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Paula Januskiewicz: Understanding infrastructure is not the same as knowing how to attack it

31. 7. 2024

The number of cyberattacks will not decrease. Let's face it and defend ourselves. This is how one could sum up the words of Paula Januszkiewicz, a Polish cybersecurity expert who spoke this spring at Security 2024, Aricoma's annual conference about IT security trends. Januszkiewicz, whose company CQURE has four offices around the world, spoke about why companies and institutions can't resist attacks, how to get more experts, and where the industry is headed.

Around the world on a motorbike in 606 days

11. 6. 2024

 

65,000 kilometres, 22 countries and 606 days. In 2016, motorcyclist and traveller Vojta Lavický set off with his then-girlfriend on the trip of a lifetime around the world. Thanks to this, he saw with his own eyes the remote villages of Peru and Huascarán National Park, the yurt pastures and wild horses of Kyrgyzstan or the Mongolian lunar-like landscape. The trip showed him many times that even bad things are good for something in the end and that the most important thing about travelling is to have the courage to actually go.

In time we will also protect AI works, but it still takes evolution

13. 12. 2023

 

New technology has arrived and with it a lot of new questions. How many times have you experienced this? Lawyer Petra Dolejšová has done it many times, and right now she is dealing with almost nothing but the legal aspects of using artificial intelligence. "We revolve around questions of who owns the output from AI, whether it is possible to generate images of specific people and whether you can use styles such as of the painter Mucha or heroes from Marvel movies. All of this is legally quite clear, but it turns out that people are still grasping the essence of copyright law," muses the expert, who believes we have much bigger thinking to do - who do we "pin" responsibility to for any potential transgressions of technology.

Hackers are not warriors in hoodies, but entrepreneurs

21. 6. 2023

 

When experts from Aricoma, a leading Czech cybersecurity firm among others, issued their industry outlook for this year, the message was clear: the number of hacktivist and politically-oriented cyberattacks will continue to rise. Why is this happening? Who are the people behind the attacks? And most importantly, how to resist their efforts? Maroš Barabas (MB) and Filip Zvařič (FZ) answer all this in our interview. And they point out that we often misunderstand what motivates attackers

Why are Czechs investing in start-ups in Israel? In many ways, they're ten years behind

3. 5. 2023

 

There is only one country in the world that has decided to pay its own professional cycling team to conduct a targeted advertising campaign at one of the most watched sporting events on the planet. Yet Israel knew exactly what it was doing. This is because the phrase "Israel Start-up Nation", the banner under which the team has ridden the Tour de France since 2020, has managed to burn the following simple idea into the minds of fans from 190 countries around the world: Israel is all about start-ups.