If you are a fan of, and regularly use Goo.gl (the URL shortener service), brace for impact.  The company has announced that as of March 30, 2019, the service will be shut down for good.  Long before then, beginning April 18th of this year, only existing users will be able to shorten links via goo.

Researchers at Preempt Security recently discovered a critical flaw in Microsoft's Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP for short) that impacts every version of Windows in existence. It could allow a hacker to remotely exploit Windows Remote Desktop to execute malicious code and steal any data stored on the machine.

There's a new threat on the horizon, according to security researchers from Check Point.  A group of hackers in China are busy building a massive botnet that so far, totals almost five million Android smartphones.  The hackers are quietly taking control of these devices using a strain of malware known as "RottenSys.

Wearable computing devices from smart watches to glasses are struggling to find an audience, and Google's Android Wear operating system hasn't gotten much love in recent years.  It has weakened as major players in the tech space have struggled to find a market for these products.

By now, you've almost certainly heard of "Spectre," one of two recently discovered security flaws that impact every chip made by Intel in the last ten years.

The story of Spectre, and Intel's response to it has been an interesting one.  In response to the flaw's discovery, Intel rushed a firmware patch, but quickly had to take it back and recommend that users not install  it, because it created as many problems as it solved.

According to a Microsoft security researcher, a massive malware attack attempted to install a cryptocurrency mining software on more than 400,000 computers in less than twelve hours.  The failed campaign is noteworthy because of the attack vector used.

If your company has an incident response plan that you can rely on in the face of a cyber attack, then you're ahead of most of the world, according to research recently conducted by the Ponemon Institute.  Shockingly, more than 75 percent of survey respondents from around the world admitted that they have no formal incident response plan.

There's a fun, new update for Apple's iMessage app that will probably make lots of power users happy.  As long as you also have Google's iOS app installed, you'll be able to perform Google searches from within iMessage itself.

In order to make it work, you'll have to go into the app drawer (App Store icon) and enable the iMessage extension.

Freemium software is certainly nothing new.  They are free apps that offer premium features if you don't mind ads displaying while you're using it or paying a small fee to have the ads removed.  At least one company is trying a new business model on for size, albeit with limited success.

Marvell Semiconductor has a new product out, and it's a game changer.  Their new "Alaska" chip (the Alaska C 88x7120) is the first on the market to support the new 802.3 standard.  The 802.3cd is on tap to eventually replace current Ethernet ports running at 25Gbps to 100Gbps with ports that will run at 50Gbps, 200 Gbps, and 400 Gbps.