iPhone catches fire in a young girls back pocket as class is starting in the middle school of Kennebucks, Maine. The young girl stated that she heard a pop from her back pocket and before she could react her back pocket was on fire. Reports say that she stopped, dropped, rolled and attempted to get…
Thomas Fox
We're constantly reminded of the need for strong passwords, but not everybody is listening. How good (or not so good) is your own password behavior these days?It seems like everybody knows better about passwords, but not everybody behaves better. SplashData's list of the worst passwords of 2013 has given the easy-to-crack "123456" the crown as…
Bitglass has secretly made its way into the Enterprise market for security-based cloud computing. Just last year Bitglass raised over $10 million from Series A funding. The main goal of Bitglass is to focus on the shift of going to Cloud computing from on-premise computing. Bitglass is considered to be Software-as-a-Service (SAAS).With Bitglass, businesses will…
Have you been infected with Facebook? Don't worry, like a viral outbreak, Facebook use will explode before plummeting down to Myspace levels of obscurity, says a new study from Princeton University.
Researchers found that Facebook has "already reached the peak of its popularity and has entered a decline phase."
How bad will it get? Facebook will…
CNN was hacked again by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). This is not the first time that SEA has attacked CNN successfully. CNN said that the group has targeted their main Facebook profile, the Politic's Facebook profile, and the Twitter Pages for CNN, CNN Security, Clearance, and the blogs for the Political Ticker.CNN reported: “Some…
When at a bank machine, making a deposit or taking cash out, it's easy to overlook the finer details of what's going on in the background. Such as, what operating system it's running. Unless you walked up to a machine that had a blue-screen-of-death present, would you have guessed that it was running Windows? According…
Since Snowden released the information on government spying there are not many tech companies out there that are deemed trustworthy. There has been a study that Microsoft is more trustworthy than Apple. The study was done by Forrester and is available for $499, this is because the research is valid and did cost a decent…
CubeSensors is looking to help you track the health and comfort levels in your home the same way wearable fitness trackers like the Fitbit Force and Nike Fuelband measure your health.Simply place CubeSensors throughout your home, one in each room, and get a read on various factors that affect your health and well-being. Specifically, CubeSensors are…
Linksys WRT 1900AC is coming and most people who have had WiFi in their home in the last decade probably knows what a Linksys 54g looks like. This is because they were the go to cheap wireless router for most people. It is the black and blue box with flashing lights and antennas sticking out…
The National Security Agency’s sophisticated hacking operations go way beyond using software vulnerabilities to gain access to targeted systems. The agency has a catalog of tools providing NSA analysts access to just about every potential source of data about a target.In some cases, the NSA has modified the firmware of computers and network hardware, including…
Technology has enabled us to connect and interact with people all over the globe, in real-time. It has made the stuff of science fiction science fact, satellite communication, wireless internet, and the ability to keep track of 100+ contacts and interactions. But how do you unplug from this technology and interact with those who are…
Snapchat and Skype were hacked over the holiday by two different groups coincidentally. Snapchat is a photo messaging app that allows people to send pictures and drawings to each other. Skype is a video chat application that is now owned by Microsoft.A website was created on New Year's Eve named SnapChatDB.info that demonstrated an attack…