After Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy, it was announced that Radio Shack was going to sell their customer information – over 100 million customers. Quickly, several camps came to the bankruptcy court to argue against the sale. First in line was AT&T (see article) and other carriers. AT&T claimed that, based on their agreement with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you depend on Google search engine position for your business, the world changed last week. As of April 21st, 2015, Google is using mobile friendliness as a criteria in search engine rankings. This affects mobile search (not your desktop) in all languages, world wide. Google has been saying that mobile friendliness is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]LinkedIn has a service called a LinkedIn Reference Search that allows someone to search for people who worked at the same companies that you did at the same time you did. While LI does not give employers direct access to those people who worked with you, they do “recommend” that prospective employers use the LinkedIn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers at the RSA conference this week disclosed an interesting iOS hack that would allow an attacker to put an iPhone into an endless reboot loop with no way for a user to get out of it. The attacker would need to set up a bogus WiFi hotspot near the target iPhone. This hotspot can […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At least according to Peter Singer, Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution. Writing in Fortune, Singer says many things that won’t make him very popular. A sampling: 97% of the Fortune 500 companies have been hacked and likely the other 3% too, they just don’t know it. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the issues with Apple Pay security problems (see post), I didn’t really understand the scope of what I was writing about. Thanks to Brian Krebs (see his post), I now understand the problem is bigger than I thought. Let’s assume that you are a crook and […]
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