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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

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Good practices for authentication, backups, and software updates are the best defense against ransomware and many other attacks. To succeed, VR will have to get beyond ultra geeky goggles. Mark Zuckerberg has been talking up the Metaverse as the next stage in the Internet’s evolution: a replacement for the Web as an AR/VR world.

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Radar Trends to Watch: July 2023

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Apple did it: they unveiled their AR/VR goggles. To prevent becoming a victim, focus on the basics: access controls, strong passwords , multi-factor authentication, zero trust, penetration testing, and good backups. AI Package Hallucination is a new technique for distributing malware.

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2022

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It is private by default, though it can be configured to use Amazon or Google as backups. The Eternity Project is a new malware-as-a-service organization that offers many different kinds of tools for data theft, ransomware, and many other exploits. VR/AR/Metaverse. Programming.

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

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Out of the other side of their mouth, they have said this announcement doesn’t apply to Meta , which will use this model to produce VR products. Ransomware defense tips for small businesses from the US Federal Trade Commission: The first step is offline, encrypted backups. An AI system to give ethical advice gives unethical advice.

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Technology Trends for 2024

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Software is packaged in containers, and the containers themselves run as virtual Linux instances, but developers don’t need to know how to find and kill out-of-control processes, do a backup, install device drivers, or perform any of the other tasks that are the core of system administration.

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