Articles by John P. Mello Jr

A password manager maker is trying to encourage software developers to adopt more secure secrets management with some new features added to its flagship product Launched under the name Developer Tools, 1Password declared the new features will help developers easily and securely generate, manage, and access secrets in their normal workflows....

Apple refreshed its iPhone SE and iPad Air models and introduced a new desktop at an online event Tuesday The new iPhone SE, which will sell for US$429, sports a new processor, the A15 chip, and supports 5G....

A trio of major cybersecurity companies on Monday announced that they're offering free cybersecurity services and support to vulnerable industries for four months Under the new Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, companies in particularly vulnerable industries -- such as hospitals and water and power utilities -- will have access to the full s...

Technology to reduce road deaths to zero is at hand, according to research results released Tuesday by a developer of autonomous sensing platforms The research report by Neural Propulsion Systems, of Pleasanton, Calif., found that sensors needed to eliminate roadway deaths need to process data at a peak rate of 100 terabits per second, or 10 times ...

Facebook, Twitter, and Google have made moves to prevent their platforms from being weaponized by purveyors of misinformation about the crisis in Ukraine Meta, Facebook's parent company, has announced a new special operations center staffed by experts, including native Russian and Ukrainian speakers, to monitor the social network 24/7 to respond to...

Apple's Safari browser may want to heed this bit of wisdom from Satchel Paige: "Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you." That something is Microsoft Edge According to the latest numbers from browser market watcher Statcounter, Edge, with a 9.54 percent global desktop market share, is breathing down the neck of Safari, which owns 9.84 perc...

Despite the best efforts by law enforcement, data leaks related to ransomware climbed 82 percent in 2021 over the previous year, according to the 2022 CrowdStrike Global Threat report released Tuesday In 2021, the report identified 2,686 attacks, compared to 1,474 in the previous year....

While their downstate rivals the Los Angeles Rams were busy winning Super Bowl LVI, the San Francisco 49ers were being clipped in a ransomware attack News of the attack was reported by the Associated Press after cybercriminals posted documents to the dark web that they claimed were stolen from the NFL franchise....

Remote workers have higher anxiety levels about security and privacy than other types of employees, according to an international study released Tuesday by a cybersecurity software maker In a survey by F-Secure of 7,200 people from nine countries, more than two-thirds (67 percent) of remote workers acknowledged they worried about security and pri...

Google has launched a new Chromebook repair program designed to help students and school systems get their broken laptops up and running again On the website supporting the program, schools can find which Chromebooks have commonly repaired components, like the keyboard, display and palm rest....

During the holiday season, an estimated US$120 billion in merchandise is expected to be returned to retailers, a jump of seven percent over 2020, driven by supply chain concerns, inflation, and robust online sales Returns during a typical holiday season are around 13.3 percent of total sales, with returns from online sales some three to five times ...

Nearly half a million Covid-related domains have been created over the last two years, many of them being used by online fraudsters and hucksters The pandemic has created an environment in which bad actors make use of a range of Covid-related "hooks" to commit cybercrime and fraud, impacting consumers and brands, explained CSC, a domain registrar ...

The average salary for a tech worker reached US$104,566 in 2021, yet nearly half still feel they're underpaid Forced to digitize operations and move to virtual work because of a worldwide pandemic, as well as address increased security concerns raised by those developments, organizations were hungry for tech talent in 2021 and willing to pay for it...

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian raised some eyebrows in the gaming world recently when he predicted on the "Where It Happens" podcast that play-to-earn gaming would take over 90 percent of the gaming market in five years "Ninety percent of people will not play a game unless they are being properly valued for that time," Ohanian declared in the pod...

Data breaches in 2021 set a new record with 5.9 billion accounts affected by digital thieves, according to a new report by a VPN provider The biggest breach of the period was actually a combination of several cyber smash-and-grab operations during a five-year span that contained 3.2 billion unique email and password combinations from Netflix, Linke...

Bias in AI systems can result in significant losses to companies, according to a new survey by an enterprise AI company More than one in three companies (36 percent) revealed they had suffered losses due to AI bias in one or several algorithms, noted the DataRobot survey of over 350 U.S. and U.K. technologists, including CIOs, IT directors, IT ma...

Although Apple is expected to launch a mixed reality product sometime this year, don't expect it to lead its users into the metaverse, according to a prominent watcher of the company The watcher, Mark Gurman, who writes the Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, wrote in the latest edition of the publication that the metaverse will be "off-limits" for ...

Shopping on social media platforms is growing at a torrid pace -- three times faster than traditional e-commerce platforms -- and is on a pace to reach US$1.2 trillion globally by 2025, according to a study released Tuesday by an international professional services firm Most of that growth -- 62 percent -- will be driven by Gen Z and millennial sho...

The holiday shopping season was very good for Apple's wearables business, according to a leading analyst of the company's operations Ming-Chi Kuo of TFI Asset Management reported over the weekend that Apple sold 90 million AirPods during the final quarter of 2021, including 27 million of the latest version of the earbuds released in September....

As 2021 winds down, it's time for cybersecurity experts to toss their runes and forecast what's in store for consumers and practitioners in the coming year Cybercriminals will move from identity theft to identity fraud, predicted the Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego....