A National Science foundation grant will allow civil engineering researchers to work on an environmentally-friendly, hardier concrete material. Assistant professor of civil engineering at The University of Texas Warda Ashraf received almost half a million dollars in grant money to develop it. According to a recent Mirage News report, Ashraf says modern cement is made […]
Iranian hackers are allegedly targeting a high-profile security conference expected to be attended by heads of state and world leaders, according to Microsoft. The upcoming Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 Summit in Saudi Arabia are being targeted by cybercriminal organization Phosphorous, which is masquerading as conference organizers to target more than 100 high-profile […]
A highly-sophisticated Android ransomware threat apparently targets users of the platform. A report from GizmoChina says the threat is difficult to detect and features novel behavior patterns. More from GizmoChina: This ransomware family has been known for a while and has been found on various websites and has been circulating online through forums, various pop […]
A new report from Salesforce demonstrates how small-and-medium-sized businesses are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and how companies with a strong digital presence are better equipped to weather the storm. The research, the results of the fourth edition of the company’s Small & Medium Business Trends Report, is a culmination of a survey of more […]
Microsoft and Salesforce have patterned on a new integration that allows users to interweave customer and case records from Salesforce within the Microsoft Teams app. The integration will be offered to Sales and Service Cloud customers with Enterprise or Unlimited edition at no cost and aims to bring customer data typically stored in a customer […]
There are a lot of talented people looking for their next opportunities across the AV employee landscape as the coronavirus pandemic has triggered wide-scale layoffs throughout the industry, from the largest to the smallest companies and even the associations that represent the people within the space. Certainly, the conventional wisdom for most employers looking to fill open […]
Some of the best ways to avoid data breaches and cybersecurity compromise is to practice good password security and use other tools like two-factor authentication. That means using unique passwords that aren’t easy to guess and enabling multi-factor authentication on all of your accounts – including social media. U.S. President Donald Trump apparently didn’t get […]
Perhaps no single industry has struggled to adjust more to COVID-19 than education. The pandemic has greatly accelerated the broad adoption of e-learning solutions. Those school districts that invested in robust IT systems have been validated and are continuing to build out their resources. Meanwhile, those districts that did not already have e-learning technologies in […]
Google says it was the target of a massive 2.5 Tbps DDoS attack in September 2017, the highest bandwidth attack ever reported. In a blog post exploring the growth of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Google revealed that it was the target of a six-month campaign that utilized multiple methods of attack. “Despite simultaneously targeting thousands […]
The U.S. Department of Justice and eleven state Attorneys General are suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws and maintaining a monopoly in the search engine and online advertising markets. Google, the DOJ says, is the “monopoly gatekeeper to the internet for billions of users and advertisers,” and has used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and […]
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