Meet Chrome OS Flex, Google's new way for Desktop Computing Is that an old Windows system or a current Chrome OS computer? Google's getting ready to blur the lines of desktop computing in some seriously shape-shifting ways. Google's Chrome OS platform has come a ridiculously long way in an incredibly short time. Back when it launched in 2010 , Chrome OS truly was just a browser in a box — a dead-simple operating system designed to act as a portal to the web and not much more. The software had no desktop, no task bar, and barely even anything in the way of settings. It was essentially just a full-screen browser window — and that's it. Fast-forward to 2022, and Chrome OS is a fully featured and impressively polished computing solution. Between the platform's ongoing expansion and the rapid evolution in how we all use computers, Chromebooks are now a genuinely practical and often advantageous option for business, personal, and education-related use. Th...
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Email at heart of cyber-attacks New research from cyber security provider Hornetsecurity has revealed that 40.5% of work emails are unwanted Hornetsecurity’s Cyber Security Report 2023 , which analysed more than 25 billion work emails, also reveals significant changes to the nature of cyber-attacks in 2022 – indicating the constant growing threats to email security and need for caution in digital workplace communications. Phishing remains the most common style of email attack, representing 39.6% of detected threats. Threat actors used the following file types sent via email to deliver payloads: Archive files (Zip, 7z etc.) sent via email make up 28% of threats, down from last year's 33.6%, with HTML files increasing from 15.3% to 21%, and DOC(X) from 4.8% to 12.7%. Commenting on the report findings, Hornetsecurity CEO, Daniel Hofmann, says: "This year's cyber security report shows the steady creep of threats into i...
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