91% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email . Why are they still so prevalent – and successful? It seems like every day another high-ranking employee falls for a scam and loses millions in company money. How long have security experts been fighting phishing attacks? How much damage can they
Normally, updating system software as frequently as possible would be a good thing. You get new features, patch bugs, and keep your security software up to date with the latest threats. Unfortunately, in the case of Windows 10, it’s a bit more complicated. According to a recent Microsoft blog post
Anil Sabharwal, Vice President of Product at Google, advised governments and business everywhere about the future impact of the current boom of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs and society. Sabharwal said that policymakers and academia must unite to establish improvements for all as tech gets
US Senators Jeff Flake and Chris Coons question Amazon about consumer privacy, after an incident last month when a woman from Portland told KIRO-TV that her Amazon Echo device had sent a recording of a private conversation to a random person in her contact list. Amazon later confirmed the
The well-known Women in the Workplace study carried out by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company describes women’s position and attitudes in corporate America. According to the study, women remain underrepresented at every level in their career. While numbers vary from sector to sector, technology, IT
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (or HTTPS) is quickly becoming the norm for sites loaded with Chrome. Google announced in a blog post that the number of websites that protect traffic using HTTPS has increased consistently and considerably. Latest figures show that over 60% of the sites loaded
Both organizations and everyday users are always glad to hear the internet is speeding up. Thanks to Google’s engineers – or rather their new congestion control algorithm, the Google Cloud Platform can achieve higher bandwidths and lower latencies for internet traffic. We’re talking about the same
On Friday, January 27th, President Trump signed an executive order that temporarily blocks travel for immigrants from seven Muslim countries and suspends the US refugee system. This attempt to “keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US” has been met with plenty of infuriated reactions from all
Remember those movie scenes where the protagonists are trying to track someone down, and they have to keep them on the phone until the police or agency can pinpoint the perp’s location? They usually need about 1 minute or so for the tracking software to work, but the bad guys always seem to know
Earlier this week, Apple was ordered by a U.S. judge to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case of the San Bernardino shooting that took place in December 2015. The judge ruled that the tech giants must provide “reasonable technical assistance” (aka break into) the phone belonging to
