Marco Rubio wants to give survivors of domestic terrorism … one year of student loan relief?

You almost have to hand it over to Marco Rubio. It takes a very special kind of politically insane brain to properly identify two unique American atrocities – obscene student loan debt and domestic mass terrorist shootings – and think, “Hm, but what if I somehow combine them?” This week Rubio reintroduced its Student Loan…

How to Empower Employees to be Secure and Productive

How can CISOs make cybersecurity positive, productive, and inclusive, and maintain best practices across the enterprise? – Do your employees feel valued and important in their roles? More than 65 percent of employees say they don’t feel recognized at work, and 31 percent say they are “committed but feel that my company could do more…

How Military Service Can Align with a Cybersecurity Career – Online Free Press release news distribution

Menlo Park, CA, USA, Jun 25, 2021 / Global Tech Council / The cybersecurity sector continues to struggle with a global skill gap. Although the deficit has shrunk from 4 million to 3.1 million since last year, the Cybersecurity Workforce Study 2020 (ISC) 2 shows that more than half of IT and security professionals (56…

House Republicans want to know why certain White House appointees got an ethics pass

To listen to the federal news broadcast on your phone or mobile device, subscribe to PodcastOne or Apple Podcasts. Chrome, Firefox or Safari offer the best listening experience on the desktop. Most federal employees have the day off tomorrow to celebrate the newest federal holiday, June 10th. President Joe Biden signed the law making it…

Female researchers join forces to make fieldwork safer

While transcribing her interviews, Itzel San Roman Pineda found that the harassment she experienced while doing fieldwork in Mexico had followed her home. “I could hear what the men were saying to me again,” she said. Ms. San Roman Pineda, a human geography researcher at the University of Sheffield, described the community she had worked…

Estonia is a global leader on all things cyber. Now it’s offering to teach other countries

“Estonia digitized much earlier than other countries, focusing on things like online training and online government, and taking a more proactive approach to technology,” said Esther Naylor, an international security analyst at Chatham House. “And it has recognized that it has to be a safe country for citizens to use online systems and for companies…

Cybersecurity is the next frontier for AI and ML

Expand your corporate data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Before we dive into cybersecurity and how the industry is currently using AI, let’s first define the term AI. Artificial Intelligence (AI), as the term is used today, is the overarching concept that encompasses machine learning (supervised, including deep learning and unsupervised) as well as…

Cybercriminals Increasingly Target Manufacturing, IP

Recent attacks on intellectual property (IP) and critical infrastructure are increasing security requirements for manufacturing companies as the industry has had one of the highest attack rates of any sector since the beginning of COVID-19. According to a report released by Morphisec, one in five manufacturing companies in the US and UK has been victim…

Credit-Card Debt Keeps Falling. Banks Are On Edge.

Americans are paying off their credit card debt at levels not seen in years. This is good news for everyone but credit card issuers. Major card issuers, targeting borrowers ranging from the affluent to the subprime, say overall card balances – and therefore corporate interest income – are falling. To compensate for this, issuers are…