Travel Smart: Protecting Your Family’s Smartphones While on Vacation

Travel Smart: Protecting Your Family’s Smartphones While on Vacation

Families are hitting the road again. And it’s absolutely no surprise that they’re taking their smartphones with them. Perhaps what is surprising is that so many of them may be hitting the road without any digital or mobile protection.  Our recent research shows that 68% of people in the U.S. said that they’re planning to travel for leisure this year, slightly higher than the international average of 64%.1 However, our research also discovered that nearly half of them don’t use mobile security software to protect themselves or their smartphones.   That lack of protection is a concern, particularly as our April 2021…

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Travel Smart: Protecting Your Family’s Smartphones While on Vacation

Travel Smart: Protecting Your Family’s Smartphones While on Vacation

Families are hitting the road again. And it’s absolutely no surprise that they’re taking their smartphones with them. Perhaps what is surprising is that so many of them may be hitting the road without any digital or mobile protection.  Our recent research shows that 68% of people in the U.S. said that they’re planning to travel for leisure this year, slightly higher than the international average of 64%.1 However, our research also discovered that nearly half of them don’t use mobile security software to protect themselves or their smartphones.   That lack of protection is a concern, particularly as our April 2021…

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Travel Smart: Protecting Your Family’s Smartphones While on Vacation | McAfee Blogs

Travel Smart: Protecting Your Family’s Smartphones While on Vacation | McAfee Blogs

Families are hitting the road again. And it’s absolutely no surprise that they’re taking their smartphones with them. Perhaps what is surprising is that so many of them may be hitting the road without any digital or mobile protection.  Our recent research shows that 68% of people in the U.S. said that they’re planning to travel for leisure this year, slightly higher than the international average of 64%.1 However, our research also discovered that nearly half of them don’t use mobile security software to protect themselves or their smartphones.   That lack of protection is a concern, particularly as our April 2021…

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Critical flaws in Windows Print spooler service could allow for remote attacks

Critical flaws in Windows Print spooler service could allow for remote attacks

Administrators are urged to apply the latest patches from Microsoft and disable the Windows Print spooler service in domain controllers and systems not used for printing. Image: iStock/weerapatkiatdumrong Microsoft is grappling with a couple of security holes in its Windows Print spooler service that could allow attackers to remotely control an affected system. Anyone able to exploit the more recent vulnerability of the two would be able to run code on the compromised computer with…

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A responsive networking solution for an agile creative agency – Cisco Blogs

A responsive networking solution for an agile creative agency – Cisco Blogs

Ice and a Slice is a boutique agency in Oxford, England, that offers clients a choice of end-to-end marketing strategy services, a suite of creative and digital services, and fully integrated creative campaign management. The agency’s services model acts as an extension of their clients’ marketing teams. Though small, their staff of thinkers and doers produce award-winning results. Tight deadlines and client demand for boundary-pushing creative thinking and execution are only one part of the…

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ACTRA and Cyber Threat Response for Government

ACTRA and Cyber Threat Response for Government

In September 2020, Nominet released the results of its survey of government digital security professionals based in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Middle East. More than four-fifths (81%) of those respondents told Nominet that they felt collaboration with the private sector could help their employers to keep pace with digital threats. Additionally, 99% revealed their belief that they could learn about innovation from working with private companies. At Cisco, we agree that…

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Cisco SD-Access May Just Be the Vaccine You Need to Combat the Digital Pandemic – Cisco Blogs

Cisco SD-Access May Just Be the Vaccine You Need to Combat the Digital Pandemic – Cisco Blogs

The impact of recent events over the last year on the networking landscape cannot be emphasized enough. Organizations have undergone rapid transformation, moving to telework and dissolving the concept of a defined security perimeter. The explosion of distributed endpoints, brought about by employees working remotely, and proliferation of destinations with applications moving to the cloud, has surfaced unprecedented security challenges from a multitude of unknown threat vectors. The scale and impact of these threats has…

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Cisco Pen Pals in the Year 2020 – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Pen Pals in the Year 2020 – Cisco Blogs

As a Credit Analyst in Cisco’s Finance organization, I’ve worked at our San Jose headquarters for 11 years. In that time, I focused on gaining experience in various functions throughout Cisco Capital (first in Operations and now in Global Credit) to provide me with a variety of perspectives. I incorporate this knowledge when facing daily corporate challenges. As part of the Credit Ops Team, I bring meaningful insights from data through analytics as well as…

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Multi-Cloud Use Maturity – Leveraging cloud services – VMware Cloud Community

Multi-Cloud Use Maturity – Leveraging cloud services – VMware Cloud Community

This is part three (cloud services) in a nine-part series introducing a framework for assessing multi-cloud use maturity.  A comprehensive eBook on the framework can be found here.  At the end of the blog, you’ll find a link to all other blogs in the series. Competency area #2: Getting more from “aaS” IaaS was the initial value proposition that drove the growth of the public cloud.  Today, IaaS is simply the first step on a…

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Brits Lose Over £1bn in Fraud So Far This Year

Brits Lose Over £1bn in Fraud So Far This Year

Brits have lost over £1bn to fraud and cybercrime in the first six months of 2021, according to money.co.uk’s latest Quarterly Fraud and Cyber Crime Report. The analysis revealed that 81,018 fraud and cybercrime-related police reports were issued in Q2 2021, with UK residents experiencing a total loss of £382.3m due to these crimes. Interestingly, this represents a significant decrease compared with Q1 2021, when there were 137,695 reports. The personal finance advisory firm believes this decline…

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