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New Scam Locks iPhones for Ransom
A new scam to extort money out of Apple mobile device users has surfaced in Australia, with scattered reports in other countries as well. Affected devices are locked out via Apple’s own “Find my iPhone” platform with a message that demands a ransom payment of $100 USD to unlock the phone. Security analysts are unsure
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Cyber Ratters ratted out and busted
It’s a beautiful day on the internet when I can report good news instead of bad. In what appears to be a new and very positive trend in modern law enforcement, several agencies around the world came together in a global sting that bagged nearly 100 cybercriminals selling and using the Remote Access Tool (RAT)
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Java, Flash…Silverlight?
Security holes in Adobe’s Flash and Oracle’s Java have become so commonplace, it’s actually helped to raise awareness about the necessity of keeping these platforms updated, but there’s a third platform that many of you probably use everyday without ever realizing that it too needs to be patched. Would it surprise you to know that
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Net Neutrality – Should You Care?
A secret war is being fought in the internet industry right now, but unless you are a die-hard student of all things tech, you might not even know it’s taking place. The more conspiratorial-inclined among us accuse the mainstream media of avoiding coverage of this debate because of their close ties to the opponents of
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Internet speed tests may not be reliable measure
Cable broadband was once strictly the province of residential customers, but over the past several years, the major players in this space have made large in-roads into the SMB market with fast, cheap internet circuits that, on the whole, perform more-or-less as reliably as their more expensive (T1’s) and/or slower (DSL) counterparts. The primary difference
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Hacked Baby Monitor Leads to Scary Parenting Moment
As a parent, there is perhaps nothing more frightening than to have your child’s well-being threatened, and when that threat comes from a device meant to help safeguard children (and relieve parental anxiety), the impact can have far-reaching implications. Proving that some hackers out there have no grasp of human decency or compassion, there have
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