Archives for July, 2019 - Page 30

03 Jul

How Hackers Are Using Facebook To Distribute Remote Access Trojan (RAT) Malware

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While threats like Ransomware, DDoS and Polymorphic Phishing have always been some of the notorious threats in cybersecurity, hackers today are shifting their focus and are trying out different approaches to attack systems. According to a research by Check Point threat intelligence, for the first time, a remote access Trojan dubbed as “FlawedAmmyy” has reached…

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03 Jul

Linux Releases New Open Source Framework Boreas To Help Integrate & Develop AI Models

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Recently, the Linux Foundation’s Artificial Intelligence team released Boreas, an open source framework which is also the second software release for its Acumos project. With this release, the framework will enable developers to create, train as well as make license verification of AI, machine learning, and deep learning models and applications. Acumos is an open…

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03 Jul

Why Does The CPU Market Have A High Barrier For New Entrants?

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Today, the PC hardware manufacturing market is split between three competitors; AMD, Intel & NVIDIA. Even as it seems like an ever-ongoing cycle of compatibility and competition, the market has no space left for any other players. This trio has been in place for more than a decade now, with Intel dominating the CPU market…

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03 Jul

Meet V, The New Statistically Typed Programming Language Inspired By Go & Rust

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A new statically typed compiled programming language, known as V language has been open sourced recently by its creator Alex Medvednikov. According to Medvednikov, the language is designed for building maintainable software. It is a simple language and is similar to the Go language and is inspired by Rust, Swift, and Oberon languages. Currently, V…

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03 Jul

Deep Dive: SonicWall Doubles Down On AI & Automation To Fight Cyber Attacks

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A recent SonicWall Cyber Threat Report indicated that ransomware attacks were up in every geography except India, which saw a 49% reduction, and the U.K. However, India still has a major uphill task in combating malware, where attacks rose by 53% in 2018. For our weekly column Deep Dive we talked to the Debasish Mukherjee,…

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03 Jul

Are Top Cloud Service Providers Immune To Black-Box Attacks?

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Leading cloud providers AWS and Azure are building an ecosystem of tools along with cloud infrastructure. Today, cloud-based applications are powering a number of uses — navigating ships carrying cargo, connecting online and offline retail markets, machine learning in fintech for fraud detection and many more.  But when it comes to security, cloud services still…

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03 Jul

Multilingual Support Will Help Increase Adoption Of Mobile Payments In India, Says Gaurav Raina Of MPFI

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Mobile payments are one of the fastest-growing markets in India today. After the rise of the United Payment Interface for quick and easy online payments, India has been fast to adopt the technology. The mobile-first payment interface has gained 3 billion transactions since it launched in mid-2016. The payment system was built as a layer…

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03 Jul

Gates Foundation, Tata Trusts Set Up Agritech Incubator At IIT Kanpur, Will Focus On Smart Tech, IoT

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Tata Trusts have joined hands to set up the India Agritech Incubation Network (IAIN) and launch the Social Alpha Quest for Agritech Innovations at IIT Kanpur. The IAIN will work as a network of incubators across the country to promote innovations for smallholder farmers. The first hub for IAIN…

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02 Jul

Comparing Python Data Visualization Tools: Matplotlib vs Seaborn

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Data Visualization tools are of great importance in the analytics industry as they give a clear idea of the complex data involved. Python is one of the most popular languages for visualization with its variety of tools.  Two of Python’s greatest visualization tools are Matplotlib and Seaborn. Seaborn library is basically based on Matplotlib. Here…

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02 Jul

Debunking Widely Held Assumptions In Unsupervised Learning Of Disentangled Representations

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Machine Learning models suffer from a lack of structured data. The representations of the data are sometimes entangled. This is where prior knowledge of humans comes in handy to perform feature engineering. In order to make the algorithms to exploit the inherent representations within data, disentanglement methods were introduced. There is no single definition of…

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