Google tracking you whether you want it or not
C2 Technology is in the business of providing technology support and consulting to other organizations, and Google’s many tools are indispensable to me and my team. Our email is hosted by Google, our searches are powered by Google, and it even helps me keep track of where I’ve been in the past week, and as
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Cyber attacks increasing ahead of US Midterms
Two separate reports have come in this week detailing the increasing tide of cyber attacks intending to sow politically-motivated disruption through the spread of misinformation and by targeting specific political organizations and government bodies. Microsoft was first to the gate with news that its Digital Crimes Unit (bet you didn’t know they had that!) executed
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The Elephant in the Voting Machine
Despite what you might think, the titular pachyderm of this week’s blog isn’t the GOP mascot, but that same elephant I’ve pointed out to you in the past. We, as a civilization, have put into place technologies that have significant impact on our lives seemingly without the requisite care and considerations for our own safety
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Sextortion Scam Making the Rounds
Scareware isn’t a new trend – we’ve been seeing fake “FBI warnings” on our computer screens long enough that even the most technology naive among us knows not to pay their “online fine”, and the crime of extortion has been around as long as humanity has used currency. Unfortunately for all of us, cybercriminals have
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Facial Recognition – Ready for law enforcement?
Even though most of us know Amazon as the world’s largest drain on everyone’s wallet, they do quite a bit more not generally visible to their adoring public, including developing a now-controversial face recognition platform called “Rekognition” intended for use by law enforcement agencies. “Controversial” because of a recent report released by the American Civil
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Russia Hacked US Power Utilities
We’ve known since at least 2013 that American utility companies are under constant cyber attack, but at the time I wrote that blog four years ago, lawmakers and the industry believed that their security was sufficient to withstand the incursions. Welcome to 2018, where everything is getting hacked, including, yes, American power utilities. According to
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