Security
Apple-focused IT admins using device management software should perhaps temporarily disable iPhone Mirroring across their device fleets to prevent inadvertent privacy or compliance challenges as a result of using the new macOS Sequoia feature. (Apple is supposed to be working on a fix already.) It appears at present that when you use iPhone Mirroring with a…
Microsoft has just released Office 2024, the new non-subscription version of its office suite. It’s available in three editions: Office Home 2024 for consumers, Office Home & Business 2024 for consumers and small businesses, and Office LTSC 2024 for midsize and large businesses. This is the first update to the non-subscription version of the office…
A federal jury has found IT consulting firm Cognizant guilty of discriminating against American IT workers. The court case, Palmer v. Cognizant Tech. Solutions Corp., was argued in Los Angeles at the US District Court for the Central District of California. The jury also determined that Cognizant should pay punitive damages to compensate the former…
Message to all organizations that use .io domain names, of which there are currently an estimated 1.6 million: A move announced last week by the new Labour government in the UK could mean you may have to eventually replace that ccTLD (Country Code Top Level Domain). As reported by the BBC, the UK is “giving…
Europe’s Digital Markets Act is just one of a series of regulatory actions that are forcing Apple to open up its platforms. I caught up with Hexnode CEO Apu Pavithran to get his fix on what IT admins – especially those who manage Apple devices — need to think about as the company’s platforms are forced open by regulation….
My fellow Android phone-owners, start your feature-seeking engines: Some significant new security strengtheners on are their way to your device(s) — and quite possibly already there and just waiting to be discovered. Surprise, surprise — eh? But oh, it be true: While we’ve been off gazing at grass and thinking about gibbons (or whatever it…
Once upon a time, Microsoft Office ruled the business world. By the late ’90s and early 2000s, Microsoft’s office suite had brushed aside rivals such as WordPerfect Office and Lotus SmartSuite, and there was no competition on the horizon. Then in 2006 Google came along with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, a collaborative online word processing and…
The European Court of Justice has decided that Facebook owner Meta must minimize the amount of personal data it uses for personalized ads, the BBC reports . The decision from the EU’s top court means that only a small part of Meta’s data collection can be used for advertisements. The ruling stems from a complaint by…
Window management on Macs gets an upgrade with macOS Sequoia, which introduces window tiling and makes it much easier to work on tasks within multiple applications by arranging windows as you please. Windows users moving to a Mac (and there’s an ever increasing number of those) will have come across this before. Window tiling is…
Dark Matter’s powerful fictional short film based on real events, Butterfly, goes inside the experience of a small business as its world is turned upside down by ransomware. It’s an experience shared by a growing number of small businesses – half experienced some form of cybersecurity breach or attack in the last 12 months. Yet…