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A Rant: Stripping Privacy in This Era

The world has a privacy problem. Everything connected to the Internet (which is almost everything today), is for the taking. Looking around an average person's daily routine, it exposes the enlarging attack surface with each device we purchase, each application we install, each connection we add. Today, privacy is a quaint notion from a bygone era. Our lives have become intertwined with technology in ways we could never had imagined. And this, like illustrated in the paragraph above, comes with a constant erosion of our privacy. Each minute that the average Internet user spends online, they are exposed to a constant spy operation. Their personal information is...

Unveiling the Future: AI Breakthroughs and Their Impact

Welcome to the era where science fiction meets reality – the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this exploration, we embark on a journey through recent AI breakthroughs, uncovering the marvels of advanced image recognition and natural language understanding. Brace yourselves as we unravel the practical applications of these technological leaps across various industries, offering you a glimpse into the transformative power reshaping our world. The Foundation of AI Breakthroughs Understanding Advanced Image Recognition AI's prowess in image recognition has reached unprecedented heights. Recent breakthroughs have enabled machines to not only identify objects in images but also comprehend their context. For instance, AI models can now differentiate between similar...

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How GDPR Affects Your Organization and What to Do About It

The article explains that organizations that process personal data of EU citizens, regardless of where the organization is located, must comply with the GDPR and must obtain explicit consent, inform individuals of their rights

Who’s an UX developer really?

What does a UX designer actually do? It’s a question that is frequently asked nowadays. Surprisingly, the question comes not only from friends, and family, but from employers and people who work in IT! Origins…. UX is not new; in fact the term has been around since the early nineties. The term has been credited [...]

Why I chose Laravel and stuck to it

Laravel framework is known for its elegant syntax which is easy to learn, and enjoyable to work with. With Laravel, you get to work on your projects quickly. You can also save a lot of time, and work with access to functions such as user authentication, section management, and caching.

Huawei pens deal with African Telecommunications Union

The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with tech giant Huawei that will see African countries and organizations build capacity for ICT transformation.

Why Organizations Refuse to Prioritize Cybersecurity Despite Increasing Threats

Recently, cybersecurity breaches and attacks have become increasingly common and sophisticated, posing a significant risk to organizations of all sizes and industries. These range from high-profile data breaches at major corporations to ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure. The consequences...

Phishing hack that mirrors Google login site—minus the URL

Phishing attempts reported on last month use a mirror image of Google-domain login pages—familiar logos and CAPTCHAs included. There’s one glaring characteristic in an otherwise twin-like version of the site, however: a weird-looking URL. The “bit-for-bit” impersonation—shown in a blog...

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Is the future of information security and tech conferences virtual?

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many changes to our personal and work lives. Among the latter are the forced work from home shift...

Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for three zero-days

Microsoft has published its monthly roll-up of security updates known as Patch Tuesday. This month's updates are a bulky release. The OS maker has made available patches today for 113 vulnerabilities across 11 products, including three zero-day bugs that were being actively exploited in the wild. As always, details remain scant [...]

6 Ways to Store Your Business Data

1- Privately Owned Online servers  One of the most secure ways to store your business data and information is through privately owned online servers.  These...

How to share files and folders in Google Drive

Google's free cloud storage platform, Google Drive, is a great collaboration tool, but you have to know how to share files and folders to make it fulfill its potential.

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This Week in Apps: Conservative apps surge, Instagram redesigned, TikTok gets ghosted

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through...

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Microsoft: Here’s how we’re trying to manage increased cloud demand

Microsoft prioritized the needs of first responders, healthcare workers, and others on the front line, as they've noted previously. And they've throttled some less-essential services to try to keep things humming. On April 23, officials...

Information Security in the Time of Covid-19 – Moving to the Cloud as a Cost-Cutting Measure Does Not Lessen Compliance Obligations

Recurringly, organizations fail to ask themselves the most rudimentary questions before moving to cloud platforms, and they suffer as a result...

Launching Oracle’s COVID-19 Therapeutic app: The back story

By Tony Baer (dbInsight) for Big on Data | April 10, 2020 -- 12:00 GMT (13:00 BST) | Topic: Coronavirus: Business and technology in a pandemic The input screen that patients see when using Oracle's COVID-19 therapeutic app   Source: Oracle Among the many mysteries of the coronavirus is finding out which medications and therapies [...]

Amazon took data from its own sellers to develop competing products

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +1.64% employees have used data about independent sellers on the company’s platform to develop competing products, a practice at odds with the company’s stated policies. The online retailing giant has long asserted, including to Congress, that when it makes and sells its own products, it doesn’t use information it collects from the [...]
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How Kenya’s new personal data protection law could affect researchers

The risk of infringing on privacy is growing by the day given the increased frequency and granularity of the data being collected, and advances in the technology for processing them. This has, inevitably, led to the need for laws to secure personal data privacy. Researchers and research data are not exempt: advances in big data [...]

Court Explains About Claim To Let Government Listen To Citizens’ Phones

The Judiciary came out to disprove a news report by Standard carried on the daily's Sunday edition that claimed that in a ruling by the Court of Appeal, the government had been given the go-ahead to tap and listen to private calls

A Rant: Stripping Privacy in This Era

The world has a privacy problem. Everything connected to the Internet (which is almost everything today), is for the taking. Looking around an average person's daily routine, it exposes the enlarging attack surface with each device we purchase, each...

Australia: Unprecedented surveillance bill rushed through parliament in 24 hours.

Australian police can now hack your device, collect or delete your data, take over your social media accounts - all without a judge's warrant. The Australian government has been moving towards a surveillance state for some years already. Now they are putting the nail in the coffin with an unprecedented surveillance bill that allows the [...]

How to Effectively Detect and Respond to a Data Breach

Prevention is key, so be sure to take steps to prevent breaches from occurring in the first place by implementing strong security measures and regularly monitoring your systems for potential threats

WhatsApp extends deadline for new privacy policy after people fled

WhatsApp on Friday announced that it will be extending the deadline of its confusing policy implementation by three months. The widely criticised policy required that its two billion users must either accept its updated terms and conditions by February...

Leave a minimal digital footprint

Your digital footprint paints a picture of who you are. Every day, whether we want to or not, most of us contribute to a growing portrait of who we are online; a portrait that is probably more public than we...
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Cryptojackers and hackers

What qualifies as nightmare news for many cryptocurrency owners—prices of most major tokens taking another dive into the gutter—seems to not be that big a problem for cybercriminals who hijack hardware resources to mine it on someone else’s dime. The...

Amazon is finally getting serious about crypto and hopes to bring it to customers ‘as soon as possible,’ as it looks to hire a...

Amazon is finally getting serious about crypto technologies like bitcoin, a move that pushes the e-commerce giant into the burgeoning yet wildly volatile digital-currency space.