Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

Rates for cyber insurance policies continue to rise while a growing number of exclusions are shrinking what's covered by them, according to a report released Tuesday by a cybersecurity company Nearly four out of five (79%) of the more than 300 organizations in the United States surveyed by Censuswide for privileged access management provider Deline...

A growing number of identity theft victims are having thoughts of suicide, the Identity Theft Resource Center reported Wednesday In its annual Consumer Impact Report, the ITRC noted that 16% of victims seeking support from the organization in 2023 acknowledged they had contemplated suicide after having their identity compromised, a substantial incr...

It's never too early for a retailer to start thinking about the holiday season, although this year, they may want to delay thinking about it a while longer. That's because prognosticators are predicting a lackluster holiday sales season in 2023 "In general, expectations are pretty low," said David Swartz, an equity analyst with Morningstar Research...

Generative AI is perched on the peak of inflated expectations in Gartner's 2023 hype cycle for emerging technologies released Wednesday With most of the hype now behind artificial intelligence, Gartner is predicting the technology will deliver transformational benefits in two to five years....

A recent study released by enterprise security software and services provider BlackBerry revealed that 75% of organizations worldwide are implementing or considering implementing workplace bans on ChatGPT and other generative AI applications. However, experts questioned by TechNewsWorld were skeptical of the effectiveness of such bans The study, ba...

Researchers at North Carolina State University on Wednesday revealed a novel method for foiling malicious robocalls Called SnorCall, the method uses artificial intelligence to analyze the content in robocalls and, in a significant number of cases, provide law enforcement and other stakeholders with the information they need to track down the bad ac...

Artificial intelligence technologies are being applied by investigators that can identify and stop internet crimes against children (ICAC), according to a maker of AI tools for law enforcement, government agencies, and enterprises Voyager Labs, in a blog posted Tuesday, explained that many ICAC task forces are using tools like "topic query searches...

The class of 2023 from two of the nation's most prominent business schools founded nearly 100 startups, according to data released by an international software design and development firm The data from Symphony revealed that the Stanford MBA class of 2023 founded 23 companies, while Harvard MBA grads started 64 companies....

A Salesforce executive is calling on coders to consider climate change when writing their software "Even something as seemingly disconnected from the environment, such as building or hosting a website and designing software, can have major climate consequences," Salesforce EVP and Chief Impact Officer Suzanne DiBianca wrote last week in Forbes....

Google's annual environmental report released Monday showed the company continued to meet its goals for renewable energy use but still had a ways to go to meet its pledge to give back to communities more water than it's taking out of them to cool its data centers and supply its offices For the sixth year in a row, the company matched 100% of its an...

In a drastic rebranding move, Elon Musk scrapped the perky blue bird that symbolized Twitter for more than a decade and replaced it with an enigmatic X Musk made the branding announcement early Sunday morning, and by the following day, the blue bird was gone, although everything else on the Twitter site appeared unchanged....

A cybercrime campaign has been targeting students seeking jobs since March, a cybersecurity company reported Wednesday Scammers, posing as bioscience and health companies, are enticing students to attend a video call about a job with the intention of getting them to pay bogus fees as a condition of employment, according to Proofpoint researchers Ti...

Plans were announced Monday to launch a new AI website generator that promises to accelerate the ability of e-commerce operators to create an online presence Created by Wix, AI Site Generator will be launched with a suite of AI-powered tools that the company says will streamline the entire website-building, design, and management process....

The wraps were pulled off a new AI chatbot billed as "helpful, harmless and honest" on Tuesday by its developer, Anthropic The chatbot, Claude 2, boasts a familiar repertoire. It can create summaries, write code, translate text, and perform tasks that have become de rigueur for the software genre....

Competitors have been nipping at Twitter's heels for months, trying to exploit growing dissatisfaction among its users over decisions made by its new helmsman Elon Musk. Those efforts, though, haven't been able to gain much traction -- until now In just five days, the latest Twitter alternative, Meta's Threads, has garnered 100 million users, shatt...

Companies for years have wrangled their employee's phones with mobile device management (MDM) software but haven't been able to exercise the same ease of control over their workforce's PCs. That's about to change, according to Venn Software The company on Wednesday announced a patented technology for securing remote work on any computer that uses a...

Advertising by more than 140 major global brands is supporting the proliferation of unreliable artificial intelligence-generated news and information websites (UAINs), according to an analysis released Monday by a misinformation watchdog group The ads appear to be posted on the sites through an automated placement system, most of them through Googl...

Three out of four online users in the United States and Europe are putting themselves at risk of being hacked due to poor password practices, according to a study released Tuesday by a password management solutions provider The study by Keeper Security, based on a survey of 8,000 people in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany, fou...

Workers are using AI tools to boost individual productivity but keeping their activity on the down-low, which could be hurting the overall performance of their organizations, a professor at the Wharton business school contends in a blog posted Sunday "Today, billions of people have access to large language models (LLMs) and the productivity benefit...

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are sparking an increase in sophisticated email attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by a global, cloud-based email security company Security leaders have worried about the possibilities of AI-generated email attacks since ChatGPT was released, and we're starting to see those fears validated, noted the ...