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TikTok Update: Dangerous Viral Challenges & Age Restrictions It’s popular. It’s uplifting. It’s creative. It’s entertaining. It can also be risky. All these words equally describe TikTok, the wildly popular social network that allows teens to create and share videos and find critical connections during isolating times. So what makes TikTok both amazing and potentially risky at the same time? It isn’t the app itself but, rather, the way some kids choose to use it….

Subtle cybersecurity concerns are in play when vetting candidates remotely for a position that entails working remotely. Learn what they are and what to do about them. Image: iStockphoto/Igor Kutyaev In the TechRepublic article Amazon, Disney, and Uber reveal remote interviewing and hiring processes, N.F. Mendoza looks at key human resource trends and predictions regarding remote hiring. Mendoza wrote, “The once new normal, and now just normal has changed the way employees and companies not only…

A Homes.com survey found that while most understood the value and necessity of the investment in new tools and gadgets, there were quite a few who worried the technology would facilitate some kind of hack. Image: Blumhouse Productions/Universal Pictures If you look at anything long enough, it’s likely you’ll think about ways to improve or even just change it. Many who were largely confined to their homes contributed to the surge in home improvements like…

How 2020 Helped Parents Understand Their Kids’ Digital Lives Over the last 12 months, technology has featured in our lives in a way I don’t think any of us would have predicted. Whether you were in lockdown, choosing to stay home to stay well or quite simply, out of other option – technology saved the day. It helped us work and learn from home, stay connected with friends and family, entertain ourselves, shop and essentially,…

  She’s been recognized by U.S. agency heads for her award-winning contributions to national security. But, when Cindy vanBree retired from the Defense Aerospace sector after a long career, she wasn’t ready to stop working. In this edition of our blog, Cindy explains how she found continued success by following her passion into consultancy and why it’s never too late to start over again. In fact, in Cindy’s case, some careers even come full circle;…

Cybersecurity company Lookout, Inc. has announced the acquisition of CipherCloud as it seeks to develop an integrated endpoint-to-cloud security solution. The deal will enable Lookout to secure CipherCloud solutions as part of its product portfolio. This includes solutions that span developing SASE categories, including Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Lookout aims to combine these SASE technologies with its mobile endpoint security in…

As the new kid on the block, the M1 chip-based Mac is already on the radar of malware writers, says Kaspersky. Image: Apple Cybercriminals often like to attack any technology that’s new in hopes of catching potential victims off guard. And that’s proved true of the latest Macs. Unveiled in November 2020, the latest MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini are powered by Apple’s M1 chip as a shift away from Intel-based architecture….

If businesses are going to successfully navigate the road ahead they’ll need to focus on these security problems and attack vectors. Image: iStock/sdecoret A new report from Forrester is giving enterprises a path forward out of the pandemic with a serious security warning: There are five major problems, and five attack vectors, which could slow post-pandemic progress in 2021. The five greatest threats to businesses in 2021 will be different from those in 2020, but…

A former caseworker in Australia who was investigated over an alleged child sexual abuse offense accessed the sensitive data of vulnerable children for a year after leaving their job.  The caseworker had been contracted by Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) between April 2016 and September 2017 to work for a government program that aims to stop young people entering out-of-home care.  An OVIC (Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner) report found that while employed by…

How to block users from setting up their own cron jobs on Linux Length: 1:56 | Mar 15, 2021 Jack Wallen shows you how to gain a bit more security on your Linux servers by blocking users from adding cron jobs. Source link