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Jan 29, 2021 5:00 AM PT Like many companies in these pandemic-ridden days, the Smash My Trash group uses videoconferencing in its business dealings. The Smash group consists of Smash My Trash LLC, which uses mobile trash compactors to compress trash in customers dumpsters, and Smash Franchise Partners, LLC, which sells the companys franchises. One potential franchisee, serial entrepreneur Todd Perri, used the information gleaned from Smashs videoconferences to help set up a direct competitor. S...

); //]]>//--> By Richard Adhikari Dec 1, 2020 5:23 PM PT CRM giant Salesforce on Tuesday signed a definitive agreement to purchase enterprise communications platform Slack, as widely expected. Under the terms of the agreement, Salesforce will pay $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of its common stock for each share of Slack, for a total of about $27.7 billion. "Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry," Salesforce stated. "Stewart and his ...

More than 80 percent of 650 cybersecurity and IT professionals surveyed by Check Point Software Technologies in July said their traditional security solutions either do not work at all, or only provide limited functions in the cloud. This indicates that organizations cloud migrations and deployments are racing ahead of their security teams abilities to defend against attacks and breaches.

); //]]>//--> By Richard Adhikari Jan 8, 2021 11:14 AM PT An international group of scientists is demanding scientific journals demand more transparency from researchers in computer-related areas when accepting their reports for publication. They also want computational researchers to include information about their code, models and computational environments in published reports. Their call, published in Nature Magazine in October, was in response to the results of research conducted by Google...

); //]]>//--> By Richard Adhikari Jan 7, 2021 6:00 AM PT More than 80 percent of 650 cybersecurity and IT professionals surveyed by Check Point Software Technologies in July said their traditional security solutions either do not work at all, or only provide limited functions in the cloud. This indicates that organizations cloud migrations and deployments are racing ahead of their security teams abilities to defend against attacks and breaches, according to TJ Gonen, head of the companys cloud ...

Dec 8, 2020 5:00 AM PT Service outage detection website Downdetector on Nov. 19, reported that the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Internet infrastructure service, which many websites and apps use as a backbone, was having problems. Downdetectors historical data shows that AWS had also experienced problems on Nov. 2 and Nov. 16. "Crashes in the cloud are highly unusual," Kristin Brown, senior PR manager at Amazon Web Services, told the E-Commerce Times when asked about the Nov. 19 crash. Amazons serv...

Local schools team up for College Information Week Indiana State University, Ivy Tech, and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods have come together to make sure students are informed. Posted: Jan 7, 2021 12:50 PM Updated: Jan 7, 2021 6:57 PM Posted By: Staff Report TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - High school students will get to learn more about the next steps for college. It is with the help of Virtual College Information Week. Indiana State University, Ivy Tech, and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods have come together...

); //]]>//--> By Richard Adhikari Nov 20, 2020 5:00 AM PT The use of smart and connected devices promises to make our lives easier, but it might also give their manufacturers greater control over our lives. One out of three households in the United States with broadband connections owns at least one smart home device, and interactive security systems that allow remote connection and control capabilities are installed in 20 percent of these households, research firm Park Associates reports. Some...

); //]]>//--> By Richard Adhikari Oct 20, 2020 12:06 PM PT Healthcare records were digitized to help prevent medical errors such as misdiagnoses and mistakes with medication, but electronic health records (EHR) have made it easier for bad actors to steal patients highly personal information. Cyberattacks on hospitals are "increasing exponentially year after year," Ellen Neveux wrote in secure remote access provider SecureLinks blog. "Healthcare data is valuable on the black market because it co...

); //]]>//--> By Richard Adhikari Dec 18, 2020 5:00 AM PT Illinois consumer Matthew Hufnus says that on Sept. 26 he received a number of text messages on his cellphone from a company named DoNotPay, Inc., attempting to solicit his business. Taken together, the messages read: "Hey there its Jen from DoNotPay -- we know its a lot to ask for your payment details upfront, we really do. But heres a statistic -- DoNotPay users save an average of $450 in cold, hard cash per year. Sue robocallers, canc...