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Spanning the Chasm: The Missing Link in Tech Regulation – Part 1 of 2

By Dudu Mimran | April 21, 2019October 4, 2023 by Dudu Mimran

Mark Zuckerberg was right when he wrote in his op-ed to the Washington Post that the internet needs new rules, though naturally, his view is limited as a CEO of a private company. For three decades, governments across the globe have created an enormous regulatory vacuum due to a profound misunderstanding of the magnitude of technology on society. As a result, they neglected their duty to protect society in the mixed reality of technology and…

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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…

cybersecurity

A Brief History on the Emerging Cyber Capital of the World: Beer-Sheva, Israel

By Dudu Mimran | March 11, 2015September 29, 2020 by Dudu Mimran

The beginning of the cyber park There are very few occasions in life where you personally experience a convergence of unrelated events that lead to something?something BIG! I am talking about Beer-Sheva, Israel?s desert capital. When I started to work with Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University 9 years ago it was a cool place to be, though still quite small. Back then, security?which was not yet referred to as cybersecurity?was one of the…

cybersecurity

Google Releases Windows 8.1 Exploit Code – After 90 Days Warning to Microsoft

By Dudu Mimran | January 4, 2015September 29, 2020 by Dudu Mimran

Google Project Zero has debuted with the aim of solving the vulnerabilities problem by identifying zero-day vulnerabilities, notifying the company which owns the software, and giving them 90 days to solve the problem. After 90 days they publish the exploit. And they just did it to Microsoft. I remember quite a while ago when we decided at the cyber labs at Ben-Gurion University to adopt such a policy following our discovery of a vulnerability in…

innovation

Web-based Apps Offline Capability

By Dudu Mimran | June 4, 2005September 29, 2020 by Dudu Mimran

It seems that web-based applications can accomplish today the most extensive and complex tasks that were possible before only by locally installed software. One aspect that has not been addressed by either Microsoft IE or Firefox, the leading web browsing software, is working offline. Although Microsoft has mentioned it in the past under the hat of Smart Client architecture still current products do not show any sign of support. Offline capability is something not trivial…