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WannaCry, the recent devastating global ransomware attack, is now the largest of its kind in internet history. The attack has breached hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries, crippling a wide range of enterprises, from hospitals and universities to banks and warehouses. In order to breach an enterprise, WannaCry and other forms of crypto-malware have been delivered...

Cybersecurity expert Kevin Fu on Sunday urged medical device makers to more vigorously design security into their products and called on hospitals to take a prioritized and focused approach to dealing with cyberthreats. “If you try to build security after the fact, it is going to fail,” Fu said during the AAMI 2017 Conference & Expo, as he made the...

Herman Miller, the creator of the cubicle and the iconic Aeron chair, will begin selling sensors this week that connect its desks to the cloud—the first phase of a plan to add a layer of technology to your office workstation. The sensors, which can be installed on any work surface, collect anonymized data about which spaces are used most; the...

America’s military has operated far too long without a truly integrated air and missile defense system and the Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) is the best answer we’ve got. Congress needs to support the Army’s budget request for IBCS and AMD funding. For its part, the Army needs to re-evaluate its management approach. IBCS will...

At this year’s 5G World in London, Zyxel will launch its new LTE indoor gateway LTE5366 - a powerful wireless router that matches Wi-Fi performance with fast LTE speeds. Combining LTE category 6 compliance with the latest MU-MIMO 802.11ac technology, the LTE5366 boosts indoor connectivity by delivering download speeds of up to 300Mbps and data rates twice that of category...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, announces a global distribution agreement with Amphenol SGX Sensortech, a market leader in innovative sensor and detector devices. Through the agreement, Mouser will add SGX Sensortech’s robust environmental sensors to its sensor linecard. The Amphenol SGX Sensortech product line available at Mouser Electronics includes four series...

Reverse osmosis membrane elements from specialty chemicals company LANXESS have successfully completed a year-long practical test in Germany's largest industrial water treatment plant. The new element grades with ASD feed spacers impressed Zellstoff Stendal GmbH based in Arneburg with their performance and consistently high level of rejection. Optimized for applications in brackish water, these Lewabrane-branded elements are characterized by...

MALVERN, Pa. — June 12, 2017 — Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with the introduction of two new series of miniature infrared (IR) receiver modules for IR remote control applications in flat-panel TVs and monitors. For front mounting in the tight 3 mm frames of these products, Vishay Semiconductors' TSOP39xxxTR1 and TSOP59xxxTR1 series devices...

Nordic Semiconductor today announces that it has extended its nRF52 Series of class-leading, high-performance Bluetooth low energy Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) with the addition of a peripheral and memory-optimized variant, the nRF52810, that represents the most accessible, single-chip Bluetooth 5 solution available on the market today. The nRF52810 SoC brings the key performance benefits of Bluetooth 5 to the most cost-sensitive, high-volume applications....

“For now, the card is only being used for access control and employee time and attendance tracking at the newly opened casino, but FPC has indicated that expansionary plans are in the works that could see the V2 used by casino guests as payment cards.” Precise Biometrics and Fingerprint Cards are celebrating an important step into the biometric smart card market...