January 08, 2023
Kannan Subbiah
FCA | CISA | CGEIT | CCISO | GRC Consulting | Independent Director | Enterprise & Solution Architecture | Former Sr. VP & CTO of MF Utilities | BU Soft Tech | itTrident
Advancements in autonomous driving haven't developed as quickly as some imagined they would. However, cars are incrementally becoming smarter and smarter, with autonomy seemingly just over the horizon. Case in point: Peugeot, Stellantis's French automobile brand, unveiled the Inception Concept car, an electric vehicle demonstrating what a car can be, once you do away with the steering wheel, get comfortable and let the vehicle get to know you a little. ... While autonomous cars are still in development, other market-ready autonomous mobility tools were on display on CES. The company Evar was at the conference with Parky, an autonomous EV recharging robot that brings a charging station to any parking spot. It's designed for building owners that want to make their parking spots more EV-friendly without adding electric capacity. ... The Withings U-Scan toilet bowl sensor attaches to the inside of your toilet's bowl. It includes a nutrition and metabolic urine tracker, checks pH, ketone, vitamin C levels, and more. A second tracker monitors women's luteinizing hormone for ovulation cycles. Each promise early detection of potential health issues.
Unsurprisingly, queueing theory is a branch of mathematics, focused on studying and describing queues (or, in more professional terms, lines). The whole theory is all about how lines are created, how they behave, and, most important, how and why they malfunction. It is one of these branches of mathematics which are useful in real life; e.g., it can be used in many branches of industry.?... Basically, we can treat most of the systems like a queue so users send requests, the request process, and the response return to the user, or when the system is too busy to process the request right away, the request waits until some arbitrary timeout is reached or it will be processed. The real problem is to correctly identify the class of the system we are working on. In most cases, it will be the variation of M/M/c or Mx/m/c. Unfortunately, it can result in our calculations not being very in line with real life. As long as we are taking care of long-term average system performance then M/M/c is an appropriate description and most of the inconsistencies should be kept in line with averaged results.
A key element of this extensibility is the WebAssembly Component Model. Defined by the WebAssembly working group as the Wasm equivalent of an OS process model, it’s the foundation for how WASI implements its interfaces. A key element of any low-level approach like this is an interface definition language, which provides a way to specify how interfaces interact with code. For Wasm, and especially for the Component Model, the standard IDL is wit, which gives us a concise and human-readable way of defining interfaces that are expanded into WebAssembly code. To use WASI to build distributed applications, we need a set of extensions that lets us abstract provider-specific services as interfaces. Instead of having to use separate APIs for S3 on AWS and Blob storage on Azure and the code to manage them, we could have a single storage component that would provide a common set of interfaces on all platforms, with the underlying WASI instance managing service-specific implementations.
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Researchers refer to the abuse of free offers as freejacking, and the creation of accounts that incur charges and then are never paid as "play and run." The latter is more difficult to pull off because most service providers require the user to register a valid credit card or payment method before giving them access to paid-for computing resources. However, even if usage is tracked and charged on a per-minute basis, the bill is usually issued after a longer period. This gives attackers a time window to abuse such services. ... "The infrastructure architecture employed by the actors uses CI/CD techniques, in which each individual software component of an operation is placed within a container," the researchers said. "This container operates within a modular architecture within the larger mining operation. CI/CD architectures provide highly modular operational environments, allowing some components of an operation to fail, be updated, or even be terminated and replaced, without affecting the larger environment." Not all the containers are used for cryptomining.?
The first step in obtaining affordable cyber insurance is finding a broker who is well-versed in coverage terms and has access to several different insurance markets, says Mark Dobrow, a vice president in the insurance brokerage division of Segal, a human resources and employee benefits consulting firm. “Market knowledge and experience is limited due to the relative newness of the product as compared to the long history of standard property coverages,” he explains. “The right broker can tailor the coverage to your needs and should know which markets are best for a particular situation.” ... The biggest mistake cyber-insurance applicants make, Aiello says, is paying poor attention to detail. “Businesses must ensure technology is being deployed in line with the insurance firm's conditions, otherwise insurers can attempt to get out of paying a claim if the technology was not ‘properly implemented’,” he warns. Unfortunately, the language used in cyber-insurance policies isn't always consistent between providers.?
It’s been an open secret within Southwest for some time … that the company desperately needed to modernize its scheduling systems. … This problem — relying on older or deficient software that needs updating — is known as incurring technical debt [and it] appears to be a key factor in why Southwest Airlines couldn’t return to business as usual the way other airlines did after last [month’s] major winter storm.?When hiccups or weather events happen, the employees have to go through a burdensome, arduous process … because Southwest hadn’t sufficiently modernized its crew-scheduling systems. For example, if … their flight was canceled … employees have had to manually call in to let the company know where they are [sometimes] being left on hold on the phone for … hours just to let the company know their whereabouts. … Online forums are full of employee accounts of such misery. …?This can easily cascade to a systemwide halt. … Such breakdowns resulting from technical debt are often triggered by external events, like weather. … So why didn’t Southwest simply update its software and systems?