Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

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...

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...

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 ...

The global pandemic and the need to comply with laws governing consumer data are fueling increases in privacy budgets, according to a report by an association for privacy professionals and a multinational professional services firm The Privacy Governance Report for 2021 produced by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, EY and EY L...

Microsoft offered a glimpse of the metaverse in the enterprise Tuesday at its Virtual Ignite conference with the announcement of Mesh for Teams and Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces Mesh for Teams combines the mixed-reality capabilities of Microsoft Mesh, which allows people in different physical locations to join collaborative and shared holographic e...

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Snap lost an estimated $9.85 billion in revenue during the first half of 2021 due to a new privacy tool launched by Apple that requires applications to ask for a user's permission before tracking their activity on the internet, the Financial Times reported Sunday The report, based on data from advertising research fir...

Amazon added two new solutions to its Alexa Smart Properties lineup Monday that will allow senior living and healthcare providers to integrate the company's voice agent Alexa into their properties and empower residents and patients to stay connected, informed and entertained Designed specifically for the needs of senior living communities and healt...

A proposed law barring high-tech companies from favoring their own products over those of their competitors would harm consumers, competition and innovation, according to a report released Monday by a science and technology think tank The bipartisan legislation filed by Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, prohibits "self-prefe...

Microsoft Bing and Russian search engine Yandex on Monday announced a new protocol designed to speed up search updates of websites Called IndexNow, the protocol uses an API to allow websites to easily notify search engines whenever content is created, updated, or deleted. Once the search engines are notified of updates, they can quickly crawl and r...

Apple refreshed its MacBook Pro line of laptop computers and introduced two new processors Monday at an online event The company also introduced a new version of its AirPods wireless earbuds, added a low-cost tier to its music service, and brightened up its HomePod smart speaker line with some new colors....

Item tracker maker Tile refreshed its product line Tuesday and announced it will be introducing a new ultra-wideband (UWB) product in 2022 The refreshed lineup looks like this:...

Walmart and Netflix are teaming up to sell merchandise pegged to the streaming media provider's content "Through this new partnership, Walmart will not only offer products that bring the imagination of Netflix creators into reality but Walmart customers and Netflix superfans will also find a new, exciting entertainment destination," Walmart Executi...

Amazon is reportedly developing a smart refrigerator that will automatically keep track of low-stock or expired items and make restock orders The fridge uses technology Amazon developed for its cashierless stores, according to Business Insider....

A technology executive raised eyebrows last week when he predicted the shortage in semiconductor chips could last into 2023 "Right now, every single end market for semiconductors is up simultaneously," Marvell CEO Matt Murphy said at a CNBC Technology Executive Council event Thursday....

An international study of cyberattacks has discovered discrepancies based on race and gender The research by Malwarebytes, Digitunity and the Cybercrime Support Network based on a survey of 5,000 people in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany found that Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC) are more likely to have th...

Facebook on Monday announced it's putting its plans to launch a version of Instagram for kids on hold The move comes following a report in the Wall Street Journal that Instagram is harmful to young people and congressional pressure to scrap the project....

Shadow code -- third-party scripts and libraries often added to web applications without security validation -- pose risks to websites and jeopardize compliance with privacy regulations, according to new research released Tuesday Third-party code leaves organizations vulnerable to digital skimming and Magecart attacks, the researchers also noted....

The latest version of the iPad Mini was the clear star of the show at Apple's pre-recorded new product event streamed from its website Tuesday "The iPad Mini was the biggest news of the day," Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, told TechNewsWorld....

High-ranking business executives say ransomware is a major concern to them, but their organizations are unprepared to do anything about it Those were the findings of a poll released Monday by global consulting and advisory services firm Deloitte....