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Tesla Latest To Get Hit With Remote Car Hack
Tesla isn’t the first automaker whose increasingly automated vehicles have been hacked, but they are the latest. Fortunately, the hackers weren’t real hackers, but security researchers working for a...
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Twitter Updates To Ease Certain Restrictions And Limits
Longer Tweets are finally coming! Maybe. At some point. It is the company’s single most requested feature: an easing of the tight, 140-character restriction on Tweet length. And although the company...
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Your Last.fm Password Could Have Been Compromised In 2012
Are you familiar with the music service, Last.fm? If you used the service at any point in 2012, your password could be compromised. This is the latest find announced by LeakedSource, which provides an...
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ClixSense Users Password Breach Affected 6 Million Users
If you’ve never heard of ClixSense, you’re not alone. It’s a website that supposedly pays its users for viewing advertisements and completing surveys online. Unfortunately, people who signed up to use...
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Small Businesses Are Adopting Cloud Services By A Large Margin
Traditional web hosting services are on the way out, at least where small and medium sized businesses are concerned. These are the latest findings by Clutch.co, based on a recent survey of SMBs. A...
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Hacked Smart Devices Are Being Used To Launch Web Attacks
Much has been written about the explosion in the size of the Internet of Things: a dizzying and rapidly growing collection of internet-connected objects that we use to make our lives more convenient....
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New MacOS Sierra Available Includes Long-Awaited Features
Over the past few years, most of MacOS’s updates have been aimed at bringing it firmly into alignment with iOS. Gradually, we’ve seen an increasing number of iOS’s features ported over to the desktop,...
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Using Non-HP Inks In HP Printers? HP Is Stopping That
From the very earliest days of the PC revolution, printer manufacturers have relied on a very specific model to sell their wares. They sell the printer itself as cheaply as possible, relying on the...
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Microsoft Enticing Edge Users With Malware Protection
In a bid to increase its share of the browser market, Microsoft has made some interesting moves recently, which make its new “Edge” browser software stand out from the crowd. The most recent change is...
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Chrome Users On Mac OSX Seeing Better Battery Life
Laptop users in general have been unhappy with Google’s Chrome browser. There are several aspects of the software’s design that cause it to drain battery power at an alarming rate. Fortunately, the...
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Space Buffs Watch Out For Mac Virus
Say what you will about Russian hacking group “Fancy Bear,” but they’ve definitely got a sense of style. Fancy Bear is the group widely believed to be responsible for hacking the Democratic National...
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Study Shows More People Are Worried About Cyberthreats
There may be some good news where cybercrime is concerned. Increasingly, Americans are beginning to take the threat more seriously. A recently released survey conducted by TransUnion showed an...
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Will Your Body Provide Passwords To Devices In The Future?
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed an intriguing new technology that can actually transmit secure password signals through the body, using the fingerprint sensors and touchpads...
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FAA Threatens Prosecution For Samsung Note 7 On Planes
It was supposed to be a landmark achievement for Samsung, and the start of an era of record-breaking profits. The release of the Note 7 was widely anticipated, and when it hit the shelves back in...
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Google Gets Facts Straight By Adding News Fact Checker
Back in September, President Obama called the news media out for their complacency. In a year marked by an extremely divisive political campaign, people have lamented the fact that many of the nation’s...
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Has Government Been Scanning All Yahoo Email Messages?
Did they, or didn’t they? That seems to be the central question surrounding the recent revelation reported by Reuters. According to the news story, Yahoo complied with a Federal government request to...
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Insulin Pump Hack Takes Technology Threats To A New Level
The risks and dangers associated with the Internet of Things continues to grow. Unfortunately, these days, a hacking attack can actually kill. Recently, a researcher uncovered a major security flaw in...
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Bogus Encryption Software Downloads Are Delivering Malware
Online security has become increasingly important to rank and file users in recent years, and with good reason. 2015 saw the largest number of hacks and successful data breaches in the history of the...
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Be Careful With ID Selfies: New Android Trojan Steals Info
Some credit card companies have begun using selfies as an alternative to traditional, text-based passwords in order to provide enhanced security. No system is perfect, though, and hackers have already...
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Spotify Ads May Have Served Up Malware To Your Computer
Are you a Spotify user? If so, you may have been infected. Recently, the company reported that one of its advertising partners had displayed an ad containing malware. As with most software of this...
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