by ray | Feb 3, 2018 | Security, Tech News
Patches released by Intel Corp. to fix highly malicious Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities affecting its CPUs turned out to be faulty, the company admitted, urging customers to stop installing them until further notice. Earlier this month, security researchers at...
by ray | Feb 2, 2018 | Security, Tech News
The security of pretty much every computer on the planet has just gotten a lot worse, and the only real solution — which,of course, is not a solution — is to throw them all away and buy new ones that may be available in a few years. On Wednesday,...
by ray | Jan 25, 2018 | Security, Tech News
Do you own an Android smartphone? If yes, then you are one of those billions of users whose smartphone is secretly gathering location data and sending it back to Google. Google has been caught collecting location data on every Android device owner since the beginning...
by ray | Jan 25, 2018 | Security, Tech News
You should be extra careful when opening files in MS Office. When the world is still dealing with the threat of ‘unpatched’ Microsoft Office’s built-in DDE feature, researchers have uncovered a serious issue with another Office component that...
by ray | Sep 10, 2017 | Security, General News, Tech News
00:12We are all activists now. 00:15(Applause) 00:16Thank you. 00:18I’ll just stop here. 00:19(Laughter) 00:21From the families who are fighting to maintain funding for public schools, the tens of thousands of people who joined Occupy Wall Street or marched with...
by ray | Sep 10, 2017 | Security, General News, Tech News
Enterprise-tech heavyweights Oracle and Microsoft each jumped into the red-hot market for blockchain digital technology on the very same day, and one of them looks fully prepared (that would be Microsoft) while the other looks like it’s desperately trying to...