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Another factor driving the growth of the pen testing market is the strive for compliance. Many companies are required by law to adhere to industry standards and regulations (PCI, HIPAA, etc.…) that normally require the use of security assessment techniques like pen testing. However, what’s the point of penetration tests? Are they worth the investment? Moreover, above all, what should a business consider when choosing the best provider for its needs?...

The Password manager keeps your personal and private information safe. The Password manager auto generates complex passwords, so you do not have to do it. The Password managers also protect you from inadvertently giving away private information. It saves your login information for the different websites you have visited. The Password Manager also protects your login information from the web browser that you use; The Password Managers create passwords that are extremely difficult to crack....

Many people argue that rooting an Android device nowadays is unneeded and irrelevant because OEMs have toned down their UIs. While it might be true to a certain extent that OEMs have improved their UI skins by leaps and bounds, I don’t think that rooting has lost its relevance in the Android ecosystem. Android and OEM skins still have plenty of issues, most of which can be easily solved by rooting....

Verizon’s Push to Talk service has been available for quite some time, allowing subscribers to use a one-touch communication method that’s quite a bit quicker than a traditional phone call. It’s been long overdue for an upgrade, and Big Red has officially announced big changes for the service, and plenty of Android-based support right out of the gate. Announced by Verizon officially via their site on August 7, Push to Talk Plus is a significant upgrade over the previous generation of Push to Talk....

You’ve got metal phones, plastic phones, cheap phones, phones with a higher resolution than your TV, phones as big as your head. You don’t need to know what every Android thing on the market does, you just need to know what the best ones are. There were many worthy Android products this year, but a few stood out for their excellent design, fantastic value, incredible hardware, or superb software. These are the best Android-based products of the year....

In that survey, 28% of respondents cited social media skills as the most important thing to wield. Employers are looking for people to manage their company’s social media presence, particularly on platforms such as Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Facebook. Employees well-versed in social media campaigns are helpful to companies looking to broaden their audience and reach younger consumers. Runner up to social media is digital marketing, as 27% of respondents cited this as an essential skill to have....

At first thought, turning it off seems to conserve the most energy and preserve your computer’s lifespan. However, there are many factors to consider when it comes to leaving it on or turning it off. In this related post, we explain how sleeping computers may be vulnerable to a cold boot attack. Keeping your computer on 24/7, or turning it off after each use doesn’t have a greater benefit over the other....

At the peak of the outage, a third-party service-monitoring website reported that there were problems at TikTok with server connections, the app and user profiles, and over 92,000 reports of problems. As of 2:30 PM ET, that number had subsided to 2,000 reports. During the outage, users everywhere took to Twitter to react to the TikTok outage and question what to do with their time without their favorite procrastination tool....

Password security is critical if you value your privacy. Weak, reused or clearly bad passwords open you to being targeted for identity theft and other cybercrimes by hackers and other bad guys. Want more info? Tap or click here for 10 internet crimes you need to know about. The thing is, you may not even realize you’re putting yourself at risk via your passwords. There were tons of bad passwords that people used during 2020, and it looks like cybercriminals have them figured out....

Samsung being Samsung, it can’t just settle with tackling the high-end tablet market niche thanks to the outstanding but slightly overpriced Galaxy Tab Pro – Note Pro line or go for users on extremely tight budgets with the meager GTab 3 Lite. The Koreans also need something in between, to offer affordability and above average hardware, up-to-date software and decent looks. Enter the Galaxy Tab 4 family, whose members have made a couple of appearances at regulatory agencies of late, being now fully detailed....

Dual-lenses, more megapixels, optical and digital zooms and HD video recording are just a few of the modern features found on today’s smartphone cameras. They are such high-quality devices that you’re able to take near professional quality photos. This comes in handy when you’re on vacation and want to capture high-quality memories that will last a lifetime. However, your smartphone camera can be used for more important things than vacations or dinner plates....

Most notably, the screen used to start a new conversation has been changed to eliminate some of the confusion. eviously, when you selected a contact to send a message to, it simply added the name to the “To” line, as if it assumed you were adding more people. Then, you had to tap the tiny arrow to start typing. Now, picking a name will bring you straight to the conversation screen....

For those that don’t know, Ubuntu has been, for years, one of the top 10 most popular Linux desktop distributions on the market. One of the many reasons for this is due to remarkable user-friendliness. Ubuntu is simple to install, use, and maintain, supports a wide range of hardware, just works, and (of course) is free to anyone. Also: How to install Ubuntu Linux (It’s easy!) Very soon, the latest iteration of Ubuntu Desktop will hit the metaphorical shelves....

OneSoil Map, one of the technologies being used, is a data visualization and mapping solution that enables agricultural businesses, researchers and governments to visualize massive worldwide datasets and observe trends in crop production all over the world. It’s been heartily adopted by Ukrainian farmers hoping to avert disaster. The technology enables farmers to remotely monitor the state of crops, quickly detect field issues, work with productivity zones, and apply variable-rate fertilizers and seeds, thus increasing yields and boosting sustainable farming practices....

This doesn’t seem to have stopped people from booking flights and even choosing to pay more for a better class of seat. Well, those seats at the back really are the worst, aren’t they? And there’s no reason to believe they’ll get any better. You’d think, then, that airlines would be quite happy right now, especially as they’re saying they see no effects of the impending – or, perhaps, already arrived – recession....

The Wanle Gamers Console comes with a small LCD display. The controls for the gaming console are slightly raised and the buttons are shaped similar to the classic handhelds. Despite adding a gaming feature the case still does what all cases are designed to do,i.e, protect the phone from bumps or accidental falls. The makers claim that the case is thin and it doesn’t actually feel like you are snapping on to something bulky....

That said, this presents a problem. Data hungry companies like Facebook and Google are banking on the fact that nobody reads their privacy policies. That’s why these documents have a tendency to hide controversial processes like audio transcription in plain sight. Plus, if the process is listed in the privacy policy, these companies are legally protected from angry consumers. You “agreed to it” in order to sign up, after all....

Nonprofit ocean conservation organization Oceana reports that two garbage trucks worth of plastic enters the world’s oceans every minute. That’s 33 billion pounds of plastic entering oceans every year. Mapping service Arcgis has charting data that shows there are five major patches of plastic-covered ocean covering 20 million square kilometers (7.72 million square miles). That’s enough plastic to blanket Alaska, Texas, California, Montana, and New Mexico (The United States’ five largest states by area)....

Then there are all the subscriptions you pay for and don’t use. Streaming services are a major culprit; there’s only so much time in a day, and you can’t watch everything. Tap or click for my guide to watching your shows for free instead. You probably don’t know that you can share various accounts with family and friends or, at the very least, get a nice discount. It’s not your fault....

If you’ve never heard of it, an afterimage is an optical illusion that warps your sense of time. Images seem to continue after the original image ended. Sounds confusing, right? Keep reading — we’ll break it all down later. Challenging your mind is just as important as exercising your body, so you shouldn’t skimp out on fun ways to test your brain. Tap or click here to test yourself with more than 15,000 brain teasers, riddles and logic problems....