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Experts have tested mobile applications for iOS and Android and found out that most applications don’t store data securely and a hacker doesn’t often need a physical access to the victim’s smartphone to stole personal information.

More than 57% of respondents consider that they don’t have skills, allowing them to move toward the digital transformation. Such results can be found in the joint study of Riverbed and Economist companies, dedicated to the modern standards of the digital productivity. Respondents see the key role in IT departments when speak about digital transformation. 63% think that nowadays communication and collaboration between business-blocks and IT departments is enough bad and limited.

IDC together with Hitachi Vantara has prepared a study called Big data analytics as a tool for business innovation. It showed that more than 55% of companies have a budget for the implementation of solutions for big data analytics.

On March 19, 2019 the company Trend Micro Incorporated, specialized in the sphere of cyber security solutions, published results of the survey, dedicated to the problem of the lack of qualified IS specialists with participation of all IT professionals from international companies. 69% respondents consider that the use of artificial intelligence can help to reduce the influence of lack of IT specialists on the security quality.

CNews Conferences held the annual event "ICT in the financial sector 2019" in Moscow. The participants discussed services and products for the banking sector, also about promising technologies that are not only tested, but are already used in practice.

Microsoft has presented its 24th Security Intelligence Report (SIR) on the information security threats. To prepare the report, experts have analyzed 6,5 trillion signals, which are transmitted via cloud resources of Microsoft every day. Data were presented by corporate and private users, who agreed to share them with reference to geolocation.

Avast, a digital security solution provider, said that almost half of smart homes are vulnerable to cyberattacks. The Avast Smart Home Report 2019 presents data from the analysis of 16 million smart home networks. According to these data, 20.11% of homes in Russia have more than five connected devices. 44.07% of such smart homes have at least one vulnerable device. These figures indicate a serious risk that the technology of the IoT poses to homeowners. Just one unprotected device can compromise your entire home network.

Despite the steady growth of the pace of change, the latest study of Dell Technologies Digital Transformation Index shows that digital transformation programs are in their infancy in many companies. This is confirmed by 78% of leaders from all surveyed countries who believe that their organizations should be more involved in digital transformation (91% of Russian leaders agree with this fact). More than half of respondents (51%) believe that in the next five years their company will face difficulties to satisfy the changing needs of customers (96% of executives from Russia think so), and almost every third director (30%) is worried that his company may lose the market altogether.

Russia in on the 19th place by digital culture index as the third annual research of Microsoft DCI has shown. The level of online risks hasn’t almost changed compared to the previous year and amounted to 74%, meanwhile Russians meet them more often than Internet users from other countries.

Victor Gevers, cyber security specialist from the Netherland, found a backdoor that gives access to servers of thousands of Russian companies. In total a vulnerability is detected in more than two thousand of data bases. It’s interesting that to access the backdoor the account admin@kremlin.ru is used in MonhoDB data bases.