" DOHA Rashard Robinson 49ers Jersey , Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Doha will host a successful 2022 World Cup whenever it is held in winter or summer, said a top official at the Doha Goals Forum.
Hassan Al-Thawadi, Secretary General of the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, said, ""from the beginning, we've always said we can stage the World Cup in summer NaVorro Bowman 49ers Jersey ,"" he said. ""The cooling system for the stadia will be very much part of our legacy. But if the football world or FIFA want it to be staged in the winter then we are happy and ready. If they want it in summer, then we are still ready.""
Al-Thawadi said he and his team were also more than prepared to rebuff any allegations of impropriety in their winning FIFA World Cup bid.
""We have always complied with FIFA regulations and these allegations have absolutely no basis,"" he added. ""Our bid team had to build credibility, showcase Qatar and deliver the messages. We worked very hard and were at every major event in the build-up to winning the right to host the tournament.
""Why did we win it? Without wanting to sound arrogant, it was because we had the best bid in terms of messages. We offered a compact World Cup with no long distance travel involved; we offered the perfect geographic location that allows three billion prime time TV viewers; and we offered a concept of modular stadia,"" he said.
Al Thawadi also underlined how the 2022 FIFA World Cup was a boost not only for Qatar but also for the entire Middle East.
""There are so many misconceptions about the Middle East and the World Cup in 2022 will go a long way to showing the world the friendliness Jerry Rice 49ers Jersey , hospitality and sense of humor of the Middle East. It is a great opportunity for us all to come together.
""All tournaments have a legacy. The chance to show the world who we are and what we are - that will be our ultimate legacy.""
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by Xinhua writer Guo Shuang
LAS VEGAS, the United States, July 29 (Xinhua) -- During the past 20 years since the first Black Hat conference in 1997, the security community, tech industry and the world have been on a wild ride.
No doubt, a sea of new technologies and services will rock our world over the next 20 years Joe Montana 49ers Jersey , which means there will be much more to protect than just computers.
Most conference goers think the world's top computer security conference acts as a "crystal ball" illustrating future trends. So when the "Hacker Summer Camp" celebrates its 20th anniversary here this week, it may be the right time to think about the question -- could we be safer in 2038?
HARSH REALITY
The summer of 1997 was marked by many historical events: the Pathfinder probe landed on the surface of Mars, and IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the first time a computer beat a world champion in a chess match.
The first Black Hat was also created in that summer. At that time, there weren't a lot of jobs in information security, according to the conference founder Jeff Moss Reuben Foster 49ers Jersey , aka The Dark Tangent, who also started another "Hacker Summer Camp" DEFCON, which celebrates here its 25th anniversary this week.
Moss reflected on the early days of the event in his keynote speech this week at Black Hat USA 2017, saying the first conference speaker list was largely just his friends.
Today, the computer security conference provides security consulting, training Cornellius Carradine Jersey , and briefings to hackers, corporations, and government agencies around the world, bringing in over 9,000 attendees from more than 80 countries this year.
However, the harsh reality today Eric Reid Jersey , many cybersecurity experts believe, is that the security community hasn't kept pace with the importance of technology in our society, even as the stakes have grown higher than ever.
The industry is still in its infancy. Moss noted in his speech that the conference isn't even old enough to drink in Las Vegas yet.
"I don' t think we are living up to our potential yet, and some of this is due to deep-seated facets of information security culture," Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer of Facebook Daniel Kilgore Jersey , said in the keynote speech at the event.
Stamos pointed out many gaps he observed: the security community pays more attention to complex problems, but ignores actual human harm; people in the industry "punish imperfect solutions in an imperfect world;" the community doesn't engage the world effectively.
"We're really at the edge of something. I can't tell you what but I know it's the edge," Moss said at the event.
CHANGING LANDSCAPE
It's hard to imagine exactly what the information security world would look like in 2038. What can be certain is that threats in cyberspace are increasing.
The 2038 Unix Millennium bug that will drive industry worry on par with Y2K, major shifts in the way security community deals with Internet of Things devices, cryptocurrency, SSL encryption and national security Bradley Pinion Jersey , Mikko Hypponen, a cyber war veteran and the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure pointed out in a presentation at the event.
Among so many threats to all of us, "I am still really concerned about the scale of botnets," Moss told Xinhua. "And the Internet of Things would be the catalyst for software liability," he added. A botnet is a network of infected machines that allow hackers to take control of several computers at a time.
Cyber security has no border. However, there are still lots of challenges for cooperating across different communities when addressing issues of international security and cyberspace. "The international cooperation" is very important Joe Staley Jersey , Moss told Xinhua.
Hypponen predicted many upcoming developments: cryptocurrency is dramatically changing the landscape related to how law enforcement will chase the bad guys and follow the money; quantum computing is reaching a point where in the very near future it may pose a threat to SSL encryption; humans are also facing greater risks with the rise of IoT devices.
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