The majority, topping 92%, believe cybersecurity was a priority for their business leaders today amidst the ongoing global pandemic, according to a survey by Palo Alto Networks. Conducted in November 2021, the online study polled 500 respondents across five Asean markets, comprising 100 each from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The IT decision makers and business leaders were from five verticals: financial services, government, retail, telecommunications, and fintech....

The ’test and trace app’ – named electronic Health Alert Card or eHAC – was created in 2021 by the Indonesian Ministry of Health. The vpnMentor team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, said it did not have the proper data privacy protocols and exposed the sensitive data of more than one million people through an open server. The app was built to hold the test results of those traveling into the country to make sure they were not carrying COVID-19 and is a mandatory requirement for anyone flying into Indonesia from another country....

Prejudice does not make for good science, however, and in a pandemic good science is what we need. Now, a year and a half later, in People Count: Contact Tracing Apps and Public Health, Tufts University professor Susan Landau has set out to make a sober assessment. You have to feel for her here, because writing a book about such a fast-moving topic is pretty much like trying to nail flan to the ceiling....

The Series 7 has a larger display than its predecessors and improved charging times. According to Apple, the new watch will charge up to 33% faster than the Series 6. One benefit of the bigger screen is Apple has added a QWERTY keyboard to the watch, allowing you to type out your responses to messages or emails. Even though the official size of the Series 7 went up 1mm to 41mm and 45mm, respectively, you’ll still be able to use the same watchbands you currently have....

Billed as the “first ever, whole-of-government” approach to cryptocurrencies, Biden’s highly anticipated executive order on “responsible development of digital assets” rallies federal agencies to coordinate efforts to study what policies and tools the US could use to combat the risks of cryptocurrency while keeping the US at the forefront of technology and the global financial system. “The United States must maintain technological leadership in this rapidly growing space, supporting innovation while mitigating the risks for consumers, businesses, the broader financial system, and the climate,” the White House said....

The IOGEAR Upstream Pro Dual video capture card is able to handle two content streams simultaneously. You can control the card through your smartphone (iOS or Android), or, alternatively, a controller connected via Bluetooth. Up to two live 4K streams can be captured and mixed at 1080p, and one particular feature streamers may enjoy is a command deck that can be used to hotkey up to 18 commands. Read on: How to switch between your work PC and personal laptop in one click You can use up to two 4K cameras and grab audio from sources including HDMI inputs, RCA, or microphones....

The Rust Security Response working group (WG) has flagged a strange security vulnerability that is being tracked as CVE-2021-42574 and is urging developers to upgrade to Rust version 1.56.1. News of the obscure bug was disseminated in a mailing list today. The Rust project has also flagged the Unicode “bidirectional override” issue in a blogpost. But it’s a general bug that doesn’t affect just Rust but all code that’s written in popular languages that use Unicode....

CIOs who want to get the best from their tech teams must make sure their staff feel engaged in the work they complete. Five experts give their best-practice tips for keeping IT professionals happy and productive. 1. Give your people a sense of purpose Michael Cole, CTO of golf’s European Tour and Ryder Cup, says the best way to keep people engaged is to give them a strong sense of purpose....

Software engineer Christopher Swenson filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the NSA for access to its Python training materials and received a lightly redacted 400-page printout of the agency’s COMP 3321 Python training course. Swenson has since scanned the documents, ran OCR on the text to make it searchable, and hosted it on Digital Oceans Spaces. The material has also been uploaded to the Internet Archive. There doesn’t look to be anything controversial in the documents, which contains course material sessions that would take between 45 and 90 minutes to complete in a class setting....

The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 platform has been updated for Always On, Always Connected PCs. Of note is support for three different modem setups in the 8cx Gen 3 – the Snapdragon X65, X55, and X62 Modem-RF lines – with potential download speeds of 10 Gbps (X65 5G), 7.5 Gbps (X55 5G), and 4.4 Gbps (X62 5G). The Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 is also included for Wi-Fi 6E speeds of up to 3....

Despite the upbeat report, Qualcomm shares traded down by 5% in late trading. CEO Cristiano Amon said the results “reflect the strong demand for our products and technologies, with QCT revenues exceeding those of any fabless semiconductor company,” referring to the company’s division that sells chipsets. Added Amon, “We are at the beginning of one of the largest opportunities in our history, with our addressable market expanding by more than seven times to approximately $700 billion in the next decade....

The software incorporates existing tools, such as the company’s Neural Processing SDK, while allowing developers to “leverage that same work across every product.” “We are extending one technology roadmap across all our different business lines,” said Qualcomm vice president of product management Ziad Asghar in a media briefing. “The step function here is to be able to take your work and port it across those different business lines.” The software stack has a focus on power efficiency, such as how to quantize workloads, and portability of code across the many hardware targets of Qualcomm and its customers....

Quiet quitting isn’t quitting your job entirely. It’s the act of just doing what you need to at work to get the job done, receive a paycheck, and go home – nothing more and nothing less. As the term gains more traction in the news and on social media, many people realize they are quiet quitting their jobs and might have even done so a while ago. But workers who quiet quit their jobs might be misunderstood....

Ransomware is still running rampant, with several major incidents in the past week alone, but according to analysis by cybersecurity company Coveware, there are signs that recent changes could reduce the total number of ransomware attacks. But while the number of attacks could fall, there’s the possibility that the ransom demands made by successful ransomware groups could rise. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) A number of developments are likely to have improved cybersecurity of enterprises, making them more robust against attacks....

“When you look at government networks, as we know – Costa Rica; Montenegro; Bank of Zambia; the city of Palermo, Italy – this is really a global problem. So, we’re seeing the pace and the sophistication of the ransomware attacks increasing faster than our resilience and disruption efforts,” said a senior administration official, noting there has been a wide range of attacks on the healthcare sector from the Irish National Health Service to US hospitals....

Raspberry Pi unveiled the beta of its 64-bit version of its Debian-based OS alongside its then new 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 in mid-2020. The first Raspberry Pi with a 64-bit processor was the Pi 3, so it’s been possible to run a 64-bit OS since its 2016 release, but Raspberry Pi stuck with a 32-bit OS (then called Raspbian) for compatibility between devices dating back to 2011. SEE: Web developer or CTO, which tech jobs have the fastest growing salaries?...

Until now, Raspberry Pi owners needed the imager on a macOS, Windows or Ubuntu desktop to install the OS on a Pi device. It could also be done via another Pi device by connecting SD card readers on each of them. The new Raspberry Pi bootloader delivers network installation, cutting out the need for a second computer to install the OS. Raspberry Pi’s makers have released the network installer as a beta and are seeking feedback from users about the experience of installing the OS onto a blank SD card from the network....

Google Cloud reported that a cooling-related failure at one of its London buildings began at 10:13 a.m. PT (that’s 6:13 p.m. BST). The building hosts a portion of capacity for Google Cloud’s europe-west2-a zone. SEE: What is cloud computing? Everything you need to know about the cloud explained As of 3:30 p.m. PT, the issue was only partially resolved, with most customers able to launch virtual machines in all zones of europe-west2....

The ICRC expressed concern that the stolen data – which was from its global Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s Restoring Family Links services – would be “used by States, non-state groups, or individuals to contact or find people to cause harm.” “This attack is an extreme violation of their privacy, safety, and right to receive humanitarian protection and assistance,” the organization said. Restoring Family Links works to reconnect missing people and children with their families after wars, violence, or other issues....

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