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The transition to remote working has been a revelation for many traditional office staff, yet concerns over data security risks are rising. Mark Harper of HSM explains why businesses and their remote workers must remain vigilant when it comes to physical document security in homes. Pre-pandemic, home offices were often that neglected room in people’s homes. But now things are different. After the initial lockdown in 2020, 46.6% of UK workers did some work at home with 86% of those doing so be...

MHI and Equinor sign MoU to develop hydrogen and carbon capture projects By Mary Page Bailey | December 29, 2020 Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a low-carbon technology collaboration. The non-exclusive cooperation agreement will see both companies develop and use technology to reduce the carbon footprint of oil & gas operations. In particular, the companies will look at fur...

NMEA Releases Version 1.000 of OneNet Author: Adobe stock photo. The National Marine Electronics Association released its OneNet Standard, Version 1.000 — an open industry standard that the group said is the result of years of committee efforts. OneNet is designed to standardize Internet protocol networking of marine electronic devices, both on and off the boat. It provides a common network infrastructure for marine electronic devices and services on Internet Protocol Version 6, or IPv6. The ...

Share: SEATTLE, Dec. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader in network security and intelligence, secure Wi-Fi, multi-factor authentication and advanced endpoint protection, today announced the release of its new Firebox M4800 and M5800 appliances. These new firewalls provide the powerful performance, security services and flexibility businesses need as they become increasingly distributed and have more employees on the move or working outside the traditional ...

  If this treaty – the ITU – goes through, you will witness the great destruction of modern technology. Russia and China are pushing for international control over the Internet” through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a treaty-based organization under U.N. auspices. Obama has not yet appointed a leader for the treaty negotiation and this treaty has the potential to negatively impact the daily lives of all Americans and threaten freedom and prosperity across the globe. O...

High-performance Firebox M Series provides simplified, extensive and flexible security for managing remote workforces 15 December 2020 ? WatchGuard? Technologies has released its new Firebox M4800 and M5800 appliances. These new firewalls provide the powerful performance, security services and flexibility businesses need as they become increasingly distributed and have more employees on the move or working outside the traditional corporate network perimeter. ?Organisations of all types and siz...

WatchGuards New Firewalls Deliver Power, Protection and Agility RealWire High-performance Firebox M Series provides simplified, extensive and flexible security for managing remote workforces 15 December 2020 – WatchGuard® Technologies has released its new Firebox M4800 and M5800 appliances. These new firewalls provide the powerful performance, security services and flexibility businesses need as they become increasingly distributed and have more employees on the move or working outsi...

Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH): an attempt to improve DNS privacy Can it make DNS better? by: Yash Wate - Last updated on: December 14th, 2020 Key Takeaways DNS is a decentralized naming system for all the different websites that exist on the internet. Despite being a critical element in the web infrastructure, DNS has its own share of vulnerabilities. DoH tries to fix the security issues of DNS by encrypting the communication. But while DoH adds to the security, it raises privacy concerns. O...

Open access: A problem way beyond one nation one subscription December 13, 2020, 7:11 PM IST The Best Things in Life Are Free. How wonderful it would be if this was true for research outputs.  Sadly, access to scholarly journal articles comes with a price posing a heavy financial burden on academic institutions. The past two decades have witnessed accelerated demand for open access (OA) to scholarly publications propelled by the progress in digital technologies. Global or...

Fri, Dec 11th 2020 1:38pm — Karl Bode Each time you visit a website, your browser interacts with a domain name system (DNS) resolver that converts web addresses to an IP address understood by the machines along your path. Historically however this traffic exchange isnt encrypted, making it possible for your broadband provider or another third party to monitor your browsing data based on your DNS queries. DNS inventors in the 80s didnt really bet on a future where all DNS queries would be trac...