Such a high profile brings its own challenges: cybercriminals have taken note and are targeting the industry with increasing interest. Like all organizations, the information and communications sector are experiencing increased cyber-threats. Any sector that has personal data or intellectual property is at risk of a cyber-attack. Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report found the info-tech sector is highly susceptible to internal (56%) and external (44%) threats, and financial motives (67%) and industrial espionage (29%) are a major driver....

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1. Rebalancing the cybersecurity equation to mitigate ransomware risks Securing your organization is like balancing an equation: people + skills + technology = security. Where many security strategies fall short is having an unbalanced equation. Read more » 2. How to read your iOS 15 app privacy report Your iPhone now gives you lots of transparency into what your downloads are up to. Here’s what to look out for. Read more » 3....

After Dancing with the Stars contestant Karamo Brown faced backlash for voicing his support of castmate Sean Spicer on social media; Spicer said he felt bad. There is no shortage of Dancing with the Stars fans who were not in favor of Spicer’s inclusion on the show, and Brown’s attempt to smooth over the vitriol with a positive post only ended up backfiring. When Spicer was announced on the cast during a live reveal on Good Morning America, his return to television was greeted with disdain from many viewers....

If you have just arrived in the Linux world, you may have heard of Debian and Ubuntu. Debian and Ubuntu are the most popular Linux distributions. It is important to know what these two distributions stand for before implementing them in your workplace. These two distros are also important because you may not be directly using Ubuntu or Debian, but whatever distribution you are using is most likely based on Debian or Ubuntu....

Mad Men star Christina Hendricks reveals that she was the hand model on the iconic poster for Oscar-winning film American Beauty. Released in 1999, American Beauty stars Kevin Spacey as a suburban father who, in the throes of a mid-life crisis, develops a dangerous infatuation with his daughter’s teenage friend, played by Mena Suvari. Directed by Sam Mendes, the provocative film became a hit at the box office with $356 million in worldwide grosses and went on to win five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor for Spacey....

Data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners shows that iPhone owners are holding onto their phones longer before they upgrade them. Three years ago, almost two-thirds of iPhones in use were just 1-2 years old, but CIRP says that number has now fallen to just 51%. CIRP attributes the change to a combination of the slowing pace of development and carriers switching from phone-inclusive plans to separate financing for the phone itself …...

There appears to be some prolonged issues with Apple’s CloudKit service today, which Apple offers to developers as a way to store user data and sync across devices. Several developers have reported to us that they have seen data for their apps temporarily wiped in the last 24 hours as the CloudKit service experiences some form of outage. The developer system status page is reporting an issue with the CloudKit Dashboard, the backend admin interface that developers use to manage their CloudKit containers....

Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space has quickly become one of 2020’s most exciting horror films and it’s one of the better theatrical adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s works. H.P. Lovecraft is a master of surreal and cosmic horror, but his stories are quite often difficult to adapt in a live-action sense. Not only is he an author that can leave plenty up to the imagination, but he also deals with fantastical entities that are often designed to defy convention and break the mind....

This morning’s report that Apple is working on an iPhone with a curved display sounds like it will be a rather modest change from the iPhone X. That seems to be referencing a rather subtle curve that may, like the very slight curve at the bottom of the iPhone X, be almost indistinguishable from a flat screen. Technically, of course, the iPhone X display is fully curved, as it folds back underneath itself to make possible the near-bezel-free design …...

Apple’s HomePod has faced two consistent criticisms right from the start. Hearing both criticisms repeated recently, I couldn’t let it pass… There is truth to the first claim, especially when you compare Siri to Alexa. However, as I discovered when trying the Echo Dot, there is a very large rider to that statement. Alexa is not inherently smarter; instead, it allows third-party developers to add “skills” to the platform. I noted then the two big drawbacks of this approach....

When it comes to purchasing a new smartphone, people usually explore reasons to invest their money. However, some phones are amazing and they can be purchased without looking for anything than the brand itself. Although the international smartphone market has been grabbed by some key players in the present time, Nokia is still a popular brand. It still has a wide recognition and trust of millions of smartphone lovers. It is true that Nokia has once again expanded their base and has satisfied a large number of people in different parts of the world....

The craze of smartphones has risen beyond every limit presently. People all over the world are going crazy about these gadgets and many of them are getting their expectations filled because makers are coming with user-friendly gadgets in every way. Well, the world’s first smartphone with an invisible selfie camera is with us and ZTE has launched it officially putting a halt of rumors that were indicating Xiaomi or Samsung will launch the same first....

When it starts to affect the quality of service delivered to the customers, it becomes an issue, as most service provides have service level agreements with the consumers that often have penalties built in. As I continue my research in these areas, and after talking to multiple clients, I have come to the realization that most enterprises are not set up to handle IT-related incidents or crises in real time....

Anyone who uses YouTube on their Android phone knows how important the dark mode is, especially for those who watch in the night with lights off. Likewise, Google is always busy releasing updates that make using their apps, even more, better than before. That’s why when Google announced in July they would release the dark mode soon, the excitement showed by YouTube users was expected. But, August went by with no new update....

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3G offered the first taste of the transformative power of wireless data. Sure, none of us would want to return to its capabilities any more than we’d want to hop back on a dial-up modem connection to access the internet at home; the pandemic would have been even bleaker without Zoom’s flat-faced remote access to friends and family and TikTok’s frivolity, prime examples of 4G cellular applications. But while it could prove frustratingly slow, 3G opened the door to many of today’s most popular mobile applications today: rich messaging, photo sharing, mobile web access, streaming music, and guided navigation....

Realmac Software is on the brink of launching its fun new camera app Analog Camera for iPhone, but it has one more major task to mark off its list before we all get our hands on it. With its latest update to Clear, that item can now be swiped right off the list. Clear on the iPhone and Mac both were updated today receiving a frequently requested feature: list sharing over email....

The challenges and benefits of a cellular Apple Watch is something I’ve considered throughout different pieces before, but I haven’t always been sure one actually needs to exist yet. I’ve continued thinking about this possibility, however, and now a cellular option is at the top of my wish list for the Apple Watch Series 3. A cellular option could solve specific problems that the faster, GPS-equipped Apple Watch Series 2 hasn’t resolved....

With Apple widely expected to embed a fingerprint reader into the display of the iPhone 8, the company has patented a number of different technologies it could use to accomplish this. One approach would limit fingerprint recognition to the bottom section of the display, meaning that authenticating a fingerprint would have to be a deliberate step, as it is with today’s Touch ID sensor. But a patented granted today would allow a fingerprint to be recognized anywhere on the screen, with Apple specifically arguing that authentication could then be completely automatic …...