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Five Ways to Control Your Inbox
Before the advent of computers and the internet, getting control of the “paper tiger” was a common topic of conversation, both in the home as well as in the office. While paper is still an issue, most of us are distracted by a new predator that stalks us: the never-ending stream of email. Properly dealing
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Office365 Subscribers get unlimited cloud storage
In the ever-escalating cloud services arms race, Microsoft just trotted out a whopper of a one-up over just about everyone in competition: Microsoft’s OneDrive VP just announced on the OneDrive blog that all Personal, Home and Education Office365 subscribers will have access to unlimited cloud storage for no additional cost. Lest you feel left out
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New gigabit future for old copper DSL?
Several technology manufacturers, including Broadcom (whose chips you probably have in several devices around your home and office) are planning to release in 2015 chips for a new networking protocol called G.Fast which can push bandwidth transmissions on twisted-pair copper lines to near fiber-optic speeds of one gigabit per second. Throughout the US and many
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Chinese iPhone users being hacked
According to security and censorship watchdog Great Fire, the latest iPhone just made its debut in China, and already new owners are being hacked by what appears to be a state-sponsored “man in the middle” attack. Though there have been many other allegedly government-backed attacks on US-based companies, presumably for commercial or political gain, this
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A Veritable Parade of Breaches
If you thought you had data breach fatigue, prepare to be exhausted this week: Hacker tries to scam Internet with fake DropBox password database – DropBox refutes the claim, noting the “proof of hack” provided consisted of known stolen passwords from other sources. Kmart Hacked – Undisclosed Quantity of Credit Card Numbers Stolen – Sears-owned retail
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Poorly configured website exposes customer data
First the country’s largest bank has a huge data breach, and now the nation’s largest bond insurer admits that it inadvertently exposed sensitive customer information through its website. As an example of the old maxim, “Man has no greater enemy than himself,” MBIA, Inc. allowed unfettered access to a subset of very sensitive customer information
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