Category: Editorial

August 7, 2019

In today’s workplace, collaborating with a diverse team spread across continents is a common scenario—but it also means that communication is more important than ever. You can’t just walk up to a coworker’s desk because their messaging app stopped responding […]

July 17, 2019

Facial recognition technology is the new gold standard for the modern business world. Although these face-detecting systems have been around for decades, their use has expanded tremendously in a rather short period of time. So much, in fact, that they […]

June 19, 2019

Every headline-grabbing cyberattack unveils new sophisticated hacking techniques, but the attacker’s portrait remains the same: a modern-day professional with a strong sense of curiosity, patience, and social skills that thoroughly examines a company’s systems, takes note of every vulnerability, then […]

May 22, 2019

The past days have brought bad news for Huawei—and the worst might be yet to come. President Trump issued an executive order giving the federal government the power to bar American companies from doing business with foreign suppliers that could […]

April 15, 2019

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has been the subject of unrelenting criticism and ridicule over the years—and not without reason. However, despite it being plagued with numerous security issues, some people are still using it, or at least have it installed […]

February 8, 2019

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 […]

January 15, 2019

When it comes to networking, 2019 sounds promising. Several emerging technologies are expected to change how businesses and their employees connect. In a recent blog post from Cisco, Anand Oswal, the Senior VP of Cisco Enterprise Network Engineering, claims that: “Network […]

December 10, 2018

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 […]

November 3, 2018

Apart from the constant need to improve their security policies, companies now face a new hurdle: GDPR compliant storage devices. As the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) established that USB sticks with sensitive data are a business risk, new […]

September 14, 2018

The European Parliament has approved a controversial set of new rules on copyright which state that media giants should pay more for the content they use. The legislation also makes companies like Google and Facebook responsible for the content uploaded […]

August 21, 2018

News that the US will hold a new round of trade talks with China in late August has provided media with the opportunity to analyze and sum up the issues that have appeared since negotiations broke down earlier this year. […]

July 25, 2018

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 […]

June 15, 2018

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 […]

May 21, 2018

The Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russia-based operation that has been dubbed as a “troll farm” because of its development of more than 80,000 posts focused on divisive issues in the US, has recently created a new account: Memopolis. This […]

April 10, 2018

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 […]

March 2, 2018

In June 2017, a Florida federal judge decided that Winn-Dixie’s website violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (also known as ADA). The North American retailer was required to update its site because it was inaccessible to the visually impaired. According […]

February 10, 2018

Cloud storage is undoubtedly one of the dominating online trends of the past 4 years. Work has become more mobile and on multiple devices, so the need for an appropriate storage option was quite obvious. Accessing important files and documents […]

December 5, 2017

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 […]

November 3, 2017

There’s no denying that data thefts have increased over the past few years. It’s becoming a profitable business to be even a mediocre hacker. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continues to receive reports from individuals who have received extortion […]

September 3, 2017

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 […]