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Your digital footprint grows with every internet account you make. While your old Tumblr account may be fun for reminiscing, dormant accounts are actually one of the most significant sources of user data on the internet. These accounts can be used by data brokers or third parties to access your personal information.   To improve your data security, it’s good practice to remove public-facing information by deleting unused accounts. Simply put, having less personal data stored…

An alarm sounds on the factory floor: a critical piece of equipment has malfunctioned. An engineer approaches the machine, scans its QR code, and immediately accesses visual step-by-step instructions for fixing the issue created by the people who work with the same machines every day. This is SwipeGuide, a B2B cloud-based SaaS platform that captures and scales operational knowledge, helping teams in industrial environments to create, improve, and share instructions and standard operating procedures using…

Private tech companies gather tremendous amounts of user data. These companies can afford to let you use social media platforms free of charge because it’s paid for by your data, attention, and time.   Big tech derives most of its profits by selling your attention to advertisers — a well-known business model. Various documentaries (like Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma”) have attempted to get to the bottom of the complex algorithms that big tech companies employ to…

Authored by Oliver Devane Technical Support Scams have been targeting computer users for many years. Their goal is to make victims believe they have issues needing to be fixed, and then charge exorbitant fees, which unfortunately some victims pay. This blog post covers a number of example actions, that scammers will go through when they are performing their scams. Our goal is to educate consumers on the signs to look out for, and what to…

With the median cost per incident coming in at $130,000, most data breaches do not cross the $1 million threshold. Image: Adobe Stock Based on a review of 2,400 cyber incidents between 2017–2022 at 1,700 companies, cyber risk monitoring firm Black Kite concluded the average cost, excluding outliers, of a data breach today is $15 million. According to Black Kite’s 2022 report, The Cost of a Data Breach: A New Perspective, when outliers are factored…

Johnny Serrano, CIO with Australian mine safety specialists GroundProbe always had a fascination with how things worked, from his first Sony Walkman to the growing number of games that had suddenly become available to kids. “I really knew that I wanted to get paid to make games. That was my whole motivation,” Serrano tells CIO Australia. But it wasn’t until the now CIO50 alumnus finished high school that he started seriously contemplating a professional career…

Fueled by enterprise demand for data analytics, machine learning, data center consolidation and cloud-native app development, spending on cloud infrastructure services jumped 33% year on year to $62.3 billion in the second quarter, according to Canalys. The Singapore-based market research firm said its latest cloud spending research, released Tuesday, shows that demand for cloud services remains strong despite a global economy suffering from inflation, rising interest rates and recession. Google, Microsoft and Amazon collectively made…

CVE-2022-31656: VMware Patches Several Vulnerabilities in Multiple Products (VMSA-2022-0021) VMware has patched another set of serious vulnerabilities across multiple products including VMware Workspace ONE Access. Organizations should patch urgently given past activity targeting vulnerabilities in VMware products. Background On August 2, VMware issued an advisory (VMSA-2022-0021) for ten vulnerabilities across several of its products. Affected products include: This may seem familiar, as this is the third similar release from VMware so far in 2022. The…