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New Bluetooth Is Coming And It Sounds Awesome
In late 2016 or early 2017, Bluetooth 5.0 will be released, and by all indications, this will be the version of the technology we’ve all been waiting for. It’s about to take a giant leap forward in...
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Oracle Micros Point of Sale Customers Reset Your Passwords
Does your company rely on Oracle Systems’ Micros to handle point of sale transactions? If so, you should change your password immediately. The company has recently reported that a sophisticated Russian...
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Hackers Can Now Change What You See On Your Monitor
Do you trust what your eyes tell you? If you’re looking at a computer monitor, that trust might be misplaced. At a recent DEFCON presentation in Las Vegas, researchers demonstrated how it’s possible to...
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HIPAA Violations Are Turning Into Prison Sentences For Some
The unfortunate reality is that most instances of hacking occur from within a company itself. It’s true that the high profile cases that make the news are successful breaches from outside the company,...
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New Business Card Interacts With Mobile Devices
Printing company MOO Labs has just brought the humble business card into the information age. Employing the same NFC (Near Field Communications) technology that makes it possible to make a credit card...
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Watch Out for Windows Activation Scams on Your PC
There have been a number of scams in recent years involving malware that creates false flag problems on your desktop. The faux problem is presented, along with a phone number you can call to get help...
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New Chip Cards May Not Be As Secure As Expected
Remember not long ago, when the big credit card issuers went on at some length touting their latest advances in smart chip technology? The new tech was supposed to vastly improve the security of credit...
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App From Microsoft Creates Better Two-Factor Authentication
Microsoft is a company that definitely understands the need for better and more secure information systems. Like many other tech companies, they’ve been pushing hard for two-factor authentication...
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Adobe Flash May Soon End On Google Chrome
Adobe’s beleaguered Flash player may finally be seeing its last days, at least if Google has anything to say about it. The player has been exceedingly popular, and at its peak, a vast number of...
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New Tech Can Copy And Mimic Your Handwriting
Researchers at University College London have created a fascinating algorithm that can take a sample of hand-written text, and imitate it with eerie similarity. At first glance, that might seem like a...
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Ransomware Heavily Targeting Health Care Companies
You’ve probably seen the headlines. This year, hardly a week goes by that there isn’t a report of a company in some way connected to the health care industry falling victim to ransomware. If you think...
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90 Percent of People Ignore Important PC Security Warnings
What do you do when you get a popup window generated by some piece of software you use, informing you of a critical update? Do you stop what you’re doing right then and perform the needed update? Most...
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Sage Is Latest Company To Report Internal Data Breach
Sage, LLC, a British company providing business software solutions for clients around the world, was the latest victim of a data breach. This one, however, came from inside the company itself. This is...
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Survey Shows Company CIO’s Are Looking At Cloud Services
There has been an explosive growth in companies offering private cloud as part of a broader offering of managed services, and businesses are responding positively to the trend. Interestingly, while...
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USB-C Getting Certification Program To Protect Against Safety Issues
You probably don’t know the name Benson Leung. He’s one of the internet’s unsung heroes, and in recent months, he’s been quietly waging a one-man war against manufacturers producing faulty USB-C...
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Passwords More Popular Than Fingerprint Scanners in U.S.
Although a number of tech companies have been working hard to create new and ever more robust security and authentication protocols, a recent survey revealed that the American public in general remains...
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Internal Breaches On The Rise For Many Companies
In some important ways, the media has a tendency to distort the reality where hacking and data breaches are concerned. The stories that tend to make the headlines are the external breaches that see...
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Is Your Home’s New Smart Deadbolt Secure?
Much has been written in previous months about the explosion in growth of the (IOT) Internet of Things, and the security risks posed by that growth. Where PCs, laptops, and smartphones all have fairly...
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Will Your Thermostat Be The Next Device Held For Ransom?
An interesting and disturbing new form of Ransomware was on display at this year’s Def Con convention, in Las Vegas. So far as anyone knows, this is the first, proof of concept ransomware that...
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Point Of Sale System Security Questioned As MHR Reports Breach
Shaun Treacy, the President of MHR (Millennium Hotels and Resorts) North America, has recently sent a communication to guests who stayed at some of the company’s locations between March and June of...
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