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Passwords are beginning to feel like the zombie that just won’t die. Even after Bill Gates famously called for their demise in 2004, this antiquated form of user verification is still alive and kicking. Yet, many remain hopeful that passwords will slowly be phased out...

At the moment, within the cybersecurity industry the emphasis tends to be on securing networks with perimeter-based protection, however, leaving an application endpoint unsecured means an application programming interface (API) can serve as a gateway to the data...

Our digital selves, more and more, are becoming part of our full identity. The emails we send, the conversations we have over social media -- both private and public -- as well as photos we share, the videos we watch, and the websites we visit all contribute to our...

Microsoft seems to be toying with two different versions of the simplified ribbon. On the picture above, for example, Word Online has the more modern looking UI for the ribbon, while PowerPoint Online and Word Online below has a different, slightly modern ribbon UI....

While most tech companies that offer free email services are moving away from email scanning as a source of information for advertisers to target users more efficiently, Oath – the Verizon subsidiary that manages AOL and Yahoo and its webmail offerings – plans to...

Many British companies are finding it hard to store and manage their company’s data effectively. Seagate polled a representative sample of 1,006 UK SMB employees, asking them about their employers’ data storage practices, preparedness for GDPR, Cyber-Security...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has recently announced that, starting on November 12, 2018, Android users will be able to store their WhatsApp backups on Google Drive without the backup being counted toward Google Drive’s storage quota. But, the company warns, those backups...

Networked printers increasingly are becoming targets of hackers as these devices often aren't secured by enterprises. A new study cited by Booz Allen Hamilton found that of 61% of survey respondents who reported a data loss incident in 2016, at least 50% had at least...

A recent survey of nearly 200 IT professionals about insider threats found that nearly half of the participants believed they could successfully attack their organisations from the inside. In a blog post earlier this week Imperva researchers reported on insider...

It has been clear for a while now that passwords no longer provide the user experience or security needed for consumers today. Take the fact that a few months ago, health and fitness app MyFitnessPal, was the latest brand to hit the headlines, as cyber thieves made...