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Most Computers Easy to Hack Due to Vulnerability in Memory Chips
Most computer systems are still very easy to hack due to a vulnerability in memory chips produced by Samsung, Micron and Hynix, according to a study by researchers from VUSec. The vulnerability in question is called Rowhammer, a design flaw in the internal memory (DRAM) chips of a device that creates the vulnerability. By exploiting the error, an attacker could gain control of a device. Rowhammer was made public eight years ago.
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5 Videoconferencing Tips for IT Leaders During the COVID-19 Outbreak
You may find yourself a willing or unwitting leader of videoconference-based meetings due to anything from recent travel prohibitions because of COVID-19 to new corporate policies. This article looks at five ways to embrace videoconferencing tools and maximize their benefits.
Microsoft Launches Preview of All-Cloud Printing Service
Microsoft just opened a private preview of its all-cloud Universal Print service to customers running Windows 10 Enterprise. Those customers also require an available Azure Active Directory (AAD) tenant, to which the personal computers accessing the cloud printing preview must be joined. Universal Print moves key Windows Server print functionality to the Microsoft 365 cloud, so organizations no longer need on-premises print servers and do not need to install printer drivers on devices, according to Microsoft.
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Credit Card Skimmers Explained: How They Work and How to Avoid Them
This article provides in-depth coverage of skimmers - how they work, how to protect yourself against software payment card skimmers, types of skimmers, etc.
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How the Coronavirus Scare Is Leading Some Experts to Look for a Boost in Contactless Payments
Visa reported in January that one-third of its card-present transactions worldwide are contactless, up from a quarter a year ago. And while the contactless share in the U.S. market is much lower, some extensive mass-transit agencies, including New York City’s MTA, are launching systems that accept general-purpose contactless credit and debit cards. Some payments experts are talking about a positive impact for contactless and [near-field communication] as a more sanitary means of making payments transactions. Whether the virus scare will prove to be a lasting boon for technologies such as contactless POS devices remains to be seen, but some observers contend it could well provide at least a short-term boost.
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Dump Your Passwords, Improve Your Security
Fast Identity Online, better known as FIDO, helps overhaul the log-in process, combining your phone; face and fingerprint recognition; and hardware security keys. Yubico, Google, Microsoft, PayPal and Nok Nok Labs, among others, are developing FIDO.
Enveil and the Challenge of Securing Data in Use
Enveil says that they can enable organizations to securely perform analysis on encrypted data at scale. Enveil’s flagship solution, its ZeroReveal Compute Fabric, is a two-party platform of a ZeroReveal Client application which resides within the organization, and the ZeroReveal Server application, which is located where the data is kept. To avoid the “hamster wheel of compliance,” the firm's CEO recommends that organizations should learn how to secure data rather than the “networks, applications, and endpoints” that data uses.
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Getting Email Ready for 2020: Tools You Need to Know About
Some marketers claim that email marketing is the most effective advertising option as of now - some even going so far as to claim that for every $1 you spend on email, you can get $38 in return, and that is a whopping 3800% ROI. This article looks at 12 leading email marketing tools.
Top 12 Business Intelligence (BI) Tools for 2020
BI tools make it simpler to corral the right data and visualize it in ways that help enable you to understand what it means. But how simple that process gets, and how you can visualize the data depends on the tool: Picking the right one for your needs becomes important. A dozen BI tools are reviewed here to help with this process.
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Online Banking/E-Commerce/Website Design
App Now Lets Users Make Payments from Accounts with Other FIs
Barclays now lets customers make payments from current accounts held with other FIs from within its app. The service uses the industry-approved Open Banking API technology, ensuring the process is secure for customers, says Barclays. Users can already view current savings and credit card accounts held with other UK FIs in the Barclays app.
IBM Blockchain Partner: Rival Companies Must Join Forces for Common Sustainable Goals
Using blockchain and other technologies to work towards sustainable goals requires companies to break the current way of thinking in business, according to Anthony Day, blockchain partner at IBM. However, he admits that changing the current way of doing business would require legal and regulatory change to the likes of anti-competitive behavior, intellectual property, funding and investment.
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Applying the 80/20 Rule to Cloud Security
Within your security activities, what is the key 20 percent that will produce 80 percent of your results when it comes to reducing risk? One effort that falls into the 20 percent bucket is reducing threat actor dwell time. A focus area to reduce threat actor dwell time is cloud security misconfigurations that accidentally expose data to the Internet at large. Exposed data was the most cited cloud security incident (27 percent) and the biggest overall concern of leaders (64 percent) in Cybersecurity Insider’s 2019 Cloud Security Report. Garner estimates that up to 95 percent of cloud breaches occur due to human error such as configuration mistakes.
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How to Plan to Prepare Your Contact Center for Disaster-Related Disruption
With the possible disruptive effects of the coronavirus at the forefront of many peoples' minds, some contact centers are reviewing their disaster readiness preparation. This article covers the basics of setting up a business continuity plan (BCP).
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