Three Chinese citizens have been charged in the U.S. courts after it was found that they hacked U.S. law firms and then used the stolen information for insider-trading that netted them $4 million.
A Manhattan federal court charged the three men this week with conspiracy, insider trading, wire fraud and computer intrusion in a case that mixed cyber-crime with securities fraud.
The word from recruitment specialists to employers is that challenges in IT recruitment for 2017 will include a ‘High-Demand, Low Supply’ hiring landscape, and the need to adapt to the needs and expectations of millennials and Generation Z.
Figures from Gartner and IDC show that, apart from the three big vendors, sales of PCs fell in 2016, with technology improvements and innovations proving to be not strong enough motivators to stop the downward trend.
With many businesses now having upgraded to Windows 10, it’s useful to know which of the latest features the O/S can offer that can help you to work smarter, save time, and get better results.
The EU has voted to give a Bill of Rights to robots that will give them “electronic personhood” status in the eyes of the Law in anticipation of a new kind of industrial robot revolution.
The Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky has warned of an Android Trojan that uses compromised devices to attack WiFi routers.
Dubbed as “the Switcher Trojan”, it is distributed through counterfeit versions of popular apps, and rather than exploiting compromised devices directly, it seeks to take control of WiFi routers in order to re-direct traffic.
A version of the Petya ransomware (which has been dubbed as “GoldenEye”) is targeting human resources (HR) departments with counterfeit job applications that are infected with malware.
There have been renewed warnings from cyber security experts that much more needs to be done to provide adequate protection from the potentially devastating effects of hacks involving IoT devices.
UK police have issued a warning to educational establishments to be vigilant, following an alert by Action Fraud that fraudsters are targeting UK schools with ransomware in order to demand big payments.
Amazon Echo gadgets in homes across the city of San Diego on the West Coast of the US were activated by a comment make by a TV presenter.
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