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Fortress creates center for security information on energy suppliers

A new library designed to be a centralized source of security information and communication for energy company suppliers was announced Tuesday by Fortress Information Security. The Asset to Vendor Library Trust Center is a project of Fortress, American Electric Power and Southern Company, and offers a way for suppliers to connect with their customers and provide information about their supply chain security practices. To read this article in full, please click here
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Dinner is served: Cyber M&A feeding frenzy shows hunger for trust

Google spent $5.4 billion to acquire Mandiant, which it plans to fold into Google Cloud. It was just one of 200-plus cybersecurity deals struck last year.
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Reporting Mandates to Clear Up Feds’ Hazy Look into Threat Landscape – Podcast

It’s about time, AttackIQ’s Jonathan Reiber said about 24H/72H report deadlines mandated in the new spending bill. As it is, visibility into adversary behavior has been muck.
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What’s the prevailing opinion on social media? Look at the flocks, says researcher

A communication researcher has developed a framework for measuring the slippery concept of social media public opinion. Murmuration identifies meaningful groups of social media actors based on the ‘who-follows-whom’ relationship. The actors attract like-minded followers to form ‘flocks,’ which serve as the units of analysis. As opinions form and shift in response to external events, the flocks’ unfolding opinions move like the fluid murmuration of airborne starlings.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/SLqybt

Intensity control of projectors in parallel: A doorway to an augmented reality future

A challenge to adopting augmented reality (AR) in wider applications is working with dynamic objects, owing to a delay between their movement and the projection of light onto their new position. But, scientists may have a workaround. They have developed a method that uses multiple projectors while reducing delay time. Their method could open the door to a future driven by AR, helping us live increasingly technology-centered lives.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/SLpbXs