Er is binnen de EU geen sprake van een voornemen om versleuteling te verbieden en het kabinet zal het verbieden van encryptie in de toekomst niet steunen, zegt minister Grapperhaus van Justitie en Veiligheid.

De minister reageerde op een motie van FvD-voorman Thierry Baudet. Volgens Baudet gaan er binnen de Europese Unie stemmen op om het versleutelen van digitale berichten te verbieden, zodat ook overheden mee kunnen lezen.

Daarop diende de FvD-voorman een motie in waarin hij de regering oproep om zich tegen deze ontwikkeling te verzetten en niet akkoord te gaan met enig voorstel om versleuteling van berichtgeving te verbieden. De motie werd met 91 stemmen voor en 59 stemmen tegen door de Tweede Kamer aangenomen. VVD, CDA, ChristenUnie en 50PLUS stemden tegen de motie.

Minister De Jonge van Volksgezondheid gaat maatregelen nemen om de coronatest- en traceersystemen beter te beveiligen. Dit moet het risico op datalekken met persoonsgegevens verkleinen. Dat laat de minister in een brief aan de Tweede Kamer weten.

Volgens de minister is een goede it-ondersteuning bij het uitvoeren van bron- en contactonderzoek en coronatests een belangrijke randvoorwaarde. Via verschillende systemen worden binnen de test- en traceerketen door partijen gegevens uitgewisseld.

Het gaat dan om persoonsgegevens, testuitslagen, logistieke en stuurgegevens, alsmede data voor onderzoek en rapportage.

The suspected Russian hackers behind the worst U.S. cyber attack in years leveraged reseller access to Microsoft Corp services to penetrate targets that had no compromised network software from SolarWinds Corp, investigators said.

While updates to SolarWinds’ Orion software was previously the only known point of entry, security company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc said Thursday hackers had won access to the vendor that sold it Office licenses and used that to try to read CrowdStrike’s email.

It did not specifically identify the hackers as being the ones that compromised SolarWinds, but two people familiar with CrowdStrike’s investigation said they were.

For the second successive month, the number of reported healthcare data breaches has fallen; however, it should be noted that the number of breaches reported in October 2020 was almost three times the average monthly number due, in a large part, to the ransomware attack on the cloud service provider Blackbaud.

November saw 47 data breaches of 500 or more healthcare records reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights by HIPAA-covered entities and business associates, 25.39% fewer than October.

Even with that reduction, breaches are still well above the 12-month average of 41 data breaches a month (Median = 38 breaches).

From ransomware schemes to supply chain attacks, this year melded classic hacks with extraordinary circumstances.

What a way to kick off a new decade. 2020 showcased all of the digital risks and cybersecurity woes you've come to expect in the modern era, but this year was unique in the ways Covid-19 radically and tragically transformed life around the world.

The pandemic also created unprecedented conditions in cyberspace, reshaping networks by pushing people to work from home en masse, creating a scramble to access vaccine research by any means, generating new fodder for criminals to launch extortion attempts and scams, and producing novel opportunities for nation-state espionage.

The Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network has finally admitted that ransomware was behind the October attack.

In October, threat actors hit the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn and the University of Vermont Health Network. The cyber attack took place on October 28 and disrupted services at the UVM Medical Center and affiliated facilities.

A month later, the University of Vermont Medical Center was continuing to recover from the cyber attack that paralyzed the systems at the Burlington hospital.

In early December, Hospital CEO Dr. Stephen Leffler announced that the attack that took place in late October on the computer systems of the University of Vermont Medical Center is costing the hospital about $1.5 million a day in lost revenue and recovery costs.

Since Monday, the Albertville-Moûtiers Hospital Center has been targeted by a cyber attack. His information system was damaged. Consequence: patients who have an appointment after December 28 must reconfirm their arrival.

Since 4 am, this Monday, December 21, the Center Hospitalier Albertville-Moûtiers (CHAM) has been the victim of a cyber attack. Several sites are affected: the two branches in Albertville and Moûtiers, as well as the EHPAD and the Claude Léger and Les Cordeliers long-term care units.

Several equipment, servers, software and part of the computer network are currently unavailable. They are attacked by a "ransomware" type virus as specified by CHAM in a press release, malicious software that takes computer data 'hostage' in exchange for a sum of money.

It’s one thing to know which tech trends are coming our way in 2021. It’s another thing altogether to manage the effective implementation of those trends in a way that brings value and insight to your company.

That’s the task CMOs face each new year as an onslaught of technology floods the business landscape. The next big thing of 2020 may or may not still be relevant in 2021.

The last big tech investment may not have paid off. And even if it did—the latest iteration may call for a whole new infrastructure. While technologists flout the coolest digital transformation trends for 2021, the following trends are keeping CMOs up at night, wondering how, when, why, and if they should roll out another new tech venture.

Most people in the IT industry are familiar with the phrase “people, process, and technology.” While there are many technology and process standards within organizations, and while they are created by people and supported by people, the innate “people” component of technology development and management is often neglected.

The overemphasis on logic, analytics and process has led to leadership challenges such as poor communication, poor relationship management and poor stakeholder engagement.

Critical IT projects have failed because IT leaders neglect the equally important “people” aspect of these programs. But as IT departments work to plan for 2021, IT leaders will need to reevaluate, prioritize and advocate for the technical and interpersonal needs of their employees.

Last week, on the heels of DeepMind’s breakthrough in using AI to predict protein-folding came the news that the UK-based AI company is still costing its parent company Alphabet Inc hundreds of millions of dollars in losses each year.

A tech company losing money is nothing new. The tech industry is replete with examples of companies who burned investor money long before becoming profitable. But DeepMind is not a normal company seeking to grab a share of a specific market. It is an AI research lab that has had to repurpose itself into a semi-commercial outfit to ensure its survival.

And while its owner, which is also the parent company of Google, is currently happy with footing the bill for DeepMind’s expensive AI research, it is not guaranteed that it will continue to do so forever.

Between 1987 and 1992, Oldsmobile built a series of experimental Aerotech supercars that incorporated the latest performance technology with the aim of breaking multiple automobile speed records.

A. J. Foyt, four-time Indy 500 winner, drove the first Aerotech vehicle set a world closed-course speed record of 257.123 mph on August 27, 1987 at the 7.712-mile test track near Fort Stockton Texas. It was powered by a turbocharged 2.3L Quad 4 generating over 1000 hp. Read more for two videos and additional information.

Oldsmobile produced a total of three variants of the original Aerotech to prove the capabilities of the company’s Quad 4 engine.