G-Mail Users Will Soon Have To Use New Design

June 14th, 2018

Change is coming, and not everyone is happy about it.  Recently, Google redesigned its G-mail interface, and since then, they've allowed their free users to opt into the new changes.  G-Suite users may or may not see the option to try the new interface, depending on whether their administrators have enabled the option and made it visible.

Embedded Sound Waves Could Damage Your Computer

June 13th, 2018

It seems like a new attack vector emerges on a weekly basis, and this week is no exception.  The latest threat:  Emails containing specialized audio files whose acoustic vibrations can damage your computer's hard drive. This is possibly damaging to the point of causing system failure, data corruption, and making it impossible to successfully reboot your machine.

Apple Users Are Getting Group Facetime

June 12th, 2018

Apple's Legions of users love FaceTime, but there's a problem with the highly popular app.  It only allows you to see and talk to one person at a time.  Apple fans have been clamoring for Group FaceTime for almost as long as the app has existed, and soon, they'll get their wish.

FBI Advises Users To Reboot Their Routers

June 11th, 2018

Cisco's Talos Security Team has identified a new threat, and it's a nasty one impacting more than half a million consumer-grade routers in the US.  According to the Talos Team's report, the new malware is impacting a broad cross-section of routers made by TP-Link, QNAP, Netgear, Mikrotik, and Linksys.

T-Mobile Site Leaked Data On Millions Of Customers

June 9th, 2018

ZDNet Researcher Ryan Stevenson recently found a big problem on T-Mobile's website regarding an unprotected API.  As a result of the flaw, untold millions of T-Mobile's customers' account information was left exposed and completely unprotected.  Literally anyone who stumbled across the site and tried to abuse it could access a wide range of customer information with no password required.

Microsoft Surpasses Google In Latest Valuation

June 8th, 2018

Microsoft's stock price is surging, putting the company's total valuation at $753 billion. This makes it the third most valuable company on the planet, behind Amazon (782 billion), Apple ($923 billion) and leaving Google in fourth place, valued at $739 billion.

Latest IPhone Update Syncs Messages Across All Devices

June 7th, 2018

If you use Apple products, you may have noticed an annoying "feature".  If you're using the messaging app on your phone and texting someone and then you move to your Mac and access the same program there, the conversation you were having on your phone isn't present.

Passwords May Be Dead Soon If Microsoft Gets Its Way 

June 6th, 2018

Karanbir Singh (a program manager at Microsoft) is on a mission:

Kill the password.

As he said in a recent blog post:

"Nobody likes passwords.  They are inconvenient, insecure, and expensive.  In fact, we dislike them so much that we've been busy at work trying to create a world without them--a world without passwords.

Coca Cola Breach Proves Employees May Be Significant Threat

June 5th, 2018

Coca-Cola is the latest company to fall victim to a data breach.  Unlike some of the others that have recently made headlines, however, this one was conducted from within.

In September 2017, an employee at one of the company's subsidiaries stole an external hard drive containing personal data belonging to more than 8,000 company employees.

Now Is A Good Time To Upgrade To SSD Drives

June 4th, 2018

If you've been considering swapping out some of your old HDDs to SSDs, now is a great time to do so, thanks to the convergence of two factors.

First is the fact that the manufacturers of SSDs have been  making strides in terms of increasing the capacity of the drives they're offering.