The WannaCry ransomware might have a link to North Korea
By: Michael Kan As security researchers investigate last Friday’s massive attack from the WannaCry ransomware, they’ve noticed clues that may link it with a North Korean hacking group that has been blamed for attacking banks across the world. The evidence is far from a smoking gun, and may prove inconclusive. But security researchers have noticed […]
8 ways to manage an internet or security crisis
By: Jennifer Lonoff Schiff Your business is hit with a ransomware attack. Or your ecommerce site crashes. Your legacy system stops working. Or maybe your latest software release has a major bug. These are just some of the problems that ecommerce, technology and other companies experience at one time or another. The issue is not […]
The working dead: IT jobs bound for extinction
By: Dan Tynan Remember CD-ROMs? Rob Terry does. For a few years in the mid-1990s, he helped develop interactive discs for several companies, including InfoWorld’s sister publication PC World. Terry’s job was to create electronic versions of the magazine that connected with this new thing everyone was talking about called the internet. It didn’t last […]
Microsoft blames US stockpiled vulnerability for ransomware attack
By: John Ribeiro Microsoft on Sunday said a software vulnerability stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency has affected customers around the world, and described the spread of the WannaCrypt ransomware on Friday in many countries as yet another example of the problems caused by the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments. Referring to the attack […]
Get ready to say goodbye to T-Mobile
By: Bill Snyder Have you noticed how much better things are for customers of the major wireless carriers these days? Not many years ago, consumers were locked into two-year contracts, monthly charges kept going up, and there weren’t a lot of new services on offer. That’s changed, and a good deal of the credit belongs […]
The next 5 years in AI will be frenetic, says Intel’s new AI chief
By: Martyn Williams Research into artificial intelligence is going gangbusters, and the frenetic pace won’t let up for about five years — after which the industry will concentrate around a handful of core technologies and leaders, the head of Intel’s new AI division predicts. Intel is keen to be among them. In March, it formed […]
Email, email, in the cloud
By: Mathias Thurman As my company continues to move enterprise applications to the cloud, the latest development presents a security opportunity. We are giving up our on-premises Microsoft Exchange email in favor of the Microsoft Office 365 service. With the transition, we might be able to curtail the common employee practice of communicating and storing […]
Call center fraud rising 113% per year
There has been a sharp increase in the amount of call center fraud year-over-year, according to data collected by researchers at Pindrop Labs in Atlanta: They measured fraud rates of 1 in 937 calls in 2016, compared to 1 in 2000 calls in 2015, an effective rise of 113%. Examining more than 500 million calls […]
Five Business Intelligence trends you should consider in 2017
By: Abhishek Budholiya BI is undoubtedly where the future lies, but choosing the best system for your company is critical For start-ups or those companies unable to budget for an in-house data scientist, a business intelligence software system can be a make-or-break factor. BI enables companies to predict what products to discard from their […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Dynamics on AWS; Azure portal; D365 doc management; Live Assist; ISV’s new director
By: Linda Rosencrance Data Resolution Launches Microsoft Dynamics Suite in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Data Resolution has launched Microsoft Dynamics GP, NAV, SL and AX on the Amazon Web Services public cloud to make enterprise apps more accessible and user-friendly for businesses of all sizes. Data Resolution has designed and pre-optimized these Dynamics packages […]