Each program emphasizes specific areas and topics. Choosing the master’s in business or in a business-related field that matches your personal and professional goals requires careful consideration. How to choose which business master’s degree type is the right fit for you Factors that influence the choice of a business master’s degree include educational background, career level, professional goals, and lifestyle commitments. Investigate the courses and other curriculum requirements offered at each program that catches your eye....

The country generally censors different types of content, including: Political criticism Social media and video sharing platforms like TikTok Pornographic content People have been using virtual private networks (VPNs) to get around censorship and get access to diverse news sources and international websites. As of June 2022, however, new legislation requires companies, including VPN services, to store user data and provide it to the government upon request. This is why we recommend using a stric no-log VPN, such as Surfshark....

HP Inc. has targeted the hybrid work market with an extensive portfolio at CES 2022, ranging from premium ultraportable laptops to monitors to compact, desktop and all-in-one desktop PCs. Here are the highlights. HP Elite Dragonfly G3 The latest in the Elite Dragonfly series has a lot to live up to, as its G2 predecessor was selected as ‘Best for mobile professionals’ in ZDNet’s 2021 laptop roundup. The new G3 model is a conventional clamshell design rather a 360-degree convertible, with a 13....

Tell me a little about your background in IT and cybersecurity. I went to Dartmouth College, and graduated with a BA in Mathematics in 1998. Right after school, I went to DC and worked for Optimus Corporation, a small business federal government contractor. I started at the help desk and after a few years, moved to their software development department. In 2006, I founded cFocus Software. We did a lot SharePoint work, and also provided certification and accreditation services for multiple IT systems within the Department of Defense....

It’s no surprise that a conversational tool like a chatbot could disrupt the search business when you think about how the market has evolved. In Depth: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out Google, the world’s dominant search engine for about two decades, says its mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The world’s information, however, continues to accumulate at a dizzying pace....

According to the RFI’s findings, the world currently finds itself in the midst of an ongoing chip drought thanks to a “perfect storm” of factors. Among them are an increasing level of demand that already existed as early as 2020; a further spike in demand caused by COVID-19’s influence on increasing sales of electronics and other items; and a “series of black swan events such as factory fires, winter storms, energy shortages, and COVID-19-related shutdowns....

In the first half of 2021, with home schooling and remote work becoming the norm for many, Chromebooks were selling faster than any other category of PC, primarily by eating into the Windows hardware market. The PC market has been turbulent during the past 18 months. The pandemic saw PC sales heading back into growth territory after a decade-long decline, with Chromebooks from HP, Lenovo and Dell selling rapidly. But now hardware manufacturers like Apple and HP are navigating the global chip crunch....

The warning also outlines a series of attacks that have happened this year, some of which were never reported previously. CISA noted that the advisory did not indicate the potential for increased attacks targeting this particular sector but was simply an effort to help water facility operators protect their systems. The notice lists spearphishing as one of the most prevalent methods cybercriminals and nation-states use to gain access to water systems, explaining that it is often deployed to deliver malicious payloads, including ransomware....

Even so, there’s no getting past the fact that innovation happens relatively slowly at larger companies. If there are novel ideas that emerge in the market, larger companies can afford to take a wait-and-see approach, with the capability to either acquire or simply imitate smaller competitors. The risk, however, is getting left in the dust by smaller, nimble companies. In the collaboration market, that’s a risky move, given how quickly the space is growing....

Fight for the Future, Algorithmic Justice League, EPIC, and other civil rights organizations launched a website – called Dump ID.me – allowing people to sign a petition against the IRS plan. This campaign site comes after days of criticism from privacy, justice, and civil rights groups concerned about the potential for a company like ID.me to have access to peoples’ most sensitive data. ID.me’s CEO Blake Hall faced widespread backlash for a LinkedIn post where he admitted that the company had been lying about the way its tool works....

Fortunately, you can prepare for these questions in advance — but only if you know what to expect. Before your interview, you need to know the most common computer science interview questions. What to expect when interviewing for a computer science role Professionals in all career stages must get through the interview process to land in-demand computer science jobs. But what should you expect during a tech interview? And what kinds of computer science interview questions will the interviewer ask?...

Ukraine Defense Ministry Confirms Cyberattack On Tuesday, the Ukraine Ministry of Defense tweeted that its websites were offline, and the Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security of Ukraine (the Stratcom Centre) confirmed the cyberattack. The Foreign Ministry and Cultural Ministry websites were also reported down. At the time of writing, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces websites were still currently down from the attack. The customers of the two state-owned banks involved — PrivatBank and Oschadbank — reportedly could not access the banks’ apps or their bank cards while the systems were affected....

Also: All the best Black Friday gaming deals The G Cloud entered a market with increasingly stiff competition. Not only did it have to prove its worth versus gaming on tablets and smartphones, but it also had to contend with the likes of Valve’s Steam Deck and Razer’s forthcoming Edge gaming handheld. When I tested it out, I found the G Cloud to be a gaming device with excellent hardware that was occasionally held back by the ongoing growing pains of cloud gaming services and the usual quirks of Android....

Since Tuesday, prospective Holiday Inn customers have complained on Twitter about their inability to make reservations online. In a filing with the London Stock Exchancge, IHG said it is working to restore all the affected systems as soon as possible and has hired “external specialists” to investigate the incident. The company insists its group of hotels is still functional and can take reservations directly. The UK-based InterContinental Hotels Group is an industry leader in hospitality services....

On May 11, Microsoft Security Intelligence published a Twitter thread outlining a campaign targeting the “aerospace and travel sectors with spear-phishing emails that distribute an actively developed loader, which then delivers RevengeRAT or AsyncRAT.” The operator of this campaign used email spoofing to pretend to be legitimate organizations in these industries, and an attached .PDF file included an embedded link, containing a malicious VBScript which would then drop Trojan payloads on a target machine....

As painful geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalate and Russia’s bilateral relations with the West fall to pieces, military operations, and cyberattacks are becoming more heated in the region. Today’s attacks add to earlier waves of cyber-disruptions that took place throughout January as well as earlier this month. Earlier this week, Russia firmly emphasized that they recognize two regions in Ukraine as independent countries. This resulted in coordinated sanctions and pressure from the United States and the EU, evident in sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and blockage of Russian financial institutions and businesses in the U....

According to Foundry’s 2022 Security Priorities Study, which surveyed nearly 900 surveyed security leaders around the world, 90% think their organization is not doing enough to address cybersecurity risks. Cybersecurity attacks aren’t new, but hackers are getting more sophisticated, and are increasingly targeting universities, hospitals. big businesses and critical infrastructure. Also: Russian hackers’ lack of success against Ukraine shows that strong cyber defences work, says cybersecurity chief The growing problem companies face today is that the technology threats are evolving too fast for cybersecurity staff to keep pace....

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Wi-Fi does not pass between the two parts of the house. That utility room behaves as a fully functioning Faraday cage. To get around this problem, we ran Ethernet cables to a bunch of rooms in the house and then added backhauling Synology MR2200ac Wi-Fi repeaters into six rooms in the house. I did a full article on this, which you can read here. But there are two rooms where we couldn’t run Ethernet: the master bedroom and the workshop....

That’s one of the key takeaways from a recent survey of 400 IT executives, conducted by IDG and underwritten by Insight Enterprises. There is wide agreement that IT modernization is sorely needed before digital transformation can begin in earnest. Eighty-nine percent of IT executives admit that existing infrastructure, operations and culture are constraining innovation and strategic business growth. At least half the survey group, 49% say their IT infrastructure inhibits business growth “to a great extent....