Antivirus is an interesting topic right now. Threats are getting faster and more severe. Endpoint protection can catch the "standard" viruses and malware but are missing the latest and most damaging threats. Some consider antivirus as a necessary evil while others hold out hope for a better product being more effective. If you're shopping around for an antivirus solution, this … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2014
EFF, Mozilla and others form CA to make TLS Everywhere for free
Through the Internet Security Research Group, Mozilla Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Akamai Technologies, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust, Inc., and University of Michigan researchers are looking to create a new free certificate authority. This CA has the goal of allowing TLS-protected communication, the successor to SSL, a certificate to be installed on a server … [Read more...]
NVIDIA explains NVLink it will use in upcoming supercomputers
NVIDIA announced last week that with IBM they will be building two supercomputers for the US Department of Energy. The supercomputers will be installed in 2017 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The supercomputers will use NVIDIA's Tesla GPU accelerators and using NVIDIA NVLink GPU interconnect technology. NVLink allows the … [Read more...]
Sorting algorithms animated
A post from last year visualized sorting algorithms with sounds and visuals in a YouTube video. This animated gif similarly shows different sorting algorithms visually and comparatively in a matrix. The rows provide different initial data to test the efficiency of the sorting algorithms, with Insertion, Selection, Bubble, Shell, Merge, Heap, Quick, and Quick3 in the different … [Read more...]
The US needs more information security professionals
Looking for a change of career? This infographic shares some interesting statistics relevant to cyber security professionals. While some of the largest cyber crime incidents have happened in recent years, "the demand for cyber security professionals has grown 3.5 times faster than the demand for other Information Technology professionals in the past five years". (Click image … [Read more...]