A digital epidemic is sweeping across the world at a record pace. Its name? Ransomware. This year alone hackers cut off heating to homes across the US East Coast afterhacking an oil pipeline, ending in a$4.4M ransom payment. Another group attempted topoison water systemsin Florida. From smart factories to self-driving cars, we’re becoming more vulnerable than ever to security breaches as companies move towards AI and the cloud. Cybersecurity experts predict that ransomware costs will reach$20B by the end of the yearand balloon to$265B by 2031....

Ransomware could interfere with 2020 elections — these basic cybersecurity precautions can minimize the damage What is ransomware? Ransomware is a form of malicious software, or malware, that typically encrypts a victim’s computer files, holds the files hostage and then demands a payment to send the decryption key that unlocks the files. Individual ransomware payments usually range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, with the expectation that a relatively low dollar amount will motivate the victim to quickly pay the attacker to end the incident....

If you’re not usingRapportive, you’re missing out. That’s the short story. Having social context about who you’re emailing is one of the best things to have happened to my Gmail inbox in quite some time. But, like many of you, I get business cards and the information from them doesn’t appear in Rapportive. Today, that changes, as Rapportiveintroducesintegration for Google Contacts. To see your Google Contacts in Rapportive, click “Connect my networks” in the Rapportive menu at the top of Gmail, and then click “Sign in with Google”....

Gmail pluginRapportiveis already one of the most useful tools for anyone wanting to get more out of their email, showing you information from the social networking profiles of people who contact you in place of Gmail’s advertising column. However, today’s it’s added a feature that could make it essential for anyone who uses both Google’s email service and Twitter – it’s essentially turned Gmail into a Twitter client. While Rapportive previously let you see the tweets of people who emailed you, it’s now alotmore useful....

If you’ve not caught on yet, we’repretty big fansof the context-additionGmailplugin known asRapportive. Not only does it pull in valuable information and photos of the people with whom you’re emailing, it also has a brand new design that makes it all flow together nicely. So imagine our disappointment when it looked like Gmail was getting ready to boot Rapportive off of the real-estate map withits latest additioncalled People Widget. People Widget is handy, as it pulls in information about the conversations that you’ve had with people previously....