Ransomware attacks are becoming more brazen if the November 25 assault on the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) is any indication. And cybersecurity experts project a surge in these types of digital assault as new players get into the act. “Unfortunately, this is a trend,” said Comodo Senior Research Scientist, Kenneth Geers. “And it works.” […]
Ransomware Gets Bolder as Bigger Players Join the Game
Posted December 2nd, 2016 at 11:00 am (UTC-5)
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Wechat’s Censorship Game; FireEye: Russia Weaponized Social Media
Posted December 1st, 2016 at 12:29 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Report: China’s WeChat Censors Users Abroad A new report from Toronto’s Citizen Lab says China’s top messaging app WeChat censors or blocks key words and sensitive terms in messages sent from overseas to mainland China. The block affects group chats of three or more users and messages containing terms not sanctioned by […]
Teaching Kids About Cybersecurity? Ask Garfield.
Posted November 11th, 2016 at 11:10 am (UTC-5)
Children are spending more time online, chatting up strangers and sometimes giving them personal information that could put them in harm’s way. But a new collaboration that enlists a particularly troublesome cartoon feline is looking to teach kids a few things about cybersecurity. Mobile devices have become the babysitters of the technology age, engaging and […]
Russia Blocks LinkedIn; Facebook’s Fake News Dilemma
Posted November 9th, 2016 at 3:37 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Russia Moves to Block Professional Networking Site LinkedIn A court in Russia said Thursday that the popular professional networking site would be blocked there within 24 hours for violating a law about data storage. Apple’s iPhone 8 May Incorporate Some Next-level Augmented Reality Features After revealing it was working on smart glasses, […]
Samsung’s Environmental Impact; the Problem With IoT Devices
Posted November 3rd, 2016 at 12:30 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: So Where Will All Those Recalled Note 7s End Up? Remember all those exploding Galaxy Note 7s Samsung recently recalled? All of the flawed devices have to go somewhere – a device graveyard of sorts. But Samsung says it is trying to limit the environmental impact of the massive recall of more […]
Building the Bionic Man; Facebook Urged to Stop Racial Exclusion Ads
Posted November 2nd, 2016 at 12:34 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Building the Bionic Man It’s no longer science fiction. Replaceable body parts are already here. Now Swiss psychologist Bertolt Meyer, who has a prosthetic arm, is working to create a robot modeled after himself. The robot, Rex, is made of various prosthetic parts, has a circulatory system and a clunky body. Rex […]
Mobile Internet Sets Milestone; IoT Devices at Risk With New Malware
Posted November 1st, 2016 at 1:04 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Study: Mobile Internet Use Passes Desktop for the First Time The PC market has been struggling, largely due to the popularity of mobile devices. A new study from internet monitoring firm StatCounter found more people around the world are using mobile devices to access the Internet. In countries like India, mobile devices […]
The Race to Reinvent the PC; NASA Denies Facebook Viral Spacewalk
Posted October 26th, 2016 at 1:06 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Microsoft, Apple Look to Reinvent the Desktop PC Microsoft’s Windows 10 event Wednesday in San Francisco officially added the Surface Studio all-in-one Desktop PC – what CEO Satya Nadella calls “a new category” – to its line of hybrids. Perfect or not, writer Tom Warren argues that Microsoft has succeeded in reinventing […]