US is dependant on China for its electronic hardware About 84% of the worlds electronics are made in Asia, and about 85% of those goods are made in China. That means that a majority of the worlds electronics — its servers, PCs, mobile phones — are now manufactured in China. Any inadvertent escalation over the […]
Posted on April 19th, 2017 by admin
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LinkedIn sounds like it’s getting a little less buttoned down under Microsoft — the social network has a new version of its Terms of Service going into effect and the changes include a new privacy policy that covers new and upcoming LinkedIn features that aim to give profiles more visibility, and to make it easier […]
Posted on April 18th, 2017 by admin
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Half of U.S. adults are profiled in government facial recognition databases Half of all US adults — 117 million people — are in police facial recognition databases across the country with little regulation over how the networks are searched and used, according to a new study. In addition to lack of regulation, many question the accuracy […]
Posted on April 18th, 2017 by admin
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Top 10 tips to improve social networking security 1. Educate employees 2. Have employees use different passwords for different system 3. Mandate strong passwords 4. Have employees change passwords regularly 5. Do not share accounts 6. Implement two factor authentication 7. Educate employees to NOT open email attachments or go to links where the originator […]
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Microsoft’s business-centric IFTTT competitor Flow and its ‘low-code’ PowerApps platform are both getting major updates today. While these are obviously different services that solve different issues, both aim to help non-developers make better use of their existing data and services without having to write their own code. While Flow, at its core, uses the… Read More Tweet This […]
Posted on April 17th, 2017 by admin
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Push back timing of Verizon acquisition of Yahoo Verizons acquisition of Yahoo will not close until this years second quarter. The $4.8 billion deal was originally slated to close in the first quarter, but that was before Yahoo reported two massive data breaches that analysts say may scrap the entire deal. Although Yahoo continues to […]
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Implementing World Class Best Practices Network Data Breach Protection Payment card data was compromised in more than 19% of the 4,149 data breaches that occurred worldwide in 2016. Of those breaches, more than half were caused by hackers. Data breaches can be extremely costly for small businesses. There are several steps you can take to […]
Posted on April 17th, 2017 by admin
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Median salary for H-1B IT Pros $85,601 versus $87,072 for all IT Pros Few H-1B visas are used for IT security positions. Visas for information security analysts, for instance, made up .3 percent of all H-1B visas issued for IT jobs, with a mean salary of $99,708, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and […]
Posted on April 16th, 2017 by admin
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Lucid is announcing that it has raised a $60 million round led by North Bridge Growth Equiity. It’s the company’s first outside funding since raising a relatively tiny $2.8 million back in 2011. Founder and CEO Patrick Comer said that in the years between, he deliberately wanted Lucid to “run really, really lean and pour every dollar into […]
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A CIO is paid to lead. But it’s difficult to do so when you don’t have the right organizational structure in place. A house, after all, is only as strong as its foundation. So whether you’re “the new guy” as a CIO or you’ve worked within your current position for a year or longer, you […]
Posted on April 16th, 2017 by admin
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