Some of the most influential and ground-breaking security companies have roots in Israel, and the nation continues to produce security professionals and technology at an amazing rate.
The Washington Post takes a long look at Israeli government efforts to bring its array of security and technology talent together in a new city in the desert that it hopes will improve its already-formidable information security abilities.
RANSOMWARE MAKER TESLACRYPT SHUTS DOWN AFTER RELEASING MASTER KEY Ransomware is a scary and growing problem that we’ll definitely talk about at Structure Security, but there was a little good news this week: TeslaCrypt released a master key allowing those affected by its ransomware to break out,
Techcrunch reports. It’s probably not a huge consolation to those affected by ransomware, but it does show that a fix could be relatively easy in many cases if the perpetrators can be discovered early enough.
IBM’S OPTICAL STORAGE IS 50 TIMES FASTER THAN FLASH Flash memory has been a boon to mobile computing because of its power consumption and stability, but it’s pretty slow for something named “flash.”
Engadget reports that IBM has made a breakthrough with super-fast phase-change memory that increases the amount of data that type of memory can hold, which should help bring down costs over time to compete with flash.
CHINA QUIETLY TARGETS US TECH COMPANIES IN SECURITY REVIEWS Remember when Congress threw a fit over potential security issues with Huawei routers and Lenovo computers in government applications? China is returning the favor and upping the ante,
according to The New York Times, requiring U.S. companies to certify some capabilities of their products, even those destined for consumers.
DOCKER OPENS CODE BEHIND NATIVE LAPTOP APPS Oscon seemed a little quieter this year than in the past, but Docker’s Solomon Hykes delivered a keynote address in which he addressed the concerns of some developers that Docker was too difficult to use on Macs and other laptops. Given that Docker’s whole reason for being is to making spinning up containers as easy as possible, the company decided to really focus on improving those native apps and has now released portions of that work as open-source code,
according to ITNews.
HOW FACEBOOK BLOCKS BAD CODE FROM THE OUTSET With over 1 billion daily users, Facebook’s apps and sites have the potential to cause all kinds of havoc if bugs or security holes make to production.
The Parallax looks inside Facebook’s code review process to see how the company audits code for security problems before an array of hackers -- both good and bad -- have a chance to find holes.
