Missouri Casinos losing millions to Russian Hackers
Posted February 6, 2017
Missouri casinos have become the latest in a string of hacker schemes to bilk slot machines and send the money to a Russian hacker organization. Russia hackers have exploited European casinos since 2009, when the country outlawed virtually all gambling, forcing Russian casinos to sell their slot machines at steep discounts world wide. Some of the machines were
Read MoreIf you thought the health care breaches were bad, just wait till this year
Posted January 25, 2017
The Experian 2017 Data Breach Industry Forecast will be the prime target for hackers this year will be the health care industry. The report says personal medical data is among the most valuable kinds of information to target because health care officials will pay handsomely to get it back once stolen. Attacks will come in the
Read MoreAsk Jack: The FBI v. Apple issue was not really an issue
Posted March 29, 2016 / No comments
Shortly before the FBI announced they had found a hacker able to decorate the San Bernardino terrorist iPhone, we did an interview with Eurocal Group CTO Jack Wolosewicz about the issue. While the lawsuit is now dropped. Jack pointed out that it was not that big a deal, anyway. In this interview he talks about
Read MoreEEMBC to look at IoT security
Posted February 26, 2016
Peter Clarke of EE Times Europe reported this week that The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) trade group plans benchmarking edge-node IoT energy consumption and IoT security. The security benchmarking will focus on software and hardware IP and SoCs security in terms energy consumed, memory used, latency and bandwidth. Security is by necessity an end-to-end
Read MoreWhite paper on wearable technology
Posted February 25, 2016
Mentor Graphics has published a white paper on techniques to ensure IoT devices maintain the users security. The paper looks at designing embedded software with Mentor Graphics Nucleus® RTOS and Nucleus SafetyCert™ , with a process model for space partitioning and support of ARM® Trustzone® technology.
Read MoreAsk Jack: about Black Hat developers
Posted January 25, 2016
Being a Black Hat developer can be a path to jail, or to a good job. It’s not that bad of an idea to have them on your side. Eurocal Group CTO Jack Wolosewicz looks at the upside.
Read MoreAsk Jack: About Fintech security
Posted January 21, 2016
Lots of news about Financial Technology, or Fintech, in the news in the past few months, but are we ready for that in light of the accompanying news of data breaches. Jack Wolosewicz, CTO of Eurocal Group has some things to say.
Read MoreLesson of the VW software scandal: just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Posted September 22, 2015
The Volkswagen software cheat was apparently born out of a weakness in testing equipment that isn’t made for modern cars and demonstrates how a lack of accountability in the software development chain is crucial for the health and future of a company. As most US motorists have experienced, a smog check shop will put the
Read MoreNeuLion/DivX launches mobile video sharing service
Posted August 11, 2015
DivX, acquired by NeuLion earlier this year, has been working with Eurocal Group to develop a comprehensive suite of apps and services to support 4K HD video sharing between mobile and a variety of home entertainment devices. The first of the services is Ohana, announced in March 2015, a new mobile video sharing service that
Read MoreEXO5 and Wave Systems team up for Intel
Posted July 1, 2015
EXO5, a valued client of Eurocal Group making technology to secure laptops, recently teamed up with WAVE Systems, to market their complementary offerings. This video with WAVE CEO Bill Solms talks about their work with Intel.
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