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Beware of your HP printers. They are hackable Finland-based security consultancy F-Secure on Tuesday announced the discovery of vulnerabilities affecting more than 150 different HP multifunction printer (MFP) products. HP has since issued patches for these vulnerabilities, essentially improving the security of a significant portion of its MFP units...

Many Americans lack the digital skills needed to be productive members of the workforce in the 21st century, according to a report released Monday by a Washington, D.C., think tank One-third of U.S. workers lack digital skills, with 13 percent having no digital skills and 18 percent having, at best, limited digital skills, noted the report by the I...

Thanksgiving has passed, and I'm sure we all had wonderful conversations with our relatives on safe topics like politics and religion and are feeling pretty good about not seeing some of those folks for at least another year. But, good news, our list of folks to buy gifts for likely got significantly shorter! It is my tradition to write a piece on ...

Consumers have a strong appetite for gift cards and gifting alcohol. But until now, they could not do both with a branded gift card. The market had none Beverage alcohol e-commerce platform company Thirstie on Tuesday announced the first-ever alcohol-branded gift cards with major liquor brands....

'Tis the season to go phishing. Nothing brings out digital bandits like the holidays, and this year is no exception Proofpoint, an enterprise digital security company, reported Tuesday its researchers are seeing a massive global increase in holiday-themed mobile phishing attacks, a.k.a. smishing....

Cash flow concerns and fraud are going to be a menace to both retailers and consumers this holiday shopping season. One of the biggest shopping headaches this year will be a much earlier start to the chargeback cycles The chargeback period usually comes in January. This shopping season, it will likely arrive a lot earlier. Much sooner, in fact, tha...

Few consumers take strong action to protect their privacy and identities after receiving a data breach notice, according to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and research firm DIG.Works The report, based on a survey of 1,050 U.S. adult consumers, found that 16 percent of the participants in the research took no action after receiving n...

Business leaders and employees disagree significantly on the future of work. The latest report on workplace trends nixes some previous accounts on the return to office concerns and assumptions about technology issues for remote workers A report by technology and business solutions firm NTT released Nov. 9 reveals a significant gap between what orga...

Online shoppers and e-commerce website operators face greater chances of becoming victims of cyber hacks as 2021 draws to a close. A list of technical and logistical problems stretching across multiple industries gives both shoppers and retailers reason to double efforts to avoid being hacked this year Two factors top the list: runaway inflation an...

Qualcomm's investor day was last week and its CEO Cristiano Amon made a comment I disagree with, though the outcome to Qualcomm is the same or better. Amon said everything is going mobile, but I don't think that is correct I argue instead that everything is becoming cloud-connected. I also suggest that this cloud-connected capability favors Qualcom...

The year 2020 forever changed the way we work and perform routine tasks. With the emergence of the deadly coronavirus and the resultant adoption of social distancing, even as the virus approaches its second anniversary, the concept of digital, contactless payments remains prevalent Prior to the pandemic, the digital payment sector had experienced s...

Sometimes in the retail business, you do not know what you do not know. That knowledge gap can lead to sales projections that fall short and marketing strategies that fall flat Marketing and business communications company R.R. Donnelley & Sons (RRD) last month released a study that reveals that traditional marketing channels, including word of mou...

Open-source innovations and the Linux operating system continue to set complacency aside The Linux Foundation is ever-expanding its influence as it brings more developer projects under its banner, leaving no room for proprietary software to rule the computing world....

Over the last year, ethical hackers have prevented more than US$27 billion in cybercrime, according to a report released Tuesday by a leading bug bounty platform In its annual Inside the Mind of a Hacker report, Bugcrowd maintained that ethical hackers working on its platform were able to prevent those cybercrime losses to organizations by exposing...

Industrial robots are hot, with North American orders for the first nine months of 2021 valued at US$1.48 billion, breaking a record set in 2017 The order numbers are 37 percent higher than in the same period in 2020, from 21,072 to 29,000 units, and a value jump of 35 percent, from $1.09 billion to $1.48 billion, according to figures released Frid...

Nvidia's big GTC conference took place last week. This event has become more and more interesting over the years, with less and less emphasis on Nvidia's GPU business -- which makes me wonder if it is time to change the name While Facebook certainly caught much interest with its name change to Meta, Nvidia builds much of the required infrastructure...

Over the years, writing about technology, I've produced many guides on how to do cool stuff (by my definition, at least) with your computer. But in all that time, I failed to devote any attention to how to approach those guides or any technical reference material. I assumed readers had the groundwork needed to use resources like mine As we all know...

Business on Amazon is booming for accelerator and aggregator organizations that drive product and seller buyouts Doing business on Amazon is now very streamlined. Imagine building a business doing $10 million of revenue with no employees, physical store, or real estate. Some of the biggest success stories involve entrepreneurs with an idea for a pr...

Holiday shoppers can expect to see a lot of out-of-stock warnings online this year, but that won't discourage them for opening their wallets to buy gifts for loved ones, according to retail sales watchers In October alone, online shoppers saw more than two billion out-of-stock messages, Adobe reported Tuesday in its Digital Economy Index, which is ...

Entrepreneurs might well be the latest heroes in cyberwarfare. Despite increasing odds of malicious attacks, SMB owners are forging ahead with a newfound sense of security Untangle's fourth annual SMB IT Security Report, released Oct. 7, shows that SMBs have adapted to a changing work environment, addressed an influx of cyberattacks, and defined th...