Poll: Box Art Brawl #83 – Brain Age / Brain Training Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - April 18, 20210 Hype brain.Welcome back to Box Art Brawl, our regular box art-based poll to find the best regional variants from two or more territories.Last time we took a 20th anniversary look at HAL Laboratory's GBC game, Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble. With Europe out of the running thanks to the game never
No more snack attacks? Mondelez hopes new security training will prevent the next ‘NotPetya’ Data Breach by Bradley Barth - April 16, 20210 Mondelez International, maker of such brands as Oreo, Ritz and Sour Patch Kids, is in the midst of rolling out a video-based security awareness and training program. The 2017 NotPetya supply-chain wiper attack hit $26.6 billion global food company Mondelez International hard, sidelining Windows-based computers and disrupting its distribution. Sure, APT attacks
No more snack attacks? Mondelez hopes new security training will prevent the next ‘NotPetya’ Data Breach by Bradley Barth - April 15, 20210 Mondelez International, maker of such brands as Oreo, Ritz and Sour Patch Kids, is in the midst of rolling out a video-based security awareness and training program. The 2017 NotPetya supply-chain wiper attack hit $26.6 billion global food company Mondelez International hard, sidelining Windows-based computers and disrupting its distribution. Sure, APT attacks
Norwegian corporate training startup Attensi raises $26M from NYC’s Lugard Road, DX Ventures Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Mike Butcher - April 8, 20210 Corporate training startup Attensi — which originally emerged out of Oslo, Norway — has raised $26 million from New York-based Lugard Road Capital, DX Ventures (a VC fund backed by Delivery Hero), and existing shareholder Viking Venture. The new funding will be used to expand in North America and
LinkedIn adds Creator mode, video profiles, and in partnership with Microsoft, new career training tools Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ingrid Lunden - March 30, 20210 LinkedIn, the social network now with 740 million users around the world, has carved out an identity for itself as the place online where professionals go to list their places of work, get headhunted for other work, and look for work. But for years it’s been looking for ways to
‘I vowed I was going to teach people’: NPower’s trauma-informed training nurtures digital talent Data Breach by Bradley Barth - March 18, 20210 NPower students in Harlem (NPower). The following is Part 2 in a series looking at the winners of the inaugural Gula Tech Foundation grant competition, and their efforts to increase African American engagement in cybersecurity. SC Media spoke with the leaders from all three winning organizations, each of whom experienced key
Arist adds $2M to its seed round to grow its SMS-based training service Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Alex Wilhelm - March 10, 20210 This morning Arist, a startup that sells software allowing other organizations to offer SMS-based training to staff, announced that it has extended its seed round to $3.9 million after adding $2 million to its prior raise. TechCrunch has covered the company modestly before this seed-extension, noting that it was part of
An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Abby Ohlheiser - February 27, 20210 Counselors volunteering at the Trevor Project need to be prepared for their first conversation with an LGBTQ teen who may be thinking about suicide. So first, they practice. One of the ways they do it is by talking to fictional personas like “Riley,” a 16-year-old from North Carolina who is
Want a job in tech? Flockjay pitches its sales training service as an on-ramp to tech careers Cyber Security by Jonathan Shieber - January 17, 20210 “Most people don’t even know that a job in tech sales is even a possibility,” says Shaan Hathiramani, the founder and chief executive of Flockjay, a company offering a tech sales training curriculum to the masses. Hathiramani sees his startup as an on-ramp to the tech industry for legions of workers
Sacramento turns COVID layoffs into a cyber training opportunity Data Breach by Joe Uchill - December 13, 20200 COVID-19 has caused devastating unemployment. Moody’s estimates it could take until 2024 to recover the 22 million jobs lost. A highly motivated workforce is now stuck at home with no work. The city of Sacramento saw this as an opportunity. There, same as so many other locations across the country, cybersecurity jobs remain unfilled. In fact, the growth in