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The administration of U.S. President Joseph R. Biden accused the People's Republic of China Monday of using contract hackers to conduct malicious cyber operations globally Joining the Biden administration in its condemnation of China were the European Union, United Kingdom, and NATO....
After a successful rollout in the U.S. earlier this year, Amazon is expanding support for end-to-end encryption for video captured on its Ring products "By default, Ring already encrypts customer videos when they are uploaded to the cloud (in transit) and stored on Ring's servers (at rest)," Ring CTO Josh Roth wrote in an Amazon blog Tuesday....
Ransomware gangs are increasingly turning to specialists to complete their capers on corporations, according to a Dark Net intelligence provider A report issued Friday by Tel Aviv-based Kela noted that the days when lone wolves conducted cyberattacks from start to finish are nearly extinct....
Thousands of hacker attacks were launched on a network of smart home devices designed by researchers to assess the risk the gadgets pose to consumers During the initial week, the "honeypot" network was online, 1,017 unique scans or hacking attempts were directed at the devices on the net, which included smart TVs, printers, wireless security camera...
Amazon is attempting to add to the growing base of fans of vinyl records with a new subscription service Called Vinyl of the Month Club, the service, available for U.S. customers only, costs $24.99 a month and sends subscribers during each billing period a classic album from the 1960s and '70s -- the golden age of vinyl -- by artists such as Pink F...
Clients of SolarWinds, which experienced a high-profile data breach last year, are being targeted in a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a Reuters report The investigation is focusing on whether some of the companies doing business with the network management software maker failed to disclose they were affected by t...
In six short years Amazon has risen from worst to first in the video streaming pack, according to a survey released by a consumer market research firm In its annual survey of the smart TV and streaming box market, Parks Associates revealed that Amazon, which had a lowly 12 percent of the streaming video market in 2015, surged to a 36 percent share ...
Reports of a data breach of TurboTax have been overblown, according to Intuit which owns the tax preparation platform Several news outlets recently reported that an unspecified number of TurboTax accounts were compromised in a wave of credential stuffing attacks. Those kinds of attacks exploit credentials stolen from other websites and reused at th...
Microsoft quietly edited a document on its website over the weekend to reveal it's planning to end support for Windows 10 Home and Pro on October 14, 2025 The revelation comes just before Microsoft's "What's Next Windows" event scheduled for June 24 and amidst hints from CEO Satya Nadella that a major new version of Windows is in the wings....
A configuration error in the systems of a content delivery provider knocked out numerous websites and apps around the globe Tuesday The provider, Fastly, which supports brands like CNN, The Guardian, the New York Times, Hulu, Reddit, HBO Max and Spotify, experienced the outage at about 5:49 a.m. Eastern time in the U.S. and began to recover at 6:39...
Apple on Monday revealed dozens of new features in the latest versions of its mobile and desktop operating systems at the kickoff of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference "There were lots of incremental improvements in the areas of health and security," observed Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst with Tirias Research, a high-tech research and ...
More than 25 million work-from-home jobs could be created in non-technology industries in the coming years, according to the operator of a global marketplace for freelance workers "For the first time, companies in industries like manufacturing, agriculture and mining recognized that many of their professional services jobs did not need to be done o...
A Russian-language dark web marketplace called Hydra, which is known to facilitate the illegal sale of narcotics, has seen cryptocurrency transactions soar over the last five years from US$9.4 million in 2016 to $1.37 billion in 2020 According to a report released Tuesday by Flashpoint and Chainalysis, Hydra's crypto business began accelerating in ...
Researchers at the University College London are giving new meaning to the expression "all thumbs." They've taken an award-winning graduate project from the Royal College of Art in London and are using it to test the brain's reaction to coping with additional body parts....
Claims of losses from cryptocurrency scams skyrocketed from October 2020 to March 2021, according to a report released Monday by the Federal Trade Commission In its Consumer Protection Data Spotlight newsletter, the FTC revealed that during the October to March period, nearly 7,000 consumers reported losing US$80 million. That compares to only 570 ...
Twitter is adding some new powerful features to its repertoire that users will be able to access for a price The new premium offering, called Twitter Blue, will cost $2.99 a month and allow users to "undo" tweets, as well as create collections of their favorite tweets, according to independent researcher Jane Manchun Wong....
Two out of three global CISOs feel unprepared to cope with a cyberattack, according to an annual survey released Wednesday by a cybersecurity and compliance company The 2021 edition of Proofpoint's Voice of the CISO report -- based on a survey of more than 1,400 CISOs in 14 countries -- found 66 percent of the executives acknowledged their organiza...
More than 90 percent of U.S. users of the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system are taking advantage of a new feature to block an application's ability to track their activity on their phones. This is bad news for advertisers According to research updated Saturday by Flurry, an analytics company owned by the Verizon Media Group, 96 perc...
The software industry fueled jobs and GDP growth in the United States in 2020, according to a report released Tuesday by an international software research organization The report by Software.org: the BSA Foundation found the software industry supported more than 15.8 million jobs in 2020, a 5.9 percent jump from 2018; and supported $US1.9 billion ...
Numerous CEOs doubt of the value of social media marketing, according to a new survey by a mobile payments platform The research by Bango, which surveyed more than 200 CEOs, maintains that poor digital marketing practices and meaningless metrics are "putting the board to sleep."
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