during this 7 years but keeping a balanced point of view other technologies and with my other interest like Artificial Intelligence (IA) and Embedded systems.

Regards to everyone and welcome to this new space at BolivarTech.

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.

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