Social media can be a risky proposition in the workplace, and it's understandable that some managers may be tempted to turn off all avenues of access within their organization. Between malware-infested Twitter links and regrettable https://www.faronics.com/news/blog/moving-beyond-zero-tolerance-social-media-policies
Connecticut college experiences data breach scare
Universities are where some of the smartest people in world work, study and reside. Still, all across North America, even the best and brightest can be caught uninformed about the dangers and consequences of lax classroom control over computer labs and online filing. One might think that even after all of th...
Application security is no accident
Web applications are among the easiest and most popular ways of injecting innovation into everyday business processes. From convenient browser extensions to dynamic collaboration utilities, companies are continuously bringing new programs into the fold. But in their striving for state-of-the-art apps, too many firms are allowing security to be an a...
New ways mobile devices are affecting healthcare IT
Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have become increasingly popular of late - for example, the Pew Research Center reported in November that approximately 45 percent of the adult population in the United States...
Innovative classroom computer program backfires because of malware
As is so often the case, a program with the best of intentions can lead to disastrous results. This week's installment of good deeds gone awry is a forward-thinking classroom computer program meant to instigate further learning that instead has caused a massive headache for one school district's IT departmen...


