by hmb1 | Dec 23, 2016 | News, Privacy and Security, Social Media
By TONY ROMM From Politico NEW YORK — The U.S. government quietly began requesting that select foreign visitors provide their Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts upon arriving in the country, a move designed to spot potential terrorist threats that drew...
by hmb1 | Oct 27, 2016 | News, Privacy and Security
2016-10-25 BINGHAMTON, NY – Researchers from Binghamton University—State University of New York and the University of California, Riverside have found a weakness in the Haswell central processing unit (CPU) components that makes common computer operating systems...
by hmb1 | Sep 20, 2016 | News, Privacy and Security
Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems. The advances are being used to secure everything from unmanned drones to the internet. By Kevin Hartnett September 20, 2016 From Quanta Magazine...
by hmb1 | Aug 4, 2016 | Privacy and Security, Social Media
Social media has a big problem with racist and misogynistic harassment and human intervention isn’t working. Time to bring in the bots By Sally Adee WHEN Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones was hounded off Twitter last month, having braved several days of racist and...
by hmb1 | May 13, 2016 | News, Privacy and Security, Technology
Internet security is in crisis. These four proposals offer tangible solutions — including one scheme to change the Internet’s workings from top to bottom By Fahmida Y. Rashid From InfoWorld The Internet is all-encompassing. Between mobile devices and work...
by Michael Bailey | Mar 6, 2016 | Privacy and Security
KeRanger will force you to pay digital cash to use your computer. While ransomware has sadly been a reality on smartphones and Windows PCs for a while, you haven’t really had to worry about it on a Mac… until now, that is. Palo Alto Networks claims to have...
