Credit to Author: Igor Kuksov| Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:25:18 +0000
Create a digital comfort zone using any old tablets, laptops, and modems you have on hand to work from home safely.
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Credit to Author: Hugh Aver| Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:49:41 +0000
You can refuse some permissions to greedy games, and they most definitely do not need these five.
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Credit to Author: Hugh Aver| Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:29:34 +0000
Researchers found a way to create fake fingerprints to fool many devices, although it took a lot of effort.
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Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:07:38 +0000
Smartphones are always covered in bacteria, but viruses can also survive there, including COVID-19. We explain how to properly disinfect your smartphone.
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Apple is the latest firm to join the FIDO Alliance, an industry standards group developing more secure ways to log in to online accounts and apps using multi-factor authentication (MFA), biometric authentication and physical security keys. Computerworld's Lucas Mearian joins Ken Mingis and Juliet Beauchamp to discuss the Apple move, how different forms of authentication work and how far away we are from a password-less world.
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800
In a somewhat unusual move for Apple, the company has joined the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance, an authentication standards group dedicated to replacing passwords with another, faster and more secure method for logging into online services and apps.
Apple is among the last tech bigwigs to join FIDO, whose members now include Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, RSA, Samsung, Qualcomm and VMware. The group also boasts more than a dozen financial service firms such as American Express, ING, Mastercard, PayPal, Visa and Wells Fargo.
“Apple is not usually up front in joining new organizations and often waits to see if they gain enough traction before joining in. This is fairly atypical for them,” said Jack Gold, president and principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. “Apple is often trying to present [its] own proposed industry standards for wide adoption, but is generally not an early adopter of true multi-vendor industry standards.
Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:17:00 +0000
Considering buying a smartphone for your kid? Here are the pros and cons, and how to choose a device.
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800
Relying on Google services, as most of us Android-carrying primates do, comes with a certain tradeoff. It’s no big secret or anything: Google makes its money by selling ads, which are more effective when they’re catered to our interests — the subjects we tend to search about, the things we buy (when Google knows about ’em, at least), and often even the places we go with our location-enabled phones in tow (and/or in toe, for the monkeys among us).
That’s all par for the course, as I frequently say — part of the deal we all accept when we use Google services. That’s what makes it possible for Google to give us top-notch apps for free, and it’s also what opens the door to certain advanced features that wouldn’t be possible without that information’s presence.