by Sam Orszulak | April 23, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft, New Technology, Think Green | 0 Comments

Microsoft's Azure machine learning tech is being put to good use in a grant program designed to give computing resources to scientists working on environmental sustainability programs. Data, Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote in an April 2019...

by Sam Orszulak | April 22, 2019 | Cyber Security, Did You Know? | 0 Comments

It’s been a busy week — it’s tough to keep up with all the cybersecurity news. We’ve collected some of the biggest cybersecurity stories from the week — from TechCrunch and afar — to keep you up to date with the latest hacks, privacy breaches and...

by Sam Orszulak | April 18, 2019 | Cyber Security, Did You Know? | 0 Comments

Ecuador's government may be facing virtual retaliation for its decision to allow Julian Assange's arrest. The country's deputy minister for information and communication technologies, Patricio Real, claimed that its institutions' websites had faced...

by Sam Orszulak | April 12, 2019 | Cyber Security, Did You Know?, Malware | 0 Comments

Sixteen months ago, researchers reported an unsettling escalation in hacks targeting power plants, gas refineries, and other types of critical infrastructure. Attackers who may have been working on behalf of a nation caused an operational outage at...

by Trang Nguyen | April 12, 2019 | Cyber Security, Did You Know? | 0 Comments

According to one source, 86 percent of C-level executives believe that the risk of a data breach is higher when employees work remotely. In addition to this, CybSafe reported that one-third of UK businesses have suffered a data breach in the past 12 months because of remote work.

by Sam Orszulak | April 8, 2019 | Cyber Security, Did You Know?, New Technology | 0 Comments

Programmers are human, but mathematics is immortal. By making programming more mathematical, a community of computer scientists is hoping to eliminate the coding bugs that can open doors to hackers, spill digital secrets and generally plague modern...

by Sam Orszulak | April 8, 2019 | Cyber Security, Data, Did You Know? | 0 Comments

For all the hundreds of firewall rules and network protocols that your security staff may put in place to better safeguard your network, sometimes there’s simply no accounting for the most unpredictable variable of them all: human behavior. Whether...

by Jarra Gruen | April 5, 2019 | Cloud Computing, EOL, Microsoft, New Technology | 0 Comments

Windows 7 is a decade old now. It exited mainstream support and entered its extended support phase in January 2015, which meant users could still get free critical security patches, bug fixes, and technical support for the next five years.

by Sam Orszulak | April 3, 2019 | Cyber Security, Data, Healthcare, HIPPA | 0 Comments

A ransomware attack can prove costly to resolve. That cost was not deemed worth it by one Michigan practice, which has now permanently closed its doors. The ransomware encrypted the system at Brookside ENT and Hearing Center in Battle Creek which...

by Sam Orszulak | April 1, 2019 | Apple, Cyber Security, Data, Microsoft | 0 Comments

As Apple unveiled its new Apple Card at a big media event Monday, the company touted what it sees as one of the credit card’s biggest selling points: a “unique security and privacy architecture” that uses a “dynamic security code” to prevent Apple...