Be Wary Of Open Public WiFi
Public WiFi is ubiquitous. Pretty much anywhere you go these days, you’re going to find a free network you can connect to. Stop in to grab some coffee, free WiFi. Grab lunch ...
New Form of Malware Used Ads To Infect Computers
The FBI has recently shut down a particularly nefarious ad server called the AdGholas group, which used a new and innovative method of infecting computers and managed to avoid detection for several ...
Hackers Are Using Netflix Price Raise To Steal Information
Video streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, and others are becoming so ubiquitous that they’re a fixture in everyday life for tens of millions of people. Unfortunately, hackers have proven ...
Verizon Unlimited Data? Your Account Might Get Closed
So what do you do when you offer an unlimited data plan and people actually take you up on your offer? Well, if you’re Verizon, you start banning them. Currently, Verizon is ...
4 out of 5 Business Networks Have Security Threats
According to security company Infoblox, a staggering 83% of the networks they’ve studied contain some form of malicious activity. The news is as staggering as it is grim, but if there’s a ...
Data Breach Costs Up 30 Percent, Is Your Business Secure?
The annual “Cost of a Data Breach” study has been released, and the results aren’t pretty or encouraging. Between 2013 and now, the total cost to a company hit by a data ...
This Year’s Leap Second Could Cause Some Computers To Crash
System administrators have their hands full dealing with “Leap Seconds,” the extra second periodically added to the day by scientists working with UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), used by computer systems around the ...
New 10TB Desktop Hard Drive Can Store All Of Your Data And Then Some
Do you consider yourself to be a power user, where computers are concerned? Do you have one or more members of your staff you’d put in that category? If the answer to ...
Fines For HIPAA On The Rise For Even Minor Data Breaches
If your company deals with protected health information, then you know what a maze of regulation HIPAA rules can be. The Federal government has recently signaled just how seriously they take data ...