After a long spell of negative growth, Gartner found the worldwide PC shipments grew for the first time in six years during the second quarter of 2018 and totaled 62.1 million units in the second quarter reflecting a 1.4 percent increase from the second quarter of 2017. All regions experienced someRead More…
Ransomware remains a widespread threat in the UAE with the country accounting for 2.4 million of the 1.7 billion ransomware attacks detected globally in the first quarter (Q1) of 2018, according to a latest report issued by Trend Micro.Read More…
According to Gartner, The growth at the end of 2017 continued for the worldwide server market in the first quarter of 2018 as worldwide server revenue increased 33.4 percent and shipments grew 17.3 percent year over yearRead More…
A recent survey conducted by HID Global revealed that organizations with more than 250 employees in the Middle East region favoured multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a reliable method for employee and customer verification. Ninety-five percent of respondents said that MFA was a fundamental requirement at their organization, which demonstrates theRead More…
Attacks based on exploits are considered to be very powerful, as they do not require any additional interactions with the user and can deliver their dangerous code discreetly. They are therefore widely used; both by cybercriminals looking for profit and by more sophisticated nation-backed state actors for their malicious purposes.Read More…
Hitachi has been positioned in the Visionaries quadrant of the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms based on Gartner’s evaluation of the company, which included Hitachi’s Lumada IoT platform.Read More…
Algeria’s mobile phone market recovered from an extremely turbulent 2017 to post strong growth for the first three months of 2018, according to the latest figures announced today by International Data Corporation (IDC). The global technology research and consulting firm’s newly released Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that device shipmentsRead More…
Researchers find that a great portion of popular children’s apps may run afoul of US privacy legislation by improperly collecting data – albeit often probably unintentionally. A response from Google to the unflattering findings wasn’t long in coming.Read More…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to boost economic growth in the United Arab Emirates by 1.6 percentage points and add US$182 billion to the national economy by 2035, according to a recent report by Accenture. The report looked at 15 industries in the UAE and 13 in Saudi Arabia toRead More…
Growth tops the list of CEO business priorities in 2018 and 2019, according to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner. However, the survey found that as simple, implemental growth becomes harder to achieve, CEOs are concentrating on changing and upgrading the structure of their companies, includingRead More…
Only 1 percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organizations, and only 8 percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain, according to Gartner’s 2018 CIO Survey. Furthermore, 77 percent of CIOs surveyed said their organization has no interest in the technologyRead More…
Ondrej Kubovič, ESET Security Awareness Specialist discusses the journey over the past year since WannaCry first hit us and caused one of the largest cyber-disruptions the world has ever seen till date.Read More…
