Inviting Cyber Attacks on Your Smartphone

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Omer Schwartz

How secure is your smartphone? Do you know what you can do to help the hackers who increasingly see it as a desired and lucrative target?

Yossi Oren’s research lab at Ben-Gurion University in Israel is dedicated to exploring vulnerabilities emerging from this interface, “cyberattacks that allow the extraction of secret information from various devices by exploiting their precise physical behaviors such as power consumption, electromagnetic emanations, heat or vibration.”

Together with a group of foreign journalists, members of the press delegation to Cyber Week 2017 hosted by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I watched as Omer Schwartz, one of Oren’s graduate students, demonstrated what could happen to your data when you install on your phone a replacement part.

Read more at Forbes.com 

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The Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities of Self-Driving Cars

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Yuval Diskin

At Black Hat 2015, the talk of this annual gathering of cybersecurity experts was the remote hacking into and subsequent control of a Jeep Cherokee driving 70 mph on a public highway. Preparing for an autonomous future, the many ways by which today’s cars are linked to the internet—and the new opportunities and risks these connections imply—multiply exponentially. “The connected car is changing the automotive industry from inside,” says Yuval Diskin.

Diskin is former head of Israel’s internal security service (Shin Bet) and Chairman of CyMotive Technologies. Five years ago, he and two former Shin Bet colleagues co-founded a cybersecurity consultancy.

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How Israel Became a Cybersecurity Powerhouse

Israel_cyber_netanyahu“Cyber is a great business. It’s growing geometrically because there is never a permanent solution, it’s a never-ending business,” said Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, at Tel-Aviv University’s 7th Annual Cybersecurity Conference. Thomas Bossert, Assistant to the U.S. President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, announced at the event the creation of a US-Israeli bilateral cyber working group that will develop “innovative cyber defenses we can test here and then take back to America.”

Israel has become a cybersecurity powerhouse at the center of an $82 billion industry (not counting spending on internal security staff and processes).

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Jobs Displaced by AI and Automation

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McKinsey Global Institute’s latest report, Jobs lost, jobs gained: Workforce transitions in a time of automation (PDF–5MB), assesses the number and types of jobs that might be created under different scenarios through 2030 and compares that to the jobs that could be lost to automation.

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Intel, Team8 and Illusive Networks Collaborate on Cybersecurity

Intel announced today it has joined the cybersecurity syndicate established by Team8, a unique Tel-Aviv-based startup-creation platform focused on developing new cybersecurity solutions. In addition, Intel announced it will work with one of Team8’s companies, Illusive Networks, to develop a solution to combat Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) by combining hardware and software competencies.

“This is very exciting—it will allow us to work at the hardware level,” says Nadav Zafrir, Team8 CEO.

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From Big Data Analytics to AI: Vodafone and Celonis Mine Data to Improve Business Processes

What if you could put your company through an MRI scanner to get a detailed picture of how well your processes work, see the bottlenecks, and understand the causes of delays, unnecessary costs, and lost productivity?

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Digital Transformation: Most Valuable US Companies, 1917-2017

Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist

 

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Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leaders: Rana el Kaliouby, Affectiva

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Rana el Kaliouby

“Without our emotions, we can’t make smart decisions,” says Rana el Kaliouby. In the field of artificial intelligence, this is sheer heresy. Isn’t the goal of AI to create a machine with human-level intelligence but without the human “baggage” of emotions, biases, and intuitions that only get in the way of smart decisions?

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Consumers Prefer Smartphones To George Clooney, Family, Friends, Even Sex

ClooneyWould you give up your smartphone for a month in exchange for a day with George Clooney or any other celebrity?

If you answered “yes,” you are in a disappearing minority. Almost three-quarters of smartphone users worldwide refuse to substitute their artificial intelligence extension with a celebrity. 56% declined a 10% salary increase, 50% an extra week of vacation, 41% said “no” to $1,000 dollars (!), and 28% were willing to forego a holiday at their dream destination. They are also willing to give up family, friends or sex for a week before their smartphone.

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430 AI Startups in Israel

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The number of startups using AI technology has nearly tripled in size since 2014, and based on a three year average growth rate, 95 new AI startups are founded each year in Israel. Almost 300 startups were founded between 2014 and today, representing over 60% of all Israeli AI startups.

Source: Daniel Singer

 

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