On August 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education announced a final extension of the student loan payment pause until January 31, 2022.
The pause includes the following relief measures for eligible loans:
A su…
Facebook announced this week that it will invest $50 million in global research and partner collaboration to build a responsible foundation for what it sees as “the next computing platform” – the metaverse. According to the announcement, th…
I was recently asked to provide input for a colleague’s blog on why, in the tech industry, despite advancements in women representation, senior leadership remains dominantly male. My initial response was okay, let me list a couple bullets a…
Multiple reports of 3.8 billion Clubhouse and Facebook user records up for sale on the dark web are causing a lot of concern and confusion. Right now,it’s too early to tell if this data is legitimate or not.
Daria Loi’s life has been anything but conventional. A lifelong lover of learning new things, Daria started her career in her homeland of Italy as an architect and industrial designer. But when she got into a PhD program in Australia, she u…
A small domain registrar (a business that handles the reservation of domain names as well as the assignment of IP addresses for those domain names) by the name of Epik has confirmed reports that it has been hacked. What’s particularly notab…
In today’s environment, many people are aware that companies are tracking their online activity and mine that data for a variety of business purposes. These purposes range from personalization and advertising to analyzing on-site behavior t…
In March, Facebook confirmed a rumor that they were developing a version of Instagram for kids under 13 that included parent monitoring features. Earlier this week, under pressure from critics and lawmakers, they announced they were pausing…
Last week was the 20th anniversary of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and in honor of that date, the organization issued its long-awaited update to its top 10 exploits. It has been in draft form for months and has been up…
Identity theft is one of the largest and most common forms of cybercrime. When it comes to sensitive personal information, a child’s Social Security number, date of birth, name, and address is some of the most desired information by crimina…