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Mainframes Market Outlook, Segmentation and Forecast To 2027

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Experts Warn That AI-Enhanced Cyberattacks Are An Imminent Threat

The Future of Hacking

There are many benefits that can come with the adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI), but experts believe such widespread acceptance will lead to more effective and more dangerous cyberattacks. And that they’ll happen soon.

At this year���s Black Hat cybersecurity conference, 100 attendees were polled about various aspects of artificial intelligence, and 62 percent said they firmly believe AI will be used by hackers within the next twelve months. Despite the idea that AI may be the best defense against such attacks, its increasing availability will likely lead to more advanced hacking techniques.

Hackers have already hacked into huge institutions and disrupted the lives of many. It was only last November that hospitals in the UK were the targets of a cyberattack that resulted in shutdown for three facilities, with hundreds of scheduled surgeries cancelled. Ukraine’s power grid has been assaulted multiple times, prompting the U.S. to look into the system behind its own power grid and eliminate any potential weaknesses.

As the Internet of Things adds new devices every day, the potential pool for AI hacks is also growing exponentially larger. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spoken about the dangers of AI on multiple occasions, calling it the biggest threat to our society, as well as urging world leaders to impose regulations before its too late.

Advancing AI

Jeremy Straub, Associate Director of the NDSU Institute for Cyber Security Education and Research, explained how the use of AI could improve cyberattacks at The Conversation. Compared to humans, who need food, sleep, and other things that impose limitations, AI can act at any time and don’t need to take breaks. AI are also capable of processing large amounts of data quickly, thereby making attacks on databases faster and easier to accomplish.

Even if met with opposition, or programming specific to vulnerabilities that have since been changed, the AI can adapt quickly and more effectively than any human — and do so without human input. Humans defending against cyberattacks will be outmatched by AI, and unable to keep up with the speed at which it operates.

Straub posits the start of an AI arms race involving hackers and cyber security experts, with all attempting to make better AI capable of outperforming the competition. This, of course, could lead to larger attacks, and the possibility of attacks that spiral out of control.

Stronger Defenses

Despite the potential dangers AI possess, it should be noted that not everyone is standing idly by and waiting for the worst to happen. A number of people have also spoken out against Elon Musk’s warnings, saying the CEO’s statements are focusing on the wrong scenarios and making it harder to have an open conversation and debate about our future with AI.

Beyond these discussions, there’s also technology being developed that can aid against potential threats. Quantum computers are said to be one of the tools we can use against cyberattacks, and researchers around the world are working to bring us closer to a reality in which quantum computers are widely used.

Companies like Google and IBM have also taken steps to strengthen our cyber security. Google has created an “AI Fight Club” that will train systems to more effectively combat harmful AI, while IBM’s new IBM Z mainframe system can run more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day to prevent the theft of financial data.

It’s inevitable that artificial intelligence is soon going to become a huge influence in our lives. While it’s easy to dwell on the negative aspects of its advancement, we also need to dedicate an equal amount of time and effort to its benefits, lest we find ourselves incapable of dealing with either.

The post Experts Warn That AI-Enhanced Cyberattacks Are An Imminent Threat appeared first on Futurism.

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There is an urgent need for COBOL programmers amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has devastated the U.S. economy and overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems in some states The impact of COVID-19 has overwhelmed COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems and thus has led to a surge in demand for experts in the 60-year-old programming language.

Government officials like New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy have expressed the desperate need for COBOL programmers to shore up legacy systems amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts said there are plenty out there -- you just need to know where to find them.

"In my experience, organizations saying they can't find mainframe talent either aren't trying very hard or they're being too picky," said Darren Surch, COO at Interskill Learning, Americas, a mainframe training company in Alpharetta, Ga.

COBOL, a staple language for mainframe-hosted applications, still has more than 220 billion lines of active code running in systems around the world, despite its advanced age. It was developed as part of a joint effort by academics and computer programmers, including renowned computing pioneer Grace Hopper.

Today, there are fewer college curriculums that heavily emphasize COBOL, and many programmers have retired. But that doesn't constitute a lack of available COBOL talent, experts said. Rather, it's a question of how to effectively mobilize it.

"There is an army of COBOL programmers ready to go to work now," wrote Cameron Seay, Ph.D., a professor of COBOL and mainframe technology at East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, N.C., in a note he posted on Governor Murphy's webpage. "They are seasoned vets ready to go, but you will have to arrange for them to work remotely."

Some retired mainframe and COBOL programmers are willing to sign on for projects -- under the right terms.

"I looked into the New Jersey situation and had to pass. They were looking for volunteers, but if you want me to step out of retirement, I'd like to get paid," said Lee Taft, a retired COBOL programmer who worked at the Social Security Administration (SSA). SSA has 60 million lines of live COBOL code, but the agency is in the middle of an IT modernization effort that will move those systems off the z/OS mainframe and onto Linux-based systems.

The current crisis, which President Donald Trump has compared to a war, may require COBOL veterans more than raw recruits.

"Government agencies can't rely on newly minted COBOL engineers to solve these issues; instead I'd like to see skilled architects and engineers who understand COBOL, mainframe architecture, and most importantly, how to enable these systems to scale," said Chris Condo, an analyst at Forrester Research.

Mainframes and COBOL still run banks, insurers

Mainframes are at the heart of the IT infrastructure of many organizations. For instance, 92 of the world's top 100 banks, all of the top 10 insurers, 18 of the top 25 retailers, 70% of the Fortune 500 and much of the world's healthcare, finance, utilities and governments, rely on IBM mainframe systems as the core of their organization's information technology, according to the company.

Government agencies can't rely on newly minted COBOL engineers to solve these issues; instead I'd like to see skilled architects and engineers who understand COBOL, mainframe architecture, and most importantly, how to enable these systems to scale.

Chris CondoAnalyst, Forrester Research

"The mainframe is literally running the worldwide economy. It's the most reliable and secure system of record on the planet," said Sam Knutson, vice president of product management at Compuware, which sells development tools for mainframes. "To the premier, large-scale enterprise, COBOL is what drives that platform."

While some folks have placed the blame on COBOL for shortfalls in these unemployment systems, that's a wrongheaded point of view, said Thomas Klinect, an analyst at Gartner.

"It's actually not COBOL that's the problem," Klinect said. "It's the implementation of the [new unemployment insurance] rules, which are the problem."

As applications change over the years because of new rules and laws, that application becomes more complex no matter what language it's written in, he added. The fact that many retired COBOL developers have taken valuable knowledge about applications with them only exacerbates the problem. The good news is that most developers can pick up COBOL pretty easily, according to Klinect.

"COBOL is a procedural language, which means it's very much like JavaScript," he said. "It's not complex; it's relatively straightforward. It's not object-oriented, where you're trying to understand all of the polymorphisms and virtual functions and all those types of issues."

Mainframes running COBOL applications remain a critical part of enterprise IT.

IBM, Linux Foundation corral COBOL programmers

Vendors with a strategic stake in COBOL have stepped up education efforts around the language in recent days.

IBM, in concert with the Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe Project, launched the COBOL Programmers Forum, a place where retired COBOL developers and programmers who want to volunteer and/or work full-time can post their resumes. The company also unveiled the COBOL Technical Forum, where longtime COBOL programmers will offer free advice. A third program, called Open Source COBOL Training, is an educational course that teaches COBOL primarily to novice programmers.

Big Blue also created the IBM System z Academic Initiative where it will work with 120 schools located close some of IBM's larger corporate accounts to help integrate enterprise computing content into their respective curriculums. About half the 120 schools have courses dedicated to COBOL programming.

Working with selected users, IBM also created the Mainframe Application Developer Standard, which is registered as an apprenticeship with the Department of Labor. COBOL training is incorporated into the standard to meet the current demands of the marketplace, according to the company.

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A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 4 Episode 3: ‘Forbidden’

We asked for more hacks, and Episode 3 of Mr. Robot’s final season delivered. We discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] SS7, breaking and entering, social engineering, multi-factor authentication, and getting into Olivia’s machine. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity, clarity, and chronology.) This week’s team of experts include:

Emma Best: a former hacker and current journalist and transparency advocate with a specialty in counterintelligence and national security.

Bill Budington: a long-time activist, security trainer, and a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Jen Helsby: SecureDrop lead developer at Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Jason Hernandez: Solutions Architect for Bishop Fox, an offensive security firm. He also does research into surveillance technology and has presented work on aerial surveillance.

Harlo Holmes: Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Trammell Hudson: a security researcher who likes to take things apart.

Micah Lee: a technologist with a focus on operational security, source protection, privacy and cryptography, as well as Director of Information Security at The Intercept.

Freddy Martinez: a technologist and public records expert. He serves as a Director for the Chicago-based Lucy Parsons Labs.

Episode Titles

Micah: This season's episode titles are named after HTTP error codes. The first episode is called "401 UNAUTHORIZED", the second is "402 PAYMENT REQUIRED", etc.

Bill: Also documented in cat form.

Micah: And this episode, 403, the HTTP error is forbidden, and the episode had a specific FORBIDDEN theme in it. Mr Robot said, "Every time I talk to Eliot about it, he puts up a wall. Like he's flat out throwing me a FORBIDDEN error. Denying me the chance to even bring it up."

Bill: Are they tracking the episode numbers? is the next one 404? OMG.

Retro IBMs

Yael: Do you guys think it's worth discussing the part of the plot that's essentially about China stealing IP from IBM? This is a big thing even now.

Jason: You can steal or clone a mainframe, but running one reliably without support from IBM is pretty hard…

Yael: Yeah, and in the meeting, it sounds like they were paying them money in this partnership, so I'm not sure what the plan was.

Trammell: On the retro IBM: was there ever a mouse available with that model? Because I’m that sort of nerd, the microsoft Mouse wasn't introduced until 1983. The rounded one that I think is in the photo wasn't until ‘87 or ‘93.

Retro Mouse, Image: USA

Jason: Yeah, it might be an XT (1983) or an IBM Personal Computer from 1981. The exterior looks similar for both models.

Trammell: I'm not 100% certain, but I think that predates the XT and is a 5150, the "original IBM PC." Because that is the sort of minutiae that totally throws away any credibility… IBM PC XT has a label that says “XT.”

Image: Wikipedia

Location Tracking

Harlo: The Krysta scene—at the end, we see a dude tailing Elliot, and, unlike the Whiterose gang, he's absolutely wayfinding (tracking a nearby signal) on his device. We see that again later on.

Trammell: Didn't Elliot install a hacked version of Signal that leaks his location?

Micah: He did. Allegedly, it only leaks his location to Darlene though, but who knows what she put in that APK, really.

Harlo: Hmmmmmm. Darlene, you FINK.

Bill: I'm not sure if he installed a hacked version of Signal or he just was using the Signal API.

Harlo: Darlene did force him to install a modified version of Signal that lets her in.

Yael: Well, she took his phone and put it in. He could’ve said no or removed it, but he didn’t.

Bill: You can script signal messages using the Signal API, and he might have just been doing that to notify Darlene of his location.

Freddy: I don’t think this existed in 2016, but I’m not sure.

Harlo: Yo maybe Darlene is working with the drug cartel because she gets a good deal on blow in exchange for Elliot.

Bank Security

Yael: So they're meeting on Christmas and Elliot and Darlene are planning to hack them to…steal the money? I think?

Jason: Yeah, I think that's the plan. Hack them and wire a ton of money out of the Bank of Cyprus.

Yael: Okay, so say this hack works, which it looks like it did, and they drain the money. Does Cyprus National Bank not have fraud protection?

Jason: Usually there's an approval flow with multiple users to initiate a substantial wire.

Harlo: Should be, right???

Jason: Yeah, probably need to hack some more people/social engineer.

Micah: It might be different if you have Olivia's access, though.

Yael: I've had my bank tell me when it thought there were unauthorized transactions or freeze my account because I was traveling, though.

SS7

Yael: When Darlene and Elliot were arguing about who got to do what, Darlene said Elliot was supposed to get the SS7 license; anyone wanna talk about SS7?

Jason: SS7 is a shared network that virtually every cell carrier has access to. Karsten Nohl / srlabs.de is a good technical reference on SS7.

Freddy: SS7 is a signaling system that handles things like when you are in your car and moving but on a phone call. When you switch from one cell tower to another, you need to be able to handle that without dropping the call. That’s what SS7 does. It’s also notoriously insecure and you can use SS7 exploits to take over someone’s phone. It enables you to steal text messages to bypass two-factor authentication.

Jen: And/or track people’s locations.

Harlo: Or to intercept messages, calls, and know which tower a phone is connecting to via its IMEI [unique identifier assigned to mobile devices]. Actually, you don’t even need the IMEI, I think.

Micah: I think all you need is a phone number.

Jen: You also need an SS7 license (or to somehow otherwise get access to the SS7 network) in order to do any of this as an attacker.

Jason: If you can convince carriers that you're a new cell carrier with paperwork, you can get access.

Olivia’s Machine

Yael: But then Elliot is also trying to get into Olivia Cortez's machine. Are these just two approaches for the same thing?

Micah: The SS7 hack and getting into Olivia's machine are two separate things. Elliot needs access to Olivia's machine in order to access the Cyprus National Bank account.

Harlo: So, ultimately, Elliot and Darlene are yak-shaving. Ultimately, they just need to hack the human.

Trammell: I'm a little disappointed that Elliot setup the breaking and entering as some sort of elite thing to leave Darlene at home, but in the end the target had zero special effort required. Darlene has also shown her expertise at social engineering.

Bill: The hack on Olivia's laptop is again a 2015 exploit. Basically, Elliot uses a hook that triggers the sticky key executable (sethc.exe). It is a helper process that is executed when you press the sticky keys combo at the login screen. Only, by replacing sethc.exe with cmd.exe, which is the Windows command line executable, he's able to press the sticky key combo to get shell access.

From there, he is able to reset Olivia's admin password and log in as her from the e-OS login screen. That allows him to steal the Firefox profile, which includes VPN access credentials from her laptop, which he then transfers to an instance of Kali Linux and runs.

He then runs ffpass to extract those credentials into his own Iceweasel (Firefox clone) profile, and gain VPN access. It's only then that he notices he needs the physical OTP module in order to complete authentication.

It looks like from the git history that ffpass didn't exist until 2018. This is the first time I've seen a tool which is newer than the time period, though.

Micah: First, he picks the lock in her drawer and finds her work laptop. Then he needs to reset her password, so he boots into "E Operating System Error Recovery", which is literally exactly the same thing as the "Windows Error Recovery” screen; they just replaced "Windows" with "E Operating System."

Jason: It's kind of amazing that a bank's corporate laptop wouldn't have full disk encryption.

Micah: Actually it might have full disk encryption, but it's Windows. If it uses BitLocker, then the encryption key is stored in the Trusted Platform Module [a dedicated processor used for encryption] and is passwordless, which means this hack could still work even with disk encryption.

Harlo: PSA: you can definitely enable passphrases in BitLocker. You would need to modify your group policy.

Micah: True, but it's not the default behavior, therefore, no one does it.

Jason: That’s terrible.

Harlo: It's a slog because Windows hates you, but it's possible.

Trammell: Bitlocker TPM + PIN seems like the right way to do it, although there is also the recently (end of 2018) discovered issue with self-encrypting disks and BitLocker. BitLocker will trust the SED, which in some cases turns out to not actually use any encryption.

Harlo: It's advisable to ALSO enable software-based encryption in your group policy.

Micah: I also like the rest of the password reset hack, where, from an "open file" dialog in Notepad, Elliot was able to manipulate the filesystem, to rename cmd.exe to something else, to ultimately get a [command line] shell.

Multi-factor Authentication

Yael: When Elliot gets Olivia's machine, he can't get into it because she uses MFA. So if you wear one of your factors on your wrist, do you need a special secure locker for your hookups? Though I guess Dom had a locker and that didn't work for her.

Bill: This reminds me of the scene in Season 1 where Tyrell sleeps with some guy to get access to his cellphone, in order to install some custom malware on it.

Harlo: This part made me really double-think how we normally keep our keys so accessible. How many folks do you know keep their 2FA on their literal keychain? (Raises hand.)

Emma: I may or may not keep my hardware key on a necklace rated to support up to 150 kilos along with a Kali USB key and an encrypted one for all my goodies.

Image: USA

Harlo: But can we talk about the social engineering?

Yael: My favorite part was when Elliot said people held him down and forced him to do heroin.

Trammell: It is interesting how Elliott's social engineering was a tag team with Mr. Robot—they had such different pickup artist techniques.

Harlo: Love to have my dad as wingman. Ghost dad telling me to get it. My dead dad, like "go for it, son."

Yael: Olivia got stood up (sort of) on Christmas and there was Matthew Sweet playing. She didn’t even stand a chance. I guess this hack wasn't all that complicated? Would you agree? Like the password part was more technically difficult and the social engineering was pretty easy. And then poor Cyprus Bank practices, I guess.

Bill: I would say the reverse. Especially for introverts, the social dynamics stuff can be exceedingly difficult. The technical hack just takes time and persistence. The social hack is kind of a one-shot thing.

Yael: I don’t know. I think people are sadly easy to manipulate. Even people who should know better. We are just very trusting, in general.

Trammell: It is interesting how much better his turned out than Darlene/Dom, which ended with Dom delivering possibly the worst curse on Darlene. (Although Olivia doesn't know she's been hacked yet…)

Yael: "Finding" the Oxytocin after he got what he needed was a nice touch. But like she could've caught him with her security key, and didn't. Some of this was luck. Sorry, Elliot. Literally if her date had showed up on time this wouldn't have happened.

Trammell: Yeah, serious plot-armor on the luck between the date not showing up, not getting caught with the token, etc.

Jason: Elliot could have hacked her OkCupid and cancelled the date without her noticing. And done some additional research to improve his odds. A nice shirt also helps. 😉

Harlo: By the way, I told a couple of folks, but I don't mind telling literally everyone: one time I literally burned my whole infrastructure because a handsome man was nice to me at a conference and i was so suspicious that it was an op.

Yael: Haha. I always get suspicious when people want to talk to me instead of me wanting to talk to them.

Harlo: Hack the human.

Trammell: Given the short time frame, I'm also curious why he didn't burn the bridge and make a quick exit with the keyfob (and maybe wallet, etc) to make it look like a more normal theft. As in, the meeting is tomorrow, so they need to execute on the results of the hack RIGHT NOW.

Harlo: It's worth noting that this shows how important multi-factor authentication is! The fact that Elliot had to go as far as he did to gain access to an account even when he already gained someone's password is really, really important for viewers to understand!

Yael: Yesssss all he needs is to break both factors. They had this in the first season, when Elliott had to get Gideon Goddard’s phone for his RSA SecureID pin.

Emma: Elliot sent him a bunch of junk MMS messages to drain the battery and force him to charge it, then hit him with the distraction to get him to leave his office. Both instances though highlight an important point—the biggest threat are the people close to you. Elliot was able to do it to Goddard because they worked in the same office. Elliot had to get close to Olivia to get her fob. Like Harlo said, multi-factor authentication is super important and remote hackers can have to go to extreme lengths to compromise it (although it depends…. phone based MFA is a lot less secure than the fob).

Harlo: Especially when you're dealing with a hacker with an "SS7 license." This is why we go for apps or even better, hardware tokens for 2FA wherever they’re available!

Yael: There's also Tyrell's stalkerware. So, uh, password protect your phone, I guess.

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To increase your list of playable games you may download the program Lists and the CHDs. The 100Hz refresh price is definitely respectable for gamers while the promise of heightened color precision looks set to maintain digital professionals happy. One of the primary advantages the Personal computer has more than consoles is there are much more games available for the PC than right now there are for consoles, particularly if it comes to multiplayer online games. We asked the entire gaming community for their most powerful weapons in video games - from swords to rocket launchers to turtle shells - and they definitely didn't disappoint. Critical gamers like having options to select from, and Walmart has everything you need to keep your gameplay exciting. Additionally, the Computer can emulate the system experience, but the Gaming console cannot emulate the Personal computer experience.

Most consoles allow several player. This changed in 1972 with Atari's Pong, the first commercially successful video game. If you've read my Superstar Trek Online preview here , then you'll know I made a maybe contentious comment that system gaming is better than PC gaming. This makes it very easy to get started with mobile games (in comparison with console video games which are a lot more expensive). Guillemot believes that as even more developers utilize that technology to personalize play for gamers, it will become more accessible to all or any developers and finally become ubiquitous enough to accomplish most of the task of a casino game console. Video game fans go ape over Nintendo's Donkey Kong, having a character that would become world-famous: Jumpman. To an unknowing player, they've bought the arcade game to play on the go. Which could have been enough.

Evil returns as an HD remaster of the 2002 GameCube remake of the 1996 original. The Xbox One S is among the most affordable of the most recent consoles. Designed to entertain everyone at Brookhaven's annual series of open houses, the game was deployed on an analog computer with graphics displayed on an oscilloscope and was dismantled in 1959. Take your gaming knowledge to a fresh level with the wide range of gaming consoles available at Whether you are looking for a portable gaming console or a typical setup, you are sure to get the perfect pick at the online store. The 1993 graphical Variable refresh technology has delighted PC gamers for a few years now, and console gamers are beginning to experience the same pleasure as their favored platforms roll out related support.

Within its amazing seeking body, this Android telephone packs a whopping Octa-Core processor from Snapdragon that is clocked at 2.8GHz. The way that applies to gameplay is what's so interesting: You and a pal control among each character, either in a room together using one TV or online. Replay covers a little bit of everything, but its its insight into Europe's gaming history along with Americas and Japans ought to be of particular interest to some readers. Originally produced by and for Meizu, the custom ROM project has since then been ported to support other OEM devices as well. Download the Phone applications package from here. Additionally, Spencer stated that the groups at Microsoft Research are working on new technology specifically to deliver "console-quality" video game streaming to your gadgets, whether it's PC, consoles, or cell phones.

It's possible that somebody with obsessive-compulsive disorder would compulsively enjoy the overall game, but they would likely show other compulsions aswell, like checking things, counting things, and cleaning hands,” Fornari says. Unlike generally in most other categories, there are actually no trade-offs to utilizing a PC for nongaming purposes; it's simply better than consoles. On September 1, he writes down his concepts that end up being the basis of his development of tv video games. Under new draft recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO), I would be classified as having a "gaming disorder," that they are attempting to present as a standalone psychological addiction. The demand for improved graphics and sound for pc games encourages companies to build add-on sound cards for the IBM Computer, with the SoundBlaster family of audio cards becoming the market standard.

You can download and import brand-new versions and even customize your very own copies. Leaving the Cell architecture, the PlayStation 4 may be the 1st in the Sony series to feature compatibility with the x86 architecture, particularly x86-64, which is a trusted platform common in many modern PCs. A video game console offers a bridge between arcades and PCs dedicated to video gameplay and house use. In addition they released the Atari 7800, a console technologically comparable with the NES and backward appropriate for the 2600. Anyway, we are talking about a custom ROM so your phone will be set up with a custom made version of Gingerbread which has its own looks, features (that can't be within the default edition of the Android program) and apps. However, many modders do get better or more passionate as time passes and since they have fewer constraints than most game developers and work for his or her fandoms, they do manage to push the gaming moderate ahead in gameplay depth and style.

Sega launches the Dreamcast in Japan, which continues to be considered to be the best system of the time and the innovator of online gaming console gaming. In its latest revision to a global disease classification manual, the UN health agency said that classifying "gaming disorder" as a separate addiction will help governments, households and health-care workers be more vigilant and ready to identify the risks. Well, this is a great chance so that you can refresh your memories and play these outdated games on your pc, no need to buy other consoles and games, or even search for some extinct consoles any longer. The Apple TV 4K has the same ultra powerful A10X Fusion chip as the iPad Pro , so it's an extremely capable option for informal gamers, as well for iPhone and iPad users who prefer to game on a larger screen.

The unprecedented success of Space Invaders began the pattern of console manufacturers trying to get exclusive privileges to arcade titles, and the craze of advertisements for game consoles claiming to provide the arcade encounter home. The group noted that much of the scientific literature about compulsive gamers is founded on evidence from teenagers in Asia. Space Invaders launched or popularized a number of important concepts in arcade video gaming, including play regulated by lives rather than a timer or arranged score, gaining extra lives through accumulating factors, and the tracking of the high score achieved on the device. Get geared up. Improve your experience with gaming components at GameStop. This tutorial works with just with the mentioned device, so don't make an effort to complete the next steps in the event that you own an identical or different Google android based smartphone.

This was subsequently reversed prior to the system arrived, and despite the recent advances in streaming technology, continue in this direction without giving players the option to own their games could result in similar pushback. That said, PCs still provide largest selection of online flash games, and some of the most popular online games, such as for example Wow , are exceptional to the Personal computer. Of course, there are plenty of things to consider before deciding on a gaming platform. This huge change in the gaming industry toward mobile, specifically in Southeast Asia, has not only widened gaming demographics, but also pushed video gaming to the forefront of mass media attention. You'll have usage of cross-platform titles, indie games and re-releases from past consoles, along with unique PlayStation titles like Driveclub and Uncharted.

In one study, players who had been immersed in fast-paced games were 25 percent quicker in reacting to queries about an image that they had just seen in comparison to non-players. Also called game(s) console, video gaming console, video-game console. This means home console games and retro video games stored in the Software Lists need to updated separately; the same is true for the Extras. With 4K, HDR 10 compatibility, and the PlayStation 4's exclusive game library, it is currently the best plug-and-play gaming platform. Thus, programmers of mainframe video games focused on strategy and puzzle-solving mechanics over genuine action. Up to seven controllers can connect to the console using Bluetooth There are 6 discontinued versions of the PS3: a 20 GB HDD version (discontinued in THE UNITED STATES and Japan, and was hardly ever released in PAL territories), a 40 GB HDD version (discontinued), a 60 GB HDD version (discontinued in North America, Japan and PAL territories), 80 GB HDD version (only in some NTSC territories and PAL territories), a "slim" 120GB HDD version (discontinued), and a "slim" 250 GB edition (discontinued).

This year 2010, Microsoft released Kinect , enabling motion-controlled games. The 8 cores and 16 threads within the Ryzen 7 2700X ($330 on Amazon ) make it the best gaming CPU for streaming if you're playing and recording about the same rig, especially if you're streaming video at high resolutions, bitrates, and quality settings. You can perform using two different TVs in one area, or using the split-screen feature on a single TV. Though many modern games don't support regional multiplayer, as it could consume an excessive amount of processing power to render a casino game twice over using one display, Nintendo continues to follow this option, making them ideal for local gaming. The two most well-known consoles are Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox.

The initial Xbox One , Microsoft's eighth generation console, which includes since been superseded by two improved models, the Xbox One S and Xbox One X. And if online video gaming in Call of Duty is even more your scene, upgrading to a new video game headset may make the difference between achievement and shame in your next mission. The ones that succeeded made major marks in the video gaming industry because their innovations and influences changed the world of video gaming for the better. Many of the gaming systems (e.g. ColecoVision ) were technically more advanced than the Atari 2600, and marketed as improvements over the Atari 2600. Compared to PC and mobile video games, console game programmers must consider the limitations of the hardware their game has been developed since it is unlikely to possess any major changes.

21 In 1972, Magnavox released the Magnavox Odyssey , the first home video game console that could be connected to a TV set. %displayPrice% at %seller% Death's frosty hands will grip us all in due time, but, fortunately, it's a one-and-done situation. With regards to gaming, HDR10 is all you need, as that is what's result by the PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One S, and Xbox One X. A Television that supports Dolby Eyesight would only be useful in case you have a standalone 4K Blu-Ray player or a streaming press box with Dolby Vision support; it will not offer you HDR gaming together with your console. With support for the cartridges of five retro consoles, the Hyperkin RetroN 5 is a true Swiss Army knife of old-school gaming. Still, many players will love CS: GO's no-frills experience and highly competitive esports scene.

John Madden Soccer introduces gridiron realism to video games, causeing this to be game-and its many console sequels-perennial best-sellers. Another reason people seek custom ROMs are the tons of features they provide, and that too without any bloatware that is part of manufacturer skins. Intellivision has better graphics and more sophisticated controls than Atari 2600, and players love its sports games. The best consoles will be the ones that keep your favorite apps and games easy to get at. A gaming computer is usually a gaming desktop pc that's custom-constructed with the intent of raising performance in order to process high powered video games. PC and system gamers have been at each other's throats because the '80s, and the fight doesn't look like it'll end any time in the future.

As interest in online games has risen internationally, there were extreme cases of death linked with marathon gaming sessions. And finally, portable gaming was given a new dimension with the release of the Nintendo 3DS. If you're likely to make a console gaming monitor most of your display, make sure to buy a high-quality set of audio speakers to accompany it. Games load more quickly on consoles, versus PCs, with the exception of gaming rigs. Sega and Taito had been the first businesses to pique the public's curiosity in arcade gaming if they released the electro-mechanical video games Periscope and Crown Particular Soccer in 1966 and 1967. However, most people would not have considered four from every five American households having a video games system as a probable truth.

Since the beginning with the bizzare and bleak Super Mario Bros., films based on video gaming haven't fostered the most sterling status. Any gamer wanting to relive their youth or expose new gamers to a simpler time when the Internet was first starting should get the Super NES basic. The query of ownership may be the biggest difference compared to other storage space mediums for console video games as they could possibly be considered only a method of renting the overall game. Both consoles and PCs allow you to play multiplayer games, however the functionality isn't precisely the same on both types of system. Besides, maybe 1 day I'll be called upon to list the ways in which console gaming is superior to PC gaming. The Mac video gaming library was sparse, and being able to enjoy the titles of what was then the most popular console in the marketplace allows it to fight against the much stronger Windows gaming market.

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Blockchain Market Size is anticipated to reach USD 60.7 billion by 2024

The global market for blockchain at $708 million in 2017 is anticipated to reach $60.7 billion in 2024. IBM and Microsoft are driving blockchain as their clients are making the transition to cloud services. Accenture has measurable market share as well. A new study Blockchain: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2018 to 2024. The 2018 study has 210 pages, 73 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve continuing growth as blockchain proves its value by managing digital transactions in real time across enterprise boundaries, encouraging collaborative business efforts. Lowering transaction management costs is a key benefit. A $706 million market worldwide in 2017 after 10 years of being available, the blockchain market has evolved rather slowly. Its biggest use has thus far been to hide the money of criminals and terrorists. After this inauspicious beginning, it is on the cusp of phenomenal growth, ready to reach $60 billion worldwide as it creates new digital economic infrastructure. Request for sample of this research report @ https://marketreportscenter.com/request-sample/574386 Moving past a nefarious history, the blockchain market moves into rapid growth mode as the digital economy takes hold. As the banks and finance industry move into the modern age of real time transaction processing, blockchain is a core enabling technology. This market segment previously has been held back in part by the outdated aspects of the mainframe computing technology. Blockchain is spurred by more modern ways to manage global transactions across national borders from IBM, Microsoft, and Accenture. Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger system providing enhanced security to the real time digital economic process. Blockchain is comprised of blocks of digitally recorded data. Demand for blockchain technology is growing everywhere, for example among the largest users of IBM cloud capacity to manage supply chains. 60 IBM cloud data centers see blockchain as the top application driving growth. Digital technology is dominant worldwide. The old mainframe digital technology managed data in batches, now digital data is managed in real time over the Internet. Blockchain brings digital technology into real time computing systems management. It has the ability to change all aspects of the digital economy, including conducting business, delivering healthcare, shopping, enhancing education and learning, entertainment, and staying connected with a social world. Recently, blockchain digital technology has evolved further to aid in conducting financial transactions. Online payments have gained huge traction. Card based payment methods, credit and debit cards have become dominant. Blockchain supports all these changes by creating increased speed of transaction processing and greater efficiency in real time processing. Cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly popular. Distributed ledgers support the payment system for digital currency to operate in decentralized mode, by eliminating the need of intermediaries to centralize processing. Distributed ledger technology further enables tracking of financial transactions. It virtualizes tracking and trading anything of value via creating digital money. Credit cards become an essential part of the blockchain process. Blockchain provides a robust environment for secure data sharing in real-time. Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger system providing enhanced security to the real time digital economic process. Blockchain is comprised of blocks of digitally recorded data, creating a distributed ledger. There are many different types of distributed ledger systems, each obeying its own security and privacy levels. Demand for blockchain technology is growing among the largest users of IBM cloud capacity. IBM 60 cloud data centers see blockchain growing to be one of the top applications in use. IBM blockchain digital ledger market is growing rapidly, a much-needed event for big blue. IBM has been one of the key companies behind the Hyperledger consortium, a nonprofit open-source project that aims to create efficient standards for commercial use of blockchain technology. Browse full report with Table of Content @ https://marketreportscenter.com/reports/574386/blockchain-market-shares-strategies-and-forecasts-worldwide-2018-to-2024 Microsoft enterprise customers are making the transition to cloud services and blockchain on Azure. Modernizing transactions to digital economic collaboration support is key to success in modern business environments. Blockchain Cloud Service, helps customers extend existing applications like enterprise-resource management systems. Microsoft expanded its partnership with consortium R3 to make it easier for financial institutions to deploy blockchains in its Azure cloud. Key Topics • Distributed ledger • Bitcoin • Blockchain • Cryptocurrency • Digital economy • Bitcoin Transactions • Digital Transactions • Digital Currency • Plm Software • Data Center Infrastructure, Enterprise Application Industry Trends • Enterprise Application Market • Financial Ledger • Internet architecture • Transactions in real time • Enhanced security • Collaborative business • Across enterprise boundaries Some points from TOC:- Blockchain Market Driving Forces Blockchain Leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) Blockchain Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2017 Blockchain Market Forecasts 1. BLOCKCHAIN: MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS 1.1 Blockchain Market Description and Market Dynamics 1.2 Blockchains: Cryptographically Secured Distributed Ledgers 1.2.1 Blockchain Companies Initial Coin Offerings - ICOs 1.2.2 Transfer Of Social Trust: From Institutions To Systems Using Well-Tested Computer Code

2. BLOCKCHAIN MARKET SHARES AND FORECASTS 2.1 Blockchain Market Driving Forces 2.1.1 Blockchain Leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2.2 Blockchain Market Shares 2.2.1 Blockchain Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2017 2.2.2 IBM and Microsoft 2.2.3 IBM Blockchain 2.2.4 IBM Implements AI Support for Blockchain 2.2.5 IBM Blockchain Decentralized Ledger In Supply Chains 2.2.6 IBM Blockchain Decentralized Ledger In Medical Industry 2.3 Blockchain Market Forecasts 2.4 Blockchain Applications 2.5 BFSI: Blockchain Impact on Stock Market 2.5.1 Blockchain Impact on Financial Services and Banking - Forecasts to 2024 2.6 Blockchain for Healthcare 2.7 Blockchain for Cybercurrency and Legal Industry 2.8 Blockchain for Supply Chain 2.9 Blockchain for Internet of Things 2.9.1 SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Sees 1 Trillion Devices for Internet of Things 2.10 Cloud Revenue 2.11 Blockchain Pricing 2.11.1 IBM Blockchain 2.11.2 Microsoft Blockchain Pricing 2.12 Blockchain Regional Market Segments Check For Discount @ https://marketreportscenter.com/request-discount/574386 About Market Reports Center: Market Reports Center is an e-commerce platform obliging the needs of knowledge workers, experts, professionals who are subject to market research information for their work, or to make strategic business decisions. We are dedicated to create a comprehensive offering of market research which is accurate, credible and affordable. Market Reports Center currently has more than 4, 00,000 plus titles and 50+ Publishers on our platform and growing consistently. We cover more than 35 industry verticals being: Automotive, Electronics, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Chemicals, Construction, Agriculture, Food, Beverages, Banking & Finance, Media and Government, Public Sector Studies. Connect for more details: Sam Collins Market Reports Center 1-646-883-3044 (US) Email: info@marketreportscenter.com

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Delayed Create Failed Windows was unable to save all the data for the file %two. The data has been lost. This error may be brought on by a failure of your pc hardware or network connection. Please attempt to save this file elsewhere. A sturdy platform to hold your pc monitor or laptop is just the start off. Mobile desks in addition offer combinations of CPU holders, keyboard trays, mouse holders, writing surfaces and much more. The Software Licensing Service reported that a license in the pc BIOS is invalid.

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Desktop refers to a standalone laptop even though workstation pc is a pc which is a member or a client in a network. Two kinds of workstation personal computer. 1 is virtual desktop workstation and the other is of course the opposite of it. Browse our range of pc desks and workstations utilizing the menu choices above and acquire on the internet these days. Totally free delivery is obtainable. Ultimately, Industrial Personal computer Workstations will streamline and safeguard your provide chain, resulting in productivity improvements, a reduction in costs, minimal incidents of downtime and fewer workplace accidents involving IT gear. In the finish, your supply chain is a lot more harmonious.

In the early 1980s, a higher-end workstation had to meet the 3 Ms. The so-named ” 3M pc ” had a Megabyte of memory, a Megapixel show (roughly 1000×1000), and a ” MegaFLOPS ” compute efficiency (at least 1 million floating point operations per second). a As limited as this appears nowadays, it was at least an order of magnitude beyond the capacity of the private computer of the time the original 1981 IBM Personal Personal computer had 16 KB memory, a text-only display, and floating-point functionality about 1 kiloFLOPS (30 kiloFLOPS with the optional 8087 math coprocessor). Other desirable functions not found in desktop computer systems at that time integrated networking, graphics acceleration, and high-speed internal and peripheral information buses.

This was such a nightmare to troubleshoot that I just had to document the approach. In my scouring the net, I identified numerous like me experiencing the very same woes in setting up their WOL. My whole goal for performing this was in the interest of saving power. I could put my computer to sleep and nevertheless be able to wake it up remotely so I can RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) into it to access my files whilst away. EDIT: I not too long ago discovered this fantastic write-up on WoWLAN by Andrew vonNagy which details some of the benefits and downsides to employing this technologies, and gives a nice expense evaluation for an organization case study. Verify it out if you are interested in the Wireless WOL.

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Another UK-based outfit, Laptop Planet , is a single of the couple of vendors we know of that delivers desktop workstations primarily based on AMD’s antiquated FX platform. No Opterons right here sadly. Pc desks and workstations come in a wide variety of styles, supplying a range of functionality and ergonomic characteristics for your comfort. You can find numerous excellent functional styles and sizes to suit the layout of your space as well as fashionable looks to complement your interior. Mercer offers complete assistance for Dell and Apple computers bought through the IT division for 4 years. All hardware which is 4 years of age or older will be considered finish of life. End of life hardware might nevertheless be serviced, but charges could apply. Please see the Desktop Computing Serviceability and Redeployment Policy for information with regards to service charges.

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Out of interest for such items, you may want to think about looking at the Dell Mini 9 or comparable, as the information controller. This low powered pc is ideal for at least my requirements. It has extremely low power consumption when in complete use and subsequent to nothing when idle. It only has a 1.6GHz CPU and 8GB SSD with 1GB RAM. But for my use at least, it is well sufficient for my serving purposes. I discover it greater than most expensive devoted NAS boxes, when utilized with a tiny Windows 7 footprint. The SSD is tiny, but is wonderful with the small OS footprint and the few apps that I need to have it to run. Plus it has keyboard, trackpad and monitor, for when you want to do something with it. It only has a 100Mbit lan interface, but this is fine for my serving purposes as my served content’s bandwidth is much less than the bus speed of 100Mbit LAN and USB for the drives.

It began with sensible phones but has now moved into laptops and oddly it is really the employees that want to use their personal pc rather of yours. They feel it will bring them much more freedom to operate the way they want to perform and use the applications that they want to use. They also consider that then you cannot inform them not to watch Television, listen to music or devote time buying due to the fact it really is their laptop. How you handle this new environment is genuinely vital for your organization and security becomes an even greater concern than it has previously.

Even though it wasn’t as high-res as some other laptop screens I’ve noticed lately, like Lenovo’s Quad HD OLED ThinkPad , the XPS 13 2-in-1’s panel was especially impressive when streaming video and displaying digital comics. It was great for diving into Fiona Staples’ intricate artwork in the newest concerns of Saga. And yes, you can bet that I created heavy use of the two-in-1’s tent and tablet orientations for all of my testing. Offered that a lot of buyers would be interested in this personal computer for lounging about in bed and on the couch, it really is a very good thing the screen can hold up with my endless media diet program.

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2) In IBM and other corporations, the term “workstation” is often employed to imply “any person individual computer location hooked up to a mainframe personal computer.” In today’s corporate environments, a lot of workers have such workstations. They are just individual computer systems attached to a nearby area network (LAN) that in turn shares the sources of one or more big computer systems. Considering that they are PCs, they can also be used independently of the mainframe assuming they have their personal applications installed and their personal difficult disk storage. This use of the term “workstation” (in IBM, sometimes named a “programmable workstation”) created a distinction in between the earlier “terminal” or “display terminal” (or “dumb terminal”) of which the 3270 Information Show System is an example.

Discontinued goods and brands contain Axim ( PDA discontinued April 9, 2007), 11 Dimension (house and tiny workplace desktop computer systems discontinued July 2007), Dell Digital Jukebox (MP3 player discontinued August 2006), Dell PowerApp (application-based servers), and Dell Optiplex (desktop and tower computer systems previously supported to run server and desktop operating systems). The two-tiered shelf setup supplies ample space for wider laptop monitors and storage. Adjustments can be produced to sit or stand, despite the fact that many users reported that the approach was slow and typically essential a lot more than a single individual. This stand up workstation, others noted, accommodates taller folks and can be adjusted to correct viewing height.

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New Defense Against Hackers with IBM and z14 Mainframe

According to the National Security Agency (NSA) Data Center, there are 300,000 hacking attempts every day across the globe. That is completely insane! It literally means that there are 3.5 attempts every second to breach a security system and obtain information. Many people picture a hacker as a computer nerd sitting in a dark basement targeting a victim, analyzing their system, and then somehow  guessing their passwords. [caption id="attachment_4637" align="alignright" width="300"] Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Another stereotype is that hacking only happens to big businesses, not individuals, but neither are an accurate assessment of today's hackers. Most computer hackers are quite sophisticated, with hardware and software that is automated and can scan thousands of computers at the same time, looking for vulnerabilities. They can and will go after anyone, big or small, where there is weakness and opportunity. Many takeovers begin with a program the infiltrates your computer through an email or text. One such program is called SubSeven or Sub7, which finds an exposed port through which the intruder can enter and take over your computer. This article discusses the high tech equipment of today's hackers:

Seven Scary Things Hackers Can Do to Your Computer

One of the tools a hacker uses sends out packets of data to probe computers and find out if there are any vulnerable ports available that are ripe for exploitation. All computers have ports that are open when they're on the Internet. The ports accept different types of data from different sources—think of them as different doors in a house, or boating docks in a busy seaside port.

The nasty Sub7 program, for example, is known to use port 27374, as well as others. If port 27374 happens to be running that day, Sub7 will open that port. The port probe then alerts the hacker that, indeed, port 27374 is open for business...or hacking. The hacker knows that with a few keystrokes, they can take control of your computer.

Read the full post here:  Seven Scary Things Hackers Can Do to Your Computer

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IBM has been in the artificial intelligence industry since 2005 with their Watson supercomputer. Through developments in AI and IBM's DeepQA platform, Watson can answer questions by generating a hypothesis, gathering massive evidence, and analyzing data. Watson, named after IBM's first CEO Thomas J. Watson,  originally debuted in 2011 by competing on Jeopardy against some of the previous big winners. Watson took home the big prize, and from that time has been helping solve questions for medical, telecommunications, financial and government entities. In May of 2016, it was announced that Watson would be helping battle the bad guys in cybersecurity. Using the X-Force Exchange, an intelligence sharing platform, this system enables collaboration with research on security threats and aggregation of intelligence information. This video shares how IBM Watson would fight cyber-criminals:

It was announced this week that IBM has again raised the bar in the cybersecurity battle with its z14 mainframe. This system enables protection for valuable data and simplifies compliance to regulations by using machine learning to encrypt the data in a way that has never been done before. How powerful is it? It can process 12 billion encrypted transactions per day and up to 13 gigabytes of data per second per chip. Caleb Barlow, vice president of threat intelligence at IBM Security, stated that it offers a "400 percent increase in silicon that’s dedicated specifically to cryptographic processes—over six billion transistors dedicated to cryptography," This article provides more details on how the IBM z14 will be used:

IBM dangles carrot of full encryption to lure buyers to new z14 mainframe | TechCrunch

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Peter Rutten, an analyst with IDC says all-encompassing encryption is clearly the key to this release. “It’s like a security blanket across the entire system — database, applications, data at rest, data in flight, APIs, etc. — that can just be turned on, rather than manually picking and choosing what to encrypt, which typically has led to much [data] remaining unencrypted,” he explained.

Beyond pure encryption, customers also told IBM they wanted this capability delivered in a cost-effective way. Of course, IBM is promising this, and has revealed a new pricing strategy called a “container pricing model,” but Mauri wouldn’t discuss details, so it’s difficult to know exactly how the company defines “cost-effective.”

Read the complete post here:  IBM dangles carrot of full encryption to lure buyers to new z14 mainframe | TechCrunch

The cost of utilizing this new defense against hackers isn't cheap. It was stated in the Los Angeles Times that the cost was going to approximately $500,000 for new customers to use its newest mainframe technology. Upon looking at IBM's site, it shows that financing is available, but for most small businesses, this might be a little out of their price range.      

The following article New Defense Against Hackers with IBM and z14 Mainframe is courtesy of http://ssprosvcs.com

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HITB Amsterdam 2017 Day #1 Wrap-Up

I’m back in Amsterdam for the 8th edition of the security conference Hack in the Box. Last year, I was not able to attend but I’m attending it for a while (you can reread all my wrap-up’s here). What to say? It’s a very strong organisation, everything running fine, a good team dedicated to attendees. This year, the conference was based on four(!) tracks: two regular ones, one dedicated to more “practical” presentations (HITBlabs) and the last one dedicated to small talks (30-60 mins).

Elly van den Heuvel opened the conference with a small 15-minutes introduction talk: “How prepared we are for the future?”. Elly works for the Dutch government as the “Cyber Security Council“. She gave some facts about the current security landscape from the place of women in infosec (things are changing slowly) to the message that cyber-security is important for our security in our daily life. For Elly, we are facing a revolution as big as the one we faced with the industrial revolution, maybe even bigger. Our goal as information security professional is to build a cyber security future for the next generations. They are already nice worldwide initiatives like the CERT’s or NIST and their guidelines. In companies, board members must take their responsibilities for cyber-security projects (budgets & times must be assigned to them). Elly declared the conference officially open

The first-day keynote was given by Saumil Shah. The title was “Redefining defences”. He started with a warning: this talk is disrupting and… it was! Saumil started with a step by to the past and how security/vulnerabilities evolved. It started with servers and today people are targeted. For years, we have implemented several layers of defence but with the same effect: all of them can be bypassed. Keep in mind that there will be always new vulnerabilities because products and applications have more and more features, are becoming more complex. I really liked the comparison with the Die Hard movie: It’s the Nakatomi building: we can walk through all the targets exactly in the movie when Bruce Willis travels in the building. Vendors invent new technologies to mitigate the exploits. There was a nice reference to the “Mitigator“. The next part of the keynote was focusing how the CISO daily job and the fight against auditors. A fact: “compliance is not security”. In 2001, the CIO position was split in CIO & CISO but budgets remained assigned to the CIA as “business enabler”. Today, we should have another split: The CISO position must be divided in CISO and COO (Compliance Officer). His/her job is to defend against auditors. It was a great keynote but the audience should be more C-level people instead of “technical people” who already agree on all the facts reviewed by Saumil. [Saumil’s slides are available here]

After the first coffee break, I had to choose between two tracks. My first choice was already difficult: hacking femtocell devices or IBM mainframes running z/OS. Even if the second focused on less known environments, mainframes are used in many critical operations so I decided to attend this talk. Ayoub Elaassal is a pentester who focused on this type of targets. People still have an old idea of mainframes. The good old IBM 370 was a big success. Today, the reality is different, modern mainframes are badass computers like the IBM zEC 13: 10TB of memory, 141 processors, cryptographic chips, etc. Who uses such computers? Almost every big companies from airlines, healthcare, insurance or finance ( Have a look at this nice gallery of mainframe consoles). Why? Because it’s powerful and stable. Many people (me first) don’t know a lot about mainframes: It’s not a web app, it uses a 3270 emulator over port 23 but we don’t know how it works. On top of the mainframe OS, IBM has an application layer called CICS (“Customer Information Control System”). For Ayoub, it looks like “a combination of Tomcat & Drupal before it was cool”. CICS is a very nice target because it is used a log: Ayoub gave a nice comparison: worldwide, 1.2M of request/sec are performed using the CICS product while Google reaches 200K requests/sec. Impressive! Before exploiting CICS, the first step was to explain how it works. The mainframe world is full of acronyms. not easy to understand immediately.  But then Ayoub explained how it abused a mainframe. The first attack was to jailbreak the CICS to get a console access (just like finding the admin web page). Mainframes contain a lot of juicy information. The next attack was to read sensitive files. Completed too! So, the next step is to pwn the device. CICS has a feature called “spool” functions. A spool is a dataset (or file) containing the output of a job. Idea: generate a dataset and send it to the job scheduler. Ayoub showed a demo of a Reverse shell in REXX. Like DC trust, you can have the same trust between mainframes and push code to another one. Replace NODE(LOCAL) by NODE(WASHDC). If the spool feature is not enabled, there are alternative techniques that were also reviewed. Finally, let’s to privileges escalation: They are three main levels: Special, Operations and Audit. Special can be considered as the “root” level. Those levels are defined by a simple bit in memory. If you can swap it, you get more privileges. It was the last example. From a novice point of view, this was difficult to follow but basically, mainframes can be compromised like any other computer. The more dangerous aspect is that people using mainframes think that they’re not targeted. Based on the data stored on them, they are really nice targets. All the Ayoub’s scripts are here. [Ayoub’s slides are available here]

The next talk was “Can’t Touch This: Cloning Any Android HCE Contactless Card” by Slawomir Jasek. Cloning things has always been a dream for people. And they succeeded in 1996 with Dolly the sheep. Later, in 2001, scientists make “Copycat”. Today we have also services to clone pets (if you have a lot of money to spend). Even if cloning humans is unethical, it remains a dream. So, we not close also objects? Especially if it can help to get some money. Mobile contactless payment cards are a good target. It’s illegal but bad guys don’t care. Such devices implement a lot of countermeasures but are we sure that they can’t be bypassed? Slawomir explained briefly the HCE technology. So, what are the different ways to abuse a payment application? The first one is of course to stole the phone. We can steal the card data via NFC (but they are already restriction: the phone screen must be turned on). We can’t pay but for motivated people, it should be possible to rebuild the mag stripe. Mobile apps use tokenization. Random card numbers are generated to pay and are used only for such operations. The transaction is protected by encrypted data. So, the next step is to steal the key. Online? Using man-in-the-middle attacks? Not easy. The key is stored on the phone. The key is also encrypted. How to access it? By reversing the app but it has a huge cost. What if we copy data across devices? They must be the same (model, OS, IMEI). We can copy the app + data but it’s not easy for a mass scale attack. The xposed framework helps to clone the device but it requires root access. Root detection is implemented in many apps. Slawomir performed a life demo: He copied data between two mobile phones using shell scripts and was able to make a payment with the cloned device. Note that the payments were performed on the same network and with small amounts of money. Google and banks have strong fraud detection systems. What about the Google push messages used by the application? Cloned devices received both messages but not always (not reliable). Then Slawomir talked about CDCVM which is a verification method that asks the user to give a PIN code but where… on its own device! Some apps do not support it but there is an API and it is possible to patch the application and enable the support (setting it to “True”) via an API call. What about other applications? As usual, some are good while others are bad (ex: some don’t event implement root detection). To conclude, can we prevent cloning? Not completely but we can make the process more difficult. According to Slawomir, the key is also to improve the backend and strong fraud detection controls (ex: based on the behaviour of the user). [Slawomir’s slides are available here]

After the lunch time, my choice was to attend Long Liu’s and Linan Has’s (which was not present) talk. The abstract looked nice: exploitation of the Chakracore core engine. This is a Javascript engine developed by Microsoft for its Edge browser. Today the framework is open source. Why is it a nice target according to the speaker? The source code is freely available, Edge is a nice attack surface. Long explained the different bug they found in the code and they helped them to win a lot of hacking contests. The problem was the monotonous voice of the speaker which just invited to take a small nap. The presentation ended with a nice demo of a web page visited by Edge and popping up a notepad running with system privileges. [Long’s slides are available here]

After the break, I switched to the track four to attend two small talks. But the quality was there! The first one by Patrick Wardle: “Meet and Greet with the MacOS Malware Class of 2016“. The presentation was a cool overview of the malware that targeted the OSX operating system. Yes, OSX is also targeted by malware today! For each of them, he reviewed:

The infection mechanism

The persistence mechanism

The features

The disinfection process

The examples covered by Patrick were:

Keranger

Keydnap

FakeFileOpener

Mokes

Komplex

He also presented some nice tools which could increase the security of your OSX environment. [Patrick’s slides are available here]

The next talk was presented by George Chatzisofroniou and covered a new wireless attach technique called Lure10. Wireless automatic association is not new (the well-known KARMA attack). This technique exists for years but modern operating systems implemented controls against this attack. But MitM attacks remains interesting because most applications do not implement countermeasures. In Windows 10, open networks are not added to the PNL (“Preferred Networks List”).  Microsoft developed a Wi-Fi Sense feature. The Lure10 attack tries to abuse it by making the Windows Location Service think that it is somewhere else and then mimic a Wifi Sence approved local network. In this case, we have an automatic association. A really cool attack that will be implemented in the next release of the wifiphisher phisher framework.  [George’s slides are available here]

My next choice was to attend a talk about sandboxing: “Shadow-Box: The Practical and Omnipotent Sandbox” by Seunghun Han. In short, Shadow-box is a lightweight hypervisor-based kernel protector. A fact: Linux kernels are everywhere today (computers, IoT, cars, etc). The kernel suffers from vulnerabilities and the risk of rootkits is always present. The classic ring (ring 0) is not enough to protect against those threats. Basically, the rootkit changes the system calls table and divert them to it to perform malicious activities.The idea behind Shadow-box is to use the VT technology to help in mitigating those threats. This is called “Ring -1”. Previous researches were already performed but suffered from many issues (mainly performance). The new research insists on lightweight and practical usage. Seunghun explained in detail how it works and ended with a nice demo. He tried to start a rootkit into a Linux kernel that has the Shadow-box module loaded. Detection was immediate and the rootkit not installed. Interesting but is it usable on a day-to-day basis? According to Seunghun, it is. The performance impact on the system is acceptable. [Seughun’ slides are available here]

The last talk of the day focused on TrendMicro products: “I Got 99 Trends and a # is All of Them! How We Found Over 100 RCE Vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Software” by Roberto Suggi Liverani and Steven Seeley. They research started after the disclosure of vulnerabilities. They decided to find more. Why Trendmicro? Nothing against the company but it’s a renowned vendor, they have a bug bounty program and they want to secure their software. The approach followed was to compromise the products without user interaction. They started with low-handing fruits, focused on components like libraries, scripts. The also use the same approach as used in malware analysis: check the behaviour and communications with external services and other components. They reviewed the following products:

Smart Protection Server

Data Loss Prevention

Control Manager

Interscan Web Security

Threat Discovery Appliance

Mobile Security for Enterprise

Safesync for Enterprise

The total amount of vulnerabilities they found was so impressive, most of them led to remote code execution. And, for most of them, it was quite trivial. [Roberto’s & Steven’s slides are available here]

This is the end of day #1. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.

  [The post HITB Amsterdam 2017 Day #1 Wrap-Up has been first published on /dev/random]

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[jimharper3]

ENIAC vs. iPhone 4

I was curious to see what a comparison of the first general-purpose electronic computer, the “Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer” (ENIAC)—completed in 1946—and an Apple iPhone 4 (circa 2011) would look like. How much computing power have we managed to put into a device that we can cram into our pocket?My father sold computers back when they required their own giant rooms with dedicated air conditioning systems running all day and all night. Only large corporations could afford these huge machines, and it took a team of specialists to run them. Those “mainframe” computers were state of the art back in the 1960s.

One of my first jobs in the 1980s was trying to put a small company’s bookkeeping system on what was then termed a “mini-computer”. A mini-computer in those days was the size of a large refrigerator, and this one was housed a few miles away from our office, accessed by a terminal attached to analog phone lines via a modem. Since it was a time-share system, you were charged by the minute to access the computer, so it was expensive just to log in and learn how to upload data into the machine.

To satisfy my curiosity about how far we had come now in computing hardware, I did a little research on the Internet (an amazing leap in technology and information science itself) and came up with the following facts to compare the ENIAC with the iPhone 4.

The ENIAC at the time of its construction—back in the days shortly after the Second World War—cost almost $500,000 to build (that price is equivalent to nearly $6 million in 2010). In comparison, in 2011 the Apple iPhone 4 (the 32GB model) was available with contract from either AT&T or Verizon for $300. That means you could buy around 20,000 iPhones in 2011 for the same price as one ENIAC.

ENIAC was certainly not a lightweight in the history of computing. Literally. It weighed more than 30 tons. In comparison, the iPhone 4 weighs 4.8 ounces. Let’s see, 16 ounces to a pound, 2,000 pounds to a ton…that works out to needing 18,000 iPhones to match the weight of one ENIAC.

This first real computer was definitely not pocket-sized, either. It was roughly 8 feet tall by 3 feet wide by 100 feet long, and took up a total of 1,800 square feet. It was also very hungry. The ENIAC when running consumed 150 kW of power. In comparison, the iPhone is touted as capable of running for days off its small internal lithium-ion polymer battery.

The iPhone 4’s specifications state that it can provide up to either 7 hours of “talk time” or 300 hours on standby between recharging. Because of the reliability limitations of vacuum tubes, the longest up-time for the ENIAC (between having to replace at least one of the tubes because of burn outs) was only 116 hours. Can you imagine getting any work done on a modern smart phone or computer if you had to get it repaired every four days?

The ENIAC contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors. There were around 5 million hand-soldered joins. The iPhone, like most modern computing devices, runs on integrated circuits probably soldered together by passing the entire motherboard over a pool of molten solder on an automated assembly line.

But the real differences are not in the impressive differences in size, but in the relative speed and computing power of these two devices. The ENIAC could do around 385 multiplication operations per second—which sounds impressive until you realize the iPhone 4 runs on an Apple A4 CPU that is able to do up to 2 billion instructions per second (2,000 MIPS).

The way that humans and computers interface has also changed dramatically. Before there were computers, IBM had already perfected punch cards, which could hold 80 bytes (characters) of data or machine instruction code. The ENIAC utilized punch cards for input via an IBM card reader, and an IBM card punch machine was used for output. The punched cards could be used to produce printed output (offline) by physically taking the stack of them and running them through an IBM accounting machine, such as the IBM 405. Pity the poor person who dropped the stack and had to figure out how to re-sequence hundreds of cards.

The iPhone, on the other hand, has 32 gigabytes of internal non-volatile flash memory. 32 GB is equal to 34,359,738,368 bytes or 429,496,730 punch cards. Imagine trying to fit 429 million 7 3⁄8 inch by  3 1⁄4 inch punch cards in your pocket.

But instead of having to feed punch cards into a slot on the iPhone, the input on the iPhone starts with simply four buttons and a touch screen. The touch screen is the real marvel since it can be configured in an almost infinite number of ways to accept touch-based input, including virtual keyboards that can accept input in any number of different language alphabets and scripts.

However, input to the iPhone is not limited to pressure applied to the buttons or screen. Data can be gathered via radio waves in the form of Wi-Fi, cellular, and Bluetooth protocols. There is also a port for connecting to other computational devices via a USB interface. If that is not enough, visual data is captured by the 5-megapixel camera, and audio data by the microphone (or the headphone jack when there is a microphone attached to it). But that’s not all. Data is also gathered and processed from the built-in three-axis gyro, accelerometer, proximity sensor, and ambient light sensor.

Punch cards are also not needed for outputting the data. Output on the iPhone 4 includes a 960 x 640 pixel LCD display. Remember that the ENIAC could do 385 multiplication operations per second? Just to run its full-color screen the iPhone must process at least 614,400 bytes of data 30 times per second.

Audio data output goes through either the speaker or the headphone jack. The iPhone also pumps out massive quantities of data through the aforementioned USB, Wi-Fi, cellular, and Bluetooth connections.

It was the stuff of science fiction in the 1940s to think about wearable electronic brains, and who knew that these devices would ever be able offer so many types of inputs and outputs in such a tiny package as the modern smart phone. In the span of just over 60 years to go from a huge machine that could do mere hundreds of calculations a second to one that can do billions of operations per second—while fitting in the palm of your hand—is mind boggling.

But the iPhone 4 is already yesterday’s technology. New generations of smart phones with even greater computing power and storage—in even smaller and lighter packages—have already come out, and I have not touched on the even greater computational power available in today’s personal computers. And those machines are dwarfed by the current generation of networked computers and supercomputers that can do tasks such as map the whole world’s weather in real time, or parse the multivariate patterns of human speech. What will the next sixty years bring?

[theibmnewstk-blog]

IBM and The New York Times Company's T Brand Studio Unveil New AR Experience Inspired by "Hidden Figures" Movie

LAS VEGAS (CES) - 05 Jan 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and The New York Times Company’s (NYSE: NYT) T Brand Studio announced the launch of "Outthink Hidden," an augmented reality (AR) experience that brings unsung heroes of innovation to life. It is inspired by the 20th Century Fox film, “Hidden Figures,” and launches inside the new T Brand Studio AR app.

The movie, which will be in theaters on January 6, recounts the true story of three female African American mathematicians as the heroes at NASA during the 1960s Space Race. Their groundbreaking calculations for spaceship trajectories, which helped put John Glenn in orbit, involved programming a first-of its-kind IBM mainframe.

“Outthink Hidden” explores the stories of heroes featured in “Hidden Figures” as part of 10 innovators in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Similar to a virtual museum, people can explore an array of 3D computer graphics renderings, written histories and audio and video narratives.

It is available via the T Brand Studio AR app for free download on iTunes and Google Play. The AR content can be activated on a mobile device at IBM.com/hiddenfigures, through select print editions of The New York Times, or at physical plinths at CES in Las Vegas, January 5-8. In addition, the content can be activated at one of 150 “geofenced” locations across the U.S. (see more information below).

Unlike virtual reality (VR) apps, where immersive content is experienced via a headset, AR enables people to view a physical space through a different medium (in this case, a mobile device screen). It uses sensors to activate a digital layer that augments the space using visuals such as 3D images, descriptive text, video and audio.

"Outthink Hidden" highlights the accomplishments of the three “hidden figures” from the movie (including Dorothy Vaughan, who taught herself and others how to program NASA’s IBM mainframe), as well as other diverse STEM pioneers such as: Bessie Blount Griffin, who invented a feeding device for injured World War II veterans; Sara Josephine Baker, who changed the way the world thought about public health and created the role of the school nurse; Abraham Nemeth, who developed the Nemeth Code for Braille Mathematics; and Charles Drew, who created the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S.

The 150 activation locations across the U.S. include popular tourist spots in 10 cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta and Houston); notable STEM centers (NASA Langley Research Center, Kennedy Space Center, the Computer History Museum in San Francisco, Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio, Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Science, etc.) and STEM universities (California Polytechnic State, North Carolina State, Duke, Cornell, Princeton, University of Michigan, Northwestern, etc.).

“IBM has a long history of commitment to STEM, and to fostering diversity, tolerance and inclusion, which is core to our company’s culture and values,” said Ann Rubin, Vice President, Branded Content and Global Creative, IBM. “We were inspired to use this app to share the stories of unsung STEM innovators who have changed the lives of people around the world.”

“Outthink Hidden” is the first experience within T Brand Studio AR and it is the first project produced by integrated experience design agency Fake Love since it was acquired by The New York Times Company in August 2016. “Outthink Hidden” was co-created with IBM and its agency partner, Ogilvy & Mather.

“We’ve been waiting for the perfect opportunity to tap into Fake Love’s wealth of talent and creativity when it comes to experiential storytelling,” said Sebastian Tomich, senior vice president, advertising & innovation, The New York Times.  “We knew we couldn’t build The Times’s first AR experience just because we had the means to do it; we needed the right partner and the right story to tell. When we spoke to IBM about their work with ‘Hidden Figures, we recognized that this was an opportunity to bring users into the experience of the film and the remarkable women it showcases.”

For more information about IBM’s involvement in “Hidden Figures,” go to ibm.com/hiddenfigures.

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