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Education officials in France have spoken out against a new cyber-bullying trend targeting children who were born in 2010. The BBC reports that the malicious new #anti2010 campaign has been spreading online via Twitter and through the video-sharing app TikTok. Videos that encourage viewers to form an “anti-2010 police” have been watched millions of times. Euro News reports that the hashtag #anti2010 had more than 40 million views on TikTok before it was removed. Parents have reportedly become concerned that…

For added security, Windows 11 will forgo the older MBR partition scheme and use GPT instead. That may require users to convert their older hard drives. Here is how to do it. Image: S.Poungsomrith/Shutterstock Current users of Windows 10 who plan to update their operating systems to Windows 11 when it is released in October 2021 will first have to meet several non-negotiable and stringent prerequisites. For example, in its attempt to make Windows PCs…

Most Americans and Canadians say that news of ransomware attacks and data breaches causes them to experience stress. An online survey of 2,500 adults in Canada and the United States found that in relation to cybersecurity, seven in ten respondents (69%) said news of data breaches caused them stress.  The research, which was conducted in July 2021 by research firm Opinion Matters for cybersecurity company Kaspersky, also found that 64% of respondents said that consuming news coverage of…

A British cybersecurity researcher stumbled across his own personal data online after discovering an unsecured database containing the personal information of millions of visitors to Thailand. Bob Diachenko, leader of cybersecurity research at Comparitech, found the unprotected Elasticsearch database on August 22, 2021. Inside the 200GB digital index were records dating back ten years containing the personal details of more than 106 million international travelers. Information exposed in the publicly accessible database consisted of full…

Cyber Defense Magazine predicts: by 2025, cybercrime will cost the world $12 trillion annually. Today, cyber threats are no longer limited to computers. Anything with an electronic pulse is at risk. The question is: is your company prepared to handle a security incident and respond efficiently? “How to handle your cyber incident response and become resilient” webinar with Lisa Forte, Partner @ Red Goat Cyber Security, Andrius Januta, Cyber Security Professional @ Nord Security and…