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Ansys 2022 R2: What’s New in Safety and Cybersecurity Analysis

Ansys 2022 R2: What’s New in Safety and Cybersecurity Analysis
by Admin on 08-22-2022 at 2:00 pm

This webinar showcases Ansys medini’s many enhancements delivered in Ansys 2022 R2 and shows how you can integrate these features to advance your safety-related activities substantially.

TIME:

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

11 AM EDT / 4 PM BST / 8:30 PM IST

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About This Webinar

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Your Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels—and It Needs Smartphone Security

Your Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels—and It Needs Smartphone Security
by Taylor Armerding on 04-18-2021 at 10:00 am
Categories: Automotive, EDA, Security, Synopsys

Your Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels—and It Needs Smartphone Security

Your modern car is a computer on wheels—potentially hundreds of computers on a set of wheels. Heck, even the wheels are infested with computers—what do you think prompts that little light on your dashboard to come on if your tire pressure is low? And computers don’t just run your infotainment system, backup camera, dashboard warning

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WEBINAR LESSONS LEARNED FROM SOLARWINDS

WEBINAR LESSONS LEARNED FROM SOLARWINDS
by Daniel Nenni on 04-07-2021 at 8:12 pm

How to Limit the Scope & Damage of Software Supply Chain Attacks

Register for our webinar with Cadence Design Systems & a cybersecurity expert with over 30+ years of experience. Join us to learn about the SolarWinds attack and how to limit the scope of damage as a result of future software supply chain attacks by securing

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Intel’s Secret Key to Decrypt Microcode Patches is Exposed

Intel’s Secret Key to Decrypt Microcode Patches is Exposed
by Matthew Rosenquist on 11-07-2020 at 8:00 am
Categories: Intel, Security

Intels Secret Key to Decrypt Microcode Patches is Exposed

A group of security vulnerability researchers, after many months of work, were able to figure out the update process and secret key used to decrypt Intel microcode updates for the Goldmont architecture product lines.

This is an important finding as it peels back yet another layer of the onion that protects the core CPU from malicious

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We Don’t Want IoT Cybersecurity Regulations

We Don’t Want IoT Cybersecurity Regulations
by Matthew Rosenquist on 10-14-2020 at 6:00 am
Categories: IoT, Security
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We Dont Want IoT Cybersecurity Regulations

It simply makes no sense to call for IoT devices to be certified safe-and-secure. Before you get bent out of shape, hear me out.

Regulations are unwieldy blunt instruments, best left as a last resort. Cybersecurity regulations are not nimble, tend to be outdated the day they are instituted, and become a lowest-common-threshold… Read More

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Teaching AI to be Evil with Unethical Data

Teaching AI to be Evil with Unethical Data
by Matthew Rosenquist on 07-05-2020 at 2:00 pm
Categories: AI, Security
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Teaching AI to be Evil with Unethical Data

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) system is only as good as its training. For AI Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) frameworks, the training data sets are a crucial element that defines how the system will operate. Feed it skewed or biased information and it will create a flawed inference engine.

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Misunderstanding the Economic Factors of Cybercrime

Misunderstanding the Economic Factors of Cybercrime
by Matthew Rosenquist on 05-31-2020 at 6:00 am
Categories: Security
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Misunderstanding the Economic Factors of Cybercrime

A new study by Cambridge Cybercrime Centre titled Cybercrime is (often) boring: maintaining the infrastructure of cybercrime economies concludes that cybercrime is boring and recommends authorities change their strategy to highlight the tedium in order to dissuade the growth of cybercrime.

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10 Areas of Change in Cybersecurity for 2020

10 Areas of Change in Cybersecurity for 2020
by Matthew Rosenquist on 05-17-2020 at 10:00 am
Categories: Security

10 Areas of Change in Cybersecurity for 2020

Cybersecurity in 2020 will be evolutionary but not revolutionary. Although there is always change and churn, much of the foundational drivers remain relatively stable. Attacks in the next 12 months are likely to persist in ways already known but taking it up-a-notch and that will lead to a steady escalation between attackers… Read More

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COVID-19 Cars as an Essential Service

COVID-19 Cars as an Essential Service
by Roger C. Lanctot on 04-26-2020 at 10:00 am
Categories: Automotive

COVID 19 Cars as an Essential Service

The Automotive News reported Friday that updated guidance from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Iinfrastructure Security Agency had identified cars as an essential service. AN reported: “The new guidelines include “workers critical to the manufacturing, distribution, sales,

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