A new survey by the research group Hub Entertainment Research, reveals that around 70% of U.S households have at least 1 smart TV and smart TVs make up over half of all TV sets in the home. That’s over 86 million homes in the country with a television connected to the internet. There are obvious advantages to having a connected…
A 2+-year-old data breach of Facebook information is back in the news and in terms of data breaches, this one is pretty bad. The Facebook information was taken by hackers two years ago and includes phone numbers, names, birthdates, gender, Facebook ID, and location of over 32 million Facebook users in the United States alone. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s information…
Smiling “Vaccine Selfies” are flooding social media now from people who’ve received their first or second COVID-19 vaccinations. The photos often show the COVID-19 vaccination card that people receive after getting their shot. It isn’t a good idea warns The Better Business Bureau and Federal Trade Commission. The website Healthline posted a long article about the dangers. Both have issued…
We are often told that when we “spring forward” or “fall back” for the time change, it’s a good time to change the batteries in our smoke detectors. It’s also a good time to change your passwords. If you’re not worried about bad guys stealing your passwords just know, it’s only a matter of time that everyone has one or…
On computer monitors at cybersecurity companies around the country, animated world maps show live cyber-attacks happening around the world. The attacks targeting the United States are often directed at health care systems, government offices, and regular people who are working on their computers. The attacks are often administered through email attachments and links, and websites that contain links to malware….
You may want to check your desktop computer soon for a software program that is not only no longer needed but might be dangerous. Adobe Flash Player has been around since the early days of the internet. It’s the program that allowed for video and animations to play in browsers and it’s how we played online games in those days…
One of the most frustrating things we have to deal with today is the password. We have them for our social media accounts, Apple ID, Amazon, credit cards, mortgage. It isn’t unusual for one person to have more than 40 passwords for all of their online accounts. So what do people do? They often use the same password for every…
Twitter is now explaining what happened last week when dozens of high profile Twitter users were hacked, sending tweets asking for money. In a blog post Twitter said it believes the attackers used a social engineering scheme to trick some of its employees to divulge confidential information. The Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk and…
In a classroom, sheltered-in-place children are learning what they’d be taught if they were in school. But in the middle of the class, someone called a “Zoom Troll” interrupts. It’s called “Zoom bombing”. Using profanity, insulting the sister teaching the class. Like other incidents lately, the troll, usually a giggly teen boy is shown with all the other students. How…
While you work from home, hackers are doing the same thing; targeting people who might be using their company laptop. It’s a nasty scam but is often successful. “What they do is they look for bad situations to exploit. This virus (coronavirus) is a perfect opportunity,” says retired FBI Special Agent Scott Augenbaum. “Almost everybody is home. Everybody is online…
