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The number of users infected with mobile ransomware is skyrocketing, as hackers try to expand the number of potential victims they can target.

The digital transformation imperative is becoming increasingly urgent for companies large and small, and SAP wants to help. On Wednesday, the ERP giant set its sights squarely on SMBs with an updated app that's been enriched with analytics and other key features.

The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging a 30-year-old hacking-crimes law, saying the law inhibits research about online discrimination.

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IT professionals aged 18 to 34 are much more optimistic than their elders that "big data" analysis will fundamentally change how business is conducted in the next few years, according to an IDG Enterprise survey.

Microsoft today pegged the number of Windows 10 devices at 350 million, an increase of about 50 million since early May, the last time it publicized the new operating system's uptake.

On Wednesday, the Wi-Fi Alliance launched its certification program for IEEE 802.11ac Wave 2, a technology that’s been on the market for more than a year.

Tracking down the phisher

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Several weeks ago, a key member of the WatchGuard Technologies finance team was targeted by a spear phishing attempt. Spear phishing is a type of phishing attack in which the perpetrator customizes their attack to a particular individual or group of individuals. The attacker gathers information on the victim and then tailors the attack to be more likely to fool the target. The would-be attack arrived as an email appearing to come from the finance employee’s manager... Читать дальше...

Facebook wants users to connect even more with their family and friends.

The infrastructure used by an Iranian cyberespionage group to control infected computers around the world has been hijacked by security researchers.

We hear on a daily basis that traditional media is dead. We see a regular occurrence of newspaper and magazine titles going to the wall and suffer an almost constant dumbing down of traditional media. While the internet has done amazing things for our ability to achieve outcomes, for media the only outcome seems to be a slow, chilling and painful death.

A majority of Americans support autonomous driving, but 72% of believe that the act of driving  is a luxury that must be preserved, according to a new survey by Volvo.

Following an extended preview period, Amazon's Elastic File System is now generally available in three geographical regions, with more on the way.

Microsoft's latest major refresh of Windows 10 will be released publicly on Aug. 2, the company confirmed Wednesday morning.

You don’t want to hear that the security product you are using to protect you has multiple critical vulnerabilities which put you at risk, but if you use Symantec/Norton then those holes are “as bad as it gets,” according to Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy.

Evernote, the note-taking service that has become part of a large number of lives, has notified its users that it plans to increase the prices of its Plus (from $2.99/mo. to $2.99/mo.) and Premium (from $5.99/mo. to $7.99/mo.) tiers, and limit its Basic (free) customers to having the app on two devices.

Larry Ellison doesn't do "cheap." The Oracle chairman isn't interested in selling the low-cost one- and two-socket servers that make up a huge slice of the server market but yield little profit for the companies that make them. Even if he did, that business is pretty much sewn up by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell and the "white box" makers from China and Taiwan.

We all breathe, right? So why does Apple think an app to help us do it makes any sense at all? That’s crazy talk, isn’t it?

Having spent more than 35 years working in the field of Unix systems administration, looking back practically requires a telescope, but the view is incredible. Would I do it all over again?

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We can all see the future around us. Uber, Airbnb and Alibaba have all seemed to come out of nowhere to take commanding positions in their respective sectors of local transportation, hospitality and retail. Together, they and other companies that are basically network orchestrators with a digital platform are leading a revolution in business model design.

Apparently, the fastest way to get two different answers to the same questions is to ask a Facebook spokesperson. 

Google’s core business is in advertising, and it insists on showing you as many ads as it can. A new tool introduced by the company gives users a modicum of choice by letting them personalize across devices what ads they see on Google and third-party sites, which may also be a bounty for advertisers who could get more accurate targeting.

The 2-in-1 tablet-cum-laptop has been appearing in the product lines of many top vendors these days. And it's no wonder; for many, carrying a lightweight tablet along with a reasonably-good keyboard that doubles as a tablet cover can be the best of both worlds. Now Huawei, which has made itself known in the U.S. market with products such as the Nexus 6P and the Huawei Watch, has stepped into the fray with its MateBook, a 12-in. tablet that is going straight for business buyers.

IT/software manager is leaving this company, and that means an opportunity for someone who already understand the business's IT issues from the inside, reports a pilot fish on the scene.