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Mar 30, 2021 4:00 AM PT
If the United States wants to out-compete China in key technology markets, Congress and the Biden Administration must act now, maintained a Washington, D.C. think tank in a report released Monday. With the rise of China, the U.S. economic and technology environment has fundamentally and inexorably changed, explained the report by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. America needs an advanced technology industrial policy to compete effectively, it continued, but that will require modernizing hidebound economic thinking that has long considered industry policy to be anathema.
The report called on government to take an active role in promoting industrial competitiveness and to formulate an advanced industry and technology strategy, which should include a set of policies and programs explicitly designed to support specific industries and technologies.
Apr 7, 2021 5:00 AM PT
Businesses fearful their workers may be targeted by fraudsters will want to take a look at the free Tax Scam Awareness Kit offered by Proofpoint, a data protection company in Sunnyvale, Calif.
The kit, for both Windows and macOS, includes materials for an employee education campaign about tax fraud, three educational videos, an infographic, answers to frequently asked questions about tax scams, and a tax scam flyer.
The kit is designed to be used over a two-week period to educate employees about tax fraud. During the first week, employees are encouraged to visit an IRS website that focuses on tax scams aimed at consumers and to copy and distribute at the office, as well as at home, the Attack Spotlight flyer included with the kit.
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Apr 21, 2021 4:00 AM PT
Apple introduced a new version of its iMac desktop and a powerful upgrade of its iPad Pro tablet at an online event Tuesday. Both new products are based on Apple s new M1 chip. The whole thing about this event is broadening the use of the M1 chip across all Apple s computers now laptops, desktops and iPads, Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a technology advisory firm in Campbell, Calif. told TechNewsWorld.
The new iMac is the first computer built by Apple for the M1 chip from the ground up, explained Ross Rubin the principal analyst at Reticle Research, a consumer technology advisory firm in New York City.
Apr 6, 2021 4:00 AM PT
A rich cache of data on some 533 million Facebook users was posted to a hacker forum over the weekend and is available to download for practically free. The information is from a data breach that occurred in 2019, but hasn t been widely available until now.
The data was posted to an English-speaking cybercriminal forum called RaidForums by a hacker going by the handle TomLiner. The Facebook data was first listed for sale on RaidForums on June 6, 2020, but the initial sale allegedly asked users for US$30,000 in exchange for the data, explained Ivan Righi, a cyber threat intelligence analyst with Digital Shadows, a San Francisco-based provider of digital risk protection solutions.