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Here come the first blockchain smartphones: What you need to know

July 13, 2018 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Fintech, Security, smartphones

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:12:00 -0700

After months of speculation, Taiwanese electronics company Huawei Technologies Ltd. (HTC) has confirmed it will be releasing a blockchain-enabled smartphone this year that will allow users to securely store cryptocurrency offline and act as a compute node in a blockchain network.

“We want to double and triple the number of nodes of Ethereum and Bitcoin,” HTC said in its marketing material for the device. The new smartphone is expected to be able to work with multiple blockchain protocols allowing for interoperability between them.

In addition, the HTC Exodus blockchain-enabled smartphone will allow owners to play CryptoKitties, a decentralized app (Dapp) game. Dapps are applications that run across multiple nodes on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Two vendors now sell iPhone cracking technology – and police are buying

April 13, 2018 admin Emerging Technology, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:17:00 -0700

Law enforcement interest in iPhone encryption-cracking hardware from two new companies is a strong indication that Apple no longer claims the mobile security high ground.

“What this means, if it’s true, is that people who thought all of their communications were totally secure shouldn’t feel so confident going forward,” said Jack Gold, principal analyst with J. Gold Associates. “But, then security has always been a tug of war between the ones implementing it and the ones trying to break it.”

In February, reports surfaced that an Israel-based technology vendor, Cellebrite, had discovered a way to unlock encrypted iPhones running iOS 11 and were marketing the product to law enforcement and private forensics firms around the world. According to a police warrant obtained by Forbes, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had been testing the technology.

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ComputerWorld Independent

How blockchain could solve the internet privacy problem

April 9, 2018 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Fintech, privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700

Fintech firms, software makers, telecom providers and other businesses have joined forces develop a blockchain-based network that will enable anyone to exchange digital credentials online and without the risk of unintentionally exposing any private data.

The companies are part of the Sovrin Foundation, a new nonprofit organization now developing the Sovrin Network, which could enable anyone to globally exchange pre-verified data with any entity also on the network.

The online credentials would be akin to identify information you or I might have in our physical wallets: a driver’s license, a bank debit card or a company ID.

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ComputerWorld Independent

This is how blockchain might solve the internet privacy problem

April 9, 2018 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Fintech, privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700

The online credentials would be akin to identify information you or I might have in our physical wallets: a driver’s license, a bank debit card or a company ID.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Facial recognition tech moves from smartphones to the boardroom

March 30, 2018 admin Emerging Technology, iOS, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 03:03:00 -0700

Facial recognition technology, which has begun to gain traction on mobile devices like the iPhone X and various Android smartphones, could soon show up at work – and at the airport.

The technology uses a person’s face to authenticate their identity, making it a potentially important security tool.

In 2015, Google launched its “Trusted Face” feature as part of its Android 5.0 Lollipop update. Trusted Face, part of Android’s Smart Lock technology, works in the same way as Apple’s Face ID, which replaced the Touch ID fingerprint reader on the iPhone X.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Could these grain-sized computers using blockchain networks thwart counterfeiters?

March 21, 2018 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:39:00 -0700

Within five years, IBM researchers hope to deploy granular microcomputers that, in conjunction with a blockchain electronic ledger, could be used to verify and track goods all over the world.

IBM has created a microcomputer technology called cryptographic anchors (abbreviated: crypto-anchors) and says they could be used to authenticate anything from pharmaceuticals to luxury goods, such as diamonds, from point of origin to merchant.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Tech Talk: What's trending for 2018?

January 26, 2018 admin Emerging Technology, Personal Technology, Security, software development

Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:30:00 -0800

When it comes to tech trends we’re likely to see in 2018, nothing would likely be more welcome than the end of passwords. With companies looking for ever better ways to protect data, it seems clear that “password123” has no indefinite future. (Nor does you pet’s name, if that’s what you use.)

But just how quickly passwords will be shunted aside, and by what technology – biometrics? two-factor authentication? algorithms? – remains unclear.

That was topic No. 1 for our panel of tech experts – CSO‘s Michael Nadeau, Infoworld‘s Serdar Syegulalp, Computerworld Executive Editor Ken Mingis and Macworld‘s Michael Simon – as they peer into the near-future to discern what’s coming in 2018 and what’s not.

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