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Popular tax apps leaked your data to Facebook
While it shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of our long-time readers, millions of less savvy taxpayers might be shocked to discover their online tax filing software has been caught red-handed leaking sensitive information. As discovered and reported on by non-profit news organization called The Markup, several popular online tax-filing websites including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and
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Twitter stumbles with new ownership
In case you happen to be ignoring the news like any sane human being, you might have missed that a certain billionaire bought Twitter about two weeks ago. Like some sort of stereotype out of an 80’s comedy, the new boss strutted into the place stating that changes were going to be made, and by
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Phone Scammers are Upping Their Game
Last Friday, while I was in the middle of working with a client at their office, I received a voicemail that set off some alarm bells when I read the transcript. I had received a call from someone claiming to be from the local Sheriff’s department wanting to discuss an important matter. I’ve worked with
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DIY Tech – Short-term Savings, Long-term Risks
They didn’t invent it, but the internet and specifically platforms like YouTube, provided a huge boost to the “Do-It-Yourself” movement. Instead of having to rely on hands-on training, word of mouth, books or walking back and forth between project and the VCR player, we can now bring up at least a dozen or more videos
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LAUSD Hackers make good on threat, release data
The Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD) was hacked in early September, prompting a near total shutdown of school network systems during the week following Labor Day while law enforcement and the district worked to recover and clear systems of possible backdoors and tripwires, of which many were found. The nation’s second largest school district
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YouTube and the Illusion of Control
You probably already knew this: YouTube is the second most visited website on the internet. In obvious first place is Google.com which also happens to be the parent/sister company of the world’s biggest video streaming site. YouTube has over 800 million videos (and growing) and gets over 17 billion visits per month (source), so saying
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