Month: May 2017

The Not So Peculiar Case of A Diamond in The Rough

By Dudu Mimran | May 24, 2017September 29, 2020 by Dudu Mimran

IBM stock was hit severely?in recent month, mostly due to the disappointment from the latest earnings report. It wasn’t a real disappointment, but IBM had a buildup of expectations from their ongoing turnaround, and the recent earnings announcement has poured cold water on the growing enthusiasm. This post is about IBM’s story but carries a moral which applies to many other companies going through disruption in their industry. IBM is an enormous business with many…

AI patents

Artificial Intelligence Is Going to Kill Patents

By Dudu Mimran | May 23, 2017September 29, 2020 by Dudu Mimran

The patents system never got along quite well with software inventions. Software is?too fluid for the patenting system, built a long time ago for creations with?physical aspects. The material point view perceives software as a big pile?of electronically powered bits organized in some manner. In recent years the patenting system was bent to cope with software by adding into patent applications artificial additions containing linkage into?physical computing components such as storage or CPU so the…

cybersecurity

Some Of These Rules Can Be Bent, Others Can Be Broken

By Dudu Mimran | May 21, 2017September 29, 2020 by Dudu Mimran

Cryptography is a serious topic ? a technology based on a mathematical foundation posing an ever-growing challenge for attackers. On November 11th, 2016, Motherboard wrote a piece about the FBI?s ability to break into suspects? locked phones. Contrary to the FBI?s constant complaints about going dark with strong encryption, the actual number of phones they were able to break into was relatively high. The high success ratio of penetrating locked phones in some way doesn?t…

cybersecurity

Searching Under The Flashlight of Recent WannaCry Attack

By Dudu Mimran | May 19, 2017September 29, 2020 by Dudu Mimran

Random thoughts about WannaCry Propagation The propagation of the WannaCry attack was massive and mostly due to the fact it infected computers via SMB1, an old Windows file-sharing network protocol. Some security experts complained that Ransomware has been massive for two years already and this event is only a one big hype wave though I think there is a difference here and it is the magnitude of propagation. There is a big difference when attack…

AI cybersecurity

Presentation at the Netexplo Observatory 2017 Event at Unesco

By Dudu Mimran | May 11, 2017September 29, 2020 by Dudu Mimran

I had the privilege to present at the Netexplo Observatory event at Unesco with a presentation about the danger of AI if and when it will be adopted by cyber attackers. You can download my presentation here.