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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...
PHISHING WARNING: One In Every One Hundred Emails Is Now A Hacking Attempt
PHISHING WARNING: One In Every One Hundred Emails Is Now A Hacking Attempt One in every hundred emails sent around the globe has malicious intent, likely to deliver malware, conduct spear-phishing, commit fraud or other activity conducted by cyber criminals. It's not...
Why Didn’t I Get an Emergency Presidential Alert Text?
Why Didn’t I Get an Emergency Presidential Alert Text? AN ALERT FROM the US president went out to millions of cell phones Wednesday as a part of a test of FEMA’s Wireless Emergency Alert system. Some people didn’t want to get the message, but they got it anyway....
The Big Hack: How China Used A Tiny Chip To Infiltrate Major U.S. Companies
The Big Hack: How China Used A Tiny Chip To Infiltrate Major U.S. Companies In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as...
Feds Force Suspect To Unlock An Apple iPhone X With Their Face
Feds Force Suspect To Unlock An Apple iPhone X With Their Face It finally happened. The feds forced an Apple iPhone X owner to unlock their device with their face. A child abuse investigation unearthed by Forbes includes the first known case in which law enforcement...
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai – 5G Cell Rollout – October Cyber Security Awareness
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai - 5G Cell Rollout - October Cyber Security Awareness On This Episode... 5G is almost here. Craig talks with Ken Altshuler and Matt Gagnon about how everyone is getting ready for it, about Cyber Security Awareness month, and how interesting the...
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What Data Are Websites Keeping – How Do You Scrub Yourself From The Internet: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [10-04-18]
What Data Are Websites Keeping - How Do You Scrub Yourself From The Internet: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [10-04-18] On This Episode... This morning, Craig talks with Jim Polito about the latest Facebook hack. Was your account compromised? Find out more about this new hack and...
50 million Facebook accounts were compromised. Was yours?
On the 10th anniversary of the App store, it’s time to delete most of your apps Your Facebook account may have been hacked this week. The social networking giant on Friday said "almost 50 million accounts" were compromised, a discovery its engineers made on Tuesday....
48% of Customers Avoid Businesses who have had a Data Breach
48% of Customers Avoid Businesses who have had a Data Breach Today's customers have higher standards for where they store their data – and their trust in businesses is falling, as evidenced by a new report investigating online trust in the digital age. Nearly 80% of...
6 Dark Web Pricing Trends – It Isn’t Good News
6 Dark Web Pricing Trends – It Isn’t Good News For cybercriminals, the Dark Web grows more profitable every day. According to Armor, this is especially true for stolen credit card data, where prices have increased anywhere from 33% to 83% from 2015 to 2018 in the...
Blockchain isn’t just For Bitcoin! Walmart requires lettuce, spinach suppliers to join Blockchain to improve Food Safety
Blockchain isn’t just For Bitcoin! Walmart requires lettuce, spinach suppliers to join Blockchain to improve Food Safety Walmart Inc., in a letter to be issued Monday to suppliers, will require its direct suppliers of lettuce, spinach and other greens to join its...
5G Cellular Data Service Is Almost Here — Here’s How Everyone’s Getting Ready
5G Cellular Data Service Is Almost Here — Here’s How Everyone’s Getting Ready 5G is coming, and it’s going to have a massive impact on almost every facet of how we use technology, with faster speeds and lower latency theoretically opening up huge new frontiers in...
How To Remove Yourself From People Search Sites And Erase Your Online Presence
How To Remove Yourself From People Search Sites And Erase Your Online Presence There is now a very thin line, easily broken, which separates our physical and digital identities. Social networks have evolved from the days of MySpace to valuable, data-slurping machines...
Spear Phishing Has Become Even More Dangerous
Spear Phishing Has Become Even More Dangerous The continued prosecution of "all the President's men" does little to stop the Russians from attempting to influence America's upcoming midterm elections. And reports from Missouri to California suggest they are already...
Do you own the content you purchase? Sharing digital streaming services and Apple’s newest hardware – AS HEARD ON WGAN: [09-27-18]
Do you own the content you purchase? Sharing digital streaming services and Apple's newest hardware - AS HEARD ON WGAN: [09-27-18] On This Episode... Is it time to upgrade? Apple's new products - iWatch 4 and new iPhones. Do you share your streaming passwords? Listen...
You Don’t Own Digital Products And They’re Taking Them Away – Millenials Stealing Streaming Services: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [09-25-18]
You Don't Own Digital Products And They're Taking Them Away - Millenials Stealing Streaming Services: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [09-25-18] On This Episode... Have you ever bought a book for your Amazon Kindle and have it disappear after some time? Well, it turns out we don't...
Your Digital ‘Purchases’ Are Not Really Yours
Your Digital 'Purchases' Are Not Really Yours When you purchase music, movies or books from Amazon or Apple’s iTunes store, you might be under the impression that that material is yours to enjoy forever; that’s how CDs and paper books work. Anything digital is...
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Facebook Had Another App Pulled From The Apple Store: AS HEARD ON: WGIR NH Today: [09-24-2018]
Facebook Had Another App Pulled From The Apple Store: AS HEARD ON: WGIR NH Today: [09-24-2018] On This Episode... Facebook is in trouble again, this time with Apple, having another app pulled off from the App Store. Find out more as Craig talks with Scott Spradling on...
The Home of The Future Is A Security Challenge
The Home of The Future Is A Security Challenge With great automation comes great responsibility. You may love your smart thermostat and door lock, but as long as they’re on the open network, they’re targets for all manner of digital attacks. And because the devices...
Idle Android Devices Send Data To Google Nearly 10 Times More Often Than iOS Devices Do To Apple, Research Finds
Idle Android Devices Send Data To Google Nearly 10 Times More Often Than iOS Devices Do To Apple, Research Finds In a paper titled "Google Data Collection," Douglas C. Schmidt, a computer science professor at Vanderbilt University, arrives at some stark conclusions...
Google Reportedly Bought Your Banking Data In Secret, And That’s Not Even The Bad News
Google Reportedly Bought Your Banking Data In Secret, And That's Not Even The Bad News Bloomberg reports that Google purchased a trove of credit card transaction data from Mastercard, allegedly for “millions of dollars.” Google then reportedly used that data to...
Millennials Are Sharing Streaming Passwords, Costing Companies Millions In Revenue
Millennials Are Sharing Streaming Passwords, Costing Companies Millions In Revenue Streaming subscribers are sharing passwords and skirting systems in increasing numbers, creating an increasingly expensive problem for streaming services. Getting content in front of...
Facebook Violates Apple’s Data-Gathering Rules, Pulls VPN From App Store
Facebook Violates Apple’s Data-Gathering Rules, Pulls VPN From App Store Facebook is the latest company to violate Apple's new app guidelines surrounding data collection. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook pulled Onavo Protect, a VPN app, from...
iPhone XS Max – Now Free To Freeze Your Credit – Top Security Tips From Defcon: [09-19-18]
iPhone XS Max - Now Free To Freeze Your Credit - Top Security Tips From Defcon: [09-19-18] On This Episode... Freezing credit is a cumbersome process The good news is it now free to freeze or unfreeze your credit report. Find out more as Craig talks with Ken and Matt...
Deep Look At New Law Concerning Equifax – New Hacking Tools: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [09-18-18]
Deep Look At New Law Concerning Equifax - New Hacking Tools: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [09-18-18] On This Episode... In the wake of the Equifax data breach one year ago, an estimated 145 million consumers’ personal information was stolen from the credit agency. Craig talks...
CYBER-ATTACK! Would Your Firm Handle It Better Than This?
CYBER-ATTACK! Would Your Firm Handle It Better Than This? What's it like being the victim of a live cyber-attack? What should you do to protect your company from further damage? And should you pay that ransom demand? Technology of Business eavesdropped on a "war...
How To Protect Yourself Against A Sim Swap Attack
How To Protect Yourself Against A Sim Swap Attack A spate of hacked Instagram accounts. A $220 million lawsuit against AT&T. A bustling underground crime ring. They all have roots in an old problem that has lately found new urgency: SIM card swaps, a scam in which...
New Ransomware Arrives With A Hidden Feature That Hints At More Sophisticated Attacks To Come
New Ransomware Arrives With A Hidden Feature That Hints At More Sophisticated Attacks To Come A new form of ransomware is spreading to victims around the world and the way it's built suggests those behind it could use it to launch more sophisticated attacks in future....
It Will Soon Be Free To Freeze (And Unfreeze) Your US Credit Report
It Will Soon Be Free To Freeze (And Unfreeze) Your US Credit Report In the wake of the Equifax data breach one year ago, in which an estimated 145 million consumers’ personal information was stolen from the credit agency, one of the very few countermeasures customers...
Black Hat And DEFCON Cybersecurity Experts Share Tips On How To Protect Yourself
Black Hat And DEFCON Cybersecurity Experts Share Tips On How To Protect Yourself During the week of Black Hat and Defcon, tens of thousands of security experts and hackers flock to Las Vegas for the back-to-back conferences. They hold discussions on issues like smart...