Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

YouTube has taken a backseat to TikTok for months when it comes to average engagement with Android users, according to a report from a mobile market watcher The report by App Annie revealed that the average user of TikTok, a social network for sharing short-form videos, spends more time in that app than the average user spends on YouTube....

Amazon is launching two initiatives aimed at better preparing individuals and businesses to deal with cybersecurity threats and hardening the authentication of users of its AWS cloud In a post on the aboutamazon.com website, the company announced that beginning in October, which is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it will make available to the public...

The next generation of iPhones expected to be launched in September will include support for satellite communication, according to numerous news reports based on a research note released by insightful Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo Kuo predicted in the note that Apple will include hardware in the iPhone 13 that allows the mobile to connect to low-earth...

Businesses are flocking to software-as-a-service applications as a means to improve the efficiency of their operations and the productivity of their employees, but weak control of access to cloud apps is putting the data of many organizations at risk According to a study released Tuesday by DoControl, the average 1,000-person company using SaaS app...

The hacker who stole US$600 million in tokens from a cryptocurrency platform last week was offered a security job by the platform Tuesday Most of the money has been returned to the Poly Network, but more than $200 million in assets remains locked in an account controlled by the hacker, whom the crypto platform refers to as "Mr. White Hat."

A federal highway safety agency announced Friday it has opened an investigation of accidents involving automated driving systems in cars made by Tesla When announcing the probe, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed that since January 2018, Tesla models engaged in either Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control were connected...

Hackers aren't the only ones evading security measures of many organizations. So are their remote workers In a report on remote workforce security released Monday, 52 percent of the U.S. IT and cybersecurity professionals surveyed revealed they experienced remote workers finding workarounds to their organizations' security policies....

Policymakers should be fostering the use of artificial intelligence in making workforce decisions, not inhibiting it, according to the Center for Data Innovation In a report released Monday, the global think tank called on governments to encourage AI adoption and establish guardrails to limit harm....

A number of popular commercial applications in categories ranging from browsers to messaging and meeting apps all contained open-source components with security vulnerabilities, according to new research released Wednesday The study performed by Osterman Research for GrammaTech also found that of the most popular commercial browser, email, file sha...

Chromebooks were a hot commodity in the second quarter of this year, with shipments increasing 75 percent compared to the same period in 2020 Some 11.9 million of the laptops were shipped during the April-June quarter, or 13 percent of all notebooks, according to Canalys a global market research company....

Google on Tuesday announced a new service aimed at beefing up the search capabilities of retailers' websites that may make those sellers more competitive with Amazon The service, Google Cloud Retail Search, hopes to address the staggering problem of "search abandonment," which costs retailers more than $300 billion a year in the United States alone...

Early adopters seeking a premature peek of Windows 11 via unauthorized channels may be in for a nasty surprise -- a dose of malware On Friday, Kaspersky Lab reported that an unofficial installer in the wild promises to install the next version of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system on a user's computer, but it actually contains a malicious payl...

Consumer privacy champion DuckDuckGo on Tuesday announced that it's rolling out a beta version of a feature in its mobile and desktop applications that will strip trackers from its users' incoming email Called Email Protection, the feature will be initially distributed through a waiting list that anyone can add their name to....

The administration of U.S. President Joseph R. Biden accused the People's Republic of China Monday of using contract hackers to conduct malicious cyber operations globally Joining the Biden administration in its condemnation of China were the European Union, United Kingdom, and NATO....

After a successful rollout in the U.S. earlier this year, Amazon is expanding support for end-to-end encryption for video captured on its Ring products "By default, Ring already encrypts customer videos when they are uploaded to the cloud (in transit) and stored on Ring's servers (at rest)," Ring CTO Josh Roth wrote in an Amazon blog Tuesday....

Ransomware gangs are increasingly turning to specialists to complete their capers on corporations, according to a Dark Net intelligence provider A report issued Friday by Tel Aviv-based Kela noted that the days when lone wolves conducted cyberattacks from start to finish are nearly extinct....

Thousands of hacker attacks were launched on a network of smart home devices designed by researchers to assess the risk the gadgets pose to consumers During the initial week, the "honeypot" network was online, 1,017 unique scans or hacking attempts were directed at the devices on the net, which included smart TVs, printers, wireless security camera...

Amazon is attempting to add to the growing base of fans of vinyl records with a new subscription service Called Vinyl of the Month Club, the service, available for U.S. customers only, costs $24.99 a month and sends subscribers during each billing period a classic album from the 1960s and '70s -- the golden age of vinyl -- by artists such as Pink F...

Clients of SolarWinds, which experienced a high-profile data breach last year, are being targeted in a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a Reuters report The investigation is focusing on whether some of the companies doing business with the network management software maker failed to disclose they were affected by t...

In six short years Amazon has risen from worst to first in the video streaming pack, according to a survey released by a consumer market research firm In its annual survey of the smart TV and streaming box market, Parks Associates revealed that Amazon, which had a lowly 12 percent of the streaming video market in 2015, surged to a 36 percent share ...