Smart TV’s May Be Tracking You And Vulnerable To Hacks
Do you own a smart TV? More than half of all television sales in the US last year were smart TVs, so chances are decent that you own one. If you do, be aware that …
Some Smartwatches May Be Able To Diagnose Diabetes
That smartwatch you're wearing might save your life. Literally. A new study conducted by the University of California San Francisco, and a healthcare startup called Cardiogram revealed that smartwatches and other wearables were able to …
Vulnerability Found In Popular Grammar Checker
On February 2, Tavis Ormandy, a researcher on Google's Project Zero team discovered a critical flaw in the popular online grammar checking app, "Grammarly." Tens of millions of users make regular use of the app …
Almost Half Of Top Ranking Websites Are Vulnerable
Menlo Security just released their third annual "State of the Web" report and it's not pretty. The headline finding is that 42% of the top 100,000 sites as ranked by Alexa are more dangerous than …
Apple And Google No Longer World’s Top Brands
The latest Brand Finance Global 500 report out and contains some surprises this year. In the battle of the Brands, two companies have long topped the list: Apple and Google. This year, there's a new …
Microsoft is Adding Much Needed Feature To Windows Defender
Microsoft is getting tough on so-called "registry cleaners", and it's about time. The company recently announced a planned change to Windows Defender (the anti-malware program that comes standard with every Windows installation). The change will …
Malware Makers Testing Vulnerability Of Meltdown And Spectre
Security researchers from around the web are reporting finding an increasing number of instances of proof of concept (PoC) code that incorporates the recently discovered Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. If you somehow missed those earlier …
If your Point Of Sale Uses Oracle, Update Now
Oracle is currently the third-largest provider of POS (Point of Sale) software on the market today, which means that there's a fairly good chance you're using an Oracle POS system. If you are, there's trouble …
Fitness Trackers Could Be A National Security Risk
If ever there were two phrases that didn't seem to go together, they would probably be "Fitness trackers" and "National Security Risk." The very idea that a simple fitness tracker could pose such a risk …
700,000 Potentially Malicious Apps Removed From Google Last Year
Google recently released their Play Store stats for 2017. The results are both encouraging and disheartening. Overall, Google caught and removed more than 700,000 malicious apps from the Play Store, minimizing their impact on the …
