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The unique conditions of 2020 mean businesses are more reliant on being digitally connected than ever before. Cyber criminals know this, which is why ransomware… Read More »Ransomware vs WFH

Almost 800,000 internet-accessible SonicWall VPN appliances will need to be updated and patched for a major new vulnerability that was disclosed on Wednesday. Discovered by… Read More »SonicWall VPNs vulnerable

What is a DDoS attack? A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) sees an attacker flooding the network or servers of the victim with a wave… Read More »What is a DDoS attack?

Zoom is launching Zapps, where apps developers can build within the video conferencing experience, and a new event marketplace called OnZoom aimed at a wide… Read More »Zoom launches Zapps

Amazon is making Alexa smarter with natural turn-taking, having conversations with multiple people, natural language understanding, and the ability to be taught by customers. The… Read More »Alexa gets a new brain

There’s been a huge increase in the number of ransomware attacks over the course of 2020, with a seven-fold rise in campaigns compared with just… Read More »Researchers warn of a seven-fold rise in ransomware attacks

Objective-C, the language Apple wants developers to ditch for Swift, is attracting high hourly rates for programmers who work on freelance contracts. In fact, according… Read More »Programming languages that pay the most

US internet service provider CenturyLink has suffered a major technical outage on Sunday after a misconfiguration in one of its data centers created havoc all… Read More »CenturyLink outage

Companies of all sizes are understandably desperate to get back to work. The prevailing blueprint for doing so seems to be one of adapting pre-COVID… Read More »The next normal

Zoom’s videoconferencing service is apparently having a widespread outage in the US, causing chaos as millions of children and teachers attempt to start the school… Read More »Zoom outage fix deployed