Whether you have a big or small business, targeting the online audience is one of the best decisions you will ever make. There are billions of people using the internet everyday, with thousands or millions of these people matching your target demographic. Ecommerce has seen the rise of many enterprises, some of which operate exclusively online.

One of the most important parts about running an online business is having a great website design. You website design is what people online perceive about your business and this is why you need to invest in professional website design and development. You may have a cousin or a friend who is good at coding, but there is a lot more that goes into an ecommerce website development.

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You might think that having to pay for files locked by ransomware is costly, but it’s the downtime that actually hurts a business more.

Those are the results of a new survey conducted by cloud IT services company Intermedia. The survey, entitled 2016 Crypto-Ransomware Report, polled nearly 300 expert IT consultants about the current trends in malware.

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The security of the Internet of Things is fundamentally broken. Developers and manufacturers understandably are eager to get their new hi-tech products to market and unfortunately often overlook security, instead operating under the misapprehension that security-by-obscurity in their proprietary systems will do. The problem is that security researchers, and those with more malicious intent, can almost always extract binary code from the device memory via JTAG or similar in-circuit debugging facilities, or find it online in the form of updates, and reverse engineer via one of the many tools readily available.

Furthermore, a lack of security subject matter expertise among hardware-oriented engineers creates major vulnerabilities, compounded by the fact that firmware can too easily be modified; and a lack of logical separation between critical and non-critical components within the device opens up further avenues for attackers.

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Self-driving cars, until recently, were a phenomenon saved solely for sci-fi films. Yet over the past couple of years, car manufacturing companies have begun focusing their sights on the vehicles of the future.

With studies predicting up to 15 percent of new cars sold in 2030 will be fully autonomous, it’s unsurprising to hear that traditional industry leaders and disruptive innovators such as Google and Apple are currently working on making this trend a reality.

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A new report released by Quocirca reveals that UK businesses are struggling to manage growing volumes of information and are failing to meet the demands and expectations of the modern workforce.

The report looks at information management in today’s office environment, and how the modern workforce -- which is increasingly consisting of young millennials -- is changing the ways of working. The report also reveals that the traditional approaches to information management are struggling to keep up.

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A survey by mobile and Internet security firm BullGuard of over 6,000 UK residents has illustrated just how widespread the Internet of Things (IoT) has already become, while also highlighting serious security concerns among consumers.

IoT is growing and will become more pervasive in the near future as consumers, whether knowingly or not connect more smart devices to the internet. Many consumer household items are now smart or internet enabled by default. Additionally over a quarter of consumers in the survey are planning to buy IoT devices in the next 12 months alone.

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You might be annoyed by the constant marketing you’re getting in your email, but that’s only because research shows that the method works. Not only does it work, but it’s working better than (almost) ever.

Email marketing software provider Sign-Up.to released its new annual Email Marketing Benchmark Report, looking at how successful email marketing campaigns are. It employed some serious numbers into its results -- more than a billion emails across 29 industry sectors, looking at various parameters such as click through rates, open rates and so on.

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Facebook is the number one channel for people looking to get answers from retailers’ customer service in the UK, a new study shows.

According to the Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience study, Facebook is the channel through which retail customer service answers most frequently and most accurately, followed by email. Twitter came in third, with pretty poor results.

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VMware today announced research revealing that over a third (36 percent) of UK universities are under attack by a cyber attack, on not just on a daily basis, but each hour. Furthermore, the attacks are so frequent and widespread that 83 percent of universities believe that cyber attacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication.

VMware’s research shows that a high percentage of University campuses are being singled out and attacked due to their open architecture.

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Ever since Edward Snowden, a former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, leaked information about the internet spying activities conducted by the NSA, there has been an unrest among Americans. The main concern for most people is that their privacy has been intruded without their permission.

Many Americans are also worried about the things that the NSA and the US administration could do with access to such "private" data. And the revelation about several tech giants, including Yahoo and Google, being involved has probably made people even more circumspect about using online services based in the US.

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Despite the inherent insecurities of the cybersecurity industry, a new report from Barkly, an endpoint security company, reveals that the biggest issue IT security teams have to face with current security solutions is that they slow down the system.

When asked about the options of productivity vs security and the potential downfalls of security solutions, 41 percent of respondents said that they were dissatisfied with their current solution, not because it failed to deliver security, but because it slows down their system.

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Big data has truly progressed from being just a buzzword to being an essential component of many companies' IT infrastructure and business plans. How we store, analyze, and process big data is changing the way we do business, and the industry is in the midst of the biggest transformation in enterprise computing in years.

Organizations can now look for patterns that are indicative of current or even future behavior. And the acceleration in big data deployments is helping to identify where we can expect the really big advances to be made in the near future.

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Teens understand the importance of technology and engineering for the future of the world, but aren’t really interested in pursuing a career path in the industry, a new research says.

A new study by the Elizabeth Prize for Engineering says that 82 percent of teenagers, aged 16 and 17, believe engineering is a key part in the future of innovation. On the other hand, only 21 percent are interested in pursuing a career in these fields.

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Security information and event management (SIEM) systems are placing extra weight on companies’ budgets, a new study suggests.

According to IT auditing software company Netwrix Corporation, 69 percent of companies are looking to reduce SIEM bills.

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Encryption is a must-have in today’s digital communications, IT pros agree, adding that what the government is (trying to) achieve with surveillance could mean the death of privacy altogether.

Those are the results of a new survey conducted by security firm AlienVault. It surveyed the attitudes of more than 1,500 IT (including security) professionals about today’s privacy, and came up with interesting results -- 34 percent believe the government should be able to eavesdrop on communications for the purposes of national security.

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