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.