Newscan: Tyler Technologies to buy NIC in $2.3 billion market-shaking deal

In the human body, the appendix seems to serve no functional purpose. Why did the organ appear? How can it come out of people’s bodies with no harm? Much as a person’s appendix is a mystery organ with no value, the North American fire codes contain a similar useless bygone artifact. The omnipresent-but-never-used wired two-way […]

Designating autonomous vehicles as ‘drivers’ raises a variety of potential legal complications meaning self-driving cars will change how insurance companies price and sell policies. Meanwhile, governments, courts, insurers and automakers are all weighing in on the attributes of autonomous vehicles, their ownership and uses. The central liability model currently underpinning auto insurance, which is based […]

Malware – and all of its various forms, including ransomware – has grown increasingly stealthy and sophisticated in recent years. Also on the rise: Its ability to fly under cybersecurity software’s radar. One of the primary reasons detecting and stamping out malware is so difficult is the rise of an attack method called living off the […]

This week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a new IoT supply-chain vulnerability with serious impact for Internet of Things devices. DHS and Nozomi Networks Labs announced a new vulnerability discovered in a ThroughTek software component that’s used broadly by security-camera and smart-device vendors. IoT supply-chain vulnerabilities like this have become more prevalent. With this kind […]