There are big changes coming to MS Office which you need to be aware of, given how widely used "Office" is in most companies.

First, the headline change:  When MS Office 2019 is released, it will only run on Windows 10.  If you've still got machines on older operating systems, and you want to keep your productivity suite up to date, then you'll need to upgrade those older systems.

Do you own a smart TV?  More than half of all television sales in the US last year were smart TVs, so chances are decent that you own one.  If you do, be aware that it may be collecting far more data about you than you think.

Recall that last year, Samsung, (one of the top smart TV manufacturers) found itself in hot water when it was revealed that the TV could listen in on conversations, record them (for better voice recognition) and save them on a Samsung server.

That smartwatch you're wearing might save your life.  Literally.

A new study conducted by the University of California San Francisco, and a healthcare startup called Cardiogram revealed that smartwatches and other wearables were able to detect diabetes in previously diagnosed patients an impressive 85 percent of the time.

On February 2, Tavis Ormandy, a researcher on Google's Project Zero team discovered a critical flaw in the popular online grammar checking app, "Grammarly."  Tens of millions of users make regular use of the app to improve the quality of their writing.

Menlo Security just released their third annual "State of the Web" report and it's not pretty.  The headline finding is that 42% of the top 100,000 sites as ranked by Alexa are more dangerous than you think.

The report defines a risky site as one that meets one of three criteria:

The site, or one of its associated background sites (from which news articles or video is pulled), is running software with a known security vulnerability
The site has been used to launch attacks or distribute malware
The site has suffered a security breach in the past twelve months

This first point is key, and often overlooked by security professionals.

The latest Brand Finance Global 500 report out and contains some surprises this year.

In the battle of the Brands, two companies have long topped the list:  Apple and Google.  This year, there's a new Sheriff in town.  Amazon blew past the top two claiming the top spot for itself.

Sophos has released the results of their annual "State of Endpoint Security Today", and it doesn't paint a pretty picture. A full 54% of companies surveyed reported having been hit by a ransomware attack in 2017. Another 31% reported that they expect to be on the receiving end of such an attack in the near future.

Microsoft is getting tough on so-called "registry cleaners", and it's about time.  The company recently announced a planned change to Windows Defender (the anti-malware program that comes standard with every Windows installation).  The change will see to the deletion of an increasing number of these registry cleaners.

Security researchers from around the web are reporting finding an increasing number of instances of proof of concept (PoC) code that incorporates the recently discovered Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.

If you somehow missed those earlier reports, Spectre and Meltdown are a pair of critical security flaws recently discovered in literally every Intel chip set made over the last decade.

Oracle is currently the third-largest provider of POS (Point of Sale) software on the market today, which means that there's a fairly good chance you're using an Oracle POS system.  If you are, there's trouble ahead.  A recently discovered security flaw could put your system at risk.