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News Stalker Phone Apps Featured

Stalkers Are Increasingly Using Phone Apps to Follow Their Victims

Today’s technology is making it easier for stalkers to conduct their mission to control, and they are increasingly doing it with the aid of phone apps.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 8, 2019

News Windows Hack Firefox Featured2

Windows Tech Support Hackers Can Lock Up Screen through Firefox

Tech support scammers are taking advantage of a Firefox bug to lock up the screens of Windows users, convincing them they need to call bogus tech support.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 7, 2019

News Smartphone Voting Featured

US Allowing Smartphone Voting for People with Disabilities, Raising Security Concerns

For the first time, the U.S. has opened up the voting process to smartphones for people with disabilities using blockchain technology.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 6, 2019

Xhelper Featured

New Android Malware xHelper Persists Through Resets

A new strain of Android malware called xHelper is making the rounds. What makes it notable is how persistent it is, with some saying it’s unremovable!

By Simon Batt – Nov 6, 2019

News Websites Fingerprinting Featured

Privacy Experiment Shows Websites Are ‘Fingerprinting’ You

An experiment has shown many websites collect your data in a process called “fingerprinting,” whether or not you use a VPN or private browsing.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 5, 2019

Vpn Traits Featured

After Server Breach, NordVPN Has Strengthened Security Measures

NordVPN is on top of an admitted security breach of their server. They have already strengthened security measure, but will they still be trusted?

By Laura Tucker – Oct 31, 2019

News Google.new Featured

Google Adding .new Shortcuts for Third-Party Websites

Google is expanding its reach of the .new domain to third-party websites. You can now reach Spotify, Medium, eBay, and more, saving you some time.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 30, 2019

News Ai Disastrous Humanity Featured

AI Researcher Believes It Could Be Disaster for Humanity but Has a Solution

A leading artificial intelligence research is warning the public that ai could be disastrous for humanity, but his new book does provide a solution.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 29, 2019

News Ai Smells Featured

Artificial Intelligence Being Taught to Recognize Smells

Google’s researchers created a data set of close to 5,000 molecules that were identified as perfumers to train artificial intelligence to recognize smells.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 25, 2019

News Job Application Ai Featured

Face-Scanning AI Being Used to Judge Job Applicants

The next time you apply for a job, they may find out all they need to know with the use of HireVue, face-scanning artificial intelligence that analyzes your employability.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 24, 2019

News 3rd Party Speaker Apps Featured

Third-Party Alexa and Google Home Apps Can Eavesdrop and Phish Passwords

Third-party app developers with a nefarious intent can create Amazon skills and Google Home actions that may seem benign but are actually “smart spies.”

By Laura Tucker – Oct 23, 2019

News Netflix Sharing Ending Featured

Sharing Your Netflix Account? Not for Much Longer

Netflix has announced they will be cracking down on accounting sharing, although they won’t be making any changes at this point. How will this affect you?

By Laura Tucker – Oct 22, 2019

News Windows 10 Update Atp Featured

Microsoft Warns ATP Customers About Latest Windows 10 Update

The cumulative update for Windows 10 could bring harm to the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service according to a Microsoft warning.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 21, 2019

News Google Products Featured

Google Announced 5 New or Improved Devices this Week

At the Made by Google event, Google announced the new Pixel 4, new Nest Mini smart speaker, new Nest Wi-Fi, Pixel Buds upgrade, and a new Pixelbook Go.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 17, 2019

News Apple Denied Warning Featured

Apple Denies It Uses “Fraudulent Website Warning” to Spy on Users

Apple offers a “Fraudulent Website Warning” when a user tries to view a website that is not secure. It sends information to Google and China’s Tencent, but it’s not sending data to China.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 15, 2019

News Lightning Cable Hack Featured

Even a Lightning Cable Can Be Used to Hack Your Computer

A rogue Lightning cable is being mass-produced that looks and works just like a regular cable, except it can hack the computer it’s plugged into.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 14, 2019

News Airpods Batteries Featured

Apple’s AirPods’ Batteries Die After a Few Years and Cannot Be Replaced

Now being learned is that when the batteries in Apple AirPods die out, they can’t be fixed or repaired. Your only choice is to buy a new pair, unless you’re in warranty.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 9, 2019

News Wef Facial Recognition Featured

World Economic Forum Says Facial Recognition Technology Needs Controls on Use

The World Economic Forum believes there needs to be some rules in place for the use of facial recognition technology, especially regarding governmental use.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 8, 2019

Hospital Ransomware Featured

Hospitals Under Ransomware Attack Can Only See Critical Patients

It’s no surprise that hospitals are under constant cyber-attack, and the new wave of ransomware attacks left them unable to take in new patients. Here are the details.

By Simon Batt – Oct 7, 2019

News Iphone Fall Featured

iPhone Tough Enough to Survive Fall from Airplane

A pilot leaned out the window of his plane and dropped his iPhone. Thirteen months later it was recovered in working condition, minus the microphone.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 3, 2019

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Incognito mode was never private — it hides your history from the family laptop, not from your ISP, your employer or the site you just logged into

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HTTPS doesn’t encrypt which sites you visit — it hides the page contents, but your DNS lookups still broadcast every domain you open in plain text to your internet provider

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In 1947, Harvard’s Mark II ran on roughly 13,000 electromechanical relays, stored numbers across 100 registers, and read instructions from punched paper tape, turning thousands of clicking metal switches into a Navy calculator vulnerable to dust, loose contacts, and one famously misplaced moth

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In 1971, engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email between two computers sitting side by side in the same room — he chose the @ symbol to separate user from machine because it was the only punctuation on the keyboard nobody was using

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How did a single computer worm written by a Cornell graduate student in November 1988 crash roughly 6,000 machines and force the internet to invent security?

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