President Barack Obama is taking aim at "malicious cyber actors" who attempt to profit from digital attacks on US interests.An executive order announced Wednesday authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State and Attorney General to impose sanctions on cyberattackers hacking into the networks of US companies or government agencies.The White House aims to…
Thomas Fox
Unfortunately, we have the sad duty of reporting yet another Internet related scam targeting small businesses.This latest fraud comes via postal mail as a very official looking invoice from a company called “Website Backup,” although if you check carefully, the word “invoice” doesn’t appear anywhere on the document. The mailing looks as though it is…
It seems Microsoft took note of the 5 million Chromebooks sold.
Microsoft is set to release two new laptop lines to the market this year. To most people, this is not very newsworthy. What is newsworthy is that Microsoft plans to target the business segment created by Google and their Chromebook. Microsoft is planning on…
With the release of the Surface 3, Microsoft is bringing an end to the Windows RT operating system era.
The new Surface model, named Surface 3, is set to be the lightest and slimmest model to date while still having all the laptop-replacing features as the Surface Pro 3. The Surface 3 will come installed…
Facebook’s efforts to spread Internet connectivity to nearly every person on the globe will get off the ground this summer. A new report from The Wall Street Journal indicates that Facebook’s prototype drone, Aquila, will be much larger than the one-tenth-scale drone that the company tested last year.The full-size model will have the wingspan of…
Middle East terrorist organization, Islamic State (ISIS), has called on its followers to take its fight to 100 members of the United States military residing in the U.S. A group calling itself the "Islamic State Hacking Division" has posted names, addresses, and photographs of soldiers, sailors, and airmen online, asking its "brothers residing in America" to…
Samsung to start adding Microsoft services to their phones and tablets.
Samsung has announced that it will be pre-installing Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Skype on some of its Android based tablets. Samsung has yet to announce which models will be pre-installed, but these models will also include OneNote and OneDrive as well.Microsoft products and…
Cyanogen is a $500 million company after latest round of funding.
The start-up company, Cyanogen, creates Android-based operating systems which allow the user more control and customization of their Android device.Cyanogen is about to close a deal that will add an additional $110 million in funding to the Android company. With this funding, Cyanogen will be able…
A new SSL/TLS vulnerability named “FREAK” was identified by several security researchers, a decade-old encryption flaw that leaves device users vulnerable to having their electronic communications intercepted. It’s a threat because FREAK allows an attacker to get between a client and server and view what is intended to be a secure and private communication.The vulnerability is…
If you own an iPhone or Android handset and care about your privacy, there’s no longer much of an excuse not to encrypt every conversation you have. Now a free, zero-learning-curve app exists for both text and voice, keeping those communications fully encrypted so no one but the person holding the phone on the other end…
Apple snags HBO streaming service for Apple TV.
HBO is prepped and ready to launch its new streaming service on Apple TV. Apple struck a deal with HBO for the exclusive right to broadcast the standalone service. Richard Plepler, HBO CEO, says, "we couldn't be prouder" to be partnered with Apple TV."HBO's new service is priced…
OpenDNS Security Labs has developed a new way to automatically detect and block sites used to distribute malware almost instantaneously without having to scan them. The approach uses natural language processing and other analytics to detect malicious domains before they can attack by spotting host names that are designed as camouflage. Called NLPRank, it spots…