NSA’s Claim Backdoor Off Encryption Table Draws Skepticism from Cyber Pros
The director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency induced a few smirks among cyber pros last week when he said there wouldn’t be any backdoors in the new encryption standards his agency is working on with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The state of Florida has amended its Telemarketing Act, creating what is being called the “Mini-TCPA.” This new law changes electronic and telemarketing in significant ways — even if you’re not in Florida.
New Cisco Conferencing Devices Designed To Heal Meeting Fatigue
Dimensional Research recently conducted a study of meeting fatigue related to video meetings. That research found that 81 percent of participants indicated experiencing physical ailment at the end of a day filled with video meetings. Cisco is releasing a new set of devices designed to meet the challenges of hybrid work environments.
Zoho Marketing Plus is an attempt to bring things back into focus so that SMBs can do the same things in marketing that larger companies do with more labor. You might call this the second democratization of information.
John Deere, Russian Thieves, and the Double-Edged Sword of Vendor Lock-In
Tech analyst Rob Enderle talks about kill switches, lock-in, and how vendors can fall down a rabbit hole of customer abuse and destroy themselves using a strategy like John Deere’s. He then closes with the product of the week, a cool microphone from an HP subsidiary, HyperX.
Distro Delights, New Release Mania, Forking KDE, Windows in a Bottle
Linux provides user options for a wide variety of desktop environments, making it a much richer computing platform compared to macOS and Microsoft Windows. That benefit is on display with this month’s distro releases and updates.
Hackers Cast LinkedIn as Most-Popular Phishing Spot
The social media platform for professionals was in the crosshairs of 52 percent of all phishing scams globally in the first quarter of 2022. This is the first time that hackers leveraged LinkedIn more often than any tech giant brand name like Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
E-commerce expansion can take several paths based on finding new sales channels and reaching new or less saturated consumer bases globally. Optimizing shipping and fulfillment strategies as businesses scale can further streamline inventory management while meeting customers where they are.
Cloud Providers Push Products, Tactics, To Win Customers in Competitive Market
In the current cross-industry scamper among enterprises migrating to clouds, no clear winners have yet to emerge in the race for market share among the hyperscale public cloud providers. This has cloud computing providers battling to bring enterprise customers to their platforms in a highly competitive marketplace.
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Third-Party Risk Could Cost E-Commerce Sites Millions
Based on an analysis of two billion user sessions on e-commerce websites, the study by Jscrambler found that third-party services running on the sites attempted to leak 144,000 customer data records.
Sports Betting Platforms Gambling With Substandard CX
Online gambling is at an all-time high in accessibility and popularity. But many betting app developers are rolling the dice blindly without addressing users’ customer experience concerns.
