Microsoft just patched a bug this month (see article) that potentially allows a hacker to take over your computer and for sure allows a hacker to crash it – repeatedly – all because they forgot to check for a carry overflow in an addition operation. It potentially affects 70 million web sites and is being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported today that the age of drone vandalism has come. Early Wednesday morning, the graffiti artist/vandal known as KATSU used a hacked Phantom drone to deface a 6 story tall Calvin Klein billboard on Houston Street in New York City and posted the tagging of the billboard on You Tube. Given what he did […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T rolled out its Google Fiber competitor (see article) in the Kansas City, Mo. area (Leawood, Lenexa, Olathe, and Overland Park, Kan. ) for the same price that Google charges – $70 a month. However, if you would prefer that AT&T not track the web pages you visit, the time you spend at each, the links […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In January Morgan Stanley caught one of it’s financial advisors, Galen Marsh, after he stole data on 350,000 clients and someone posted part of it on the Internet. This month a JPMorgan employee, Peter Persaud, was arrested for selling customer data to an undercover FBI snitch. While both of these people were in the financial […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The CPA association (AICPA) in their Chartered Accountants Magazine (GGMA.Org) wrote about a survey that they did regarding consumer’s spending habits (see article). Below is a summary of the survey results: 25% of Americans said they were victims of cyber attacks this year, up from 11% last year. 86% of Americans are concerned about whether […]
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 […]
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