In the spring of 2015, the internet briefly became obsessed with the virility of the "dadbod." For a moment, the merits of the pudgy-middled male physique seemed to outweigh a six pack or chiseled biceps. That year, the Collins English Dictionary added the term "dadbod" to its list of new words. "Hail to the average [...]
Consumers are checking their smartphones more than 9 billion times a day and 89 percent of those folks are also watching television, according to a Deloitte & Touche survey. The gist of Deloitte survey is that person-to-person communications is being altered by smartphones. That news isn't new, but Deloitte noted that screenaholics are going to [...]
These were the biggest hacks, leaks and data breaches of 2016 Over two billion records were stolen in 2016 alone -- and the year isn't over yet. Historical hacks come back to haunt, and fresh breaches bite our behinds This was the year when many historical hacks came back to bite millions just as they [...]
Cybercriminals are developing smarter tactics for scamming businesses, gaining the trust of target employees they're attempting to trick with business email compromise (BEC) schemes well before actually duping them into transferring payments. BEC - or CEO fraud - is carried out by hackers who've managed to become so familiar with a business that they've gained [...]
When Facebook's chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer took the stage at the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon on Tuesday showing off a way to put filters over videos, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a minor product update. But Schroepfer's demonstration was actually a way to show the social media giant's breakthrough in technology. [...]
Global internet usage on smartphones and tablets exceeded desktop usage for the first time, according to October statistics from web analytics firm StatCounter. Internet usage on mobile devices has exceeded desktop for the first time worldwide, according to web analytics company StatCounter. StatCounter Global Stats found that mobile and tablet devices accounted for 51.3 percent [...]
Small business owners: protecting your business against cybercrime is now more important than ever. In 2015, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence ranked cybercrime as the No. 1 security threat in the country. Despite popular belief, cyber criminals actually prefer small businesses simply because they are easier to infiltrate. As technology advances, cybercrime tactics used [...]
It’s been a rough few days for Facebook’s Trending Topics. The company announced on Friday that it’s made the news list more automated by removing article descriptions and leaning more heavily on algorithms to produce it. The company also reportedly fired as many as 18 editorial contractors responsible for writing descriptions and ensuring the accuracy [...]
Q. What are my options to protect my e-mail from snooping? A. This question is a two-parter. If you want to protect your e-mail while it’s making its way across the Internet, you may not have to do anything. But if you want to secure it even while it’s on your mail service’s computers, you [...]
There’s a gadget in your home that you would be lost without. You don’t give much thought to it until it stops working. Then you curse it, reboot it, and watch it spring back to life, or not. It’s your lifeline to the Internet — your router. It is an essential component in [...]
