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Boss reckons half a dozen institutions will follow suit this year Tim Anderson Mon 15 Feb 2021 // 16:33 UTC Share Copy Barclays Bank is to join the Open Invention Network (OIN), as is Canada-based Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank Group, in order to resist what Barclays told us are "overt or veiled threats of litigation from patent trolls." The OIN exists to reduce the threat of licence and patent infringement cases against open-source software. All members sign a cross-licensi...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Shared source won’t fix the AWS problem Open source companies think the right licence will protect them from being crushed by the big cloud providers. It won’t Credit: Dreamstime I have a great deal of respect for my colleague Matt Asay, who works for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and writes week after week about the advant...

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This week, hundreds of new packages have been published to the npm open-source repository named after private components being internally used by major companies. These npm packages are identical to the proof-of-concept packages created by Alex Birsan, the researcher who had recently managed to infiltrate over major 35 tech firms.

By Stephanie Kanowitz Feb 11, 2021 A public/private partnership in Tucson, Ariz., is closing the digital divide by not only connecting more than 32,000 of the city’s 212,000 households without reliable internet access, but also powering up Tucson’s smart city strategy. The city and Insight Enterprises are within weeks of completing Phase I of a municipal wireless broadband solution using the Citizen Broadband Radio Service network, a band of radio-frequency spectrum from 3.5 GHz to 3.7 GHz ...

The Defense Department is working with the General Services Administration to work out reciprocity between the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

Feb 12, 2021 When the sheriff of Oldsmar, Fla., held a press conference to discuss a Feb. 5 hack into the water treatment facility that could have poisoned the city’s water supply, many cybersecurity experts stood up and took notice. The intruder seemed to have breached the plant’s industrial controls via a remote desktop monitoring application and may have taken advantage other cybersecurity weaknesses, such as lax password security and use of an unsupported operating system.  That access...

By Mike Shrader Feb 12, 2021 The pandemic forced government agencies to adapt rapidly. During the past 12 months, government IT teams have been busy enabling remote work, implementing cloud migration and digital transformation projects and securing an ever-expanding perimeter. Yet while 2020 ushered in significant change from a federal IT perspective, it’s merely the beginning. Mega-trends like elastic cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things were convergi...

Astronauts at the International Space Station will soon be getting a high-performance computer that will connect them to Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

Survey: Open Source Cloud Technologies Fit Devs Like a Glove IBM and OReilly conducted a survey that indicated IT pros favor using open source cloud technologies over proprietary solutions. Developers wanting to hone their cloud skills would be well advised to focus on building skills around the open source technologies that underpin clouds such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform rather than focus on a specific cloud. Thats one of the findings in a new study...