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Do you know what an EVP is? If you answered ‘no,’ it could be the reason there is so much turnover in your IT organization. Attrition is a major problem in a tight tech talent market, but many organizations have only themselves to blame when employees leave for better opportunities. “Turnover rates tend to increase […]

   The first version of Angular was a big deal for the Web. When it was first previewed in 2009, it was an impressive framework that offered the ability to build complex single page applications in the browser. Now, six years on, it’s reached version 2.0 and entered a new era after a long development cycle. Angular 2 […]

Because you can’t get enough Star Wars, Google is letting you turn your phone into a lightsaber so you can slay Storm Troopers on your computer screen. Yes, really. Developed in collaboration with Disney and Lucasfilm, your story begins on a Star Destroyer where you use your lightsaber to escape the First Order. From there, […]

IP addresses being used by ISIS and traced by teenage computer hackers back to the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions are likely to be among those sold to Saudi Arabian telecoms companies this year, the British government has claimed. In a convenient admission given the charge levelled at the UK governmentby the VandaSec hacker team that someone […]

Sometimes, Google Chrome tells us to distrust a website and warns us that that site can be dangerous. But instead of listening to it, we ignore it. We are so obsessed on quickly reaching the neck click, that we don’t even read the message. A study published by Google’s Chrome team stated that only one […]

During the second quarter of 2015 there were 230,000 new malware samples created daily. This is one of the alarming details to emerge from the latest PandaLabs report, the security laboratory of Panda Security, which analyzes cyberattacks carried out during this period. The document also reveals that the threats aren’t just directed at individuals, but […]

While happily working on your computer getting stuff done, little do you suspect that in the background, your important files are being subjected to a military-grade encryption to which you don’t have the key. Suddenly, a Cryptolocker alert appears on the screen—you have only days to pay the ransom or lose all your encrypted files […]

While IT specialists with deep technical knowledge in particular fields remain important, your IT team needs generalists with a broad view across technology areas and the ability to understand the interactions between them. Much has been said over the past several years about the need for CIOs to transform IT — to go from keeping […]