Category Archives: Technology

19Jan/23

How to spot a cyberbot – five tips to keep your device safe

January 19, 2023ScienceAdrian Winckles, Andrew Moore, Antivirus software, Artem, Botnets, Computer network security, Computer virus, Computing, Creative Commons, Cybercrime, Internet security, Multi-agent systems, Rootkit, Security, Security breaches, SHUTTERSTOCK, Spammingadmin

How to spot a cyberbot – five tips to keep your device safe

Malware is designed to hide in your device
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Adrian Winckles, Anglia Ruskin University and Andrew Moore, Anglia Ruskin University

You may know nothing about it, but your phone – or your laptop or tablet – could be taken over by someone else who has found their way in through a back door. They could have infected your device with malware to make it a “bot” or a “zombie” and be using it – perhaps with hundreds of other unwitting victims’ phones – to launch a cyberattack.

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18Jan/23

Tech downturn slashes billions from value of world’s top brands

January 18, 2023TechnologyAmazon, Brand, Brand Finance, Brand management, Brand valuation, Business, Identification, Marketing, Product managementadmin

Amazon has reclaimed top spot as the world’s most valuable brand despite its brand value falling 15% from US$350.3 billion to US$299.3 billion, according to a new report from leading brand valuation consultancy, Brand Finance. Continue reading

18Jan/23

US financial institutions brace for soaring financial crime, with 100 percent re-evaluating their approach to risk

January 18, 2023SecurityEconomy, Financial crises, Inflation, Macroeconomics, Recession, Social groups, Ukraine, United Statesadmin

As war rages in Ukraine and inflation impacts the economy, financial institutions in the United States expect a subsequent economic downturn to drive a rise in financial crime. Continue reading

18Jan/23

Infosys Ranked in the Top 3 IT Services Brands in the World; Among the Top 150 Most Valued Brands

January 18, 2023TechnologyBrand, Brand Finance, Brand management, BSE SENSEX, Business, CNX Nifty, Economy of India, Infosys, Infosys Consulting, Marketing, Product managementadmin

Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced that it has been recognized as the top 3 most valuable IT services brands globally, according to Brand Finance, the world’s leading brand valuation firm, in its Brand Finance Global 500 2023 report. Continuously accelerating brand growth, marked by 84% increase in its brand value since 2020, Infosys is now among the top 150 most valuable brands in the world. Continue reading

17Jan/23

Tredence Launches ATOM.AI, an Integrated Accelerator Ecosystem for Retailers and CPGs at NRF 2023

January 17, 2023InnovationGuitarists, Joe Louis Walker, Musicians, National Retail Federationadmin

Tredence, the Data Science and AI Solutions company, today announced the launch of ATOM.AI, an intelligently engineered platform that leverages AI to accelerate data and analytics modernization. Tredence announced the launch of ATOM.AI for retailers and consumer goods companies at NRF, the leading retail industry show hosted by the National Retail Federation. Continue reading

16Jan/23

IDTechEx Discusses What to Expect From the Graphene Industry in 2023

January 16, 2023InnovationArticles, Emerging technologies, Graphene, Materials, Matter, Monolayers, Potential applications of grapheneadmin

Is this the year of rapid graphene sales? Is the market slipping deeper into a disillusionment phase? Who will emerge as the market leaders? Is consolidation inevitable? 2023 will be a telling year for the industry. Continue reading

15Jan/23

OKdo Announces $50,000 Partnership Prize for Innovation with ROCK Single Board Computers in Global Engineering Challenge

January 15, 2023InnovationARM architecture, Companies, Computer architecture, Economy of China, Fabless semiconductor companies, Rockchip, System on a chipadmin

The ROCK™ Engineering Challenge invites engineers, developers, educators, inventors and entrepreneurs, to submit an idea based on the OKdo® ROCK single board computers (SBC) and compute modules, including the recently released ROCK 5B platform (RRP $159). Powered by the high-performing Rockchip RK3588 SoC, the next generation board is a superior SBC opening up a wealth of new innovative application potential. The challenge is free to enter and open to everyone until April 12, 2023. Continue reading

13Jan/23

2022 wasn’t the year of Cleopatra – so why was she the most viewed page on Wikipedia?

January 13, 2023Science.google, Alphabet Inc., Android, Bryant, Cleopatra, Creative Commons, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dublin, Elon Musk, Google Search, Jeffrey Dahmer, Johnny Depp, Julius Caesar, Murder, Open-source intelligence, Philip, SHUTTERSTOCK, Social information processing, Taha Yasseri, Ukraine, United States, Websites, Wikipedia, World Wide Webadmin

Taha Yasseri, University College Dublin

At the end of every year, I gather statistics on the most viewed Wikipedia articles of the year. This helps me, a computational social scientist, understand what topics captured the most attention and gives me a chance to reflect on the major public events of the year. I try to use data to determine how the public (and more specifically here, English-language Wikipedia readers) will collectively remember the past year.

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13Jan/23

Reclaiming privacy

January 13, 2023SecurityCensorship, Circumvention, Computing, Content-control software, Digital technology, Egypt, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Great Firewall, India, Information and communications technology, Internet censorship, Internet censorship circumvention, Internet privacy, Internet security, Iran, IRanASignalProxy, Mahsa Amini, META, Proxy server, Russia, Samuel Woodhams Digital, Sri Lanka, Tehran, Thomson Reuters Foundation, United Statesadmin

By Samuel Woodhams | Digital rights researcher and journalist

Last week, WhatsApp announced a new proxy support feature that will help people stay connected during internet disruptions. The app is often targeted by government censors because messages on the end-to-end encrypted service can’t be intercepted, enabling people to organise protests and share critical information in private.
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05Jan/23

CES 2023: Jackery Reveals the Revolutionary New Portable Solar Generators, Leading the Solar Power Generation Industry

January 5, 2023InnovationCES, Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegasadmin

Jackery, the global leader of innovative portable power and green outdoor energy solutions, has unveiled its most innovative portable solar generators to complement the high-end Pro family – the 3000 Pro and 1500 Pro – at CES 2023 (booth No.8943), running from January 5-8, 2023 in Las Vegas.
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Category: Technology

How to spot a cyberbot – five tips to keep your device safe