Author: Vidya Saras

The Information Security Officers Group (ISOG) held the second installment of the ISOG Colloquium 2024 on Sept. 5 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). Building on the success of the first event in June, ISOG organized this follow-up to meet the high demand for further learning opportunities within the cybersecurity community. With hundreds of cybersecurity professionals in attendance, the event featured a keynote address by Col. Francel Margareth Padilla-Taborlupa, spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Cybersecurity Woman Leader of the Year 2023. Her address, “Preparing for the New Battle: Defending Against AI-Driven Cyberattacks,” highlighted the importance…

Reviewed by Brian St. Pierre, MS, RD We all make thousands of decisions every day, large and small. What to have for breakfast. Whether or not to exercise—or when. Which project to tackle first at work. More coffee or not. After a while, it’s only natural that decision fatigue sets in. Decision fatigue can happen to anyone—but it’s especially disruptive when you’re trying to change old habits and make new (healthier) choices, but you lose steam by 10 AM. Let’s take a closer look at what decision fatigue is, what causes it, and how to shake it off so you…

NASA cleared its next astronaut flight to the International Space Station for launch on Friday (Sept. 27), a weekend liftoff that will help return two Boeing Starliner astronauts home and break in a new launch pad for SpaceX. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft will launch two Crew-9 astronauts, NASA veteran Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexandr Gorbunov, to the ISS from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Sept. 28. Liftoff is set for 1:17 p.m. EDT (1517 GMT). “We’re proceeding toward launch and go to proceed time of 1:17 p.m. tomorrow,” Steve Stich, NASA’s Commercial Crew…

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A new, multidisciplinary MIT graduate program in music technology and computation will feature faculty, labs, and curricula from across the Institute.The program is a collaboration between the Music and Theater Arts Section in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS); Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in the School of Engineering; and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.“The launch of a new graduate program in music technology strikes me as both a necessary and a provocative gesture — an important leap in an era being rapidly redefined by exponential growth in computation, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interactions of…

The problem is that since this service binds to 0.0.0.0, which on Linux indicates all IP addresses and interfaces, it also discovers printers over the internet if the port is not blocked in the system firewall. How big is this problem? Margaritelli scanned the internet for a couple of weeks for devices that listened on UDP 631 and found hundreds of thousands with peaks of 200-300K concurrent devices. While there are likely hundreds of millions of Linux devices on the internet, that number might not seem high, but it’s certainly big enough for a very powerful botnet if they were…

Dramatic flooding and rescues as Hurricane Helene hits FloridaAt least 43 people have died and millions left without power on Friday as Hurricane Helene roared through the south-eastern US.Officials continued daring rescues with boats, helicopters and large vehicles to help those stranded in floodwaters – including about 50 workers and patients who crowded on the roof of a flooded Tennessee hospital. It was the most powerful storm on record to hit Florida’s Big Bend and moved north into Georgia and the Carolinas after making landfall overnight on Thursday. Insurers and financial institutions say damage caused by the storm could run…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Israel’s military hit Hizbollah’s “main command centre” in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday in a strike targeting Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s leader, in the most intense bombardment of Lebanon’s capital since the start of its offensive.The strike on Beirut came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a defiant speech at the UN that Israel “must defeat” the Lebanese militant group despite growing international pressure for a ceasefire.The Israeli army said it had struck Hizbollah’s headquarters, which was located under residential buildings.…

Sad news coming late on a Friday for fans of Chucky, his signature USA/Syfy series Chucky, and horror-comedy entertainment involving diabolical, cackling, knife-wielding dolls: Don Mancini‘s show has been cancelled. That cliffhanger at the end of season three is starting to look awfully permanet—though Mancini, who first dreamed up Chucky for 1988’s Child’s Play, has an important takeaway: “He’ll be back!” HE’LL BE BACK https://t.co/ZI5HEZrXrz — Don Mancini (@RealDonMancini) September 27, 2024   Speaking to io9 ahead of Chucky‘s final season three episodes—what we now know are Chucky‘s final episodes, full stop—Mancini said he was in “very early days of…

AlamyFirst broadcast 30 years ago this week, the hugely popular show Friends became much more than a sitcom – it brought a new way of living into the mainstream.Barely three minutes into the pilot episode of Friends (The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate), the audience gets introduced to Rachel Green – played by Jennifer Aniston – as she bursts through the doors of the now universally recognised Central Perk in her wedding dress, having hotfooted it straight from the altar, leaving behind her orthodontist fiancé Barry.She’s run away from her potential domestic set-up – married at 24 to a…