Microsoft Corp’s networking site says some LinkedIn dat has been made available for sale. As a recent Reuters report says: The incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the platform was included, LinkedIn said in a blog post bit.ly/3uB4nEy on Thursday, adding that the information on sale is a collection of […]
The technology industry has watched social media giant Facebook go through some alarming experiences and decisions. There was the 2018 security breach (and subsequent ones); the announcement that they’d been storing user passwords in plaintext without hashes or salts; and a slew of privacy policy issues. The latest piece of Facebook news involves a lawsuit […]
Unstructured data — the data that doesn’t have any predefined data models — can be difficult for an enterprise to locate and digest. Emails, text files, photos, videos, call transcripts, and business chat apps all congregate a ton of data, which ends up just floating around in the metaphorical ether. But what’s floating around might […]
Amazon drivers apparently don’t have a choice: they can either agree to being monitored by AI-assisted cameras installed in delivery vehicles, or they can work somewhere else. As a recent Verge report indicates, drivers must sign “biometric consent” forms to keep their jobs, in accordance with this privacy policy. More from The Verge: The data […]
WatchGuard Technologies has released its Internet Security Report for Q4 2020, including new endpoint protection threat insights based on their product and a recent acquisition. The report reveals that fileless malware and cryptominer attack rates grew by nearly 900% and 25% respectively, while unique ransomware payloads plummeted by 48% in 2020 compared to 2019. Additionally, […]
Public cloud adoption is, by and large, untapped by corporate & industrial organizations. But what about industry cloud? These are cloud-based services and apps which are targeted towards specific uses in specific industries, and according to a recent article from VentureBeat, they may be the “next big thing”: Industry clouds are of interest because of […]
As the below site assessment photos prove, there are no shortage of alarmingly-common school safety issues. Many school districts hire security consultants to do walkthroughs of their campuses to look for security risks. These assessments often consist of two parts: the physical assessment of each school to identify security measures and building systems unique to each building, and an assessment […]
AI and healthcare professionals are warning of concerns over a machine learning algorithm made for diagnosing COVID-19. The idea behind these technologies was to help health professionals tell the difference between coronavirus and other similarly-presenting ailments like pneumonia. But concerned professionals say changes need to be made before the COVID diagnosis machine learning is used […]
What happens when a specific piece of technology at your office dies? In our new Replacing Office Technology series, we’re answering common questions from IT departments about how to replace the smaller technology systems that tend to need replacing more often than others. Today’s focus is on replacing office security cameras. Important factors to consider […]
The password storing app LastPass now asks users to pay for unrestricted access after recently being acquired by private equity. The application replaces the act of using insufficient passwords with a service which takes over the authentication process by generating — and saving — more complicated passwords. Elliott Management and Francisco Partners are the equity […]
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