

Worth mentioning is also that Apple announced their ARKit which will enable their phones to natively display AR content. From that perspective, it’s brother AR is easily going to achieve mass adoption as it is better aligned with the time and technology. In a brilliant blog post last week, Jason Friedlander, Director of Marketing Communications at Verizon, explained his views on augmented reality (AR) and its potential to really become the next big thing.Īlthough virtual reality (VR) stepped to the scene with a big bang, Friedlander sees VR as increasingly de-socializing, something completely opposite to the essence of human nature. KrebsOnSecurity, Adobe Blog Verizon’s Director of Marketing Predicts AR as “The Next Big Thing” The big guys (Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla) are already slowly sending the software into a deserved retirement, mostly disabling it or making it available only on request. In a blog post, Adobe explained how more and more sites are shifting from Flash to HTML5 and WebAssembly which now provide the capabilities once pioneered by Flash. Although ultra-popular, the software is still packed with security flaws making it one of the most targeted channels for malware distribution and overall cyber criminal activities. Last week Adobe announced their plans on slowly retiring their Flash Player software. Reuters, Hacker News Adobe to Retire Flash Player by 2020 It was drafted with the help from technology experts at the Atlantic Council and Harvard University. The bill would also require vendors to make sure their devices are patchable and free from known vulnerabilities. The best example is last year’s massive DNS DDoS against Dyn which caused a large portion of the Internet to collapse. The new bill forbids hard-coded credentials in IoT devices, which was the one vulnerability hackers exploited the most for hijacking and other nefarious cyber activities. The bill, also known as the “Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017”, was presented last Tuesday by Senators Mark Warner and Cory Gardner, and its main goal is to force suppliers to adhere to a new industry-wide standard, especially if working with the government.

New IoT Bill to Set Security Standards ProposedĪ group of US senators has drafted a new bill aimed at enhancing the security of internet-connected devices, commonly called IoT. Accidental Hero That Found WannaCry’s “Kill-Switch” Arrested by FBI.Verizon’s Director of Marketing Predicts AR as “The Next Big Thing”.New IoT Bill to Set Security Standards Proposed.
