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Beware wolves in support clothing
Reports are streaming in of Dell customers being targeted by scammers pretending to be Dell support staff, leading many in the industry to wonder if the computer manufacturer has been hacked and their customer database stolen. The con artists are phoning Dell users and gulling the victims with convincing information about equipment and service records
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In case you missed it
Though it may feel like it some months, I don’t intend to write about doom and gloom every week on this blog. Scattered in among the zero-days, hacks and malware infections are a handful of articles you don’t want to miss. As you prepare to wind down the year and check off your various lists,
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Tech Stocking Stuffers
Looking for a small gift for the technophile in your life? These are my recommendations for this holiday season: Portable Battery Charger: At least one person on your gift list spends their day on the move, whether at work or play, and probably spends the back third of that day babying their mobile device’s dwindling
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Vtech breach exposes kid and parent info
I really wanted this holiday season to be one of joy and goodwill towards all people, but it seems like the black hats will never rest. Let’s just get the ugliness out of the way: VTech – maker of tech toys for kids – has suffered a data breach that has exposed over five million
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Dell Scrambles to Fix Security Goof on New Computers
When you sell as many computers as Dell does, all it takes is one small screw-up to create a security catastrophe. In this case, computers sold as far back as August of this year may have shipped with a compromised security certificate that could lead to a complete breach through a trivial exploitation of that
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Virus found on Police body cameras
It’s not exactly a walk in the park when a cash register gets infected, but when technology on the front lines of law enforcement is infected out of the box, we have an entirely new set of nightmares to keep us up at night. It’s bad enough that our military is using 14 year-old software
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