Do you know the password to your spouse’s computer? What about his or her social media accounts? His or her email accounts? Not married, just friends, maybe with benefits – what about his or her passwords? We will get to work passwords in a minute. ExpressVPN asked 1,500 American adults in an exclusive but not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T Ending Support for DSL Internet Connections AT&T stopped selling DSL Internet connections on October 1, 2020, leaving many users, who do not have access to other forms of Internet connection stranded. AT&T’s fastest DSL connection is 6 mbps, much slower than many other carrier’s DSL speeds which can reach 100 mbps, and only about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI has said for years that paying a ransomware ransom was a bad idea. It encourages the bad guys and funds their bad guy activities. But last week the decision became harder when the Treasury department said that they were going to add ransomware organizations that are connected to terrorist organizations to the list […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Intel and, to a lesser extent, AMD and ARM have been collecting a lot of attention in the last year or so for bugs in their silicon. As everyone tries to tweak every last drop of performance out of their systems or do new and creative things, the risk of a problem increases. But Apple […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Republican administration, led by the current occupant of the White House has been trying for years to remove the protections that social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have. They seem to have a couple of hot buttons. One is end to end encryption which makes it hard for them to snoop on your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]False Claims Act Means Big Fines I had heard about the Department of Justice going after companies for misrepresenting things in federal contracts. I remember that Cisco paid a fine of less than $10 million, so I didn’t think it really meant much. But in a press release, the DoJ says that they recovered over […]
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