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Sooner or later, every company faces the need to upgrade its infrastructure — whether to accommodate expansion, optimize processes, or keep up with the latest trends in IT. When such a decision is made, company management typically thinks first and foremost about broad changes at the platform level — assuming that applications can simply be reinstalled and everything will wor...

Your phone rings, you pick up and say hello. On the other end: total silence. No one answers, and the call abruptly disconnects. If you don’t already use spam call blockers, you’ve almost certainly run into this situation before.

In most cases, these are scam calls. Today, we explain why these calls happen, what the callers want from you, and how to protect yourself. M...

Leveraging legitimate software is one of cybercriminals’ tactics of choice, with remote management tools ranking among their top tools. A recent example involves the remote administration utility ScreenConnect. It’s designed for IT support teams to troubleshoot systems and configure software seamlessly in the background. However, when weaponized by threat actors, ScreenConnec...

AI is getting better and better at solving CAPTCHAs. This makes website creators — who still need to verify that they’re dealing with humans rather than bots — come up with increasingly sophisticated proof-of-humanity checks. It seems an average user wou...

Virtually every website selling products or services features a live chat widget. It usually appears as a small window in the corner of your screen, complete with an agent’s name and picture.

Sometimes these chats simply collect tickets for tech support or sales to process. But often there’s a real person on the other end of the screen. And here’s where many users get ...