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‘It’s a $20 solution to a $500 problem’ – this viral hack will turn your basic stick vacuum into a high-tech dupe

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When Dyson launched its latest range of cordless vacuums, the internet practically lost its mind at the new Detect feature. If you haven’t seen it, Detect is basically an integrated laser in the head of the vacuum, precisely angled in a way that reveals every last particle of dust and hair on your floor. It’s a genius way to make sure you’re giving your home a deep clean when you vacuum.

It’s a feature we expect to see on all the best cordless vacuums going forward, but for Dyson’s offering, it’s only available on the V15 Detect and V12 Detect Slim Absolute. At $749.99 and $499.99 respectively, it’s a big price tag for the novelty of the laser head feature, especially if you’d recently paid out for an older Dyson vacuum model.

For Aden Wang, a product designer based in San Francisco, the laser functionality was an attractive proposition, but would mean having to upgrade his existing Dyson to the newer $500 model. However, he found a clever product on Amazon that could add the functionality to his existing vacuum.

This $20 vacuum cleaner dust display lamp from Amazon can be fixed onto a range of other vacuums, including a Dyson. It’s mounted with a sticker pad, powered by a battery (although rechargeable options are available), and turned on by a button the device.

It has some other benefits, according to Aden. ‘The Dyson laser clean head may be great for hardwood floors, but it’s inconvenient to change clean head when cleaning between hardwood and carpet. I’d rather sticking with just one clean head,’ he says.

Vacuum cleaner dust display LED lamp

Price: $19.99

Of course, it’s not the perfect solution. Unlike the Dyson Detect, the laser isn’t ever going to be integrated into your vacuum, which has its drawbacks.

‘You have to manually turn it on and off,’ Aden explains on his Instagram Reel, ‘but I found tapping it with my foot works well. It doesn’t connect to the Dyson power source. So you’ll need to change batteries. It sticks out a little bit so it hits the ground first before you drop flat your clean head.’

In spite of these flaws, for $20, it’s the perfect way to embrace this new piece of technology for now, even if you’re going to invest in a Dyson Detect later down the line.

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There’s No Single Solution To Quantum-Proof Security

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Security CEO and founder of Safe Quantum Inc., working with data-driven companies to define, develop and deploy quantum-safe technologies.

Early experiences working in security taught me that to really have a good defense, you need to have depth—you need more than one technology. You can’t just have antivirus, for example, you also need anomaly detection. You need all sorts of things that won’t fail the same way.

I look at what we’re doing today in quantum communications the same way.

That means our defenses can’t be all post-quantum cryptography (PQC) or all quantum key distribution (QKD). They can’t be all entanglement-based. It needs to be a combination of those things that will be successful.

Yet, in quantum today, there is uncertainty. Just look at where we are with post-quantum cryptography as NIST enters its seventh year of vetting candidate algorithms.

In my view, the U.S. government’s biggest challenge may be that it is taking a bifurcated approach to how we view quantum security and quantum networking.

On the one hand, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has done an excellent job in whittling down more than 80 algorithm submissions to a few finalist crypto standards, but there have been some bumps along the way that are worrisome.

One finalist algorithm and one semi-finalist were hacked with a laptop computer—nothing close to a powerful quantum computer. Understanding the potential for a quantum computer to be able to break cryptographic standards even more quickly in the future, the NIST algorithms are being re-labeled as “quantum-resistant” rather than “quantum proof.”

On the other hand, we have the Department of Defense, led by the National Security Agency, concerned about what QKD might not be able to guard against, which has possibly slowed development in QKD technologies and QKD-enabled networks.

The risk there is that the United States isn’t doing any of this in a vacuum. China and Europe are already well ahead in launching QKD network testbeds.

Doom and gloom aside, there are very interesting things being done in quantum today. There’s a big focus on building quantum memory and on developing all the…

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Appdome powers up mobile app security with latest solution

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Appdome, the mobile app defense company, has announced the launch of its new MOBILEBot Defense solution. This solution offers mobile brands bot detection, comprehensive intelligence and rapid defense against malicious bots, credential stuffing and account takeovers (ATOs) in mobile app business lines.

As mobile applications become the dominant in the consumer landscape, mobile bots, malware bots and other automated programs pose a significant threat to business integrity, transaction integrity, security, user accounts and business reputation for mobile app owners, the company states.

Traditional anti-bot offerings are struggling to keep pace with the evolving diversity and sophistication of mobile applications, often trying to force-fit bot defense methods designed for web applications onto mobile frameworks.

This mismatch often requires mobile app developers to face implementation complexities, change the mobile application network stack, remove valuable TLS protections or limit bot defense to a single host.

The result, for an increasingly mobile economy, is that larger parts of the mobile infrastructure are left vulnerable to mobile bot attacks, fraud, ATOs, API abuse, credential stuffing and more.

Tom Tovar, Appdome co-creator and CEO, comments, “Mobile is a unique platform and different technical methods are needed inside Android and iOS apps to detect and stop bots.

“We built the first anti-bot solution tailor-made for the way mobile apps and mobile app attacks work, because that’s where businesses and consumers need it most.”

Appdome’s MOBILEBot Defense solution offers advantages for mobile brands looking to stop mobile bot attacks, fraud, ATOs, API abuse, credential stuffing and more including:

  • Higher performance mobile anti-bot defense to detect and stop mobile bots on any number of hosts, URLs and API endpoints without added cost.

  • Comprehensive mobile device and connection risk detection, providing greater granularity, insight and choice of over 100+ on-device threats like Android and iOS malware, hacking frameworks, instrumentation frameworks, jailbreak, root, Magisk, Zygisk, jailbreak bypass, Man in the Middle (MiTM) attacks and more.

  • Deeper mobile…

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Celerium Announces Compromise Defender™ Solution with Defensive Support Against Cl0p/MOVEit Ransomware Threats

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Compromise Defender is a new Celerium solution that implements in 30 minutes and leverages automation to detect and disrupt cyber compromise activity.

TYSON’S CORNER, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Celerium Inc., a leading cyber defense company, today announces the release of its latest cybersecurity solution, Compromise Defender™. As an integral part of Celerium’s Cyber Defense Network™, this innovative solution combines rapid implementation and automation to provide early detection and defense of compromise activity.

Celerium powers active cyber defense solutions to help protect companies and communities from increasing cyberattacks. (PRNewsfoto/Celerium)

Celerium powers active cyber defense solutions to help protect companies and communities from increasing cyberattacks. (PRNewsfoto/Celerium)

Research by IBM found that the average detection time of a data breach is around 200 days, nearly seven months. The need for early detection and defense against compromise activity, which often succeeds the network intrusion phase of a cyber incident and can be a precursor to later-stage ransomware and data breach attacks, is more critical than ever. Celerium created Compromise Defender to address this need.

“Small and medium-sized businesses and local government organizations are overloaded and overwhelmed with cybersecurity challenges,” said Tommy McDowell, General Manager of Celerium. “Our aim with Compromise Defender is to lighten their load by providing a real-time, automated solution that not only detects threats early but also launches an effective defense.”

Celerium specifically designed Compromise Defender for busy and overloaded organizations, with quick setup and easy operation:

  • 30-minute non-intrusive implementation, without any hardware or software to install.

  • Secure connectivity between an organization’s perimeter firewalls to Celerium’s Decision Engine hosted on the AWS cloud.

  • 100% automated, eliminating the need for integration with SIEM or IT security stack solutions.

  • Autonomous operation, requiring no IT staff for day-to-day management.

  • Real-time automated defense mechanisms to block network threats and compromise activity. The real-time mechanism re-optimizes network defense measures every 15 minutes.

  • Integrated automated analysis and reporting platforms show compromise activity (of reconnaissance, C2 server…

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