IT World Canada

16 September 2021

• Samsung Pay now supports TD cards

  Samsung Pay users can now add their TD access and debit cards.

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• It’s time to harness AI for business impacts

  The concept of a fourth industrial revolution was first introduced a decade ago as “Industry 4.0” by scientists developing a high-tech strategy for the German government. This concept has since gone global, and most would agree we are entering a new era featuring many exciting advances in areas like AI, nanotech

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• A new world of connected and autonomous heavy equipment

  In a world that has hit the digital fast track, the industrial sector is looking to connected and autonomous machines to help them perform better, produce more, and reduce costs. Earlier assumptions about job loss and disruption seem to have flown out the window as decision-makers in this sector see the many and varied

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• Brute force attacks, unpatched software and malicious emails behind most incidents investigated by Kaspersky last year

  Report offers more evidence that failure to implement basic cybersecurity measures often leads to being compromised

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• Hashtag Trending September 16 – Longer remote work days; rural broadband needs attention; TikTok’s mental health announcement

  With files from Tom Li Remote work is prolonging our work days, Saskatchewan calls on the federal government to connect rural areas, and TikTok releases new mental health features. It’s all the tech news that’s trending right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Thursday, September 16, and I’m your host, Jori

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• Microsoft accounts to no longer need passwords

  Users can choose to sign in only using Windows Hello or the Microsoft Authenticator app, but can revert back to passwords if they wish.

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• Anything will tell you something: The truth about data analytics

  As CIOs continue to weather the Covid crisis, there is tremendous value in the insights and priorities shared in the most recent CanadianCIO Census. A snapshot of day-to-day business hurdles, it pays special attention to the positive impact of data analytics, and the erroneous notion that it cannot be measured. “This

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• Google Cloud launches Toronto region

  This week Google Canada celebrated the opening of its Toronto cloud region, its second in Canada and its 28th worldwide. The first Canadian cloud region opened in 2018 in Montreal. The new region launches with three availability zones and offers a core portfolio of Google Cloud Platform products, including Compute

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• Malicious Linux version of Cobalt Strike hacking tool found

  Dubbed Vermillion Strike, it is already being used to attack telecom companies, government agencies, IT companies, financial institutions and advisory companies around the world

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• Cyber Security Today, Sept. 15, 2021 – Huge database of fitness app information found unprotected, attack on Olympus and security patches released

  Today's podcast reports on the discovery of an unprotected database of fitness app information, an attack at Olympus and  important security patches released

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