23 April 2019

• Hashtag Trending – Samsung delays foldable phone; Google and Amazon make up; terrible password galore
  Samsung delays foldable phones; Google and Amazon play nice; bad passwords are still rampant. It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending. It’s Tuesday, April 23rd, and I’m your host, Tom Li. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Samsung’s new foldable phone. After a number of devices failed...
• Hashtag Trending – China’s Mars simulator; Microsoft won’t sell AI to cops; Blackberry Messenger dead
  China builds a Mars simulator to emulate life on the Red Planet; Microsoft refused to sell facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies; Blackberry Messenger has finally met its end Our first story comes to us from Google Trends. In an effort to boost tourism to the Gansu province of China, officials have...
• Canadian cloud leaders may be among the least secure, report suggests
  Study from Cyverity suggests as organizations move to the cloud they may be assuming providers are taking up much of the security load. Read why they're wrong
• Cyber Security Today: Weather report, jail time and a killer of a USB stick
  Today's podcast looks at why being prepared paid off for the Weather Channel, jail time for selling stolen data and a dangerous USB stick
• Cyber Security Today: Beware of fake Notre Dame donation sites, protect domain name servers and iPhone users being tricked
  Today's podcast warns listeners about fake Notre Dame donation sites, the need to better protect domain name servers and how iPhone users are being tricked
• University of Guelph adds master’s degree in cyber security
  Program aimed at giving students real world experience, will have state of the art lab to teach students threat hunting, digital forensics and privacy
• Screen captures can be used by police in a sting, Supreme Court of Canada rules
  A person has no expectation of privacy if communication with police involving an offence, court says. Read why
• How to stop infosec pros from speaking geek to management
  At a cyber risk conference experts advise CISOs on how to talk to non-IT people and get the money they want
• Modernize apps and infrastructure, and the processes will follow
  There is no question that virtualized cloud-native environments are the wave of the future for the modern enterprise. As digital services become core revenue-generators and the world becomes increasingly reliant on the Internet of Things, businesses that cling to the static, hardware-centric infrastructure of the past are...
• Hashtag Trending – Galaxy Folds break; Notre Dame backup; Zuckerberg selling secrets
  Twitter is flooded with broken Galaxy Folds, an art historian might have the keys to the Notre Dame’s restoration, and documents show Mark Zuckerberg’s willingness to play with your data.