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Picture of the Week – Some Windows 10 Users Got Quite a Surprise

Microsoft got into a bit of trouble earlier this month when some folks who installed the Windows 10 update got a bit of surprise when it deleted all of the user’s documents.  It took Microsoft a while to admit that it was their fact, thereby increasing the damage, but they did remove the offending update […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending October 26, 2018

Poorly Secured Family of Adult Web Sites Leak Account Info For those people who can think back to the hack of the Ashley Madison web site, this is kind of deja vu all over again. 100 megabytes of user authentication data was leaked – user names, IP addresses, passwords and email addresses.  Not THE most […]

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Guess Who Developed Malware That Tried to Blow Up a Saudi Refinery?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is new to consumers.  We think of Nest thermostats and Internet connected baby monitors.  That is true and they cause enough grief out there like last year when they took down parts of Amazon and Twitter (and hundreds of other sites)  when malware attacked these poorly protected devices and used […]

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Smart Home Manufacturers Won’t Say if They are Giving Your Data to the Feds

From a sales and branding perspective, the last thing that smart home device manufacturers (think Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod and a raft of other) want you to worry about is whether the Feds are snarfing up your data. We do know of a few highly publicized cases like asking for smart water heater […]

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