A new study done on online safety by German scientists reveals that 56% of email recipients and roughly 40% of Facebook users click on links from unknown senders. This is a particularly disturbing statistic, given what we all…
Although empirical evidence that Facebook is listening to its users through the microphone settings available on smartphone apps for the social media Leviathan doesn’t officially exist, many still believe that Facebook is eavesdropping for whatever covert reasons they…
It’s a concern many of us may have – whether or not someone has read a sent email message. It concerns both personal and business email users and works just the same as it would with a snail-mail…
They date back all the way to 1971, but the Pentagon is still employing floppy disks as part of their tests and military maneuvers. A May 2016 Popular Science article claims that their use by the Pentagon is…
After spending a half-decade operating undetected, an APT (advanced persistent threat) known as “ProjectSauron” has been uncovered by both Symantec and Kaspersky Labs. A group called “Strider” has been using Remsec, an advanced tool that appears to have…
We can’t escape it in our current-day, online, Web-connected culture: Every day it seems there is another news story about a business organization that’s been hit with yet another data breach, and which has cost that organization sometimes…
Have you heard about the Internet of Drones yet? It’s an idea whose time has truly come. You probably saw it coming with all the proliferation and controversy about drones in recent years. Pundits have compared the spike…
You may have seen or heard about the reports coming out of Microsoft HQ that the newest as well as future processors by Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD will not support older versions of Windows – namely versions 7…
A June 2016 survey conducted by Pew Research Center showed that 77% of the 2,003 surveyed American workers reported that despite workplace policies limiting or prohibiting social media use, they still got on social media while at work…
The “Age of Graphene” is upon us, but are you ready? Graphene is a super-thin, super-strong substance that’s already revolutionizing the devices we use – from wearables to smartphones, sports equipment, and super-capacitors. Scientists and engineers have been…
David Ferris
Thursday September 22, 2016 