Offsite storage company “Dropbox” recently had a number of users accounts compromised. In an investigation by Dropbox they found that a number of users had their accounts hacked into due to their users using the same information for their Dropbox account as they used on another account elsewhere.Many users have a habit of using the…
Thomas Fox
Over 1 million people have signed up at Outlook.com in the first week. Outlook.com will be Microsoft's web-based email service. Microsoft has also purchased Skype for 8.5 billion last year. They plan on integrating it to compete with Google Talk. As of right now Google has about 75 million users than Microsoft with 425 million…
Google, the one of the world’s largest search providers is now one of the world’s fastest ISP’s. Google has been working on a network in Kansas City for a number of years now but has just put the finishing touches on it.Google designed and implemented a fiber optic network in Kansas City that allows its…
In August Microsoft will be pushing out an update for all of their supported Operating Systems. This includes Windows XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, 2003 R2, Server 2008, and 2008 R2. This update will block the use of cryptographic keys that are less than 1024 bits. This must happen because with the evolution of technology it is…
With Office 2010 being out for a few years now and Microsoft’s new more tablet friendly OS just around the corner it’s no surprise that they are getting ready to release a new Office product to go along with the new systems.Microsoft is in the process of designing and preparing for release their new office…
A team of hacks calling themselves d3dd3 have revealed and posted over 400,000 Yahoo email passwords. At this time the members are unknown and capable of repeating this attack on other personal services such as Hotmail or Gmail. Yahoo has made and apology but has yet to comment on the situation. You can go to…
McAfee and Guardian Analytics just released a report stating that they are beginning to see a rise in that amount of more sophisticated attacks on banks and credit unions worldwide. While these attacks began primarily in Europe they have begun to make their way into the United States and Columbia.The attacks are originating from custom…
Verizon's bloatware is not only annoying but also potentiality dangerous. Verizon has apps loaded on your phone that you cannot uninstall without breaking warranty. This can be annoying because apps that you never use could be running in the background constantly draining your battery for no reason. Also you have to constantly update these apps…
Like we always say make sure you are very cautious of what you are replying to online via your email or even on websites. On June 6th this month a small group of hackers managed to gain access to a pay day advance company’s user data. Since the data the hackers gained access to had…
With the implementation of IPv6 just behind us we are finding things that need addressed and fixed. It seems that at the top of the list is IPv6 traceability. Currently there are organizations that keep track of you has what IP addresses such as the American Registry for Internet Numbers or ARIN. ARIN hands out…
This past week Google reported that they have seen a number of state sponsored attacks on Gmail accounts. These attacks are meant to allow the hackers access to a users email account and any information they can find in it.Google reports that the latest attempts at hacking the site is from Internet Explorer holes in…
Google will be launching their first tablet developed in part by Asus. This long awaited tablet is expected to come with a 7-inch screen, a 1.3 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-care processor, a Nvidia ULP GeForce GPU, and come with Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean". The tablets representatives will not officially give out any cost or…