Mese: Agosto 2021

Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling

Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling

Way back in January 2020, Sonos sued Google over patent infringement. Today, the streaming speaker company scored an early victory with the U.S. International Trade Commission. A preliminary ruling penned by ITC chief administrative law judge Charles Bullock finds that Google infringed on five patents. “Today the ALJ has found all five of Sonos’ asserted …

What happens when Wall Street falls out of love with your sector?

What happens when Wall Street falls out of love with your sector?

It’s been an awful week for public neoinsurance companies. A subsector of the larger insurtech world, neoinsurance providers tackled a number of insurance categories using a blend of modern app design and machine learning in hopes of creating more user-friendly and profitable insurance products. The idea proved attractive to venture capitalists, who invested in a …

America’s small businesses aren’t that worried about cyberattacks Zero-day attack

America’s small businesses aren’t that worried about cyberattacks Zero-day attack

As enterprise organizations continue to face threats from supply chain attacks, ransomware and other online threats, a new survey from CNBC and Momentive has revealed that small businesses in the US are not overly worried about being the victim of a cyberattack. To compile their new Q3 Small Business Survey, the news outlet and the …

AMD hardware security tricks can be bypassed with a shock of electricity Image of padlock against circuit board/cybersecurity background

AMD hardware security tricks can be bypassed with a shock of electricity Image of padlock against circuit board/cybersecurity background

Academics researchers have demonstrated a successful attack strategy to get around the protections provided by AMDs famed Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology. AMD SEV leverages the AMD Secure Processor (AMD-SP) to separate security-sensitive operations from software executing elsewhere in order to safeguard virtual machines (VM) in untrusted environments. Researchers from Technische Universität (TU) Berlin’s Security …