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CBRE ranks Newark as top tech city
The Essex County city boasts more than 53,000 technology jobs, most in software development, computer programming and database system management, according to the report. The post CBRE ranks Newark as top tech city appeared first on NJBIZ.
Ezlo Innovation announces acquisition of smart home device company
On Monday, the Clifton-based smart home solutions provider announced it acquired Alabama-based Centralite Systems. The post Ezlo Innovation announces acquisition of smart home device company appeared first on NJBIZ.
Rewiring needed
NJEdge expects a public-private partnership to improve infrastructure in southern New Jersey. The post Rewiring needed appeared first on NJBIZ.
EDA unveils expansion of tax break for early tech investors
The Economic Development Authority on July 10 formally rolled out an expansion of the Angel Investor Tax Credit program, an economic incentive aimed at enticing investors to back technology startups considering locations in New Jersey. The previous scheme provided a...
What You Need to Know About The Dark Web
With the reporting on cybersecurity events such as city-wide ransomware events or massive data breaches making the 6 o’clock news, the dark web has been thrust into the spotlight. But what exactly is the dark web? Is it part of the Internet with the lights off? Is it...
NJIT to Establish New Institute for Data Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will establish a new Institute for Data Science, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data. The institute will bring existing research centers in big data,...
‘Smart Cities’ conference highlights Newark’s tech infrastructure
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and New Jersey Institute of Technology President Joel Bloom used the occasion of the June 26 New Jersey Alliance for Action Inaugural Statewide 5G Construction/Smart Cities Conference to tout the technology infrastructure that wires the...
Department of Homeland Security Phishing Scam
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is the Nation’s flagship cyber defense, incident response, and operational integration center. Its mission is to reduce the Nation’s risk of systemic cybersecurity and communications challenges....
Rutgers-Eaglton/FDU Poll: little evidence of a digital divide in New Jersey
According to the survey, 97 percent of state residents live in a household with access to the internet. The post Rutgers-Eaglton/FDU Poll: little evidence of a digital divide in New Jersey appeared first on NJBIZ.
NJ Tech Council celebrates annual 2019 CFO + Investor Awards
Richard Veldran, former chief financial officer for Dun & Bradstreet, began the ceremony with a keynote address detailing his involvement with taking the company private in February and noting the “tremendous lengths of innovation and technology...
Quest Diagnostics reports 12 million records of Patient Data Breach Due to Issue with a Vendor
Quest Diagnostics, the New Jersey-based blood testing providers in the country, filed a report with securities regulators, specifying that nearly 12 million of its customers may have had medical, financial, and personal information (inlcuding Social Security numbers)...
Cybersecurity Jobs Added to UK’s Shortage Occupation List
Cybersecurity engineers and analysts have been identified as being on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL), in the first full review of officially recognized careers where the shortages “are most severe and where the consequences of those shortages are most serious”...
Impersonation Phishing Attacks Up 67% in Last 12 Months
Mimecast has released its third annual State of Email Security Report and has found that phishing attacks have lost companies money, data and customers. Including insights from 1,025 global IT decision-makers, the report found that social engineering attacks were on...
Flipboard Breached in Nine-Month Raid
Flipboard has reset all customer passwords as a precaution after revealing that hackers had unauthorized access to user data for over nine months. The news aggregator site, which has around 150 million monthly users, said the “unauthorized person” gained access to...
Cryptopia Fights to Keep Data Held by Arizona Firm
Cryptopia, an exchange that was hacked and subsequently went into liquidation in May, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States. Grant Thornton will be handling the preservation of the data stored and hosted on servers with an Arizona-based firm,...
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Makes Its Cybersecurity Bulletproof
The city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, has agreed to pay C$100,000 (almost $75,000) to cybersecurity company, Bulletproof Solutions, to strengthen its network and protect it from cyber-attacks. The three-year agreement was approved at the city council meeting on...
Equifax Has Spent Nearly $1.4billion on Data Breach Costs
Equifax has incurred losses so far of over $1.35bn from a devastating 2017 breach which affected more than half of all Americans and millions of UK consumers, the firm revealed in its latest financials. The credit agency claimed in its Q1 2019 earnings statement that...
WannaCry Remains a Global Threat Two Years On
WannaCry ransomware remains a global threat two years on from the initial outbreak of the attack in May 2017. That’s according to new analysis from Malwarebytes, which discovered that a total of 4,826,682 WannaCry detections have been identified since the malware...
SMS Spammers Expose 80 Million Records Online
SMS Spammers Expose 80 Million Records Online The administrators of an SMS spam operation left an unsecured MongoDB instance wide open online, exposing over 80 million records linked to their ‘leads,’ according to researchers. Bob Diachenko revealed the discovery in a...
Increased Office 365 Account Attacks
According to released information from Barracuda Networks, Microsoft Office 365 account takeover attacks are one of the most prevalent email attacks for the Office 365 platform. Barracuda states that approximately 29% of Organizations on Office 365 have had at least...
Vulnerabilities Fallout: Not all fixed by Recent Microsoft Patch Releases
In a past month, Microsoft has released patches for over 70 vulnerabilities in its products. The company has been under the fire from users and system administrators for quite some time. The pressure was following the stream of vulnerabilities, including two of a...
PHI of 350,000 DHS Clients Compromised in Phishing Attack in Oregon
The Oregon DHS recently disclosed that the personal health information (PHI) of over 350,000 clients had been compromised in data breach. A phishing URL embedded into the spear-phishing email was clicked by nine employees, resulting in granting cybercriminals the...
Home Office Error to Blame for Windrush Privacy Incident
In UK, The Home Office has apologized after an “administrative error” led to the personal details of hundreds of historic migrants being exposed. Around 500 private email addresses were accidentally shared with other applicants of a government compensation scheme for...
Fake Malware Tricks Radiologists Diagnosing Cancer
With the use of deep learning, researchers Yisroel Mirsky, Tom Mahler, Ilan Shelef and Yuval Elovici at Cyber Security Labs at Ben-Gurion University demonstrated in a video proof of concept (PoC) that an attacker could fool three expert radiologists by falsifying CT...