For those of you are are Firefox users, I found a tool that allows you to see what parts of your browser need updating. The tool is a web page on Mozilla’s web site. Maybe everyone else knows about it and I have been living in a cave. Maybe there is a similar one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells hacking tools to the FBI and DEA, as well as less friendly governments such as Sudan, was hacked this week. The hackers stole about 400 gigabytes of internal emails, financial documents, source code and other goodies. The hackers quickly published the data that was hacked, presumably to embarrass […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As companies like Target and Home Depot begin to clean up their credit card protecting acts, the cyber thieves are moving on to a different class of victim. This week, Service Systems Associates acknowledged that they had been hacked and as a result, some of their clients systems were compromised. How this works is this: […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: OPM said that 3.6 million of the 4.2 million people affected by the first breach were also in the casualty count of the second breach, so the total should be around 22 million instead of 25 million. However, they added 1.8 million fingerprints to the mix. OPM said that notifications for the second breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Underwriters labs, the folks that test most consumer electrical appliances for safety, has set up a division to certify Internet of Things devices – whatever they are. Apparently, most people have heard of the term, but don’t know what that means. An example of it might be your Internet connected refrigerator that texts you when […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you haven’t seen the news today, the morning started with United Airlines saying that they experienced a “system-wide computer problem”. United later said that an issue with a network router “degraded network connectivity for various applications, causing this morning’s operational disruption”. The disruption meant that no United flights took off from about […]
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