Author: Asad Yaseen

Multi-cloud and multi-ERP managed cloud services provider Syntax released its first ever “IT Trends Report” today. The report is based on an October 2020 survey of 500 IT leaders and decision makers in the US who were asked to describe how the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted their businesses and to share the strategic decisions they plan to make in 2021. The majority of those with in-house security teams (83%) said that they are considering outsourcing security efforts to a…

A hacker who became the first ever Cypriot national to be extradited to the United States has pleaded guilty to extorting major American website operators with stolen user data.  Joshua Polloso Epifaniou was a teenager when he started hacking into websites, stealing information, and threatening to release it if he didn’t receive a ransom.  The 21-year-old resident of Nicosia, Cyprus, was arrested by Cypriot authorities in February 2018. In July last year, Epifaniou was extradited to the US to…

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to block and report spam SMS messages on the Android platform. Image: iStockphoto/Kritchanut Spam–it’s everywhere. In our inboxes, in our mailboxes, in our phones, LinkedIn, Messenger, Twitter…you name it and you’ll find unsolicited missives from people and companies you really don’t want to hear from. Although most of the time the content of those communiques are benign, it is always possible they could contain malicious links or…

from McAfee’s Latest Report  2020 was a year unlike any other. We transitioned from the corporate office to the home office, participated in distance learning, and figured out how to communicate with one another from afar. We sought out new forms of entertainment by streaming countless movies and TV shows and found new ways to stay active with at-home workouts. But none of this would’ve been possible without our devices and the technology we rapidly adopted. …

New Year, New Digital You: Canadian Survey Findings from McAfee McAfee is headquartered in the U.S. and with our impressive global footprint protecting over 600 million devices protecting users’ connected lives isn’t just a priority for one location, but for the entire world that we serve.  As Site Leader of our Consumer Ontario offices, when it came time to reflect on the past year, we knew it was important to gather findings for the communities…

Social media giant Twitter has launched a new pilot scheme in the United States to tackle the spread of misinformation. Under the new Birdwatch scheme, users are invited to identify information in other people’s tweets they think is misleading and write notes that “provide informative context.” Twitter said it believes that a community-driven approach in which users monitor each other and provide a free fact-checking service will allow more content to be flagged as misinformation.  “We apply…