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: Written by: ZDNet; Category: News; Published: 17 October 2020; Hits: 355

The possibilities opened up to us by the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is a beautiful thing. However, not enough attention is being paid to the software that goes into the things of IoT. This can...

: Written by: ZDNet; Category: News; Published: 17 October 2020; Hits: 328

US political candidates use psychological tricks and dark patterns in their emails to manipulate supporters to donate money and mobilize voters.

In a study published earlier this month,...

: Written by: ZDNet; Category: News; Published: 17 October 2020; Hits: 333

Three JavaScript packages have been removed from the npm portal[1]^{on Thursday for containing malicious code.
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According to advisories from the npm security team, the three JavaScript libraries}

: Written by: ZDNet; Category: News; Published: 17 October 2020; Hits: 324

Think big data is too big for SMEs? Barcelona's out to prove you wrong

Digitization among small and medium businesses (SMBs) in Brazil has gathered pace as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study published by software firm Intuit.

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The study covered 1.128 business owners and decision makers

: Written by: Search Engine Watch; Category: News; Published: 16 October 2020; Hits: 785

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Bing isn’t the search engine with the largest market share, but it still serves millions of users every day. One-third of U.S. online queries are powered by Bing, most notably in terms of

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: Written by: ZDNet; Category: News; Published: 16 October 2020; Hits: 319

Microsoft has published today two out-of-band security updates to address security issues in the Windows Codecs library and the Visual Studio Code application.

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The two updates come as late arrivals after

: Written by: Opensource.com; Category: News; Published: 16 October 2020; Hits: 316

Puzzle pieces coming together to form a computer screen

I am a Fedora Linux user who runs yum upgrade daily. While this habit enables me to run all the latest software (one of ...

Read more: Set up ZFS on Linux with yum

: Written by: ZDNet; Category: News; Published: 16 October 2020; Hits: 346

The Google Cloud team revealed today ^[1] a previously undisclosed DDoS attack that targeted Google service back in September 2017 and which clocked at 2.54 Tbps, making it...

: Written by: ZDNet; Category: News; Published: 16 October 2020; Hits: 902

Since the COVID-19 pandemic ^[1] began to take hold across the globe, companies and organizations of all sizes have had to adapt to moving the vast majority of their workforce to work from home situations. But...

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When 'code rot' becomes a matter of life or death, especially in the Internet of Things

Political campaign emails contain dark patterns to manipulate donors, voters

Three npm packages found opening shells on Linux, Windows systems

Brazilian SMBs accelerate tech adoption amid pandemic

Five excellent tips to optimize SEO for Bing – not Google

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Microsoft releases emergency security updates for Windows and Visual Studio

Set up ZFS on Linux with yum

Google says it mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, largest known to date

Microsoft, Cisco, and Zoom are now ‘The Big Three’ for video