by ray | Aug 20, 2015 | Security
SO YOU FINALLY installed Windows 10 and joined the ranks of the other 67 million users. You open your browser to search for a place to grab lunch, and Bing already knows your location. You notice that all the banner ads are geared toward your secret knitting hobby....
by ray | Aug 20, 2015 | Security
LAST YEAR AFTER nude photos apparently stolen from various celebrities’ iCloud accounts began circulating on Reddit, Apple responded by telling people to enable a feature called “two-factor authentication.” The idea is simple. When you try to log in to your iCloud...
by ray | Aug 18, 2015 | Security
Ransomware and phishing scams tied to current events have been staples of criminal hackers for years, and the Windows 10 upgrade scam is the latest version It was inevitable. Within mere days of Windows 10 rolling out to PCs worldwide, criminal hackers set to work...
by ray | Aug 18, 2015 | Security
Original Article from June 2015 RESEARCHERS AT KASPERSKY Lab in Russia have discovered yet another new nation-state attack attributed to members of the infamous Stuxnet and Duqu gang. But this time the perpetrators were hiding in plain sight—inside the security...
by ray | Aug 10, 2015 | Cloud Tools, Security
The Apple Watch could become our central hub in a wheel of identity, in which all spokes rotate around our wrist. Some early Watch apps already have a high degree of utility. But we’re only scratching the surface of what’s to come. In this roundup, we look at six apps...
by ray | Aug 10, 2015 | Security
Late Thursday night, Mozilla released a security patch for the Firefox browser after finding a serious vulnerability being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability allows malicious attackers to use some JavaScript magic to “search for and upload potentially...
