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The Newest Ransomware Threat and how your Personal & Client Data could be released to the Public!9/28/2017 As if ransomware wasn’t bad enough, there is a new twist called doxware. The term "doxware" is a combination of doxing — posting hacked personal information online — and ransomware. Attackers notify victims that their sensitive, confidential or personal files will be released online. If contact lists are also stolen, the perpetrators may threaten to release information to the lists or send them links to the online content.
One of the earliest doxware attacks, Ransoc, informed victims that files violating intellectual property rights or files containing child pornography were present on their computers; unless the victim remitted a payment, the authorities would be notified and the victim would be incarcerated. With access to more devices, attackers could refine doxware attacks that make it cost-effective to target individuals on a massive scale. Although ransomware prevention software can be put in place, nothing is a 100% guarantee against being attacked. Protect the data on your PC so that even if stolen by Doxware, it can't be read or used. Read here for more details. Call The Go To Tech Guru for a consultation on how to protect your data! #security #news #virus&malware Augmented and virtual reality devices are the latest trend in consumer tech — but one company’s smart glasses stand out. Rather than let users explore a digital world, the eSight headset aims to help those with vision impairment to see the real one.
Read here for the inside scoop! #news #techgadgets If you're in the market for an e-watch and are considering the Fitbit vs. Apple Watch, this article is a must for you! Fitbit has a new competitor to Apple, the Ionic with a load of compelling features! Fitbit has a new competitor to Apple, the Ionic, with a load of compelling features! Read on for the scoop!
#iPhoneiPad #mac #news The personal information of up to 143 million U.S. consumers has been accessed in a “cybersecurity incident” at Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus that monitor payments activity and other factors to determine your credit score. The company announced the attack in a press release Thursday.
The attacks began in mid-May and continued through July. The information leaked includes names, Social Security numbers, birthdays and addresses — but in rarer cases, hackers were also able to unearth driver’s license and credit card numbers. Equifax says it will notify affected people via direct mail, and the company has created a dedicated website — equifaxsecurity2017.com — for consumers looking to see if their personal details were leaked. The company has also set up a call center to handle inquiries, which you can reach at 866-447-7559. Finally, the company says it is offering one free year of complimentary credit monitoring and identify theft monitoring, the latter of which includes a feature that scans the internet for any appearance of your Social Security number. If you’re worried about your personal information, you can always ask credit bureaus to set up a security freeze. That will prevent anyone who was able to get their hands on your information from actually being able to open up new lines of credit in your name. Click here to find out if you have personally been affected. #news #security The Amazon Echo is a smart speaker developed by Amazon.com. It connects to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa, which responds to the name "Alexa". The device is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic and other real time information.
Despite all that the Echo can do, did you know that it currently cannot call 911? Find out all the if's and why's here! #security #news With online colleges on the rise, some where you don't even need to take exams to get your degree, are traditional colleges going by the wayside? Although costs are not necessarily lower for online colleges, the convenience of taking courses from the comfort of your home has its appeal. But some are saying that the critical thinking you get from the structure attending an actual brick-n-mortar college better prepares students for jobs and real life. Read here for the scoop!
#news As many of you may know, a total solar eclipse is coming to the USA lower 48 continental states on August 21st this year. The next one in the USA won't for over 100 years. If you're not able to travel to the narrow band across the USA where you can see a 100% total solar eclipse blackout AND are wondering what you can expect to see where you're actually located, you're in luck! Go to this link for an animated view of what you can expect.
#news Chinese manufacturer Huawei wants to overtake both Apple and Samsung to dominate the entire global smartphone market. Huawei is now closing fast on Apple and Apple will be looking nervously over its shoulder in the next few. Read here for the scoop!
#iphoneipad #android #news The FCC has pproved Apple to begin testing of the nextgen 5G Wireless broadband technology! Get the latest scoop here!
#mac #iphoneipad #news As of July 26th 2017, Apple will no longer offer full exchanges of MacBooks with battery failures for newer MacBook Pro models. Apple customers that are inquiring about replacements have been instructed that new battery inventory will be available in 15 business days instead. For on whether your MacBook qualifies and what to do, read this article!
#mac #news When an unfamiliar number shows on your phone but it's has your area-code, do you answer it? Often, it's an unsolicited robocall. But what can you do to prevent these?
Here are a number of ways you can fight this annoyance! #news #android #iphone&ipad Apple issued a new warning after a new hacking threat. FOX Business Network’s Tracee Carrasco reports, “Apple has now issued a critical security patch for all iOS devices and for Mac computers against a potential hack that could come remotely via Wi-Fi.”
Read here for the scoop! #news #android #mac #iphone&ipad According to a recent article, "data in the world is doubling every two years, but data storage technologies are having a hard time keeping up. That's led some researchers to look for a solution in biology rather than computers."
"With the help of a California startup that makes synthetic DNA, researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center, were able to transfer a complete computer operating system, a very old movie, a $50 Amazon gift card and more into a tiny speck of DNA. In theory, that means it would be possible to store all the information humans have ever generated into the space of a single room." Other advantages are that DNA is liquid so can take any shape and won't become obsolete like cassette tapes. DNA also lasts a long time, as demonstrated by the discovery of 45,000 year old woolly mammoth DNA. Read more here for how DNA could, in the very near future, be the storage of choice! #news A credit card skimmer is an illegal device that acquires all your credit card info without you knowing. They can be found at ATM's, gas stations and other places. However, there's a simple but effective way to determine whether you're about to use one before it happens! Watch this video!
#security #news Apple could become the world’s first company to break through the $1 trillion market cap value — all within a year, at least according to a particularly bullish Wall Street analyst. Read here on how Apple achieved this high position!
#news #iPhone&iPad #mac By now you've likely heard about Russia's cyber invasion of Ukraine's infrastructure. What many may not know is that it is strongly suspected that Russia was using Ukraine as the testing ground for such an attack on the United States!
Read this interesting article on how it all developed! #news #security All-electric satellites are changing the way airline passengers access the internet. Like a Tesla in space, an all-electric satellite uses electric propulsion to climb from transfer orbit to geostationary orbit and to maintain its position on station, instead of the chemical rockets used by traditional satellites.
So what does all this mean for airline passengers? Lots more internet capacity, for one thing, with a capacity of 1.8Gbps to deliver in-flight entertainment and connectivity to commercial airlines across the Pacific Ocean. Read all about it here! #wifi #news Analysts testing a wide cluster of the well known kids’ toys known as fidget spinners have found a disturbing measure of lethal contaminants that may demonstrate fatal in the hands of children crosswise over America. The ball-bearings have been found to contain lead and mercury. Read here For details on this important announcement.
#news In the latest ongoing WikiLeaks whistleblowing scandal, the website has published documents from the CIA’s CherryBlossom project, exposing agency’s exploitation of Wi-Fi device security vulnerabilities. Released on Thursday, the new batch of CIA classified documents comes from the Vault 7 project. Known as CherryBlossom, it monitors the Internet activity of, and performs software exploits on, targets of interest.
Read here for the scoop! #android #iphone&ipad #news #security Google searching isn't limited to just typing in a few words for things you're looking for. There are so many other ways that most people don't know and give you so much search power!
Read here for the hidden secrets! #news This summer will host the first full solar eclipse in the United States in 38 years and if you haven’t planned some weekend festivities for August 21st– you might want to book your AirBnB sooner rather than later. For the best mountain views visit this page! You can also read more about the eclipse on my recent blog article here.
#news Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically. No one controls it, such as a bank or country. Bitcoins aren’t printed, like dollars or euros. Bitcoin can be used to buy things electronically. Only 21 million Bitcoins can ever exist.
Conventional currency has been based on gold or silver. However, Bitcoin isn’t based on gold; it’s based on mathematics. Around the world, people are using software programs that follow a mathematical formula to produce bitcoins. The mathematical formula is freely available, so that anyone can check it. Users can hold multiple bitcoin addresses, and they aren’t linked to names, addresses, or other personally identifying information, so it's somewhat anonymous. However, Bitcoin stores details of every single transaction that ever happened in the network in a huge version of a general ledger, called the blockchain. So, if you have a publicly used bitcoin address, anyone can tell how many bitcoins are stored at that address. They just don’t know that it’s yours. That’s why it has become the currency of choice for people online buying drugs or other illicit activities. Find out more about Bitcoin, on CNN Money and Here. Apple updates its operating system and hardware processors regularly, so older apps that have not kept up with the changes will be too outdated to run on the new iOS software expected later this year. This is not unexpected as Apple fully transitions its hardware and software to the 64-bit world, older apps still stuck in a 32-bit world will be left behind.
You can find a list of all the apps that are destined for involuntary retirement in iOS 11 by opening the Settings icon on the Home screen, selecting General, then About and then tapping Applications. Some apps on the list may have been abandoned by their creators, but others may have alternate, updated versions in the App Store — or on the way. For more information, read here. According to a U.S. government study released Thursday, 50.8 percent of homes and apartments had only cellphone service in the latter half of 2016, the first time such households attained a majority in the survey. Read more here on this growing trend.
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