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Screen Time Causing Mental Health Issues Are Overblown

Jan 25, 2020 | brain development, cell phones, Consumer, Entertainment, Family, High School, Images, iPad, Media, Mental Health, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Phone, Psychology, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Science, Stress, Tablet, Technology, Video, YouTube

Screen Time Causing Mental Health Issues Are Overblown Turns out that all the hub-bub about technology affecting the mental health of our teenager by increasing anxiety and depression may be quite over-blown. It turns out that when you look at all the studies and...

Social Engineering Comes to the Forefront of Attacks

Jan 18, 2020 | Applications, Best Practices, Business, Business Email Compromise, Cyber breaches, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Economic Disruption, Education, Employee Training, Employees, Employment, Exploits, Fines and Penalties, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacks, Insider Threat, Internet, Malware, MFA, Nationstates, Organized Crime, Phishing, Phishing, Phishing, Policies and Procedures, Radio Show, Radio_Show, scam, Security, Security, Smishing, Social Engineering, Social Media, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Threats, Tracking

Social Engineering Comes to the Forefront of Attacks We depend on our smart devices and use them as a primary communication tool. Studies found that young adult users send over 2000 texts per month and receive over 1800 with that volume people are less wary, and it is...

Another “Pay–ment” System Introduced

Nov 23, 2019 | Banking, Banking, Big Tech, Big Tech, Business, Cashless, Facebook, Facebook, Financial, Gifts, Internet, Online, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Shopping, Social Networking, Technology

Another “Pay–ment” System Introduced Contactless payment solutions are becoming quite popular and now Facebook will be launching their version, Facebook Pay. Although not used like the current other contactless systems, you will be able to use it on all their...

National Security and the Chinese-based Social App TikTok

Nov 9, 2019 | Applications, Best Practices, Business, China, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Entertainment, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, Malware, Nationstates, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, safety, Security, Security, Security Alerts, Social Media, spying, Technology, TikTok, Updates

National Security and the Chinese-based Social App TikTok Have you or Do your kids use TikTok? TikTok is a wholely owned Chinese based video platform that is popular in social media circles. It boast a user base of a half-a-billion. What the government is...

Plaintiffs in Facebook Class Action Awarded Standing

Oct 26, 2019 | Best Practices, Biometrics, Business, Data Storage, Facebook, Facial Recognition, Fines and Penalties, FTC, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Technology

Plaintiffs in Facebook Class Action Awarded Standing Plaintiffs in a $35 billion class-action suit against Facebook won their argument proving standing to sue. This lawsuit concerns the collection and storage of millions of users’ biometric data without...

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses all but one payment company

Oct 19, 2019 | anonymity, Banking, Big Tech, Business, Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency, Facebook, Facebook, Financial, Internet, Libra, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Regulation, Security, Social Networking, Technology

Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Loses all but One Payment Company Cryptocurrency is a fool’s game. It is not ready for primetime and is not an investment. No matter how many get into it, the infrastructure to support this new currency change is not yet...