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Girl Scouts Add Cybersecurity Badge

By developer / July 4, 2017

The Girl Scouts are perhaps best known for their awesome cookies, but like their brother organization, the Boy Scouts, the girls in uniform do a lot more than just that. For the past 105 years, both organizations have been issuing merit badges for camping, survival skills and a wide range of outdoor activities. Recently, though,…

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Amazon Ends Its Unlimited Cloud Storage Tier

By developer / July 3, 2017

All good things must eventually come to an end, and finally, Amazon has bowed to external pressure. The company has just announced the end of their unlimited cloud storage tier. Users who currently enjoy unlimited storage via the Amazon Cloud will continue to enjoy those benefits until their current contract expires. At that point, they’ll…

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Ransomware Named Petya May Be Next Wannacry

By developer / July 1, 2017

After the global Wannacry attack and Microsoft’s emergency patch to close the loopholes that made it possible, you might have been lulled into thinking that a similar attack was no longer possible. Sadly, you would be incorrect in thinking this. As you read these words, a similar, and in some ways worse, form of ransomware…

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Buckle May Have Had Credit Cards Exposed For Six Months

By developer / June 30, 2017

Have you shopped at a clothing store called Buckle? If you were a patron of any of their 450+ stores during the period spanning from October 28, 2016 to April 14, 2017, then your credit card information has likely been compromised. According to a company spokesman, the data most likely at risk is as follows:…

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Even Google Can Get Hacked

By developer / June 29, 2017

Google has a rock-solid reputation and an almost uncanny ability to ward off hacking efforts, but even they aren’t infallible. Even they can be hacked, as a recent incident involving Google News has demonstrated. In the early morning hours of June 12, the news service was temporarily overrun, and all the leading news stories were…

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Scientists Prove They Can Get Passwords From Brainwaves

By developer / June 29, 2017

It just may be the ultimate hack: stealing passwords from your brainwaves. It’s something that has moved beyond the realm of science fiction and into the realm of possibility, according to a joint research study conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of California, Riverside. The research team tested…

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‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Shows Make TV Watching Interactive

By developer / June 28, 2017

It’s a trend that has been flitting at the edges of the entertainment industry for a few years now: the idea of interactive storytelling in TV and movies. The concept was born of deeply immersive video games in which the players drive the narrative, but getting that concept to translate well into TV/movie programming has…

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Majority Of Businesses Aren’t Prepared For IT Risks

By developer / June 27, 2017

Does your IT staff include personnel who are dedicated to compliance or cybersecurity? How confident are you that your team is prepared to take today’s security threats head on? How likely are you to be able to ward off a determined attack? If you don’t have dedicated staff for the positions mentioned above, and you’re…

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Can Your Car Be Hacked Just With A USB Stick?

By developer / June 26, 2017

Jay Turla has been a very busy man since purchasing his new Mazda vehicle. He’s been spending time researching hacks to his car’s infotainment system, and as with most other “smart” products on the market today, he’s finding the system incredibly easy to break into. He’s not alone. In fact, a whole online community has…

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Windows XP Gets An Unexpected Security Update

By developer / June 24, 2017

Microsoft has recently issued another surprise patch to help protect the surprisingly large Windows XP user base. In this case, the patch is aimed at addressing security flaws used by the NSA and other nation-state hackers. This is on the heels of an out-of-band emergency patch in response to the global “Wannacry” ransomware attack. What…

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