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Hopefully, you haven't been asleep at the router the past few days. If you have, you might have missed all the commotion regarding the finding of the security experts at Mandiant/FireEye: a router implant named SYNful Knock-named based on how the implanted software can jump from router to router using the device's syndication functions-has been found in 14 Cisco routers across India, Mexico, Philippines and Ukraine. Blue Origin, started and owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has taken its next concrete steps to space launch. Yesterday, September 15, the company announced it has leased a launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida and will be building rockets to fly from it at a nearby factory. First flights out of the Cape may take place by the end of the decade. The Altice Group, a multinational cable and telecommunications company, has presence in many areas including include France, Israel, Belgium and Luxembourg, Portugal, French West Indies and Switzerland and offers cable services as well as mobile telephony services to residential customers and corporate customers in some of those countries. One of the very surreal and prophetic meetings I had was years ago was with the On-Star division of GM. I was invited in by one of the executives I'd met while he was working in IT for a large consumer goods company. He had recently joined the On-Star effort, which was in its infancy at the time, and was appalled at the lack of security over the technology. I was running the firm's security practice at the time and was brought in to talk some sense to the executive team who largely blew me off. I thought as I left that this wouldn't end well and we've recently seen some rather frightening demonstrations, even though they were with Chrysler not GM, that the auto industry just didn't take security seriously. Google's self-driving car project, part of its Google X lab, has a new leader. The search giant recently announced that it has added John Krafcik as its CEO. This will not move the project into its own, stand-alone company, but it will provide some leadership that has seen decades of experience in the automotive industry. Wi-Fi, the technology we love and hate. When it works, it is great, but it was never designed from scratch to support things like VoIP. It doesn't do lots of users well, dies in 2.4 GHz if the closest microwave over is too (RF) loud, and has gone through numerous iterations of security fixes and technology upgrades to push the broadband bar higher. At Apple's launch event the news surrounding the iPhone was, as expected, less than exciting. However the smart Apple buyers know this is the phone to get because the s model tends to be more reliable and less aggravating because it fixes stuff from the first go-around, in this case that stupid bendable aluminum case. Fanboys and the tech media are once again ga-ga over Apple's latest set of announcements. To me, it represents catch up moves with Microsoft and Samsung. There's not a whole lot of new-new in all the hype, other than Apple's tired spin that it has once again discovered something new and revolutionary that the rest of the world has already seen.
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