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By Denis Boudreau Mar 10, 2021 COVID-19 has changed how we do just about everything, from banking to shopping to schooling to working -- even personal communications.  One silver lining is the increased attention to the importance of digital channels, as well as the accessibility of those channels. That’s because an estimated 26% of the U.S. population has some form of disability – vision, hearing, cognitive or limited motor mobility. Many organizations have made progress updating their ...

Mar 11, 2021 12:40 EST with 0 comments  Wireshark is a network packet analyzer. A network packet analyzer will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible. You could think of a network packet analyzer as a measuring device used to examine whats going on inside a network cable, just like a voltmeter is used by an electrician to examine whats going on inside an electric cable (but at a higher level, of course). In the past, such to...

The Defense Department wants data, software and analysis to be shared across command and control systems.

By Clinton Johnson, Margot Bordne Mar 11, 2021 People and organizations often tell stories using maps. Many use the technology of a geographic information system to gather and store crucial mappable data, process it and, most importantly, display the information in a way that can be easily understood. Sometimes the result is an actual story map, but often GIS produces maps and dashboards that allow stories to emerge from the visuals. The data reflects real people and the way community conditio...

By GCN Staff Mar 11, 2021 To keep pace with growing cybersecurity threats, governments must first be able to identify, categorize and prioritize their high-value IT assets, the loss or corruption of which would seriously impact their ability to deliver on essential missions. Thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) is launching a two-year pil...

Mar 9, 2021 23:54 EST with 0 comments Atom is a text editor thats modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file. Atom comes pre-installed with four UI and eight syntax themes in both dark and light colors. If you cant find what youre looking for, you can also install themes created by the Atom community or create your own. Atom helps you write code faster with a smart, flexible...

Sigstore is a Linux Foundation project developed by Google and Red Hat for code signing Mar 10, 2021 00:30 EST with 0 comments An inherent weakness of open source code is that its difficult to determine its provenance and how it was built, which means that its prone to supply chain attacks. Google aims to solve this problem which is why it has collaborated with Red Hat and Smallstep to introduce Sigstore (stylized "sigstore") in the Linux Foundation, making it easier...

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Mar 10, 2021 11:18 EST with 0 comments  Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and read your e-books with the included viewer. It acts as an e-library and also allows for format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer. Calibres features in...

Utilities should update software, provide training and assess what software and hardware they use -- as well as their cyber-physical vulnerabilities.