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Featured Articles » The Biggest Takeaway from the WannaCry Ransomware Attack This month's ferocious ransomware attack, known as "WannaCry," spread across the globe with astonishing speed and breadth, freezing more than 300,000 computers in an estimated 150 countries. Management teams at every corporate, government and not-for-profit organization should now be reviewing lessons learned from that experience. » How Too Much Data Could Spell Trouble for Consumers For most intents and purposes, data is a good thing. Having more information about the world around us helps scientists and engineers solve bigger problems, it gives us more accurate and thorough projections of everything from weather patterns to stock market fluctuations, and can even improve both our safety and our standards of living. However, the overabundance of consumer data could ultimately be problematic for consumers. » Governmental Entities Bringing Financial Cybersecurity to Center Stage By now, it's no secret that cybercriminals have targeted, and continue to target, the financial services industry with advanced attacks that are designed to steal or otherwise jeopardize valuable data. As a result, many organizations have taken at least some initial steps to better secure their networks and the information that lives within them. » Core Wars: AMD's Threadripper Takes On Intel's i9 Boy, it's starting to feel like summer in the tech market because the competitive fights are really heating up. And the most amazing part is that all this drama is happening in the desktop space, a market that was largely written off as dead by both vendors a little over five years ago. » OneWeb Satellite Broadband Service: Big Win in Alaska? Broadband cloud satellite provider OneWeb has signed up its first reseller in Alaska. The company may have a winning combination of features to give it a big chunk of the market in the 49th state and in other rural areas. » The Killer App for VR: The Ability to Meet Yourself I was at a VR event this week, and I'm sure the speaker misspoke when he said that one of the benefits of VR is the ability to meet yourself. But the idea caught my interest; what if you could meet and talk to yourself? Not in your head as you do now, but as a separate entity in real time? Featured Resources » How Mobile Messaging Is Transforming Omni-channel Customer Engagement » End Mobility MIGRAINES Now - Make Business/Enterprise Wireless Easier » Monetizing your services, maximizing your margin and staying out of trouble Advertise With Us General advertising Info: Click here    Become a TechZone360 columnist! Become a TechZone360 columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of communications technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TechZone360 Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask at elinask@tmcnet.com for details. FOLLOW TECHZONE360   FEATURED MAGAZINES FEATURED EVENTS

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