Enterprises are still heavily dependent on Windows Server 2003 even though there were plenty of warnings that support is coming to an end on July 14 — and this opens them up to security, compliance and operational risks.According to a June report c…
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According to new recommendations by an IEEE study group, the Wi-Fi protocol needs to be updated to use randomly generated addresses for better security and privacy.Today, the 802.11 Wi-Fi standards are designed so that each mobile device gets its ow…
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Mobile payments – using your phone instead of a credit card to make purchases at retail locations – has not taken off. Yet.
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Up to a year ago, most phishing emails were all about tricking users into clicking on malicious links that led to malware downloads. Starting last fall, however, the use of attachments increased eight-fold, and that increase has persisted to this da…
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The good news about cyber criminals who go in for extortion is that they also tend to be liars. The bad news — they’re extremely difficult to catch.Wade Woolwine, manager of strategic services at Rapid7, has dealt with his share of blackmailers who…
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Modern-day criminals are still following Willie Sutton’s example of going after banks “because there’s where the money is.”According to a new report from Websense Security Labs, the average number of attacks against financial services institutions i…
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I’m starting to see signs for Apple Pay and Google Wallet everywhere I go. Google just announced its Android Pay platform and deals with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile to pre-install it on Android phones. Samsung is gearing up for its own payment sy…
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UK-based virtual worlds research firm KZero projects that 83 million head-mounted virtual reality display headsets will have been sold by 2018, with a consumer market penetration of around 9 percent. But that doesn’t mean that companies are going to be replacing computers with virtual reality headsets, says KZero CEO Nic Mitham. Here are four reasons
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The rapid growth of the mobile sector has had an unexpected dividend — by bringing down the costs and improving the quality of motion sensors, screens, and processors it has helped usher in a new era of virtual reality technology. Systems previously available only to largest manufacturers or to the military can now be put
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The leading unified communications (UC) vendors are taking a hard look at the opportunities for virtual reality in the conference room or the boardroom. For example, there are a number of enterprise-friendly virtual world platforms that are already or soon will be compatible with the Oculus Rift and other virtual reality devices. These are business-safe
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It’s hard to imagine a company these days that isn’t using open source software somewhere, whether it’s Linux running a company’s print and web servers, the Firefox browser on user desktops, or the Android operating system on mobile devices. In, fact, there are now more than a million different open source projects, according to Black
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Big Data has dominated tech news of late. It has been touted as a possible solution for everything from intrusion detection to fraud prevention to curing cancer and setting optimal product prices. But Big Data, which we’re defining as data collected in large volumes, at high velocity and in a variety of formats, isn’t a
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New Touch operating system for mobile devices is still a work in progress The newest release of Ubuntu, dubbed Saucy Salamander, doesn’t offer much in the way of new features — except for the introduction of Ubuntu Touch for mobile platforms. So, if you’re currently running Ubuntu 13.04, you should definitely upgrade to 13.10 in
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Whether you receive a phishing email inviting you to click on a specific link, whether you see the link on your trusted social media sites, or whether you stumble upon it while Web surfing, here are 10 types of links you should never click on. See slideshow at Network World.
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Phishers are upping their game, so end users need to respond accordingly Protecting yourself against phishing attacks used to be relatively easy. Don’t download unexpected attachments. Visit banking websites directly instead of clicking on links in an email. And look for bad grammar. Credit: wikimedia Those days are gone. Today, a phishing attack can come
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