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The public cloud continues to push the boundaries of encryption services, ranging from Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm encryption to in-transit encryption services. Data encryption has become so important that enterprises like Google (GCP), Microsoft Azure and Amazon (AWS) already native encrypt most of th... |
In the event of a natural disaster, no health care organization can afford to lose their patient data. Public cloud providers offer redundancy through network transport that can go into facilities where data lives to replicate that data and move it to the cloud. Take AWS, for example. The cloud service provider boasts ... |
In modern public cloud architectures, rather than thinking about legacy disaster recovery options, health care organizations are implementing redundancy through spreading their application across multiple public cloud availability zones or data centers. The bottom line? Redundancy keeps data online and safe. |
Human error during data transportation is often responsible for compromising data encryption, which can lead to damaging security incidents. To securely transport data and keep it safe as it moves from on-premise to another location or cloud service is vital. |
Luckily, most major cloud providers offer physical or online transport support to ingest your data and move it safely into the public cloud, including physical, petabyte-scale data transport like AWS Snowball and online encrypted services like SSH File Transfer Protocol (FTP). All of these services can easily move work... |
There are many testing tools used to keep your cloud provider in check. Penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, looking for network holes and intrusion prevention are all part of keeping data environments safe from threats. Major cloud providers also have a rich public cloud marketplace with virtual machines that ... |
In addition to these protections, organizations can schedule penetration testing by third parties inside the cloud environment for audits to ensure data safety. Practicing audits invariably can lead to stronger data management and compliance. |
Hardening allows organizations to make updates using automation rather than on-premises installations that may result in security incidents. This becomes increasingly important in health care as regulations evolve, requiring changes to the various operating systems that CIOs may be using to serve patient applications. |
Tools like CloudFormation and Terraform allow organizations to build out templates for operating systems that can create a hardened template so that when new assets are deployed in the cloud, they have the same controls, policies, permissions and installations that organizations can use to control standards and follow ... |
It comes as no surprise that Google, Microsoft and Amazon are aggressively investing in security and access management. Take the example of AWS Security Hub, which offers a comprehensive view into managing security alerts and automating compliance checks inside an organization’s cloud environment. This means controllin... |
AWS also recently launched Control Tower, which manages security services based on established best practices in secure and compliant multi-account environments. |
For large health care organizations, this means safeguarding access across channels and devices to keep patient data secure. |
Logging is a hot topic in health care that requires users to log everything that happens within an environment. For example, pharmaceutical data needs to be securely logged during a clinical trial throughout the manufacturing of a drug. When logging data, organizations need alert and response capabilities. Primarily, u... |
While technologies like AWS Security Hub drive alerts, there is no need for organizations to get rid of what they already have. They can integrate using the rich API’s public cloud providers allowed into current security platforms. This is especially pertinent to the health care industry, as most organizations will nee... |
It sounds strange, but the surest way to keep your data safe is to scale. The ability to increase and decrease resources on-demand without having to wait for physical on-premise updates is essential. More and more, health care organizations are adopting DevOps and serverless technologies to help avoid patch management ... |
(Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to temporarily lift export curbs it imposed on Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone maker ZTE Corp (0763.HK) for alleged Iran sanctions violations, a senior Department of Commerce official said. |
The Commerce Department restrictions imposed earlier this month made it difficult for ZTE to acquire U.S. components by requiring its suppliers to apply for an export license before shipping any American-made equipment or parts to ZTE. |
The department had said the license applications generally would be denied. |
Shenzhen-based ZTE has been “in active, constructive discussions” with the Commerce Department for the past week, according to a senior official at the agency. |
“As part of the effort to resolve the matter, and based upon binding commitments that ZTE has made to the U.S. government, Commerce expects this week to be able to provide temporary relief from some licensing requirements,” the official said. |
“The relief would be temporary in nature and would be maintained only if ZTE is abiding by its commitments to the U.S. Government,” the official added. |
The details of the commitments are expected to be published this week in the U.S. Federal Register. |
ZTE said on Monday it aims to ensure all of its operational activities adhere to international standards of its host countries and it will continue to communicate with relevant parties to resolve the issue as soon as possible. |
ZTE is among the largest companies that the Commerce Department has hit with a near-total export ban, according to public records. |
The export restrictions have drawn protests from the Chinese government and rocked ZTE’s business. |
Its shares have not traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange for the past two weeks. The company also said last week it was delaying the publication of its annual results while it assesses the impact of Washington’s action. |
ZTE also said it would postpone its board meeting. Its shares last closed at HK$14.16, prior to a trading suspension on March 7. |
Goldman Sachs suspended its coverage on ZTE, saying there was not enough information to determine an investment rating, price target and earnings estimates for the company. |
Since coming under fire in 2012 for alleged deals with sanctions-hit Iran and possible links to the Chinese government and military, ZTE has ramped up its spending on Washington lobbyists. |
It spent $5.1 million in the last four years, up from $212,000 in 2011, as it sought to assuage national security concerns, according to publicly available lobbying records maintained by Congress. |
The Commerce Department investigated ZTE for alleged export-control violations following Reuters reports that the company had signed contracts to ship millions of dollars worth of American-made hardware and software to Iran’s largest telecoms carrier. |
Former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. filed on Wednesday his certificate of candidacy (COC) as he eyes to reclaim a Senate seat in next year’s elections. |
His wife Bacoor City Mayor Lani Mercado and son Jolo filed his COC at the Commission on Elections on his behalf. |
Revilla is detained at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center in Camp Crame, Quezon City, over his alleged involvement in the P10-billion pork barrel scam. |
Despite his detention, Revilla said he still wanted to help solve the country’s problems. |
“Hindi nila maikukulong ang aking diwa at puso para sa bayan (They can’t imprison my soul and heart for the nation),” Revilla said in a statement read by Mercado in a press briefing. |
Mercado added that Revilla might be out of the detention center of Camp Crame by December after the court has issued a ruling on his pending plunder case. |
She also denied that her husband was involved in the multi-billion peso scam. |
“The truth will come out. I believe justice will prevail,” she said. |
She added that most witnesses against Revilla already backed out. She said the witnesses affirmed that the former senator had no involvement in the scam. |
Mercado also denied that Revilla was the most guilty in the pork barrel mess, as former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and former Senator Jinggoy Estrada — who were also previously detained due to the controversy — have already been released. |
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who is an electronic security expert, criticized FBI Director Jame Comey for being “unprepared” to answer questions about the fight to get Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters. |
“He hadn’t asked the questions or taken the steps that would have led to his discovering whether or not there was a one-time solution as he kept telling us there was,” Issa told NPR. |
Issa was commenting on Comey’s Congressional testimony this week about the debate over whether Apple should help to unlock a phone. |
Issa said Comey “seemed befuddled” and couldn’t answer basic questions about finding ways to access the phone. |
Posted: 3/3/16 at 8:36 AM under News Story. |
Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly’s “next mission” is to be a US senator for Arizona. |
“I care about people. I care about the state of Arizona. I care about this nation. So because of that, I’ve decided that I’m launching a campaign for the United States Senate,” Kelly said in a video released Tuesday announcing his run as a Democratic candidate. |
Kelly, 54, is the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Arizona, who survived a shooting in 2011. The two appeared together in Kelly’s announcement video, recounting that difficult period in their lives and Giffords’ rehabilitation from the gunshot wound. |
“We’ve seen this retreat from science and data and facts,” he says. |
“Our fight to improve our gun laws and my commitment to tackling climate change and ending the outrageous influence corporate money has on our politics means there are a lot of powerful interests who want to stop us,” he wrote. |
Kelly jumps into what is sure to be a competitive race vying for the late Republican Sen. John McCain’s seat. McCain won re-election in 2016, but died in August from brain cancer. Former Arizona Rep. Martha McSally was appointed to fill the seat until the 2020 special election. The seat will be on the ballot for a full... |
A group of 27 visitors to a Chinese zoo had the shock of their life when their bus was attacked by enraged Bengal tigers. The trauma continued for 20 mintues since the tiger zone’s gatekeeper had gone out for lunch. |
According to zoo authorities in Shandong province’s capital Jinan, the incident occurred on Saturday noon when around five adult tigers bit into the bus’ tires and smashed the bus with their paws, breaking its windows, the Shanghai Daily reported. |
The zoo staff learned about the incident only after they looked at the security cameras and rushed to open the gate for the tigers 20 minutes later, Jinan Times reported. |
MADISON, Ind. – A Madison man is facing charges after allegedly battering a 3-year-old boy in his care. |
Indiana State Police say they served an arrest warrant for 25-year-old Christian Chase on Friday for the charges of battery and neglect of a dependent after a nine-month investigation. |
Police began investigating the case in April 2018, when officers were notified that the child had been taken to King’s Daughter’s Hospital in Madison. The boy had reportedly been hurt while in the custody of Chase and doctors determined the injuries were not accidental in nature. |
On multiple occasions in March and April of 2018, police say the boy returned from Chase’s home with injuries, including bruising to his face, head and back. Investigators determined Chase inflicted the injuries while the child was in his custody. |
Officers served the warrant on Chase at the Jefferson County Jail, where police say he was already incarcerated on an unrelated charge. |
This depiction of Columbus claiming possession of the New World in a chromolithograph was made by Prang Education in 1893. |
1492: Christopher Columbus, sailing for the Spanish crown, weighs anchor for the new world. |
From his flagship Santa Maria, Columbus commanded a squadron that included the caravels Nina and Pinta. The original purpose of the voyage was not to discover new lands but to open up a trade route to the "Indies," or Asia, that would allow Spanish merchantmen to bypass the hostile Muslim fleets sailing out of the Midd... |
Columbus tried to interest the Portuguese in his scheme but they took a pass and he would have been spurned by Spain, too, had that nation's centuries-long war with the Moors been going badly. Fortunately for Columbus, the Spaniards were winning handily and victory was in sight. When the last Moorish stronghold fell at... |
He never did find that alternate route around the Muslims, but on Oct. 12, 1492 Columbus did make landfall in what is today the Bahamas and the course of history was changed forever. |
Although it's long been known that other outsiders reached North America well before Columbus, his landfall remains the most significant, for good and ill, because it opened up the sea lanes to the first permanent back-and-forth traffic of Europeans, their armies, their priests and their commerce. |
High quality photo-sharing service 500px has raised $8.8 million in its first round of funding, with hopes to make 500px a bigger brand and to expand in the U.S. and internationally. |
Toronto-based 500px lets people discover, share, buy, and sell premium phototography. For years, it has differentiated itself from services like Yahoo’s Flickr and Google’s Picasa by offering these high-quality photos with backing from a passionate community of pro and amateur photographers. 500px has 2.5 million users... |
The new round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Harrison Metal, with participation by Creative Artists Agency, Rugged Ventures, Dustin Plett, and ff Venture Capital. |
The new funding will also help 500px hire more staff. It will be opening a new office in the Bay Area and intends to hire developers, designers, and brand managers to fill out its team. |
In 2013, researchers studying mosses and microbes growing at the southern end of the Antarctic Peninsula documented unprecedented ecological change over the last 50 years, driven by warming temperatures. Now, the same research group has confirmed that those striking changes in the Antarctic are widespread, occurring al... |
The Antarctic Peninsula is known to have been one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth. Annual temperatures there have crept up about 0.5°C each decade since the 1950s. The researchers realized they could learn a lot about how rising temperatures have affected the ecology of the Peninsula by studying core sampl... |
In the new study, the researchers added an additional three sites and five cores to their earlier sample. Those sites include three Antarctic islands (Elephant Island, Ardley Island, and Green Island) where the deepest and oldest moss banks grow, representing a 600-kilometer transect along the Peninsula. |
Careful analysis of those five cores going back 150 years showed increased biological activity as the Peninsula has warmed in the last 50 years. Those findings suggest that the Peninsula is undergoing fundamental and widespread change. Amesbury noted that the consistency of changes in the moss samples taken from differ... |
There’s more to come, the researchers said. The sensitivity of mosses’ rate of growth in response to past temperature increases suggests that terrestrial ecosystems of the Antarctic Peninsula will continue to experience rapid change with future warming. |
The researchers said they’ll continue to examine core records stretching back in time over thousands of years. Their goal is to explore the impact of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems before humans began heating things up. |
Vizio's new Sound Stand aims to be a simple, cheap ($250) solution for your TV's crappy sound, even simpler and more discreet than a sound bar. But even if it's cheap and convenient, the Sound Stand is less than you bargain for. |
A $250 sound system you're supposed to place under a tabletop TV. It's specifically billed for people who don't even have enough space for a sound bar. |
Sound bars have made a lot of headway in recent years in large measure because TVs have gotten so skinny that there's no room for decent speakers in them anymore. Sound bars are also good enough now that they're a perfectly acceptable sound solutions, even for people who would ordinarily buy a five channel home theater... |
And if somebody is going to bring a new category to tons of people—especially an affordable one—it's Vizio. The company sells loads upon loads of TVs and sound bars precisely because they're cheap and very high quality. They'll sell you a passable sound bar for $80 and decent sound bar/sub combo for $150. And for $250,... |
The plastic enclosure stands three inches high, and it's very bland in appearance, especially when compared to similar new LG ($400) and Samsung ($300), which have a sleek, modern look. This thing looks more like a schlubby cable box than a svelte high-definition panel. And because it's made of plastic and not MDF (woo... |
Besides the stereo 2.75 inch drivers in the front, the Sound Stand also has a 5.25-inch down firing subwoofer, which sets it apart from the skinnier stands from LG and Samsung. The back of the enclosure is partially cut away to give the sub a little space to push air. |
On the I/O front, the Sound Stand is pretty simple: RCA, 3.5mm mini jack, optical, and RCA coaxial. Yup, no HDMI. |
For controls, the Sound Stand is similarly spartan. There are buttons on the side of the enclosure for power, input selection, Bluetooth pairing and volume. In all likelihood, you'll use the included remote, which adds additional controls for treble and bass levels as well as buttons that toggle a couple of DTS digital... |
Setting up the Sound Stand takes about one minute once it's out of the box: Connect the included digital optical cable, plug it into your TV, plug in the power and you're ready to go. Because there are no HDMI ports on the Sound Stand, your TV or some other port-rich device will have to serve as the hub for your set-to... |
From there, controlling the Sound Stand is a breeze When you flip it on, it automatically listens to all of the inputs for a signal and selects the one that you're probably trying to use. The Sound Stand communicates levels to you with a series of LEDs across the bottom left of the stand. Sometimes this scheme can be a... |
Up until now, we've got what we'd expect from an inexpensive product. Unfortunately, the actual sound of the Sound Stand left me wanting a lot more, even for the relatively low price. The unit is admittedly very powerful, and when watching big loud action movies like The Avengers, it produced enormous roars and explosi... |
The included DTS TruVolume and DTS TruSurround modes are terrible and you're better off leaving them off. The former is supposed to level out the dynamics of what you're watching so that nothing is ever too loud. The latter is supposed to optimize multi-channel sound for the 2.1 system, providing enhancements like voca... |
For best results, turn the bass and treble levels down below "0" and never push the overall power past 60 percent. That's right, use this product to only 60 percent of its potential. |
Simple, space-efficient design. Easy to setup. |
Few advanced features. Sound is subpar, even for a $250 product. |
Nope. Get a $250-$300 sound bar with a wireless subwoofer instead. In fact, we recommend Vizio's cheaper products on this front because they've historically done well in our comparisons. Having a separate wireless subwoofer makes sound considerably better, and I don't really understand how it's SO much more inconvenien... |
In fact, I don't even know that the world really needs the Sound Stand as a product category, even if many different companies have just started producing them. There's a slight argument to be made for its space saving-benefits. But as a New Yorker who lives in a tiny apartment I dispute the number of use cases that bo... |
1. What can I comfortably afford? |
Your lender will pre-approve you for a specific loan amount based on an analysis of your creditworthiness, assets and debts. When discussing what's comfortable for you, be sure to consider all of the home's expenses, including taxes, homeowners insurance, any homeowners association dues, utility costs and maintenance. ... |
2. What loans do I qualify for? |
Your lender will talk with you about your options, each with its own pros and cons. Some offer fixed interest rates, meaning your payment will stay the same over the life of the loan, while others are adjustable, meaning your payment can change. Some, like VA loans, may not require a down payment. Ask your lender about... |
3. What's the minimum down payment? |
Your lender can help you determine if you qualify for loans, such as VA loans, that offer options for a low or no down payment. A higher down payment, however, will lower your monthly payments and help you secure a lower interest rate. |
4. Can I use gift money for my down payment? |
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