A NEW FREE TOOL TO FIGHT MALWARE ATTACKS
SentinelOne released Blacksmith, a free Linux tool that can detect meltdown vulnerability exploitation attempts. The Blacksmith tool influences the performance counting feature on modern chipsets. This lets Blacksmith monitor processes to detect malicious behavior. The Meltdown vulnerability generates these patterns during exploitation. Blacksmith reports detected exploitation attempts by email, which allows each admin to take individual action to clean up the exploitation. Linux is one of the preferred world’s supercomputer’s brand, and this makes it a high-value target for attackers. Therefore, it was urgent finding a solution to secure Linux computers from malware attacks and meltdown, since several businesses and working places could have been affected by them. Meltdown creates a vulnerability that puts Linux powered computers at risk. The flaw is in the kernel that controls the chip performance that allows commonly used programs to access the contents and layout of a computer's protected kernel memory areas. This tool represents one of the safest and most reliable solution to fight malware attacks and meltdowns at a very fair price.
Easy Hardware Trading going green: meeting the standards of EU WEEE Directive
Easy Hardware Trading is active in the green world and the recycling services offered meet the strict standards of the EU Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive. The EU estimated that the waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) will grow to more than 12 million tonnes by 2020. One of the main reason causing this phenomenon is that the production of modern electronics requires the use of scarce and expensive resources that, if not properly managed, can cause environmental and health problems. To improve the environmental management of this mixture of potentially dangerous materials and components, treatment and recycling of electronics at the end of their life is needed.
To address these problems a legislation has been set up and divided into two main Directives: the Directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE Directive) and the Directive on the restriction of the use of certain substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS Directive).
The first WEEE Directive was founded in February 2003. The Directive created schemes where consumers return their WEEE free of charge with the aim to increase the recycling of WEEE and re-use. To fight the fast increase waste stream, in 2008 the new WEEE Directive was proposed and implemented on the 13th of August 2012 and became effective on 14 February 2014.
EU legislation restricting the use of potentially dangerous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS Directive) entered into force in February 2003. The legislation requires heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, and flame retardants such as polybrominated biphenyls) to be replaced by safer alternatives. The updated RoHS Directive became effective on 3 January 2013.
In 2017 a common methodology has been established for the calculation of the weight of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) placed on the national market in each Member State and also a common methodology for the calculation of the quantity of Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) generated by weight in each Member State.
Meeting the requirements of this EU Directives is helping Easy Hardware Trading to show its green spirit to several clients. The meeting of these requirements is hardly recommended to each type of companies with the aim to reduce the electronic waste and being more environmentally friendly.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE CITY
Hello, today we want to talk to you about the future. We are already living in the future without realizing it. This is all made
possible with the help of software and hardware constantly evolving.
Artificial intelligence, smart cities and robots:
Here’s how the future applications will be: self-managing and adaptive to our needs, which is the era of digital cohesion – according to the study by Juniper Networks, a company specialized in ethernet network switch. The era of self-aware machines is coming – Juniper Networks stated. The company as an expert in scalable and secure networks, has calculated the advantages of learning machine and AI, virtual reality and augmented reality. Just think about wandering around the city to watch the sky and see the routers in every corner, repeaters, cameras, HUB, SWITCH, ROUTER, all interconnected, which managing the public lightning or controlling the pressure of the sewage system. We can presume that in the near future, we will increasingly find ourselves submerged with AI and smart cities.
Self-managing application
According to Juniper Networks, we are in full Digital Cohesion, an era in which technology can self-manage, adapt to the user’s behavior and enterprise needs. Learning features are incorporated into the chips will greatly increase the intelligence of machinery. At the beginning of 2016, Juniper predicted that 80% of corporate networks have adopted a form of open networking. In the survey, 84% of professionals claim to have self-managing application within the company.
10.3 million devices connected to the cellular network
The 2016 data come from Istat shows that 69.2% of Italian households have access to the Internet at home. The year before, the percentage reached 66.2 percent. There is no reason to believe the trend would stop. Not only villas and apartments will be connected, but also domestic appliances. According to the Internet of Things Observatory of the Milan Polytechnic, the market in Italy has reached 2 billion euros and there are about 10.3 million devices connected by the cellular network.
Robots in companies
The robot will dethrone us. A McKinsey & Company study indicates that more than 5% of human workers will be replaced by computers. Employment contracts will not end up in trash: while the machines deal with repetitive tasks, the technicians will have time to devote themselves to strategic initiatives, or improving competitiveness, increase efficiency and bringing benefits to the business. In the coming years, with the automation of many basic technology activities, several frictions within the IT group will be eliminated, allowing the staff to follow other tasks.
THE ADVENT OF INTERNET ERA IS A REAL HELP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
WWF explained how the deforestation is a real problem since forests produce vital oxygen and 1.6 billion people rely on benefits that forests offer. The advent of internet era helped people to use less paper compared to the past years, simply because nowadays it is possible to work entirely online without being worried about printing pages but just sending emails and documents with a click on a computer. A good example of how technology helps to save the planet are the schools. Nowadays, students are used to working with tablets and computers, instead, make use of the traditional printed books. This simple use of technology helps to reduce the deforestation since the demand for paper will diminish and, subsequently, also the need to cut thousands of trees every day will be reduced. To connect all the computers an important hardware needed is a switch. Schools will also need a router to connect the wi-fi and let students be able to work and study using the computers.
