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Getting rid of pointless and insulting HR practices will make it easier for your company to hire and hang onto tremendous employees. Every policy you “shove” down your employees’ throats is another reason for a talented person to leave and work for a more deserving...

Thanks to modern technology, we can buy just about anything online and get it delivered to our doorstep in a snap. Not only has that been insanely convenient for us, but it’s also created a giant window of opportunity for so-called “porch pirates” too. According to a...

Our favorite iPhone and Android apps of the year We’re increasingly reliant on the smartphones in our pockets to keep in touch with friends, watch movies and TV shows, and get work done. But the phones themselves would be meaningless without the software that, almost...

Ransomware, a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid, is a pandemic spreading across the world affecting all types of organizations. Ransomware payments are typically made via anonymous bitcoin...

Federal regulators have approved new broadband privacy rules that make internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon ask customers' permission before using or sharing much of their data, potentially making it more difficult for them to grow advertising...

The invention was presented at the Offshore Energy trade fair in Amsterdam on Tuesday. "It's a large industrial filter about 8 meters (26 feet) long, made of steel ... placed basically on top of buildings and it works like a big vacuum cleaner," company spokesman Henk...

An American vigilante hacker -- who calls himself "The Jester" -- has defaced the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in retaliation for attacks on American targets. On Friday night, the Jester gained access to the Russian government ministry's website....

Following the large scale cyberattack that took down a number of high-profile sites last Friday, a Chinese electronics component manufacturer has admitted that its products were utilised by the attackers behind the disruption. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, which...

As companies shift more workloads into the cloud, fears persist that storing business data off-site is less secure than keeping it in an in-house data center – despite evidence to the contrary, says Gartner Inc. research director Steve Riley. For proof, look no...

Ever wonder if you're being paid what you're worth? Glassdoor hopes to take the water cooler guesswork out of that question with Know Your Worth, a new site feature that launched in beta late Tuesday. Typing in a series of relevant details — current title, salary,...

Facebook wants its 1.71 billion users to friend businesses. With other social-media and messaging services vying for people's attention, Facebook is always looking for ways to get consumers to spend more time there. It also offers free tools for small businesses to...

Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognize you. But just as people can be fooled (disguises! twins!), so can facial recognition tools. Now researchers have uncovered a particularly disturbing new method of stealing a face: one that’s...