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Microsoft Offers Commercial Customers Test Drive of Teams Premium

Microsoft has announced a hands-on preview for the commercial customers of its new Teams Premium product designed to make meetings more personal, intelligent, and secure ...

Holiday Season Sees Onslaught of Ransomware, DDoS Attacks

Ransomware and distributed denial-of-service attacks significantly increased from October to November of this year, a cybersecurity research company reported Tuesday ...

FBI Stats Reveal Nevada, North Dakota Top States for Cybercrime

A new analysis of data from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that Nevada has more cybercrime victims than any state in the union by a large margin -- 801 per 100,000 internet users, four times higher than the national average ...

Greater Consumer Protections Needed To Battle Gift Card Fraud: Report

Greater consumer protections are needed to battle gift card fraud, which bilked Americans for more than US$233 million in 2021 alone, according to a report released Monday by an international think tank that focuses on data, technology, and public policy ...

NIST Action Will Heat Up Post-Quantum Cryptography Market: Report

Action by a government standards agency on potential post-quantum cryptographic algorithms will strongly stimulate the PQC market over the next five years, according to an international research and advisory firm ...

Researchers Weaponize Machine Learning Models With Ransomware

As if defenders of software supply chains didn't have enough attack vectors to worry about, they now have a new one: machine learning models ...

Report Calls for Crackdown on Advertising by Digital Pill Mills

Loopholes in the rules governing advertising for stimulant medications should be closed, according to a report released Monday by an international think tank ...

Cyber Monday Sales Reach $11.3B, Jump 2021 by 5.8%

Inflation woes and a looming recession did little to dampen online shoppers' enthusiasm on Cyber Monday, according to figures released Tuesday by Adobe Analytics, a tracker of seasonal e-commerce activity ...

China’s Woes Could Take a Bite Out of Apple’s Bottom Line

A draconian Covid lockdown and work disruption at an iPhone factory in China might take some of the jolly out of Apple's holiday season ...

Moving to the Cloud? Avoid These Strategic Errors

Running a business without some cloud support is a rarity these days. Still, when formulating a cloud strategy, companies seem to make some common mistakes. Here are several of them ...

Mozilla Releases Gift Guide With Privacy in Mind

If you want to give the gift of privacy this holiday season, you may want to check out the 2022 edition of Mozilla's Privacy Not Included buyer's guide, released Wednesday. The annual guide contains privacy reviews of more than 75 popular consumer electronics gifts and will be continuously updated throughout the giving season ...

Watchdog Finds Flourishing Black Market on Facebook for Fraudulent Ad Accounts

A technology platform watchdog group reported Monday that it had found more than 100 Facebook groups, some with tens of thousands of members, where business management accounts are bought and sold in violation of the social network's rules ...

Mozilla Antes Up $35M To Save the Soul of High Tech

Mozilla believes the high-tech industry has lost its soul by putting profits ahead of people and is going to try and do something about it. It has announced Mozilla Ventures, a US$35 million venture capital fund to finance early-stage startups producing products and technologies that advance values such as privacy, inclusion, transparency, and human dignity. ...

Schools Must Leverage Tech To Boost Response Time to Violence: Report

Schools are spending a flood of money on security products. Still, according to a new report from Parks Associates, not enough thought is given to how the products can be leveraged to better respond to violence in schools ...

Nearly 50% of all phishing attacks targeting government personnel in 2021 aimed to pilfer the credentials of those workers, according to a report released Wednesday by an endpoint-to-cloud security company ...

CEO Fired Over Employee Monitoring Among Forrester Privacy Predictions for 2023

A C-level executive will be fired for their firm's use of employee monitoring in 2023. That's one of the security, privacy, and risk predictions aired by Forrester on Monday ...

Research Finds Potential Benefits for Pre-Teen Video Game Players

Kids who play video games three hours or more a day performed better in cognitive skills tests involving impulse control and working memory than kids who never play video games, according to research released Monday ...

Massive Typosquatting Racket Pushes Malware at Windows, Android Users

A large-scale phishing campaign built on typosquatting is targeting Windows and Android users with malware, according to a threat intelligence firm and cybersecurity website ...

Metaverse Maybe a Moneymaker for Enterprises by 2027

In five years, 40% of large organizations worldwide will be using a combination of Web3, AR cloud, and digital twins in metaverse projects aimed at increasing revenue, research and advisory firm Gartner predicted Monday at its IT symposium in Orlando, Fla ...

Report Finds Biometric Data Threatened by Social Media

Sharing high-resolution media online can unintentionally expose sensitive biometric data, according to a report released Tuesday by a cybersecurity company ...

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