Today we will be having a quick unboxing and first look at the 1TB diskashur 2 from our good friends at iStorage and we will also be giving one of these bad boys away, We like to see them as the James Bond of portable storage options.. Any questions fire away and we will gladly answer, Skip down to the unboxing to see the product.
Features include..
USB 3.1 Portable Encrypted Hard Drive
Capacities up to 2TB*
FIPS PUB 197 validated
AES 256-bit XTS hardware encryption – no software required
OS & Platform independent
Employs EDGE* Technology
Available in 4 colours-Phantom Black, Ocean Blue, Fiery Red & Racing Green
Nextbase have touched base with us to let us kow some samples are heading our way, We have been using some of their products the last few months and to this day remain in top shape and working order, Dashcams are now something we should all invest in due to high insurance costs and of course evidence should you be in an accident not only that you never know what else you might pick up whilst this sits there doing its job. You could become famous with an unusual clip or weather event for example but the prioity is for sure your protection, We will have our reviews soon and share our thoughts and dont forget to check out our previous reviews in the related section,The camera does not lie. The first of the two models is the 512GW.
Innovative 512GW features new Sony Exmor R Sensor, HDR and a polarising filter for improved night vision and ultimate picture clarity, even in low light conditions.
An upgrade of the popular 512G, a Which? Best Buy, the new model also boasts in-built Wi-Fi that pairs with the updatedNextbase App, Intelligent Parking Mode and Nextbase’s Click & Go Mount.
Dash Cam is the top-of-the-range product in Nextbase’s industry-leading range.
The model is also the first in the manufacturer’s extensive range of Dash Cams to benefit from Intelligent Parking Mode, with a special motion detector that remains active while the vehicle is parked and automatically powers down to maximise battery life. The feature allows vehicle owners to rest easy, safe in the knowledge that recording will be automatically triggered in the event of an incident when the car is stationary.
Retailing at only £149.99, the 512GW boasts an array of features that ensure Nextbase Dash Cams are the best-selling in the UK. The model benefits from a 140° ultra wide viewing angle and captures unrivalled footage quality in impressive 1440p Quad HD (four times that of standard HD). Recording at 30 frames per second, the 512GW is the perfect companion to capture irrefutable evidence whilst out on the roads, which can be used to aid a motorist in the event of an accident, particularly proving if the driver is not at fault in an insurance claim.
The Nextbase 512GW is available at £149.99 from selected UK Halfords stores, or online. Halfords also offers a WeFit service, where they can fit your Dash Cam for you.
Specifications:
Updated Sony Exmor R sensor provides unbeatable image quality
1440p Quad HD recording at 30fps and 1080p recording at 60fps
Innovative polarising filter to remove windscreen glare
Wi-Fi to allow you to share your footage directly to your smartphone or tablet
140° ultra-wide viewing angle for greater road and pavement coverage
GPS location and speed data to pinpoint incidents on your journey
Click & Go Powered Magnetic GPS Car Mount
Intelligent Parking Mode automatically indicates motion for greater safety
High Dynamic Range improves the contrast in an image whilst maintaining clarity
Wide Dynamic Range image processing ensures clear recordings in bright and dark light
Limited Edition Nextbase 312GW Dash Cam features inbuilt Wi-Fi, allowing footage to be shared instantly through the Nextbase smartphone app.
The Which? Best Buy 2016 312GW captures full HD 1080p footage and features an ultra clear 2.7 LED screen and a 6-layer glass lens
Available exclusively at selected Halfords stores and online, priced at £99.
Only 2,000 units of the Limited Edition Rose Gold Nextbase 312GW have been made available and, at £99, it brings all of the great quality features the Nextbase 312GW is renowned for. Wrapped in a unique casing, its white and rose gold colouring will add a touch of flair to a dashboard, perfect for introducing young and female motorists to all the benefits that a Dash Cam brings and the ideal Christmas present for the style-conscious driver.
The Which? Best Buy 312GW has in-built Wi-Fi which allows motorists of all ages to instantly and easily upload footage to their social media channels, insurer or even the police via the new Nextbase app. After using the Wi-Fi to connect to an iOS or Android device, the Nextbase app becomes your personal mobile store for footage you want to keep or share. Whether that’s because of being involved in an accident, being witness to somebody else being involved in an accident or even just catching something of interest on the road.
Another key feature of the 312GW is the unique Nextbase Powered Magnetic Click & Go mount. It allows users to quickly and easily remove the Dash Cam on every journey, as well as irradicating the need for a wired link between the mount and camera. The 312GW also has a six-layered glass lens with a 140 degree angle, providing crystal clear image quality, which can be viewed on an ultra-clear 2.7 LED colour screen.
Specs of the 312 GW
· In-built Wi-Fi to share your footage directly with your mobile via the Nextbase app
· World’s first dash cam with Powered Magnetic Click & Go mount
· 140 degree wide angle view with full 1080p High Definition recording at 30fps
· Ultra clear 2.7” LED display for ease of playback and menu selection
· Super slimline design – Dimensions 92 x 56 x 18 mm (37mm inc lens) WHD
· Six-Element Sharp Lenses made with 6 layers of glass to provide stunning clear images
· Inbuilt G sensor and GPS to detect accidents and automatically save video files
· Easy to install with 4m 12v power cable and Click & Go window mount included
· SOS data protection prevents the impact/event recording from being deleted
· Supports SDHC and SDXC Micro SD Cards up to 64GB
Following the news today that Virgin Media has urged users to change their router (super hub) passwords over fear of being hacked, James Romer, Chief Security Architect – EMEA at SecureAuth Corporation has said the following.
The consumer association, Which? has called for the industry to improve basic security provisions, including requiring customers to create a unique password before use, two-factor authentication, and issuing regular software security update. This is not adequate.The way organisations are approaching authentication and securing credentials needs to be rethought for cyber security strategy and investment to have any shot at being successful. Simple two-factor authentication is no longer enough to safeguard against today’s attacks. Pushing forward, organisations are realising they need to adopt a new approach to prevent to misuse of stolen credentials that doesn’t just add an extra step to users authentication process, but instead provides effective protection while providing a good user experience. Modern approaches such as adaptive access control techniques and identity based detection work invisibly to the user but work to protect, detect, and ultimately remediate attacks essentially rendering stolen credentials useless.” James Romer, Chief Security Architect – EMEA at SecureAuth Corporation…
Three young Irish-based researchers will meet with forty-eight Nobel Laureates this summer, when they travel to Lindau in Bavaria, Germany, to represent Ireland at the annual LindauNobel Laureate meetings.
Eoin McCarney, Dr David McNulty and Jun Gao are three of four hundred young scientists who will attend the prestigious Nobel Laureate meetings in Lindau. These meetings bring highly promising researchers from fifty-six countries together with Nobel Prize-winners in the fields of physiology, medicine, physics, chemistry and economic sciences.
Eoin McCarney – a postgraduate scholar based at Trinity College Dublin, working in the field of supramolecular and nano-chemistry; and David McNulty, a postdoctoral researcher in the Applied Nanoscience Group at University College Cork will both attend the 67thLindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for the Natural Sciences, this year dedicated to the field of chemistry, and which runs from 25th – 30th June.
Later this summer, Jun Gao, a postgraduate student based at University College Cork will attend the 6thLindau Nobel Laureate Meetingdedicated to the field of economic sciences, from the 22nd – 26th August. Her research focuses on investigating the performance of the Chinese fund industry by looking at stock selection ability and market timing.
Following nomination by the Irish Research Council, the researchers went through a highly competitive multi-stage international application process, managed by the Lindau Nobel Meeting Foundation and were selected for the meetings based on the excellence of their respective track records.
This weekend will also mark the renewal of the Irish Research Council’s partnership with the Council and Foundation for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. The agreement facilitates Irish-based researchers exchanging knowledge and ideas with scientists from diverse generations, cultures and disciplines.
Commenting at a special award ceremony to mark the researchers’ achievements in going forward to the Lindau meetings, Mr Peter Brown, Interim Director of the Irish Research Council, said:
“We are delighted to have three outstanding young researchers attending Lindau this year to meet with forty-eight Nobel Prize-winners.
“These meetings are a fantastic opportunity for young researchers who have excelled in their research to network with some of the brightest minds in their fields. It gives them an invaluable insight into some of the most important work happening in their areas of study and we are very proud to be able to support them on this journey.”
The President of Ireland, His Excellency, Michael D. Higgins, is patron of the Irish Research Council Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Awards.
SoundMoovz are wearable motion-activated musical bandz (RPP £49.99) that send a Bluetooth signal to the SoundMoovz App on your smart device. By simply moving your wrist and/or ankles; you can create beats, rhythms and music or layer your beat onto a song. Connect to a wireless speaker for louder music, the only limit is your imagination. We take a look and unbox the product and do a quick set up before we test run it. Any Questions fire away below..
The Internet is a whirlwind of data where the greater part of it is genuine, and quite a bit of it is false. Endeavours, for example, Wikipedia have demonstrated that by and large, Internet users have much learning on a wide range of subjects, learning that can be ordered and curated to frame important data vaults. Over the most recent couple of years, question-and-answer communities (Q&A) locales have given another way for internet users to crowdsource and look for particular definite data, a lot of which includes finding direct answers of particular inquiries from area specialists.
Taking this pattern ahead Quora, an inventive Question & Answer site with a quickly developing user group that contrasts from its rivals by keeping a social network as an informal community into its fundamental structure. Do you know about the few estimates of Quora’s user growth?? Here are some 150% development in one month, and about 900% development in one year.
Quora was launched on 21st June 2010(Quora left beta status in January 2010) and below is an infographic by Fullestop that demonstrates the timeline of Quora. We all know that from experts to company’s professional, Quora was successful in engaging every user type on it. Example – Instagram and Yelp addressed inquiries regarding their organizations on Quora. In spite of its short history, Quora appears to have accomplished where its rivals have fizzled, i.e. effectively drawing the investment of both a quickly developing client populace what’s more, particular area specialists that create significant substance in light of inquiries.
FUZE Technologies Ltd is proud to announce they are bringing their hugely popular learn-to-code platform, FUZE Code Studio to Nintendo’s incredibly sought after new console, Nintendo Switch.
FUZE Code Studio motivates and inspires users of all ages and abilities, leaving them wanting to learn more, even if they have no prior experience of coding. FUZE’s unique method means children as young as six can learn to code using a real text based language – and now it’s coming to Nintendo Switch.
FUZE Code Studio is the perfect stepping stone between visual coding simulators currently used in most primary schools and real-world languages like Python, Java and C++/# etc. FUZE Code Studio comes with everything you need to learn to code in one app. Users can code their own games and share the experience with friends and family – imagine creating your own game then transferring it to a big screen with multiple controllers so others can play your creations. Thanks to Nintendo Switch’s revolutionary design this becomes a reality – and coders will soon be learning how to interact with external devices, sensors and motion controls in ways not previously possible.
FUZE Code Studio on Nintendo Switch makes learning to coding more accessible than ever and what’s more, is children can learn while having fun. The move to Nintendo Switch is one FUZE’s CEO, Jon Silvera is convinced makes perfect sense.
He states “Back in the eighties when home computers reached critical mass and were selling into the tens of millions they all had one thing in common. They all had very accessible coding environments to get users started within minutes. Before you knew it we had more coders than we knew what to do with and a multibillion dollar industry was born!
In stark contrast, today we have a global shortage of coding skills and very few accessible learning platforms. It seems we’re running around ‘Scratching’ our heads, wondering where it all went wrong”.
Jon Silvera continued “We are deeply honoured and very excited to have been accepted as an independent developer for Nintendo Switch. Over the last four years FUZE has taught tens of thousands of children in schools, science events and clubs, how to code using a text based programming language. Nintendo Switch is the perfect platform for FUZE Code Studio to help nurture the next wave of bedroom coders.”
The UK Government recently rewrote the Computing Curriculum to focus almost entirely on coding and computational thinking to ensure we have the much needed coding skills to support the increasingly digital landscape. FUZE Code Studio for Nintendo Switch is perfectly suited to assist in meeting this objective.
FUZE Code Studio for Nintendo Switch will be available Q2 2018 with additional gaming content to be made available via DLC add on packs. Pricing will be confirmed nearer the launch.
The world’s appetite for open source software is voracious.
Organisations Increase Reliance on Open Source and Acknowledge Risks, But Efforts to Secure and Manage It Effectively are Lagging
In the last year, businesses around the globe significantly increased their use of open source and although they readily acknowledge growing concerns about open source-related security and operational risks, the effective management of open source is not keeping pace with the increase in use.
Those are among the key takeaways from the 2017 Open Source 360 Degree Survey results released today by Black Duck’s Center for Open Source Research and Innovation (COSRI). The COSRI survey comprised 819 respondents primarily from the U.S. and EMEA, 74% of whom were software developers, IT operations/professionals, systems architects, development managers, and security professionals.
Nearly 60% of respondents said their organisations’ use of open source increased in the last year citing: cost savings, easy access, and no vendor lock-in (84%); ability to customise code and fix defects directly (67%); better features and technical capabilities (55%); and the rate of open source evolution and innovation (55%).
Additionally, in terms of open source’s positive impact on business, survey respondents highlighted accelerated innovation (55%) and quality improvement (44%).
Even as their organisations are embracing open source to accelerate application development and increase development agility, respondents expressed concern about license risk/loss of intellectual property (66%); exposure to internal applications to exploitation from open source vulnerabilities (64%); exposure of external applications to exploitation because of open source vulnerabilities (71%); unknown quality of components (74%); and failure of development teams to adhere to internal policies (61%).
Despite those high levels of concern, nearly half of survey respondents indicated their organisations have no formal policies for selecting and approving open source. And just 15% indicated they have automated processes in place to manage their open source use.
Respondents gave their organisations decidedly middling marks in areas of managing and securing their open source, with slightly more than half reporting: being in compliance with associated licenses (54%); being aware of known security vulnerabilities (55%); knowing where and which open source versions are currently integrated and deployed (54%); and conforming to internal policies (44%).
“The 2017 Open Source 360 Degree survey responses correspond closely with our experience as we engage with businesses of all sizes in all industries around the world. Companies are using a tremendous amount of open source for sound economic and productivity reasons, but today most companies are not effective in securing and managing it,” said Black Duck CEO Lou Shipley. “This is surprising for a number of reasons. Today open source comprises 80% to 90% of the code in a modern application and the application layer is a primary target for hackers. This means that exploitation from known open source vulnerabilities represents the most significant application security risk most organisations face,” Shipley said.
The Open Source 360 Degree survey results show that open source vulnerability tracking and remediation remain primarily manual processes carried out by internal resources (53%). Only 27% of respondents reported automatic identification and remediation tracking of known open source vulnerabilities.
Shipley noted that the survey responses are “also very much in line with results in the open source audits we conduct for our customers.”
Black Duck’s On-Demand business unit conducts hundreds of open source code audits annually, primarily related to merger and acquisition transactions. The recently published Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report on 1,071 applications audited during 2016 found both high levels of open source usage – 96% of the applications contained open source – and significant risk to open source security vulnerabilities – more than 60% of the applications contained open source security vulnerabilities.
Notably, in that Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report, audited applications from the financial industry contained 52 open source vulnerabilities per application, and 60% of the applications contained high-risk vulnerabilities. The retail and e-commerce industry had the highest proportion of applications with high-risk open source vulnerabilities, with 83% of audited applications containing high-risk vulnerabilities.
This year’s Open Source 360 Degree Survey conducted by Black Duck’s COSRI is the successor to the former Future of Open Source Survey, co-presented for many years by Black Duck and North Bridge.
A detailed presentation of the complete Open Source 360 Degree Survey results will be available on the Black Duck Website on June 22 following a COSRI webinar discussion of the survey findings.
Other notable findings from the 2017 Open Source 360 Degree survey include:
Methods for tracking use of open source: Information provided by developers 54%; Manual design/code reviews 36%; Scans to inventory open source in use 33%
Methods for reviewing code for open source use: Don’t review code for open source (38%); internal tools to scan for open source 27%; third-party tools to scan for open source 28%
Most important elements to a successful open source policy: A structured process for review and approval of open source use requests 42%; A whitelist/blacklist of approved open source components, specific to use cases 39%; A whitelist/blacklist of approved open source licenses, specific to use cases 39%
Prevalent areas for open source usage: Build applications used within our organisation 77%; Build applications used by our customers 69%; Build and run our IT operations infrastructure 69%
Prevalent technology areas for open source use: Development Tools/Software Development Lifecycle 57%; Containers/DevOps/Virtualisation/Cloud Computing 53%; Systems Management/Operating Systems 52%;
Open Source Contribution: 66% of companies surveyed contribute to open source projects.
Open Source 360 Degree 2017 collaborators included the following (platinum collaborators are in bold): Appnovation, Bareos GmbH & Co. KG, Black Duck Software, Capital One, Couchbase, Credativ, EnterpriseDB, Grid Protection Alliance, InfoSys, Open Hub, Open Invention Network (OIN), Open-Xchange, Opmantek, (Open Source Academy of Arts, Science and Technology) of Pakistan, Pentaho, Red Hat, Rift-io, Rocket.Chat, Symphony Foundation, univention, WIPRO, WP Engine
Superior identity security with multi-factor authentication and adaptive access control protects most widely used cloud service from increasing attacks
SecureAuth Corp., the leader in adaptive access control, today unveiled enhanced protection for Microsoft’s Office 365, the world’s most widely used enterprise cloud service. By providing adaptive authentication for all Office 365 mail clients – including Microsoft Outlook and third-party applications, such as Apple Mail, SecureAuth is protecting one of the world’s most popular SaaS applications from increasing cyber attacks.
SecureAuth’s enhanced security for Office 365 provides identity protection and detection using the industry’s most advanced adaptive authentication and risk analysis capabilities, and features SecureAuth’s portfolio of multi-factor authentication methods. This multi-layered security approach combines techniques such as geographic location analysis, device recognition, IP address based threat services, and phone fraud prevention – to name a few.
With 85 million users working on a combination of desktop and laptop computers, mobile devices, and web applications, Office 365 is the world’s most popular cloud service. But wide use of Office 365 also makes it a primary target for cyber attacks especially during complex tasks like Office 365 GCC High and SharePoint Data Migration etc. Breaches tied to phishing e-mail scams and lack of strong identity security are accelerating. Organizations using Office 365 have been forced to rely on traditional and inadequate username-password authentication to try to protect themselves from sophisticated attackers.
Current versions of Office 365 mail clients support basic two-factor authentication while older Microsoft clients and third-party email applications do not. Enhanced identity security from SecureAuth, adaptive authentication, is the most secure approach for access from any client app that connects to Office 365, including older versions of Outlook and third-party email clients.
“Office 365 adoption is second-to-none, which is great for convenience and productivity, but unfortunately makes businesses more vulnerable to attack,” said SecureAuth Chief Technology Officer Keith Graham. “Attackers know that Office 365 is ripe to be exploited, and we see organizations under daily attack. With credentials, preventing the misuse of stolen credentials while maintaining ease of use for end users is paramount. That’s why SecureAuth’s new enhanced protection and detection capabilities for Office 365 offers the highest level of identity security – not only for newer mail clients, but also for older versions which remain widely deployed.”
As with all of SecureAuth’s security solutions, the enhanced Office 365 protection offers a frictionless user experience. The system triggers multi-factor authentication only when it determines a logon to be a potential risk. If there is no risk present, multi-factor authentication is not required, ensuring that access remains easy, convenient, and secure.
With the solution deployed across all devices and both old and new mail clients, organizations are protected no matter how their users access Office 365.
