The free-to-consumers product is available for download for PC users running Windows 7, 8 and 10, with the company claiming it as “the first and only free anti-ransomware tool designed to detect and stop 99 percent of ransomware from encrypting files.” Cybereason says they are also looking to expand it to more operating systems in the future. Once RansomFree detects ransomware attempting to encrypt files, a pop up window appears on your screen to alert you about the suspicious file that you can either block or enable....

It’s a mixture of fun and function, with the likes of new Animoji’s and filters rubbing shoulders with more practical features such as privacy and time management. There’s a lot to unpack, and a lot to look forward to with iOS 12. Naturally, this update is available for Apple’s newly announced phone line up, but if you’re not looking to upgrade yet, don’t worry, it’s probably also available for your existing iPhone....

Companies like Google, Facebook, and several others have been under the microscope as of late, with government agencies finally catching up to the quickly evolving tech industry. With technology evolving right along with them, these tech giants have seemingly had free rein to do whatever they want with your data with impunity. Those wild west days seem to be over though, as the Justice Department is taking firm steps towards regulating an industry that has been borderline lawless for nearly a decade....

As the CTO of Mayfield Robotics, the maker of Kuri, afun friend and helpful assistant with serious technology inside, Hsiao has drastically expanded the limits of the robotics field. In her storied career, she’s been innovating new ways of interacting with shared autonomous teleoperation, enhanced imitation learning, tactile grasp adjustment, human-aware navigation and, most recently, robot mapping and localization. Hsiao is more than just a robotics expert. At Mayfield Robotics, she is also a market-focused strategist that understands the importance and value of building relevant, helpful products that people actually want to use....

Released in theatres in July, the YouTube-National Geographic documentary Life in a Day is curated crowdsourcing on a grand scale: about 1,000 clips were chosen from 80,000 submissions from 192 countries to chronicle one day on Earth. YouTube is also packaging videos for the media: YouTube Trends “aggregate[es] the wisdom of top curators across the web” with posts like 4 at 4—the four hottest videos released at 4 a.m. and 4 p....

The coolest new features both come from the V50 ThinQ. The first is that long-awaited 5G support, and the second is LG’s new spin on the folding screen concept that’s sweeping MWC this year. Here’s all the information to know, with one big exception: LG hasn’t yet confirmed the price for either phone. V50 ThinQ — same design as the V40 predecessor, but now with 5G and a new second screen add-onG8 ThinQ — solid specs, great sound, and weird new biometrics that read your palm veins...

Meet LifeSite from Mountain View California LifeSite is committed to providing secure, convenient and smart solutions to help you manage, discover and share the most important information in your life with your family and those you trust. LifeSite Vault is a secure web and mobile based solution that helps individuals and families organize, share, and collaborate on the most important information of their lives throughout their lives. It combines secure file access and controlled, permission-based sharing with military-grade encryption and layered security, to provide you with the safest and smartest digital storages solution, all available on your computer or mobile device....

Lightspeed has already bought multiple other POS companies in deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars. This new pair of deals isn’t new, even if its total worth of nearly a billion dollars is impressive. But this is a confirmation that Lightspeed sees an enormous growth potential for the ecommerce industry and the POS systems that power it. Lightspeed Is Buying Rivals Lightspeed’s other recent acquisitions include Shopkeep POS for $440 million in November 2020, the restaurant-specific POS platform Upserve for $430 million in December 2020, and another POS rival, Vend, for $350 million in March 2021....

Typically that means managing additional hardware and devices and time spent configuring each. However, through a system called clustering, networks can all be configured in unison. On top of this, a person can roam throughout the office on a continuous connection without disconnecting and reconnecting. Yesterday, Linksys added clustering as a standard feature to each of their business class wireless access points. Clustering is not a new technology, but it also isn’t the most readily available feature unless using more advanced or enterprise-level hardware....

Introduced in 2009, Lissn has made many advances and is now being described as Twitter meets Omegle. There is no need to sign up for Lissn. All you have to do is go to their website and start chatting. It allows for three people to chat with each other while any number of people can listen in. The three people chatting are left anonymous except for their location (at the state level) and the site that they came from (Twitter, etc....

Wishberg, a Mumbai startup that launched to the public in November, can give you a few ideas. Wishberg lets you make a visual wishlist with a Pinterest-type layout. But more importantly, you can see what your friends want and what they’ve already bought. The biggest categories skew toward the male demographic for now, with motorbikes, cars, and gadgets, as well as real estate and travel. Showing what you’ve already bought or done was a feature requested by early users....

They’ve followed this up with another breath-takingly huge fine: The proposed £99.2 million fine is against hotel group Marriott International’s November 2018 hack, which exposed data from 339 million customers globally. The two fines are just the latest development in Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and it’s a sobering one for anyone working in cybersecurity at a major company. These record fines prove that the GDPR’s bite is indeed as bad as its bark....

The indictment names Samuel Joyner and an accomplice, Evan McMahon of Sydney, Australia. It alleges that they operated an online service called “AccountBot,” through which users could pay a low fee to access stolen streaming service accounts. The allegations are a particularly bold example of a hacking risk that costs streaming services billions each year. AccountBot Sold Accounts as Low as $1.79 The indictment states that the AccountBot site claimed to have access to over 217,000 unique customer account credentials and to have served over 52,000 customers....

The group, believed to be behind some of the largest ransomware scams in US history, runs several blogs and a payment website which are no longer reachable. Speculation is rife that the disappearance of these sites is due to government intervention, possibly either from Russia or the US, but no official statement has been made by either party. REvil Goes Dark The blogs and payment site for cybergang REvil went down on Tuesday, suddenly and without any prior indication....

One thing that sets this group apart from traditional 9-5ers is that they communicate differently. They don’t have a work phone that’s paid for by corporate. They often have to use the same device for both personal and business purposes. Since a huge part of being successful in business is having great customer service, it helps when freelancers and other gig workers can have a direct line in which customers, or potential employers can reach them, but ideally, one that they can turn off during date night....

The news – which was announced this week by company founder Mark Zuckerberg – should mean that WhatsApp becomes a completely new way for hundreds of thousands of businesses to connect instantly with customers. What’s more, with over 75 million WhatsApp users in the US alone, it could present an enormous opportunity for small businesses that already use CRM software but haven’t yet integrated WhatsApp. Get Down to Business with WhatsApp’s new API Facebook’s new cloud-based Business API gives businesses an easy way to sync WhatsApp up with the rest of their customer service infrastructure, and so that data and interactions can be managed more easily in the app....

While a new system of detecting malware, ransomware, and viruses is obviously objectively beneficial for a business, the employee monitoring tools could be seen as more of a gray area, and its one that Microsoft have run afoul of before. There’s no concrete release date for these tools – they’ve simply been announced as a general idea, so we may be hearing more about them down the road. The former isn’t just a way of tracking your employees’ activities....

Microsoft says the results show online civility was “the best it’s been” since 2016, although the data also showed that this was largely driven by improvements for boys and men, whereas the situation worsened for girls and women. The company hopes that “providing access to this data will prompt new projects and research” into civility in online spaces. Microsoft Study Finds Gender Disparities in Safety Microsoft’s Civility, Safety, and Interaction Online study involved polling young people about their exposure to various online risks and harms, and culminated with the production of a Digital Civility Index (DCI) score: the lower the score, the lower the risk exposure....

According to some reports, the group has been using this tactic since last summer – but recent attacks have given security researchers insight into their tactics. The presence of Hive – and the fact it operates a ransomware-as-a-service model in which Hive ransomware can be used by others to conduct other attacks – means its never been more crucial to invest in antivirus software and other tools to keep you safe....

The feature will mean account holders can avoid the arduous task of signing out of an app and then back in again with another account, or work in a different browser. Microsoft says the changes will be rolled out between April and June, so by summer, account holders will have a seamless account-switching experience at their fingertips. Microsoft Switches it Up As Microsoft users will know, Microsoft lets you have multiple accounts, including work, school, and personal accounts....