The hacker who calls himself 'Gnosticplayers' has been busy and prolific.  Over the years, he's sold more than one billion user accounts on the Dark Web.  His most recent product is more than ten million user records for the social planning and e-invitations service, Evite.

Researchers have recently discovered a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Alaris Gateway Workstations. These bring us closer to the tragic day when a hacker will actually be able to kill someone with code. Alaris workstations are used to deliver fluid medications.

Great news for inter-operability.  Apple has brought their new iCloud app to the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 devices. Even better, the app is designed such that it's deeply integrated with Windows 10, even allowing you to access iCloud files from inside other Windows apps.

Bad news for Android users.  Recently, Google discovered that more than two hundred apps on the Play Store had been infected with the 'BeiTaAd' plugin. This plugin is the latest in a large and growing collection of advertising libraries that have been misused and abused by advertisers.

It's the end of an era.  In 2001, Apple introduced iTunes, which transformed the music industry. For the first time ever, it was possible to buy individual songs, transfer files, and automatically sync data. It was safe and secure, and people flocked to it in droves.

Chances are good that you or someone you know has had some type of medical testing done by the US Clinical Laboratory, Quest Diagnostics. If that's the case, then there's bad news.

The company recently announced that they've suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal, confidential patient information of more than 11.9 million people.

Linux systems aren't targeted by hackers as often as Windows and iOS-based systems, but they're certainly not immune.

Recently, security researchers have discovered a new strain of malware developed by Chinese hackers, specifically for the purpose of targeting Linux-based systems.

In the earliest days of the smartphone, there were only a few apps that people could use to perform genuinely useful work.  Sure, they were handy for keeping your contacts all in one place and reminding you of appointments, but beyond that, your pickings were fairly slim.

Do you like video games?  Are you the kind that can get so lost and involved in your favorite title of the moment that you're willing to burn vacation days and spend the entire time in a non-stop playing frenzy?

It hasn't happened very often, but there have been a handful of documented cases where people have actually died from playing video games.

Do you use the news aggregator service called Flipboard?

If so, be aware that the company has recently started notifying its user base that hackers breached their network and had access to their internal systems for approximately nine months.  If you haven't heard from them yet, be on the lookout for an official communication from the company.