What if a psychic was to start listing off really personal information about you? I don’t mean your name or place of birth, but your bank account number or how much you spent on clothes last month. It must be magic! How else could they know all of these things? You’d be surprised. Your entire life is online, and it may be used against you.
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Do you use Yahoo Voice? If so, you’ll be happy to know that your login info – both email and password – could have been one of the 450,000 accounts that got hacked and posted online this morning. Yahoooooo!….. No, that’s not a good thing. It’s time to change your password.
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It’s been no secret that Android has been a lucrative playground for all sorts of malware. Q1 this year saw 5,000 malicious apps target Google’s mobile OS, jumping to 20,000 for Q2. Estimates for the Year End total? 130,000. The Mayans said 2012 would be the end of the world—could this be the cause?
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By now the concept of “Liking” something is just as every day as the sun rising (unless you live in Vancouver, where the sun doesn’t shine anymore). With 800 million users on Facebook, there’s a lot to “Like” out there. Soon there could be a lot more than that—there’ll be a lot to “Want” too. […]
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Who doesn’t love a cute kitty (except for those with Ailurophobia)? They’re cute, cuddly, playful – who couldn’t’ resist? Apparently even a neural network for machine learning! Google scientists who work in the secretive X Labs have made a discovery—Artificial Intelligence knows cats. What else could they know?
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Just when you thought malware was on the fence, McAfee reports it’s doing the exact opposite. As Q1 came to a close the results are in. Malware is exploding.
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To political enthusiasts May the Fourth may mean one thing, but today is about something bigger than politics. Today is Star Wars Day!
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Google Drive has arrived and people all over are taking the new cloud storage service out for a spin. While an issue over converting your files into Google Docs format to work on them is a slight bump in the road, there is one major roadblock— the terms of service.
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Cyber criminals strike where it’s hot, and right now there’s nothing hotter than Instagram. The free photo-filtering & sharing app that over 30 million iOS users know and love has now found fame with Android users. It’s also found malware.
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With budgets shrinking faster than a Kardashian marriage, IT staff have had to learn to do more with less. If your staff or students have better gadgets at home than they do in the office or school, then bring them in! Use them! What could possibly go wrong with that plan? Lots.
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It’s no secret that Google and Facebook have one thing in common—their love of your info! It’s to serve you better, remember? While Google tried to dig into Facebook’s success by going social, Facebook is now trying to take a piece out of Google—by revamping its search.
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Another day, another data breach—at least it seems that way. With 70,000 new malware threats popping up each day, it makes sense. Threats must be getting sneakier, more complex and harder to stop, right? Wrong.
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