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Does Turning Your PC Off Every Night Make It Last Longer? This Is What 8 Hardware Manufacturers Have To Say
Does Turning Your PC Off Every Night Make It Last Longer? This Is What 8 Hardware Manufacturers Have To Say Whether you’re a tech enthusiast or just someone who uses your computer to check your AOL e-mail, at some point you’ve arrived at the decision as to whether or...
Is Your DNA In A Database? Doesn’t Matter. New Study Finds That DNA Databases Can Send The Police Or Hackers To Your Door – Even If You Didn’t Submit Your DNA
Is Your DNA In A Database? Doesn’t Matter. New Study Finds That DNA Databases Can Send The Police Or Hackers To Your Door – Even If You Didn’t Submit Your DNA More than 60 percent of Americans who have some European ancestry can be identified using DNA databases —...
‘I Could Ruin Your Business Right Now’: A Sim-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom
'I Could Ruin Your Business Right Now': A Sim-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom Jared Goetz was at dinner when someone used his American Express card to buy a $39,000 web domain. Goetz wasn’t too concerned, he told Motherboard in a phone call: He told the American...
White House Calls On Google To Abandon Chinese Search Engine Spy Project
White House Calls On Google To Abandon Chinese Search Engine Spy Project Google’s censored search engine and news app for China has seen a considerable amount of controversy since news of the project first broke, but it may have just gotten its biggest pushback yet in...
Frequent Flyer Miles Now A Big Target For Hackers
Frequent Flyer Miles Now A Big Target For Hackers Frequent flyer miles are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to a new report from Comparitech, a site that compares various tech products. The company combed through six marketplaces on the dark web selling...
Huge Improvements Coming to WiFi
Huge Improvements Coming to WiFi Get ready for the next generation of wifi technology: Wi-fi 6 (for so it is named) is going to be appearing on devices starting next year. But will you have to throw out your old router and get a new one? And is this going to make your...
Your Information Technology Provider is Now The #1 Target of The Chinese Military
Your Information Technology Provider is Now The #1 Target of The Chinese Military The U.S. government on Wednesday warned that a hacking group widely known as cloudhopper, which Western cybersecurity firms have linked to the Chinese government, has launched attacks on...
IT Professionals Overconfident in Their Ability to Detect Breaches, Reveals Survey
IT Professionals Overconfident in Their Ability to Detect Breaches, Reveals Survey In today’s ever-evolving world, the PC is no longer the sole endpoint found on organizations’ networks. It is joined by the likes of servers and point-of-sale terminals (PoS), endpoint...
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Android vs iPhone For Gifts – How Much Security Do You Need – Breach vs Theft – Who Has Liability: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [10-17-18]
Android vs iPhone For Gifts - How Much Security Do You Need - Breach vs Theft - Who Has Liability: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [10-17-18] On This Episode... The holidays are fast approaching, should you give android or Apple products for gifts? Craig is on with Ken and Matt on...
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Could Fake Video Start A War – What To Do About Lost Phones: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [10-16-18]
Could Fake Video Start A War - What To Do About Lost Phones: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [10-16-18] On This Episode... Craig is on with Jim Polito on WTAG as the discuss how a fake video could start a war as well as what you need to do before and after you lose your phone....
Security And Online Scams on NH Today WGIR-AM
Security And Online Scams on NH Today WGIR-AM On This Episode... Elections are coming up but security is still a mess. Craig talks with Jack Heath today about election security and online scams on WGIR. Related Articles Election Security Is A Mess, And The...
Digital Ids Are More Dangerous Than You Think
Digital Ids Are More Dangerous Than You Think THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT, real-world benefits to having an accepted and recognized identity. That’s why the concept of a digital identity is being pursued around the world, from Australia to India. From airports to health...
Microsoft Update Has Been Deleting Documents
Microsoft Update Has Been Deleting Documents We previously warned you that the October 2018 update for Windows 10 was deleting people’s files, and now Microsoft has basically confirmed the issue by pulling the update for now. Over on Microsoft’s support site, they’ve...
Use Airbnb? How To Find Hidden Cameras In Your Airbnb Rental
Use Airbnb? How To Find Hidden Cameras In Your Airbnb Rental Let’s face it, there are creepy people in the world. That’s why we lock our doors at night, and why we don’t want to walk alone in a dark alleyway. When we rent a place, like a hotel or vacation home, we...
Everything You Should Do Before—And After—You Lose Your Phone
Everything You Should Do Before—And After—You Lose Your Phone IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE fact that the pricey pocket computers we carry around with us at all times are prime targets for thieves—as well as very easy to leave behind in subway cars or on coffee shop tables. Now...
DEEPFAKES 2.0: Computers Can Already Create Convincing, Fake Videos Of Anyone
DEEPFAKES 2.0: Computers Can Already Create Convincing, Fake Videos Of Anyone Imagine seeing yourself in a porn video. Naked. Violated. Except you have no recollection of the act, of the room you’re in, partner you’re with, or the camera filming. That’s because it...
Millenials Will Give Away Their Personal Information In Exchange For A Cup Of Coffee
Millenials Will Give Away Their Personal Information In Exchange For A Cup Of Coffee Shiru Cafe looks like a regular coffee shop. Inside, machines whir, baristas dispense caffeine and customers hammer away on laptops. But all of the customers are students, and there's...
Election Security Is A Mess, And The Cleanup Won’t Arrive Until 2021
Election Security Is A Mess, And The Cleanup Won't Arrive Until 2021 For many, the most intense race leading up to Election Day won't be among politicians. It'll be the mad, final scramble by county officials and tech companies to make sure your votes are safe from...
Weapon Systems Cybersecurity: Looks Like Our Weapons Are Easy To Hack
Weapon Systems Cybersecurity: Looks Like Our Weapons Are Easy To Hack In recent cybersecurity tests of major weapon systems DOD is developing, testers playing the role of adversary were able to take control of systems relatively easily and operate largely undetected....
Breach, Bug, Hack. When Does A Business Have A Responsibility To Inform Its Customers?
Breach, Bug, Hack. When Does A Business Have A Responsibility To Inform Its Customers? For months, Google has been trying to stay out of the way of the growing tech backlash, but yesterday, the dam finally broke with news of a bug in the rarely used Google+ network...
Face It! You’re Going To Be Hacked, So Set Up Your Financial Accounts Like You’re Going To Be Hacked
Face It! You’re Going To Be Hacked, So Set Up Your Financial Accounts Like You're Going To Be Hacked In the past week alone, Experian, Facebook and Google have all experienced (or divulged, in Google’s case) security breaches of various levels of seriousness,...
Password and Password Security
Password and Password Security A Special Report by Craig Peterson
China Hacking Hardware. Youtube replacing Textbooks, Presidential Alert AS HEARD ON WGAN: [10-10-18]
China Hacking Hardware. Youtube replacing Textbooks, Presidential Alert AS HEARD ON WGAN: [10-10-18] On This Episode... China is at it again - The Peoples Liberation Army is using our hardware to hack into the government and our businesses. Testing the Presidential...
4 Kinds of Assessments
4 Kinds of Assessments Necessary Assessments to Identify Your Liability Since antivirus no longer works, most firewalls are almost useless, and endpoint security just doesn’t cut it anymore, we use a multi-staged approach at every step to securing systems. We have to...
Facebook Hack Clone Messages – Have You Been Hacked: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [10-09-18]
Facebook Hack Clone Messages - Have You Been Hacked: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [10-09-18] On This Episode... 50 million Facebook accounts were compromised, was your account one of them? Find out more as Craig and Jim discussed the recent Facebook hack as well as some great...
Facebook Accounts are being Spoofed. Don’t fall for it on NH Today WGIR-AM: [10/8/2018]
Facebook Accounts are being Spoofed. Don't fall for it on NH Today WGIR-AM: [10/8/2018] On This Episode... Facebook accounts are being spoofed. Find out more as Craig talks with Jack Heath on WGIR. Related Articles Share This Episode For Questions, Call or Text:...
The Best Password Advice Right Now
The Best Password Advice Right Now Ever since NIST submitted SP 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines for review a few years ago, the computer security world has been debating the agency's newest recommended password policies, which run starkly contrary to decades of...
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it’s easy to forget scam artists are constantly dreaming up innovations that put a new shine on...
How Hackers Slipped By British Airways’ Defenses
How Hackers Slipped By British Airways' Defenses ON FRIDAY, BRITISH Airways disclosed a data breach impacting customer information from roughly 380,000 booking transactions made between August 21 and September 5 of this year. The company said that names, addresses,...
YouTube Is Replacing Textbooks In Classrooms Across America
YouTube Is Replacing Textbooks In Classrooms Across America Generation Z students, classified as being between the ages of 14 and 23, believe that YouTube is a bigger contributor to their education than textbooks, according to a study by Pearson Education. Why it...