It’s too early to buy in, but the numbers we’re seeing from next-gen, Wi-Fi 6 routers are very promising. …
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Warshipping: new hack tools shipped to your business
Researchers have described a new technique which could be used by cyber attackers to infiltrate corporate setups — with a little help from your friendly neighborhood delivery workers. … Dubbed warshipping, the technique is the result of the researchers’ investigation into possible infiltration methods through package deliveries to the office mail-room — or an individual victim’s front door. …
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Microsoft alert: Hackers using IoT to breach business networks
One of Russia’s elite state-sponsored hacking groups is going after IoT devices as a way to breach corporate networks, from where they pivot to other more high-value targets. Attacks have been observed in the wild said the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center…
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Should the U.S. Government Fight Back When Businesses Are Cyberattacked?
Keith Alexander of the venture-backed cybersecurity start-up IronNet is unequivocal in his belief that private companies protecting themselves from nation-state threats is not working. “I flipped through this before you arrived,” he told us, dropping a pocket copy of the Constitution on the table. “It still says that the purpose of the Union is to provide for the common defense. There is no parenthetical that says ‘except in cyberspace.’” …
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Is Gmail’s new Confidential Mode the Snapchat-ification of Email?
Google announced that on June 25, 2019, Gmail’s new Confidential Mode will be switched on by default as the feature becomes generally available for both G-Suite and personal users. For email recipients, it means that an email can be set to effectively self destruct after it’s been opened and read. No copying, forwarding or downloading either; email just vanishes as if it had never been. …
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How to Start a Business with No Money
We all know that hard work can produce incredible results. But the prevailing rise-and-grind mythology often pushes founders into business before they’re ready. Many smart, ambitious people feel pressured to quit their jobs and go all-in. They work around the clock, sacrificing their health and happiness to chase a startup dream. For every founder who’s battling exhaustion and surviving on protein bars, I’d like to suggest a different path. …
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Microsoft adds OneDrive Personal Vault to secure your critical files
Microsoft’s OneDrive Personal Vault locks down a portion of your OneDrive cloud storage with time-limited two-factor authentication. Personal Vault is designed for files you really hold dear: tax information, scanned passports, that sort of thing. … Microsoft says that Personal Vault applies an extra layer of protection, essentially by reducing the timeout period. …
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AI is changing the entire nature of compute
The world of computing, from chips to software to systems, is going to change dramatically in coming years as a result of the spread of machine learning. We may still refer to these computers as “Universal Turing Machines,” as we have for eighty years or more. But in practice they will be different from the way they have been built and used up to now. Such a change is of interest both to anyone who cares about what computers do, and to anyone who’s interested in machine learning in all its forms. … The rise of deep learning, starting in 2006, came about not only because of tons of data, and new techniques in machine learning, such as “dropout,” but also because of greater and greater compute power. … Machine learning is now poised to take over the majority of the world’s computing activity, …
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Ransomware attacks: Why and when it makes sense to pay the ransom
Whether you pay ransomware actors or not really comes down to some straightforward business calculations. Sometimes the ransom is worth it. … Yet another city is deciding to pay ransomware gangs to get their IT infrastructure back and you can almost feel the consternation among officials. That consternation may also be good business. Simply put, it can make good sense to pay ransomware. In a recent research report, Forrester Research argued that paying ransomware should be viewed as a viable option…
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Only 1/2 of cloud vendors are giving businesses what was expected
While many cloud providers promise increased flexibility, cost savings, and customization, tech professionals must carefully consider factors including security, visibility, and automation when choosing a cloud vendor. However, many IT professionals have reported discrepancies between cloud expectations and reality: Only one third said they achieved cloud expectations around cost, speed, business enablement, and service levels after migration, according to a recent Accenture report.
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The Worm That Nearly Ate the Internet
Just over 10 years ago, a unique strain of malware blitzed the internet so rapidly that it shocked cybersecurity experts worldwide. Known as Conficker, it was and remains the most persistent computer worm ever seen, linking computers with Microsoft operating systems globally, millions of them, to create a vast illicit botnet, in effect, a black-market supercomputer. That much power controlled by its unknown maker posed an existential threat not just to any enterprise connected to the web, but to the internet itself. … Surely something bigger was coming. But it never did. Why? Who created Conficker, and why bother if they were not going to use it?
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What is 5G? All you need to know about the next generation of wireless technology
Once complete, 5G will dramatically improve quality of service, and extend that quality over a broader geographic area, in order for the wireless industry to remain competitive against the onset of gigabit fiber service coupled with Wi-Fi. The 5G transition plan, once complete, would constitute an overhaul of communications infrastructure unlike any other in history. ….
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Stop Saying Privacy Is Dead
Some dismiss privacy concerns by saying they have nothing to hide, we shouldn’t accept that argument from anyone wearing clothes. Or anyone who closes the bathroom door, locks her home or car, or uses password-protected accounts. …
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Wi-Fi 6: Amazingly fast internet is coming — what you need to know
Wi-Fi 6 will improve the efficiency of a single network by about four times, … A larger benefit, however, is revealed when there are multiple devices connected to the same network. … all connected devices should see significantly less battery drain. … There aren’t a lot of router options on the market yet… [the first wifi6 routers are expensive, but as always the prices will drop, eventually].
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How hackers make money from your stolen medical data
The most expensive offering on the market is provider information which can be used to forge a medical background, an alarming prospect given the harm which could be done when someone who hasn’t qualified poses as a medical professional. … The cybersecurity firm also found a vast array of forgeries available and for sale. For between $10 and $120 per record, you can buy fake prescriptions, labels, sales receipts, and stolen healthcare cards.
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All The Apps You’ll Need to Run Your Small Business
With the right combination of software tools (plus the unavoidable hard work, long nights, and grit), you could find yourself with a thriving business… [Here are some of] our favorite small business apps into each of these categories. All apps mentioned here have a 4+ star rating with more than 100 reviews (with only a few exceptions for awesome, lesser-known apps).
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7 apps that will let you hire people to do almost anything
You might not realize just how many tasks can be carried out via your smartphone, but if you’ve got the right apps, you can do pretty much anything. … we’ve collected some of the top apps that will turn your phone into an outsourcing machine.
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This is how we might finally replace passwords
Here’s the thing about passwords: They’re terrible. Passwords are easy to hack, easy to lose and hard to use.
Worse still, passwords guard some of our most valuable digital assets.
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3 Ways Cryptocurrency Will Change Your Life In Near Future
Cryptocurrency is one of the man’s groundbreaking invention in finance, offering beneficial alternative avenues to the people who have limited access and benefit from what society presents. The rapid changes in cryptocurrency open an ample room for many possibilities in the near future. Three ways it will change your life…
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Will VPNs Become Obsolete In 2019?
If you just want your passwords and banking information to stay secure, then a VPN is already obsolete. HTTPS keeps your passwords and other information inaccessible for hackers by utilizing strong encryption, no VPN required. However, if you want privacy, you’ll need a VPN.
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Startups are capitalizing on DeepFakes’ powerful AI
Deepfakes … made it possible for anyone to master complex machine learning; you just needed the time to collect enough photographs of a person to train the model. You dragged these images into a folder, and the tool handled the convincing forgery from there. The anonymous user had sparked “a war on what’s real,”
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Wyze Sense review: Wyze continues its ‘too good to be true’ approach
Wyze, a company known for its inexpensive home security cameras that deliver far more than the $20 or $30 asking price, recently expanded its product lineup to include two different sensors.
The $20 Wyze Sense bundle includes a Sense Bridge, two Contact Sensors, and a Motion Sensor. Perhaps what’s more impressive than the small price, is just how small the sensors are themselves. From the Bridge to the Motion Sensor, everything in the kit is compact. I’ve spent a few weeks with the starter kit, and I have to say, Wyze has done it again. …
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Amazon’s secret new chip could be key to the future of AI
The chip on show at Amazon’s MARS event is many times more efficient than conventional silicon chips. … The chips, being developed … at MIT, … promise to bring powerful artificial intelligence to a multitude of devices where power is limited. … New AI chips could make warehouse robots more common or let smartphones create photo-realistic augmented-reality scenery.
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The making of Amazon Prime the most successful membership program
Amazon wasn’t always the king of online shopping. In the fall of 2004, Jeff Bezos’s company was still mostly selling just books and DVDs.
That same year, Amazon was under siege from multiple sides. Some of its biggest competitors were brick-and-mortar chains like Best Buy, which was still in expansion mode at the time, with sales growing 17 percent annually. Toys ‘R’ Us sued Amazon in a high-profile battle, alleging it had violated an agreement the two companies had for the toy store chain to be an exclusive seller on Amazon.com.
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Microsoft now the World’s Number 1 Technology Leader overtaking Apple
Thomson Reuters in its new list for Top 100 Global Technology Leaders confirms that Microsoft has taken the leading spot overtaking Apple and Google to become the World’s Number 1 Technology Leader. Microsoft is followed by Intel and Cisco with Apple and IBM also making it to the Top 10 list of Number 1 technology leaders. …
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Cloud services: 24 web services your business needs to try
In this guide, we’ve spotlighted 24 cloud-based services that can take your business to the next level. There’s a huge world of opportunity and available resources beyond Google, Dropbox, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft.
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Top 5 risks innovation is forcing businesses to face
Complying with rapidly accelerating privacy regulations is the top emerging risk faced by organizations globally, even above the talent shortage, according to a Thursday report from Gartner. …”With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now in effect, executives realize that complying with privacy regulations is more complex and costly than first anticipated,” Matt Shinkman, …
“More budget dollars from IT, legal and information security are going to address GDPR compliance, just as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is set to take effect, adding another layer of complexity for companies to navigate in this area.”
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Even if your data is stored in the cloud, you need to back it up
Relying on your cloud service provider to provide fault-tolerant data storage does not account for the potential of data loss through user error, malicious destruction of data, or other incidents that can result in the loss of mission-critical business data. …
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12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech
Given all the time we spend with our gadgets and apps, it’s essential to understand the principles that determine how tech affects our lives. …
What you need to know:
1. Tech is not neutral.
One of the most important things everybody should know about the apps and services they use is that the values of technology creators are deeply ingrained in every button, every link, and every glowing icon that we see. …
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Latest Ransomware Being Offered “as-a-service” to Wannabe Hackers
The gang behind a family of ransomware that has been active for well over a year now have tweaked their tactics in order to ensure the file-locking malware campaign is as effective as possible. GandCrab first emerged in January 2018 and has remained one of the most successful forms of ransomware ever …
GandCrab operates an affiliate model, with its authors providing the ransomware “as-a-service” to wannabe hackers in exchange for a 30 to 40 percent cut of the profits. But now researchers have observed adverts for GandCrab being posted on underground forums, specifically targeted at crooks with skills around operating remote desktop protocols, virtual network computing and experience of infiltrating corporate networks. … There’s currently no free means of decrypting files locked with (the latest versions of ) GandCrab…
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