In this edition of Trainers Underground we discuss the book The Second Machine Age and the predictions and recommendations for the future. This book is a great place to start dealing with the history of how the first machine age revolutionized manual labor and the second age will revolutionize intellectual labor. They see the potential for a bright future while cautiously warning us that that bright future is at risk if we don’t act. "With great technological advancements c

How safe are we? If planes can be hacked and cars can be hacked, what is preventing terrorists or contract killers from hacking vehicles to kill the occupants? IoT continues to grow exponentially and the device that have life safety implications are just as insecure perhaps more so than our normal computers. #TU #IoT #Hack #Hacking #Cybersecurity #LifeSafety

Espionage is nothing new, with the advent of technology why wouldn’t spies take full advantage of the benefits and ease of use technology offers. Today a new form of spying has emerged called cyber-espionage. In this episode we talk about the recent Kaspersky debacle. The and discuss how the NSA has been doing the similar things to what we think the Russians are doing. We also note the China, Israel, and Great Britain have be caught in cyber-espionage. Does this surprise anyo

From the way-back machine. Almost two decades ago when I did IT services for clients I came up with this as an information sheet for clients. Basically, giving them a high-level overview of a IT Ops framework. I did this before Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) or ITIL were on my radar. Here it is below. Our philosophy on managing systems. "We help our clients succeed by helping them secure and manage their technology investment." Our three-phase approach is to organiz

Don, Since we'd been talking about AI recently in the beginning of class before we get down to the lesson of the day, thought you'd might find this interesting. http://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-programmed-to-solve-zodiac-killer-mystery-creates-creepy-poetry-on-the-side/ Happy Thanksgivings, Jeffrey Graham Don, Something to show your CNT 51 class about help desk. Medieval helpdesk with English subtitles Tim, Mr. Hester, Ransomware spreading through RDP https://nakedsecu

NASA’s Intelligent Systems Division is working on AI and robotics. In the Autonomous Systems and Robotics technical area, they are working to enable complex systems through the development of technologies that can adapt in response to changing conditions, knowledge, and constraints. Along with Google, they also have been researching using quantum computing for Artificial Intelligence. The dawn of a new age is upon us. The next big boost in innovation and efficiency of syst

Cybercriminals have a perfect platform for conducting cybercrime. The Dark web is the place where criminals hide, but that is not all that is on the dark web. What is on the dark web? Does it matter? What are the risk we face as a result of the dark web? Is the dark web the bastion of freedom and privacy? Some believe it is vital for freedom. Buyer beware. Deep Web or Deep Net is the unindexed pages on the website. Dark Web or Dark Net is sites that provided privacy a

Speech recognition and talking with machines is not a new area of research but there seems to be growth in an awkward way. Talking with machines is more than having a machine determining what is said like speech recognition. It is about understanding what is meant by the words we say and respond in a coherent way. I have to admit some of the replies we get from Alexa, Siri, or Cortana are downright funny. Why are so many responses incoherent? In part, I think voice recog

Microsoft experiment to have AI tweet as if it was a teenage girl named Tay, goes horrible wrong as it learns from Internet Trolls. One important thing to know about AI is for any learning to occur, human or AI is that it will only be as good as the information you give it to learn from. When the AI used information from users on the Internet, it is no wonder it went horribly wrong. This leads to another area of AI study, one in which we attempt to have the AI display soun

For many years people have been using aluminum foil to help enhance and extend the range of their Wi-Fi networks. The question we may have is well how well would it perform? Will it make a significant or noticeable difference? What do you think? Here are a few videos that may shed some light on these old techniques submitted by student Mohamad Malikzada. Boost WiFi Signal range through walls and get better Internet connection using aluminum foil disk How much can Aluminum