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New research from Atlas VPN shows that cloud-native exploits on major cloud service providers (CSPs) declined during the first four months of 2022 Cloud-native exploits dropped by 25%, from 71 exploits in the first four months of 2021 to 53 exploits in the first four months of this year, Atlas researcher Ruta Cizinauskaite told the E-Commerce Times...
Ransomware is the top supply chain risk facing organizations today, according to a survey released Monday by ISACA, an association for IT professionals with 140,000 members in 180 countries The survey, based on responses from more than 1,300 IT pros with supply chain insights, found that nearly three-quarters of the respondents (73%) said ransomwar...
A "Zero Day" vulnerability in a Windows tool that hackers have been exploiting through poisoned Word documents was discovered over the weekend An independent cybersecurity research team known as nao_sec announced in a series of tweets that they'd found the vulnerability in a malicious Word document uploaded to Virus Total, a website for analyzing s...
The director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency induced a few smirks among cyber pros last week when he told Bloomberg that there wouldn't be any backdoors in the new encryption standards his agency is working on with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) In cybersecurity parlance, a backdoor is a deliberate flaw i...
Events that are streamed live on the net are growing in popularity among internet households, especially live sports, according to a study released by Parks Associates The report, "Livestreaming: The Next Hot Video Market," indicates that more than 40% of U.S. internet households have streamed content over the past three months. More than three out...
A free-speech, anti-censorship browser for conservatives was launched Tuesday Called Tusk, the new browser is the brainchild of Jeff Bermant, a Santa Barbara, Calif. real estate developer and founder of the Cocoon VPN....
Significant exposure to third-party risk could cost e-commerce websites millions of dollars in damages and lost revenue, according to a new study by a maker of security products to protect web and mobile apps Based on an analysis of two billion user sessions on e-commerce websites, the study by Jscrambler found that third-party services running on ...
A cocktail of increased supply, slowing demand and added capacity is bringing down the price of graphics chips. It could also signal the beginning of the end of the semiconductor shortage that's been plaguing the world since the start of the Covid pandemic The decline in graphics chip prices is a simple case of supply and demand, according to Jack ...
The content of large tech companies, like Google and Meta, will be more tightly regulated under a new European Union law that received provisional approval Saturday Among the provisions of the Digital Services Act approved in an agreement between the European Council and European Parliament are transparency measures on the algorithms used by online...
A company with a promising technology to fight plagiarism announced Tuesday that it has received US$6 million in venture capital to expand its efforts to expose cribbers Copyleaks, which has offices in Tel Aviv and Stamford, Conn., uses artificial intelligence to identify similarities and understand the meaning of textual content. In addition to fl...
Research released Monday by a cybersecurity services provider reveals how widespread the risks are to executives and the organizations they ramrod from data brokers collecting sensitive data about them The provider, BlackCloak, published in a blog the results of an analysis of 750 of its customers, most of them executives and board members at Fortu...
Increases in B2B fraud, cyber insurance complacency, and governance gaps in the work-from-anywhere model are among the top cybersecurity threats faced by businesses in 2022, according to a report released Tuesday by Forrester On the B2B fraud front, the company noted that fraudsters are increasingly not just impersonating people but creating shell ...
Worldwide PC shipments declined during the first quarter of 2022, but revenues, fueled by enterprise desktop sales, increased during the period Despite the first decline in PC shipments since 2020, computer revenues increased 15% during Q1 of 2022, according to global market research company Canalys....
Nothing strikes fear into a cryptocurrency trader like being forcibly disconnected from the cloud. Technology downtime insurance provider Parametrix would like to make traders less fearful The insurer announced Tuesday that it's offering cloud downtime insurance for crypto companies. If a crypto exchange, wallet, DeFi or platform becomes inaccessib...
Delivery drones will be buzzing the Texas skies beginning Thursday, April 7 Wing, which is operated by Google’s parent company Alphabet, on Monday in a company blog written by CEO Adam Woodworth announced the launch of the first commercial drone delivery service in a major U.S. metropolitan area....
Parents looking for a richer experience for their kids when they get together with relatives on a video link may find it in a device Amazon started selling Tuesday Called Glow, the appliance combines video calling and interactive activities like gaming, drawing and reading into a single device....
Security-minded internet users looking for another layer of obscurity when traveling in cyberspace can have it with some new tech announced Monday by Atlas VPN The paid VPN service has introduced a new way to route internet traffic, called MultiHop+, that's more secure and private than conventional methods. It does that by allowing users to connect...
Automation will claim more than 11 million U.S. jobs over the next decade, according to a report released Tuesday by Forrester That's the bad news. The good news is that at the same time automation will create 9.63 million new jobs, for a net job loss for the period of 1.42 million jobs....
A move by Equifax to enable buy now, pay later (BNPL) vendors to report their customers' "pay-in-four" loans to the credit rating agency could dampen consumer enthusiasm for the popular payment method "Any added friction during checkout will impact the popularity of a payment option among consumers, and this is a pretty big one," observed Donny Ouy...
During the first two years of the global pandemic, U.S. consumers spent US$1.7 trillion online, $609 billion more than the previous two years, according to an economic report released Tuesday by Adobe More spending is to come in 2022, with Adobe forecasting shoppers will spend more than $1 trillion online for the first time....
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