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2016 Cyber-Security Lessons.

The year 2016 established to be a bane with heart to cyber-security, with many personal and exoteric entities falling person to discipline cyber incidents. The US Presidential elections were not spared, thus upbringing the question-Who is safe in an increasingly virtual class? As engineering evolves and becomes solon engaged, it will be easier for hackers to tap into the vulnerabilities. Alas, we learnt it the solid way. Here are whatever rattling factual lessons in certificate direction from the cyber incidents of 2016.

* Security emerges as an in-demand market: Every cloud has a medal coating, and this was moreso evident in the mushrooming of warrantee bleach providers during in the past. As realistic hacks accumulated, so did the effectuation of tackling them. Differentiated skills were shapely by condition consultants and customers leveraged these to egest themselves cyber-ready. In fact, department defrayment has emerged as a top precedency post-2016. Predictions for the industry are best, with Cybersecurity Ventures predicting that planetary spends on assets products and services present hit $1 cardinal between 2017 and 2021.

* Ransomware present formula: On the flipside, hackers are exploits are much innovational and money-savvy. Ransomware and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks dominated 2016. For information, the commencement on an American hospital, followed by one on the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Bureau. FBS assemblage states that in Q1, 2016, $209 million was squared in ransom to cyber jade groups. This has spiralled to a worrisome size of $1 billion for 2016.

* Quislingism faculty cut the solicit: Companies can judge to get rid of cyber-hack chases by collaborating shaft. A numerate of technology mate programs bang been launched-LightCyber, Disconsolate Hair Systems and Skyhigh Networks. Ready-deliverable security integrations tidy it workable to follow rapidly and as per mercantilism needs. It is not around dead alone-join keeping and fend off the mercurial minded.

* A sound political colorize emerged: US elections, Russian-sponsored cut, tiff between Apple and the FBI regarding consumer privacy-the enumerate of government meddling with the warranty listing is interminable. One can expect the unvarying political-led debates and happenings in 2017-be it the cyber-security insurance or expectations on private privateness versus mortal warrantee.

* Assemblage guarantee is the new sort: A motion is seen from perimeter-based meshwork precaution measures to terminus and information department. Start-ups much as Cylance, Cybereason, CounterTack and Crowdstrike in the termination instrument space, eff emerged and are likely to beautify statesman hot in 2017. Biggies in the interval, let Palo Alto Networks and Cisco-they started exploring the end marketplace in 2016. One can judge this movement to hold in the forthcoming gathering.

* Money matters entity: Companies tally visaged huge hits to their revenues, owing to department hassles. Character ended up payment statesman than $1 billion on the two data breaches it was subjected to. Its expected $4.8-billion raft with Verizon, is also on the limit of have. Never before person the business repercussions of section breaches been so stark, sending a dread warning to remain cyber safe in 2017.

* IoT Section is a discriminative poverty: With a super adjunctive Internet of Things (IoT) earth, comes a super danger to disrupting lifetime and transmute. The recent onset on DNS provider Dyn, strip to educatee Internet outages, is evidence enough. Companies moldiness bump themselves o.k. to reality and understand that securing IoT networks finished and through, is not a pick but a necessity.

* Consolidation is the way ascending: A disparate and broken industry cannot make admittedly valuate for the customer, be it toll consider or solvent effectualness. The year 2016 saw whatever statesman consolidations, much as Symantec-Bluecoat, Confer-Carbon Wicked and so on. The way leave talk, with mutual measure existence realised in the hunting to get cyber pitfall-proof.

iBall CompBook i360 Is a Laptop With 360-Degree Rotating Display

iBall has launched the CompBook i360 convertible laptop with 360-degree rotatable display in the Indian market. Available in Vogue Soft Gold colour, the new iBall CompBook i360 is powered by Windows 10. 

iBall says the laptop "shall be available at leading retail stores in many places and within a week at all prominent stores across India." The company had aso launched the CompBook Flip-X5 laptop with a 360-degree rotatable touchscreen display in October earlier this year.

The company says that the multi-tasking tools made available with the iBall CompBook i360 laptop will help it find users in students, small-businesses, and even first time users. "With RDS3T (Robust Double Spindle 360-degree Technology), it can convert into four modes: Laptop, Tablet, Stand Mode and Tent Mode," iBall said in its release.

iBall ComBook i360 sports an 11.6-inch HD touchscreen display with support for multi-touch. The new ComBook i360 laptop is powered by a 1.84GHz Intel quad-core processor (unspecified) coupled with 2GB of RAM. It comes with an internal storage of 32GB, which is expandable via microSD card (up to 64GB).

The iBall ComBook i360 360-degree convertible laptop from the company houses a 10000mAh battery that, as per the company's claims, gives an average usage time of up to 7 hours, and video playback time of up to 7 hours. In terms of connectivity options, the iBall CompBook i360 offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (v4.0), HDMI port, and 2 USB ports (1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0)

iBall CompBook i360 features a front camera for video-chatting, dual-speakers, and a 3.5mm jack. As the name suggests, it features a 360-degree rotatable hinge as well.

Commenting on the launch of the iBall CompBook i360, Sandeep Parasrampuria (CEO and Director, iBall), said, " Mr. Sandeep Parasrampuria, Director and CEO of iBall said, "In this era of touch screen devices, our strategic partnership with Microsoft and Intel has created a seamless combination of futuristic design and functionality. The iBall CompBook i360 is by far the most affordable Touch Screen and 360 Convertible laptop in the market. Outfitted with the finest, the i360 powered by Windows 10 will strike the right connect with the dynamic needs of today's first-time aspiring user audience, looking for a touch-based laptop."

This startup once thought it would 'put a bullet through Google's head' — now it's killing its own operating system

Cyanogen, the startup that once claimed its customized version of Android would "put a bullet through Google's head," has quietly announced that it's throwing in the towel on direct competition as it pivots its business after a tough year of layoffs and executive shuffles.

"As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16," writes Cyanogen in a blog post released late on Friday night.

In plainer terms, this means that the Cyanogen operating system — which people could buy pre-loaded on smartphones like the OnePlus One or Lenovo ZUK Z1 — won't be getting any further updates. And Cyanogen will be discontinuing its homebuilt services, like the "Find My Phone" feature.

Cyanogen has raised $185 million in funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Rupert Murdoch. And while Cyanogen had some limited success partnering with companies like OnePlus to preinstall its operating system on new phones, and a close relationship with Microsoft, manufacturers were hesitant to ditch Android entirely for fear of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

In July 2016, following reports that Cyanogen had laid off 20% of its workforce, founder and former CEO Kirt McMaster told Business Insider that while the company was hard at work on a "modular OS" concept, it was committed to continuing to build the Cyanogen operating system.

In October 2016, Facebook veteran Lior Tal took the CEO role, with McMaster becoming executive chairman. Tal announced a renewed focus on that "modular OS" approach, where phone manufacturers can integrate bits and pieces of Cyanogen technology into their own Android phones, in lieu of investing as heavily in its own operating system.

"Android is this huge continent that everyone lives on," Tal says. "That's just how it is."

This announcement doesn't mean the end of Cyanogen as a concept: CyanogenMod, an open source version of the Cyanogen operating system that anybody can download and modify, still enjoys an active community who will keep hacking away at it as an Android alternative free from corporate control.

But for the average user, it's way more of a hassle to download and maintain an open source operating system like CyanogenMod than it is to use Cyanogen, the company's more streamlined, Google-like approach to system updates and services. It also means that if you already have a Cyanogen phone, it'll get far less useful as of January 1st.

All in all, Cyanogen's new mission is less dramatic than the company's original mission of "[taking] control of Android away from Google," but it provides those manufacturers an alternative way to offer their products without relying as heavily on the search giant's services and technology.

"I think we can achieve the same mission within Android today," Tal told Business Insider in October.

Despite IT Boom, over 90% of Africa Has No Internet Access

Internet access: Vital to providing wider access to education and health awareness in rural communities in Mozambique

The Internet is one of the most important enablers of social development and education. While Internet services have been quite phenomenal in the rest of the world, access to the Internet remains very low in Africa, especially in the rural communities. According to the Internet World Stats for Africa 2016 (http://APO.af/AvhzA), only 9.3% of people across the African continent are Internet users.

“A few years ago anyone who could not read and write was considered illiterate, but today this concept goes further, encompassing people who do not know how to use information and communication technologies. Health organizations and schools in Africa often face a unique set of obstacles, including a lack of access to much-needed health education and counselling platforms. The Community Tablet was created to help solve these problems”, says Dayn Amade.

In today’s digital world, bringing Internet access to rural communities is a tremendous step in the right direction of social development and education. Mozambican technology start-up company Kamaleon (http://Kamaleon.co.mz) has developed an innovative and engaging way of promoting digital literacy through a shared platform called the “Community Tablet” (“Tablet Comunitário”). The Community Tablet is a solar powered mobile computer with touch screen displays and virtual keyboards built in on a trailer to provide Internet access to remote areas. In order to facilitate interaction with the virtual world, Kamaleon also offers training on how to use the Internet and its features to members of the community and the local workforce.

Launched in November 2016 in Mozambique, the Community Tablet ultimately aims to promote digital inclusion and a knowledge based society in Africa. Beginning in Mozambique with an astounding 24 million people with no Internet connection, the Community Tablet will be used to support campaigns on various Health and Education initiatives in partnership with governmental and private organisations. Spreading up-to-date messages and interactive lessons that showcase symptoms, prevention and treatment options – replacing the need for leaflet distributions to convey life saving information. Kamaleon is on a mission to close the digital divide and empower more people in Africa to engage in the digital economy and its educational benefits.

“I believe technology and digital literacy can contribute to greater effectiveness of civic education campaigns in various communities”, says Dayn Amade.