Google Cloud architects are in demand – Get in on the action

Google Cloud architects are in demand – Get in on the action

Get the extensive Complete Google Cloud Mastery Bundle for $39. Usually priced at $1,392, you’ll be saving an impressive 97% off the deal.

Whether you notice it or not, we interact with AI technology on a daily basis. We ask Alexa to tell us the weather, Google auto-fills our questions, and Spotify predicts what new artists we’re going to love. Normal life is freaky like that.

With more and more companies using cloud technology for AI applications, the demand for Google Cloud architects is on the rise. The Google Cloud Platform is a suite of computing services (the same ones that power Google Search and YouTube) and according to Global Knowledge’s Salary Survey for 2018, a GCP Cloud Architect can expect salaries on average of $139,529. Talk about a nice chunk of change. Read more…

The Black Hat cybersecurity conference app has a cybersecurity problem

The Black Hat cybersecurity conference app has a cybersecurity problem

Look, we get it: cybersecurity is hard.

Still, you’d think the folks at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas this week would have a better handle on things. And yet, according to noted French security researcher Baptiste Robert, they still managed to release a conference app that could put attendees’ phones at risk.

The conference, which is now in its 22nd year, runs Aug. 3-8, and is ground zero for cybersecurity companies peddling their wares. It’s followed by the DEF CON hacking conference, also in Las Vegas, which has a decidedly non-corporate ethos.

“The official Android app of #BHUSA is a joke,” wrote Robert, who is in town for both Black Hat and DEF CON. “For an event of this size this is not serious @BlackHatEvents.” Read more…

Turns out your office printer is a huge cybersecurity risk

Turns out your office printer is a huge cybersecurity risk

Consider the office printer.

Massive, hulking things — the devices looming in the corner of workplaces around the world have come to represent untold hours of frustration in the form of printer jams and toner problems. According to security researchers set to present their findings this Saturday at the DEF CON hacking convention in Las Vegas, they also happen to be a cybersecurity nightmare.

Daniel Romero Pérez and Mario Rivas Vivar, researchers at NCC Group, announced the discovery of major vulnerabilities on Thursday in name-brand printers made by the likes of Xerox, HP, Lexmark, Kyocera, Brother, and Ricoh. NCC Group shared some of the researchers’ findings with Mashable ahead of the aforementioned Aug. 10 talk, and they’re enough to elicit serious double take. Read more…