Now Is A Good Time To Upgrade To SSD Drives
If you've been considering swapping out some of your old HDDs to SSDs, now is a great time to do so, thanks to the convergence of two factors. First is the fact that the manufacturers …
Microsoft Is Issuing Surface Book 4 Replacements
Do you own a Surface Book 4? If you do, you may have been unfortunate enough to get one that suffers from a peculiar screen flickering issue. It's not known exactly how many Surface Book …
More Bad News From The Equifax Breach
The news just keeps getting worse for Equifax. The company has already had to revise their estimates of how many people were impacted by last year's breach more than once, and now, they're having to …
New Vulnerability May Expose Encrypted Emails
Security researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have discovered a dangerous new email vulnerability called "Efail." Exploiting this new email vulnerability would allow hackers to decrypt emails encrypted with either PGP or S/MIME - …
SSD Drive Makers Adding Features To Reduce Duplicate Data
Big changes are in the works in the SSD-based storage ecosystem. It includes three different vendors all making similar announcements regarding designs to help companies that rely on SSD-based storage systems to reduce duplication and …
Chili’s Is The Latest To Suffer A Credit Card Breach
Brinker International (the parent company of the Chili's restaurant chain) formally announced that on May 11, they discovered malware on an undisclosed number of their point of sales terminals. Details are sketchy at this point, …
Vega Stealer Malware Goes After Your Saved Credentials
There's a new security threat to be worried about, and security professionals are warning that it could be very bad indeed. The new malware is known as the "Vega Stealer," and is currently being used …
Your Kids’ Personal Info May Have Been Compromised
An identity threat company called 4iQ has recently published a report called "Identities in the Wild: The Tsunami of Breached Identities Continues." Unfortunately, the information in the report contains all bad news. Some of the …
Fitbit and Google Partnership May Raise Privacy Concerns
Depending on which side of the privacy debate you're on, you're either going to love or hate this announcement: "Fitbit intends to use Google's new Cloud Healthcare API to help the company integrate further into …
Hulu To Soon Offer Episode Downloading and Offline Streaming
Hulu recently announced that it would join both Netflix and Amazon Prime in allowing its users to download content to watch offline, but in Hulu's case, it comes with a twist. If you subscribe to …
