• Hands on with the unusual Acer Predator Triton 700 gaming laptop

    Hands on with the unusual Acer Predator Triton 700 gaming laptop
    To prove it's going big in PCs, Acer held a product launch event at world's largest IMAX screen in New York City. It made a big statement with the Predator Triton 700, a super-thin laptop with some unusual features.At first glance, the Triton 700 looks like any other thin gaming laptop. The surprises start when you open it up. The keyboard and touchpad trade locations. The keyboard is placed at the bottom, while the extended touchpad is above it.The oversized touchpad is also transparent, giving
  • 14% off iRobot Roomba 960 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner - Deal Alert

    14% off iRobot Roomba 960 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner - Deal Alert
    Roomba 960 seamlessly navigates room to room to clean an entire level of your home, recharging itself after working for up to 75 minutes, and then resuming until the job is done. Featuring the revolutionary AeroForce Cleaning System, Roomba 960 delivers up to 5x the air power and requires less maintenance. Just press clean or schedule Roomba on the go with the iRobot Home App, from which you can also monitor its cleaning status. Roomba works on all floor types, and at just 3.6 inches tall,
  • IDG Contributor Network: ITSM's MVP

    IDG Contributor Network: ITSM's MVP
    A minimum viable product (MVP) is, according to the Wikipedia, “a product with just enough features to gather validated learning about the product and its continued development.” No doubt you have seen a meme about this in social media where this is depicted as a series of transportation methods that starts with a skateboard, then a scooter and so on as opposed to just providing the customer with pieces of the car.I started thinking about this and how it relates to IT service managem
  • FAQ: How to skip a Windows 10 upgrade

    FAQ: How to skip a Windows 10 upgrade
    Enterprises that try to slow down Microsoft's upgrade train by skipping one of the twice-yearly Windows 10 refreshes will have to hustle to stay in support, according to the company's latest scheduling disclosures.Corporate users of Windows 10 may have as little as two months to deploy a feature upgrade after passing on the one prior. Only if IT administrators are willing to roll out a consumer-quality version -- one that Microsoft has not yet given the approved-for-business green light -- will
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  • F5’s new CEO shares his early impressions, his vision for the app delivery powerhouse

    F5’s new CEO shares his early impressions, his vision for the app delivery powerhouse
     F5’s new President and CEO, Francois Locoh-Donou, took over the reins of the application delivery networking company April 3, replacing longtime leader John McAdam who retired in 2015 but stepped back into the position when his replacement resigned in December of that year for “personal conduct matters.”  Locoh-Donou was mostly recently COO of Ciena, a telecom equipment supplier.  Network World Editor in Chief John Dix talked with Locoh-Donou yesterday about his
  • How Adidas is bringing its customer experience approach to employee feedback

    How Adidas is bringing its customer experience approach to employee feedback
    Adidas is taking its approach to gathering and responding to consumer feedback and applying it internally for employee feedback and satisfaction with a dynamic, monthly, mobile-first approach.When director of people analytics Stefan Hierl started at Adidas Group, he found himself wondering why the company was using sophisticated resources to monitor consumer feedback but "archaic methods" internally. "That didn't make any sense to me," he says.So Hierl went about moving away from the monolithic
  • IDG Contributor Network: Is there a misalignment between healthcare enterprises and the tech community?

    IDG Contributor Network: Is there a misalignment between healthcare enterprises and the tech community?
    Diabetes should have been vanquished by now.In my work with healthcare tech companies, I hear excitement about the opportunities for slaying dragons like the dreaded diabetes with big data analytics, patient engagement apps, internet of things (IoT) solutions and other tools, as healthcare transitions from a fee-for-service (FFS) to a value-based care (VBC) model. I am also struck by how similar many of the offerings sound, and how they all seem to solve for similar problems.Diabetes is a case i
  • Acer's Aspire GX comes out of nowhere to be the first prebuilt Ryzen PC from a major vendor

    Acer's Aspire GX comes out of nowhere to be the first prebuilt Ryzen PC from a major vendor
    When AMD launched its disruptive Ryzen processors earlier this year, none of the major prebuilt PC makers were on board. Sure, AMD’s press release included canned quotes from Dell, HP, and Lenovo executives talking up their excitement about the CPUs, but thus far, Ryzen (and AM4 motherboard) availability has been limited to DIY hardware and systems from boutique PC builders like Origin PC and Maingear.No more.As part of its Next@Acer event in New York Thursday morning, Acer quietly—v
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  • Fired IT workers to file discrimination lawsuit

    Fired IT workers to file discrimination lawsuit
    The University of California IT workers replaced by an offshore outsourcing firm intend to file a lawsuit challenging their dismissal. The lawsuit may be filed as early as next week.It will allege that the tech workers at the university's San Francisco campus were victims of age and national origin discrimination.The IT employees lost their jobs in February after the university hired India-based IT services firm HCL. Approximately 50 full-time university employees lost their jobs, but another 30
  • Hands on Acer's Switch 5, a competitor to Microsoft's Surface Pro

    Hands on Acer's Switch 5, a competitor to Microsoft's Surface Pro
    Microsoft has set the gold standard for tablet-style 2-in-1 devices with its Surface Pro, and other PC vendors have followed suit with their own designs. Acer's latest Surface-style device, the Switch 5, offers a couple of advantages but lacks in other areas.I had a chance to play with the Switch 5 at an Acer event in New York City, where new PCs and tablets were announced. The Switch 5 is a tablet first, but a keyboard attachment can be hooked up to make it a laptop.As a tablet, the Switch
  • IDG Contributor Network: Information governance for counties and municipalities

    IDG Contributor Network: Information governance for counties and municipalities
    What’s your municipal organization’s most valuable asset?The correct answer is information, but you wouldn’t know it by observing the casual, haphazard manner in which information is managed in many county and municipal operations. Information is often the least valued and least understood asset in local government organizations.Tangible assets such as buildings and equipment are insured and can be replaced with relative ease. If your data vanishes, you may never be able to rep
  • BlackBerry KEYone sales delayed a month to meet demand

    BlackBerry KEYone sales delayed a month to meet demand
    Enterprise customers eager to get their hands on the new BlackBerry KEYone, with its old-fashioned hardware keyboard, will have to wait another month until its May 31 release.The delay isn't expected to hurt sales much, analysts said, partly because there are 275 million BlackBerry customers worldwide — many of whom may want a newer phone with physical keys. Hardware keyboards have been a hit for years in countries like India and Indonesia, which are mainstays of the BlackBerry and BlackBe
  • FCC asks whether to 'keep, modify, or eliminate' net neutrality rules

    FCC asks whether to 'keep, modify, or eliminate' net neutrality rules
    A U.S. Federal Communications Commission proposal to scrap the foundation for its own 2015 net neutrality rules nevertheless asks for public comment on whether it should "keep, modify, or eliminate" basic protections.FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's proposal, announced Wednesday, would remove the FCC's two-year-old classification of broadband as a broadly regulated, telecom-like service. But the text of the plan, released Thursday, suggests the FCC will consider retaining some rules prohibiting broadband
  • IDG Contributor Network: Can Project Halium revive Linux on mobile?

    IDG Contributor Network: Can Project Halium revive Linux on mobile?
    The Linux-based Android operating system may dominate the smartphone space, but there are many Linux users who want a mobile OS that’s closer to the desktop Linux experience, where they can use traditional desktop Linux tools and utilities.Many open source companies have tried it. Mozilla had Firefox OS, Jolla had Sailfish OS and Canonical shipped some devices with Ubuntu mobile on it.They all failed. But the code that they created lives on and some passionate people  have t
  • Digital advertising surpassed TV ads in 2016

    Digital advertising surpassed TV ads in 2016
    Last year marked a couple of firsts for the media industry. In 2016, digital advertising became a larger business than television advertising and mobile accounted for more than half of all digital spend in the United States, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau.Digital advertising revenue jumped nearly 22 percent to $72.5 billion in 2016, marking eight consecutive years of record-breaking gains. According to eMarketer, TV ad
  • Acer's new Holo 360 is a 360-degree camera in a smartphone

    The effort to grow in the virtual reality market has Acer chasing weird, but rather interesting, devices.The company introduced the Holo 360 camera, which is first and foremost a 360-degree camera. It can capture 3D content, much like other 360-degree cameras, and could be used to capture, view, and create content for VR headsets.But, seemingly as an afterthought, the device also has WiFi and LTE connectivity. The device itself looks like a bulky smartphone and can be used to make phon
  • Aggregating with Apache Spark

    Aggregating with Apache Spark
    An aggregate in mathematics is defined as a "collective amount, sum, or mass arrived at by adding or putting together all components, elements, or parts of an assemblage or group without implying that the resulting total is whole." While there are many uses for aggregation in data science--examples include log aggregation, spatial aggregation, and network aggregation--it always pertains to some form of summation or collection. In this article, we'll look at the mechanics of aggregation in Apache
  • Cloudflare wants to secure IoT connections to the internet

    Cloudflare wants to secure IoT connections to the internet
    Many people are worried about putting smart internet-connected devices in their homes or offices because of flaws that could allow attackers into their private networks.Web optimization and security firm Cloudflare is trying to alleviate those fears with a new service that could allow internet-of-things manufacturers to protect devices from attacks and deploy patches much quicker.Cloudflare's content delivery network is used by millions of people and companies to increase the performance of thei
  • 2.4GHz is a headache for Wi-Fi users, and it’s here to stay

    2.4GHz is a headache for Wi-Fi users, and it’s here to stay
    Current-generation Wi-Fi technology lives in the 5GHz band. Almost all of the major innovation in wireless standards takes place in the relatively untroubled frequencies around 5GHz (and well above), where there’s little radio competition and the living is easy.But wireless LAN users can’t just stay comfortable in the 5GHz realm – the older 2.4GHz frequency bands are a necessary part of most wireless implementations, and they’re rarely a favorite of the people who have to
  • Failure to communicate helps ransomware prosper

    Failure to communicate helps ransomware prosper
    At least one of the major reasons for the ongoing exponential increase in ransomware as a criminal business model could be summed up with the iconic line from the prison boss in 1967’s “Cool Hand Luke”: “What we got here is a failure to communicate.”That was a recurring theme from those on a “Ransomware Panel” Thursday at SOURCE Boston 2017, moderated by Paul Roberts, founder and editor in chief of The Security Ledger.The communication breakdown occurs a
  • Apple considering Venmo-like feature to make you more likely to use Apple Pay

    Apple considering Venmo-like feature to make you more likely to use Apple Pay
    There are already a zillion ways to send money to people: banks, Venmo, Square Cash, Google, and even social networks like Facebook and Snapchat have gotten in on the act. But Apple is reportedly looking to build a money transfer feature into Apple Pay so iPhone users can send money to each other.According to Recode, Apple has been in talks with payment processors and banks about a Venmo-like service for two years, but nothing has happened—yet. Those talks are back on, and we may see an Ap
  • 13% off Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 - Deal Alert

    13% off Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 - Deal Alert
    The Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive is the simple, one-click way to protect and share your entire digital life. At 12.1 millimeters thin and a generous 2TB of storage, it’s ready to take with you and go. All your photos, movies, and videos can be backed up using the downloadable Seagate Dashboard software, including the ones you’ve shared on Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube. Run a one-click backup or schedule an automatic backup plan to protect your files on your Backup Plus S
  • U.S. military wants white-hat hackers to target its cybersecurity systems

    U.S. military wants white-hat hackers to target its cybersecurity systems
    The U.S. military, which continues its interest in bug bounty programs as a way to improve cybersecurity, is launching a new contest next month.Called “Hack the Air Force,” the new program will put certain of the branch’s Web sites up as targets for a set of international hackers who have been vetted by HackerOne, which is running the program.+More on Network World: IBM: Financial services industry bombarded by malware, security threats+To read this article in full or to leave
  • Are poor communities “redlined” out of AT&T’s fiber-to-the-home service?

    Are poor communities “redlined” out of AT&T’s fiber-to-the-home service?
    It’s long been said that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. But now it appears that the rich get faster and the poor get slower – at least when it comes to Internet connections.A study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute found that AT&T’s deployment of ultra-faster fiber broadband in California is heavily concentrated in relatively wealthy neighborhoods, while residents of lower income communities are often left with speeds so slow they don’
  • Who's smartest — Alexa, Siri, Cortana, or Google Assistant?

    Who's smartest — Alexa, Siri, Cortana, or Google Assistant?
    When it comes to knowing stuff, Google Assistant on Google Home rules the virtual assistant world, according to results of a study conducted by Stone Temple Consulting earlier this year and released today.Microsoft’s Cortana was the second smartest, and Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa brought up the rear.Though Google ruled, “Cortana is pressing quite hard to close the gap, and has made great strides in the last three years” in terms of smartness, Stone Temple says.
  • Sensitive data often follows former employees out the door

    Sensitive data often follows former employees out the door
    There is an old cliché that says a company's most valuable assets walk out the door at the end of the day. However, according to a recent security report, some other valuable assets are walking out the door as well, and they're not coming back.In a survey from Osterman Research, 69 percent of organizations polled say that they have suffered significant data or knowledge loss resulting from employees who took information resources with them when they left the business.Any form of data loss
  • 60% off SanDisk Extreme PRO 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Speeds Up To 260MB/s - Deal Alert

    60% off SanDisk Extreme PRO 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Speeds Up To 260MB/s - Deal Alert
    The SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0 Flash Drive features a sizable 128GB of storage, and read speeds of up to 260MB/s lets you easily transfer a full-length movie in seconds. The sophisticated design and durable aluminum metal casing help to protect against every day wear and tear on the outside, while the included SanDisk SecureAccess software provides 128-bit AES file encryption and password protection on the inside for your private files. The SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0 Flash Drive is backed
  • 9 essential tools for the security-conscious mobile worker

    9 essential tools for the security-conscious mobile worker
    Have security gadgets, will travelImage by Kensington, Anonabox, Yubikey The highly digitized and hyper-connected world that we live in today has heightened the security stakes for us all. But if work frequently takes you away from the home office, you have some particular security and privacy concerns.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • IDG Contributor Network: How marketers are fighting back against Google's RankBrain and its disruption of the SEO industry

    IDG Contributor Network: How marketers are fighting back against Google's RankBrain and its disruption of the SEO industry
    When I look at internal documentation on why projects typically fail, I often find a similar answer: “the project failed due to requirements always changing.” For a CIO, these words are excruciating to hear, since you spend significant budget to provide your team with technology to mitigate these factors.Of course, a carefully chosen technology stack, paired with well-planned requirements, is supposed to result in a successful outcome. There are many professions that have to get it r
  • AMD updates Ryzen drivers with a new power profile and the promise of better performance

    AMD updates Ryzen drivers with a new power profile and the promise of better performance
    AMD's Ryzen power management plan that aims to improve gaming performance for AMD's new processors is now available as part of a chipset driver update. AMD released chipset driver 17.10 WHQL on Wednesday. The new drivers include the AMD Balanced Power Plan, which first became available in early April as a separate download. The new drivers are only available to 64-bit Windows 10, according to AMD.The new power profile included in the update hands greater power management responsibilities to
  • Twitter adds 9M new users, revenue beats low expectations

    Twitter adds 9M new users, revenue beats low expectations
    Expectations are so low for Twitter that a Wall Street prediction-beating decline in revenue, its first since going public in 2013, sent stock soaring 9 percent Wednesday. The company leapt over a low earnings bar during the first quarter of 2017, but also added 9 million users — the largest quarterly net user gain in two years — bringing its total reach to 328 million users.Unfortunately for Twitter, the company’s best still falls woefully short in a field of social platforms
  • State-of-the-art multifactor authentication (MFA) technologies

    State-of-the-art multifactor authentication (MFA) technologies
    Enterprises authenticate users based on their knowledge, possession, or inherence of some evidence that they are the party with the given right of access. Some experts see the context of the user’s authentication such as the time, their network IP and device, and their location as the fourth factor of authentication.Stephen Cobb, senior security researcher at ESET says you can assure greater security with each additional factor of authentication that you add.MFA is more important than ever
  • Next-gen IoT botnet Hajime nearly 300K strong

    Next-gen  IoT botnet Hajime nearly 300K strong
    The Hajime botnet is nearly 300,000 strong, making it a latent threat nearly as powerful as the notorious Mirai botnet that devastated high-profile websites last fall, leading some to think the internet had been broken.Researchers at Kaspersky Lab lured devices infected with the Hajime worm to announce themselves to a Kaspersky honeypot, checked out whether they were actually infected and added them up. They came up with the number 297,499, says Igor Soumenkov, principal researcher at Kaspersky
  • IDG Contributor Network: Why neural networks and deep learning hold the secret to your health

    IDG Contributor Network: Why neural networks and deep learning hold the secret to your health
    We’re supposed to eat less, work out more and use less salt. These goals rarely materialize into a productive pattern. Our behavior doesn’t change. Even with the incredible amount of information available, we choose not to change.Artificial neural networks (ANN) have the ability to influence medical diagnoses and change our behavior. Change is more than what you should or shouldn’t do. How you connect data and squeeze out information also impacts our ability to change.Artificia
  • IDG Contributor Network: The state of privacy and security in an ever-evolving world

    IDG Contributor Network: The state of privacy and security in an ever-evolving world
    Privacy and security have evolved. We are seeing various breaches that are devastating organizations across many industries. How can you secure your data in a world full of mobile devices, IoT,and the cloud? I attended the 2017 RSA Conference in San Francisco to dive into the problems organizations are currently facing in the information security world and to discover the latest industry innovations. Here’s a recap of some of the trends and discussions that took place:Privacy and security
  • Latest OWASP Top 10 looks at APIs, web apps

    Latest OWASP Top 10 looks at APIs, web apps
    The new release of the OWASP Top 10 list is out for public comment from the Open Web Application Security Project, and while most of it remains the same there are a couple of new additions, focusing on protections for web applications and APIs.To make room for the new items, a couple of older ones were either removed or merged into new items.The fact that the list hasn't changed much since its first release in 2003 is both good and bad, said Jeff Williams, CTO and co-founder at Contrast Security
  • Present and future ransomware tactics model the past

    Present and future ransomware tactics model the past
    Ransomware expert Andrew Hay has some advice: If you want to know how to avoid it now and in the future, it helps to study the past.In that spirit, Hay, cofounder and CTO at LEO Cyber Security, provided a detailed historical landscape of K&R (kidnap and ransom) in his talk titled “The Not-so-Probable Future of Ransomware” at SOURCE Boston 2017 on Wednesday.While ransomware holds information rather than people hostage, Hay said the evolution of tactics in the online world, “
  • How to switch from an iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy S8

    How to switch from an iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy S8
    If the Infinity Displays on the Galaxy S8 and S8+ have you itching to jump off the iOS bandwagon, you aren't alone. I just made the switch from an iPhone 6 to the Galaxy S8 and it turns out it's easier than ever to switch from iOS to Android. But here are a few things you need to know before you start using your Galaxy S8.Disable iMessage
    Before you do anything, you need to deregister your phone number from iMessage. This is the most important step if you're switching from iOS to Android. If you
  • IDG Contributor Network: Majority of C-level executives are hopeful about the future of technology

    IDG Contributor Network: Majority of C-level executives are hopeful about the future of technology
    In spite of uncertain political and economic times, the vast majority - an astonishing 91.4 percent - of C-level executives are hopeful about the future of technology in their businesses.This surprising finding was revealed by a recent survey of more than 500 C-level executives across Europe and the United States, conducted by GITNS.com for Christian Steven Software. The international survey described the priorities, concerns and expectations for technology that are driving business decisions ac
  • Why white men must lead the push for diversity

    Why white men must lead the push for diversity
    I saw an interesting statistic on Twitter the other day: According to a Lake Research poll, 86 percent of the anti-Trump calls to Congress were made by women. And fully half of those were/are middle-aged women.
    It's not surprising to me that women and people of color (POC) are taking to the phones, the streets and social media to loudly and boldly advocate for their freedoms and their rights. We've been fighting these battles for a long time. But when it comes to workplace equality, we might wan
  • 10 ways CSOs can achieve ROI on a network solution

    10 ways CSOs can achieve ROI on a network solution
    Measuring ROIImage by ThinkstockWith the advent of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), WLAN network access to customers and visitors and virtualized systems, the demand for IP addresses has exploded. Small companies might have to manage more than 1,000 IP addresses and it is not unusual for larger companies to have 10,000 or more spread across many locations. Setting up and protecting the network infrastructure is a major challenge and needs to be even more sophisticated and dynamic than eve
  • BlackBerry KeyOne to launch in US and Canada in late May

    BlackBerry KeyOne to launch in US and Canada in late May
    The BlackBerry KeyOne, an Android-based smartphone with a hardware keyboard, will be available in the U.S. and Canada from May 31, the phone's maker said Thursday.TCL Communications, the Chinese company that acquired rights to produce BlackBerry-brand handsets, originally had said the phone would go on sale in April, so the delay may disappoint potential users. This could be a bad time to test the patience of potential buyers, as Samsung and LG are both heavily promoting their new flagship hands
  • Kotlin improves code compilation, now requires JDK 8

    Kotlin improves code compilation, now requires JDK 8
    The newly updated Jetbrains statically typed language for the JVM, Kotlin 1.1.2, now offers improved compilation and better integration with the company’s IntelliJ Idea IDE, as well as a slew of bug fixes and compatibility with version 2.4.0-alpha of the Android Gradle plugin.Kotlin enables development of server-side applications, Android apps, or front-end code to run in a browser. Its conciseness reduces the need to write boilerplate code, the company says.[ The big 4 Java IDEs reviewed:
  • How Veritas is getting its cloud on

    How Veritas is getting its cloud on
    Bill Coleman, a 25-year veteran of the tech industry, became Veritas Technologies' CEO a little over a year ago. He's been leading the charge to help the software vendor transition from selling legacy point storage products to creating an integrated information-management platform. The goal is to provide something that's agnostic -- will work in the cloud or on-premises or both -- and that won't require customers to invest in a constant stream of upgrades to get there.I want to spend some more t
  • Foiled! 15 tricks to hold off the hackers

    Foiled! 15 tricks to hold off the hackers
    Malicious hackers have outsize reputations. They are über-geniuses who can guess any password in seconds, hack any system, and cause widespread havoc across multiple, unrelated networks with a single keystroke—or so Hollywood says. Those of us who fight hackers every day know the good guys are usually far smarter. Hackers simply have to be persistent.Each year, a few hackers do something truly new. But for the most part, hackers repeat the tried and true. It doesn’t take a super
  • Federal CIOs tackle the next phase of cloud migration

    Federal CIOs tackle the next phase of cloud migration
    The cloud has been the default setting in federal government IT for long enough now that most agencies have migrated over some basic operations like email, but that still leaves the hard work undone.After some quick wins -- moving relatively lightweight applications over to a cloud environment -- many federal CIOs are now trying to figure out what comes next. That requires a more challenging calculus and a nuanced evaluation of the agency's IT portfolio to determine what applications and systems
  • Dell XPS 15 vs. MacBook Pro 15: Fight!

    Dell XPS 15 vs. MacBook Pro 15: Fight!
    Dell's XPS 15 vs. Apple's MacBook Pro 15 takes its place the same epic list of rivalries as Batman vs. Joker, Red Sox vs. Yankees, and Sheldon vs. Wil Wheaton. Both laptops are intended as workhorses for professionals on the go. And although there are many competitors out there with similar specs, the XPS 15 and MacBook Pro 15 just can't let the other have the last word.So in the spirit of competition, we pitted the latest versions of both laptops in a knock-down, drag-out fight. Gordon Mah
  • 9 things your service provider wants you to know

    9 things your service provider wants you to know
    The relationship between enterprise IT and service providers can be difficult. IT has frustrations in achieving optimal service levels. Service providers, as it turns out, have an equal number of bugaboos when it comes to their enterprise clients' readiness for and acceptance of provider intervention.We asked providers across a range of services what advice they can offer to smooth out some typical bumps in the road for their clients. Here's a look at what they had to say.1. Focus on the busines
  • Top techies giving 2017 college commencement speeches

    Top techies giving 2017 college commencement speeches
    Tomorrow's leadersImage by ThinkstockWith today’s push across the education landscape for more emphasis on STEM studies, it’s not surprising that top leaders and innovators in technology would be a draw as college commencement speakers. Here’s a roundup of some of the bigger names.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • Cyberespionage, ransomware big gainers in new Verizon breach report

    Cyberespionage, ransomware big gainers in new Verizon breach report
    Verizon released its tenth annual breach report this morning, and cyberespionage and ransomware were the big gainers in 2016.Cyberspionage accounted for 21 percent of cases analyzed, up from 13 percent last year, and was the most common type of attack in the manufacturing, public sector, and education.In fact, in the manufacturing sector, cyberespionage accounted for 94 percent of all breaches. External actors were responsible for 93 percent of breaches, and, 91 percent of the time, the target w

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