Also: Live blog: The best early Cyber Monday deals 2022 in real time And, now is also the time to snag deals on big-name brands that rarely go on sale, such as Apple. One of the best Black Friday iPad deals is currently at Best Buy. Apple’s 2021 12.9-inch iPad Pro with 512GB is $1,000 instead of its original price of $1,400. Even though the iPad Pro just got an upgrade to the M2 chip in October, this 2021 iPad Pro has the almost-as-powerful M1 chip that powers the 2021 24-inch iMac and the 2020 MacBook Pro....

Google Forms Used for Phishing Scams Google Forms is a well-known and popular survey tool. Many companies and organizations use the online forms to collect information from clients or users. The app is included in the Google Docs Editors software suite, along with Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. From a cybercriminal’s perspective, Google Forms are a desirable instrument for phishing attacks. They are easy to produce. Google Forms are hosted under the trustworthy Google domain....

The school district serves more than 150 000 students and said in a notice that any student, employee, parent or contractor with the school district since 2010 is affected by the incident. When asked by ZDNet whether this was a cyberattack, the school district would not say. The district received notice of the data security incident on August 8 and said federal law enforcement agencies are now involved in the effort to address what happened....

We decided to post about different IP leaks. So, why don’t we have that post anymore? A few VPNs contacted us and told us the research we presented isn’t fair to them. While we expected such reaction, we listened to what they had to say. Since we could not include all 290 VPNs in the research, it made some VPN companies question what criteria we used to decide whom to test (or whom not to test)....

Some 460 million internet users currently reside across six Southeast Asian markets, of whom 100 million came online in the past three years, according to this year’s e-Conomy SEA report jointly released by Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company. The six nations–Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines–have a total population of more than 600 million. Despite global headwinds including disrupted supply chains, geopolitical tensions, and inflation, the Southeast Asian digital economy was on track to hit $200 billion in GMV this year, three years ahead of projections made in the report’s inaugural release in 2016....

Called the CleanKey, the makers of the tool, KeySmart, claim it is specially designed to limit germ exposure and transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic. It hangs on your keychain, so you can bring anywhere and use it to press buttons, open doors, and pull levers. It essentially helps eliminate direct contact with contaminated surfaces. Disclosure: ZDNet may earn an affiliate commission from some of the products featured on this page....

On Thursday, SentinelOne published a security advisory on the flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-26522 and CVE-2022-26523. Avast acquired AVG in 2016 for $1.3 billion. According to the cybersecurity firm, the vulnerabilities have existed since 2012 and, therefore, could have affected “dozens of millions of users worldwide.” CVE-2022-26522 and CVE-2022-26523 were found in the Avast Anti Rootkit driver, introduced in January 2012 and also used by AVG. The first vulnerability was present in a socket connection handler used by the kernel driver aswArPot....

The multi-year deal between Deutsche Bank and Oracle underscores how much enterprises have to consider their prior investments and the bottom line when building a cloud strategy. “We have a very heavy investment in Oracle from a software perspective,” Gordon MacKechnie, group head of technology infrastructure for Deutsche Bank, told ZDNet. “This was a way for us to best leverage that software investment with a stable platform that gave us a whole bunch of new features and functionality....

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on Sunday said the Didi app breached regulations governing the collection and use of personal data. It instructed the removal of the app from local appstores and Didi to rectify “existing problems” and “effectively protect” users’ personal data. The government agency, however, did not disclose any details on what these issue were and how they violated local laws. The move came after the CAC issued a notice Friday stating it had put Didi under a cybersecurity review, to “prevent national data security risks” and safeguard public interest....

A digital currency “using blockchain and other technologies” is expected to be issued by the central bank in the next fiscal year, said Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who unveiled India’s annual budget in a speech [PDF] on Tuesday. The central bank digital currency (CBDCs), alongside a slew of tech initiatives, were unveiled in Indian Budget 2022 as part of the government’s “Amrit Kaal” blueprint, which is a 25-year digital transformation plan in lead up to India being independent for 100 years in 2047....

Dish Wireless provides the cellular data backbone. If you’re thinking, “but isn’t Dish a satellite TV company?” You’re right, it is. But, it also owns Boost Mobile, Ting, and Republic Wireless. While Dish is working on its own cellular network, in the meantime it’s moving to AT&T for its 4G and 5G networks for its cellular customers. Helium provides the next link in the bridge. It’s a consumer-deployed, decentralized wireless infrastructure that produces and delivers data-forwarding hotspots....

DevOps platform GitLab has been operating as a fully remote company since 2011. Today, the company has an 1800-strong team spread all over the world that has managed to amass some 100,000 customers, without ever having required their employees to work behind a desk. In May, GitLab published its 2022 Remote Playbook, which serves as a best practice guide for sustaining and scaling a remote workforce. DeSanto believes almost any company can be all-remote provided they fully commit to doing so, which includes investing in the key pillars of asynchronous working, communication, culture, and management, and focusing on inclusion above all else....

Also: The best laptops: Does Apple take the crown? Buyers have two choices for their machine. Devoted DIY builders can download Olimex’s CAD files for building the Teres I on its GitHub page, which offer schematics for hardware components such as printed circuit boards (PCB), keyboard and so forth, as well as all the Linux software components necessary to operate the hardware. The other option is to buy the semi-finished Teres 1 laptop for €224 ($240), which is shipped as a kit that buyers assemble themselves....

Also read: Dremio introduces AWS version, new features for cloud data lakes New stuff Another feature unique to Dremio Cloud is single sign on capabilities supporting a number of enterprise and consumer/social identity providers, including Azure Active Directory, Okta, Ping and Google Identity. In a similar fashion, users of Tableau and Microsoft’s Power BI are supported for single sign on to Dremio based on the credentials they use to log in to those BI tools....

Today most boards ship with OEM-profile keycaps. However, enthusiasm for mechanical keyboards has helped expand the availability of after-market sets in the SA profile, a taller profile with spherical indentations, and DSA a flatter variant that shares SA’s spherical indent. Now, Drop is hoping to make a case for a completely new keycap shape with its DCX profile caps. This new profile attempts to take the OEM shape and optimize it for the needs of modern mech keyboard users, while also providing a clean, high-quality aesthetic....

There’s a reason cyber criminals and hackers continue to send millions of phishing emails. Because, no matter whether you’re working from the office or working remotely from home, email still plays a vital part in our working day. Sure, there’s now a place for Slack, or Zoom, or Microsoft Teams, or whatever overlay of productivity software you are expected to use. But for most people, getting stuff done still comes down to email....

Environmental scientists plan mitigation and protection strategies for sensitive areas, contaminated sites, and human and environmental health risks. Job titles include climate change analyst, environmental engineer, hydrologist, and industrial ecologist. This guide describes environmental science careers, salaries, and work environments to help you determine the direction you want to go. Environmental science degree jobs: Our picks Consultants to private-sector companies and corporations Environmental consultants assess the impacts of companies’ and corporations’ processes or products on the environment, including those involving hazardous materials....

The Trade Assistant with IBM Watson tool has long helped ESPN Fantasy Football players but now IBM Watson’s AI technology will help users create “customizable and simplified trade packages,” IBM explained. The new features were officially unveiled on September 3 for ESPN Fantasy Football users through the ESPN Fantasy App on iOS and Android. Within the ESPN Fantasy Football app, trades will be easier to understand for users and trade packages will be suggested based on your personalized “Players of Interest” watch list....

The European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) decision — according to sources in the Wall Street Journal — settles an important legal question regarding personalized ads under the GDPR. In fact, the dispute regarding Meta’s data collection practices first started in 2018 when the GDPR came into force. Meta’s social platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, track their users’ on-app activity — like the content they’ve engaged with — to send them targeted and personalized ads....

I had a chance to speak with Sean Wright, one of the UK’s foremost experts in information security and the chapter leader of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) in Scotland. What’s your background and how did you get started in cybersecurity? I am one of the co-leaders of the OWASP Scotland chapter and I work for a large company in their engineering department. I’m responsible for the online security applications, secure app development, documentation reviews and all of that it what I’m primarily focused on....